Publications
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Self-Eating on Demand: Autophagy in Cancer and Cancer Therapy
(2018)
Macroautophagy, the major lysosomal pathway for recycling intracellular components including whole organelles, has emerged as a key process modulating tumorigenesis, tumor–stroma interactions, and cancer therapy. An ...
Sensory Hair Cell Death and Regeneration
(2016)
Sensory hair cells are the specialized mechanosensory receptors found in vertebrate auditory, vestibular, and lateral line organs that transduce vibratory and acoustic stimuli into the sensations of hearing and balance. ...
Signalling Pathways in Embryonic Development
(2017)
The formation of a complex multicellular organism from a single cell is one of the most amazing processes of biology. Embryonic development is characterised by the careful regulation of cellular behaviours such that cells ...
Significance of antigen and epitope specificity in tuberculosis
(2014)
Dissection of the specificity of host immune responses following infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis is essential for designing effective vaccination and diagnostic biomarkers as well as for better understanding of ...
Smelly Fumes: Volatile-Mediated Communication between Bacteria and Other Organisms
(2017)
This e-book summarizes recent advances in the young and rapidly developing field of microbial volatiles. Articles included here reveal novel information about the chemical diversity of bacterial and fungal volatiles, their ...
Social Hormones and Human Behavior: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go from Here
(2015)
Oxytocin (OT) and arginine vasopressin (AVP) are the paramount social hormones in mammals and accumulating evidence also strengthens the unique role of these neuropeptides also in human social behavior. Indeed from voles ...
Preclinical and clinical issues in Alzheimer's disease drug research and development
(2015)
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressive cognitive dysfunction and memory loss, inability to perform the activities of daily living and mood disorders. According to the ...
Precision Public Health
(2018)
Precision Public Health is a new and rapidly evolving field, that examines the application of new technologies to public health policy and practice. It draws on a broad range of disciplines including genomics, spatial data, ...
The state of the art in student engagement
(2015)
There is an extensive literature conducted from a range of theoretical perspectives and methodologies on the role of groups and student learning in higher education. However here the concept of the ‘group’ is heavily ...
Stem cells and progenitor cells in ischemic stroke - fashion or future?
(2016)
Stroke remains one of the most devastating diseases in industrialized countries. Recanalization of the occluded arterial vessel using thrombolysis is the only causal therapy available. However, thrombolysis is limited due ...