Nea Karlsson is an Urban Artist, able to easily escape and hide. She was introduced as the Survivor of CHAPTER 1: The Last Breath Chapter, a Chapter DLC released on 18 August 2016. In this article, I review the applications of phytoecdysteroids and assess their future potential. Nea Karlsson is one of 33 Survivors currently featured in Dead by Daylight. Further, ecdysteroids are good candidates as elicitors for gene-switch systems to be used in medical gene therapy and research applications.
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Nea was always a bit of a troublemaker, her rebellious streak started at 16 when she dyed her hair black and cut it to a style she liked. An Urban Artist Nea uses her agility and stealth to make quick getaways from the Entitys bloodthirsty servants.
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Ecdysteroids are also being considered as nutraceutical additives to food products. Nea Karlsson is one of the playable survivors in Dead by Daylight being introduced in The Last Breath. In particular, this has led to a large (and unregulated) market for ecdysteroid-containing preparations for body-builders, sportsmen, and pets, among others. They are apparently non-toxic to mammals and a wide range of beneficial pharmacological (adaptogenic, anabolic, anti-diabetic, hepatoprotective, immunoprotective, wound-healing, and perhaps even anti-tumour) activities is claimed for them. However, it is other properties of phytoecdysteroids that have led to a rapid recent increase in scientific and commercial interest in these molecules. There is potential to exploit this to develop new strategies for pest control, either by using ecdysteroids as lead molecules for the design of novel pest control agents or by alteration of ecdysteroid levels/profiles in crop plants through plant breeding or genetic modification. Phytoecdysteroids are analogues of arthropod steroid hormones found in plants, where they deter predation by non-adapted predators.