True Love’s Kiss and Happily Ever After: the religion of love in American film by Jyoti Raghu

“…In this article I argue that romantic love, as portrayed in film, has in postmodernity become a site both for theological reflection and theological encounter, opening through a popular cultural theological aesthetics a window to experiences of divine grace, beauty and love. …”
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Identification of feline Kiss1 and distribution of immunoreactive kisspeptin in the hypothalamus of the domestic cat by Olga AMELKINA, Prattana TANYAPANYACHON, Ampika THONGPHAKDEE, Kaywalee CHATDARONG

“…Nucleotide sequencing revealed that domestic cat Kiss1 cDNA is of 711 base pairs and caracal Kiss1 cDNA is of 792 base pairs, both having an open reading frame of 450 base pairs, encoding a precursor protein Kiss1 of 149 amino acids. …”
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Intimacy, Confidentiality, and Power: Kiss and Tell as a Feminist Critique of Privacy Law by Naomh Gibson

“…It will be proposed that the narrative of ‘kiss and tell’ stories offers access to substantive justice and equality by subverting legal and gender norms and deconstructing the concept of privacy. …”
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Mono a Mano: ZBP1’s Love–Hate Relationship with the Kissing Virus by Alan Herbert, Aleksandr Fedorov, Maria Poptsova

“…Viruses such as the Epstein–Barr “kissing virus” inhibit ICD, RCD and other cell death signaling pathways to produce persistent infection. …”
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Opposite asymmetries of face and trunk and of kissing and hugging, as predicted by the axial twist hypothesis by Marc H.E. de Lussanet

“…Finally, we predicted and found a right-sided bias for hugging (78%) and a left-sided bias for kissing (69%). Thus, all predictions were confirmed by the data. …”
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Physical therapy performance in the rehabilitation of survivors of the Kiss nightclub tragedy: an experience report by Isabella Martins de Albuquerque, Maria Elaine Trevisan, Adriane Schmidt Pasqualoto, Ana Lucia Cervi Prado, Marisa Bastos Pereira, Ana Fátima Viero Badaró

“…Abstract Introduction : As a result of a fire in the Kiss nightclub that occurred in the city of Santa Maria - RS, 242 people were killed, of whom 235 died on the day of the episode, asphyxiated by the inhalation of toxic smoke. …”
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Comparison between Kissing Stents and Direct Surgical Bypass for Aortoiliac Occlusive Disease by Chung Won Lee, Up Huh, Miju Bae, Changsung Han, Hoon Kwon, Gwon-min Kim

“…The primary, assisted primary, and secondary patency rates in both groups were compared. Results: The hospital stay (direct surgical bypass vs. kissing stents: 16.36±5.19 days vs. 9.08±10.88 days, p=0.007) and operation time (direct surgical bypass vs. kissing stents: 316.09±141.78 minutes vs. 99.54±37.95 minutes, p<0.001) were significantly shorter for kissing stents. …”

Reply to Letter to the Editor: 'Single-Stent Double-Kissing Nano-Crush Technique for the Management of Side Branch Ostial Lesions: A Game Changer? Or Just Another Player in the Game?' by Emrah Acar, Yılmaz Güneş, İbrahim Akın İzgi, Cevat Kırma

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Heterochromatin base pair composition and diversification in holocentric chromosomes of kissing bugs (Hemiptera, Reduviidae) by Vanessa Bellini Bardella, Sebastián Pita, André Luis Laforga Vanzela, Cleber Galvão, Francisco Panzera

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Insulin and Leptin Signaling Interact in the Mouse Kiss1 Neuron during the Peripubertal Period. by Xiaoliang Qiu, Hoangha Dao, Mengjie Wang, Amelia Heston, Kaitlyn M Garcia, Alisha Sangal, Abigail R Dowling, Latrice D Faulkner, Scott C Molitor, Carol F Elias, Jennifer W Hill

“…In an additional, genetic model, we ablated both leptin and insulin signaling in Kiss1 neurons (IR/LepRKiss mice). …”
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Facemasks cannot kiss: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the sexual behavior of the Greek population by Konstantinos Christos Daoultzis, Aliki Eleftheriadou

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The KISS1 Receptor as an In Vivo Microenvironment Imaging Biomarker of Multiple Myeloma Bone Disease. by Julia Dotterweich, Robert J Tower, Andreas Brandl, Marc Müller, Lorenz C Hofbauer, Andreas Beilhack, Regina Ebert, Claus C Glüer, Sanjay Tiwari, Norbert Schütze, Franz Jakob

“…These data suggest the utility of the KISS1R as a novel biomarker for multiple myeloma, capable of targeting both tumor cells and host cells of the tumor microenvironment.…”
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Retinoblastoma binding protein 7 is involved in Kiss1 mRNA upregulation in rodents by Kei HORIHATA, Naoko INOUE, Yoshihisa UENOYAMA, Kei-ichiro MAEDA, Hiroko TSUKAMURA

“…Double ISH for Rbbp7 and Kiss1 showed that a majority of kisspeptin neurons (more than 85%) expressed Rbbp7 mRNA in both the ARC and the AVPV of female rats. …”
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Association of the KiSS1 gene with litter size in Cyprus and Iraqi black goats by M. A. Rahawy, Hayder Abdul-Kareem AL-Mutar

“…Furthermore, the average alleles in KiSS1 gene of both types of goats 0.567 and 0.3715 GG, were recorded. …”
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Role of amniotic membrane and full-thickness skin graft in reconstruction of kissing nevus of eyelids by Manpreet Singh, Natasha Gautam, Manpreet Kaur, Zoramthara Zadeng

“…A 20-year-old girl presented with a large pigmented lesion over the temporal aspect of left lateral canthus involving the lateral one-third of both eyelids, since birth. A slow increase in its size had been noticed for the past 2 years. …”
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Nervous hands, stolen kisses, and the press of everyday life: touch in Britain, 1870-1960 by Koole, S

Holocentric chromosome evolution in kissing bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae): diversification of repeated sequences by Sebastián Pita, Pedro Lorite, Jesús Vela, Pablo Mora, Teresa Palomeque, Khoa Pham Thi, Francisco Panzera

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Investigation of Association Between KISS1R rs397515615 Polymorphism with Idiopathic Male Infertility by Azadeh Poursharif, Hamidreza Vaziri, Toba Mirzapour

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Initial growth of Costus longebracteolatus and Costus spiralis ‘French Kiss’ under different light conditions by Renata Bachin Mazzini-Guedes, Kathia Fernandes Lopes Pivetta, Renata Gimenes, Gustavo de Nobrega Romani, Gilberto Rostirolla Batista de Souza, Carlos Eduardo Ferreira de Castro, Roberto Jun Takane

“…The Brazilian native Costus longebracteolatus and Costus spiralis ‘French Kiss’, in the family Costaceae, have been used as both cut flowers and cut foliage. …”
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Heteronormativity in secondary schools in Zagreb: Young men wearing make-up, kissing and walking proudly by Nataša Bijelić, Amir Hodžić

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