Animals
"Animals" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA.
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D000818
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Animals" by people in this website by year, and whether "Animals" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1996 | 0 | 352 | 352 | | 1997 | 0 | 375 | 375 | | 1998 | 0 | 383 | 383 | | 1999 | 0 | 389 | 389 | | 2000 | 0 | 435 | 435 | | 2001 | 0 | 473 | 473 | | 2002 | 0 | 599 | 599 | | 2003 | 0 | 643 | 643 | | 2004 | 0 | 731 | 731 | | 2005 | 0 | 709 | 709 | | 2006 | 0 | 792 | 792 | | 2007 | 0 | 798 | 798 | | 2008 | 0 | 930 | 930 | | 2009 | 0 | 965 | 965 | | 2010 | 0 | 953 | 953 | | 2011 | 0 | 1067 | 1067 | | 2012 | 0 | 1124 | 1124 | | 2013 | 0 | 1165 | 1165 | | 2014 | 0 | 1166 | 1166 | | 2015 | 0 | 1090 | 1090 | | 2016 | 0 | 1111 | 1111 | | 2017 | 0 | 1056 | 1056 | | 2018 | 0 | 1080 | 1080 | | 2019 | 0 | 1093 | 1093 | | 2020 | 0 | 1037 | 1037 | | 2021 | 0 | 969 | 969 | | 2022 | 0 | 779 | 779 | | 2023 | 0 | 708 | 708 | | 2024 | 0 | 883 | 883 | | 2025 | 0 | 845 | 845 | | 2026 | 0 | 81 | 81 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Animals" by people in Profiles.
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Wang P, Wang L, Li BZ, Chen C, Lin Q, Li A, Lei TC. A Real-Time Neural Decoder for Decoding Perceived Odor Identity Within a Single Sniff. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2026 May; 73(5):1817-1827.
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Frost EL, Jash A, Hay AM, Brink R, D'Alessandro A, Dzieciatkowska M, Zimring JC. Alloantibody IgG subclasses have differential activity in clearing transfused platelets in mice. Blood Adv. 2026 Apr 28; 10(8):2592-2598.
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Arenas GA, Cochrane ALK, PeƱaloza E, Paz AA, Carrasco M, Iturriaga R, Giussani DA, Krause BJ. Hypoxic development down-regulates endothelial Piezo1 via HIF1-a signaling and impairs Piezo1-mediated vasorelaxation. Clin Sci (Lond). 2026 Apr 15; 140(4):493-507.
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Calabrese GM, Delmore KE, Wolf JBW, J Safran R, Rabosky DL. No Consistent Effect of Migration on Speciation Rates in Two Avian Superfamilies: A Check on the Robustness of Trait-Dependent Diversification Methods. Syst Biol. 2026 Apr 03; 75(3):536-555.
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Sottnik JL, Shackleford MT, Nesiba CS, Richer AL, Fleischmann Z, Swartz JM, Rowland CE, Musick M, Fu R, Myler LR, Opresko PL, Mehrotra S, Sokol ES, Hesselberth JR, Diamond JR, Sikora MJ. Altered MDC1 Interactions and Dysfunctional DNA Repair in Lobular Breast Cancer Confers Sensitivity to PARP Inhibition. Cancer Res. 2026 Apr 02; 86(7):1605-1621.
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Hansen MS, Hill CJ, Sussel L, Wells KL. Optimizing Single-Cell Long-Read Sequencing for Enhanced Isoform Detection in Pancreatic Islets. Diabetes. 2026 Apr 01; 75(4):606-616.
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Zhang H, Prasad RR, Kumar S, Li M, Jones D, Hu CJ, Mickael C, Yu YR, Tuder RM, Stenmark KR. Adventitial Niches, Complement and Inflammation in Pulmonary Vascular Disease: Current Status and Future Directions. Compr Physiol. 2026 Apr; 16(2):e70133.
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Stein CS, Zhang X, Witmer NH, Pennington ER, Hahn S, Straub AC, Shaikh SR, Boudreau RL. Mitoregulin supports mitochondrial membrane integrity and protects against cardiac ischaemia-reperfusion injury. Cardiovasc Res. 2026 Mar 26; 122(3):379-396.
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Govender K, Lamb DR, Walser C, Pal S, Setua S, O'Boyle Q, Pires IS, Lu S, Irwin DC, Buehler PW, Palmer AF, Cabrales P. Hemoglobin binders reduce inflammation and tissue injury from hemolysis in venovenous extracorporeal circulation. Blood Adv. 2026 Mar 24; 10(6):2082-2094.
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Nassour J, Karlseder J. Telomere Crisis Shapes Cancer Evolution. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2026 Mar 02; 18(3).
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