Publications
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Glycolysis at 75: Is it time to tweak the first elucidated metabolic pathway in history?
(2015)
Glycolysis, the pathway of enzymatic reactions responsible for the breakdown of glucose into two trioses and further into pyruvate or lactate, was elucidated in 1940. For more than seven decades, it has been taught precisely ...
Glycan Diversity in Fungi, Bacteria and Sea Organisms
(2016)
The cell surface of fungi, bacteria and sea organisms is highly glycosylated. These glycans are oligo- or polysaccharide molecules that can be secreted or attached to protein or lipids forming glycoconjugates. They present ...
Grassland-Invertebrate Interactions: Plant Productivity; Resilience and Community Dynamics
(2017)
Natural and anthropogenic grasslands such as prairies, meadows, rangelands, and pastures cover more than 40% of the planet’s surface and provide a wealth of ecological services. Grasslands alone store one third of the ...
Fluency and Reading Comprehension in Typical Readers and Dyslexics Readers
(2018)
Reading involves decoding and comprehension components and, to become efficient, it requires a large number of cognitive and linguistic processes. Among those, the phonological awareness, the alphabetic principle, the ...
The Impact of Active and Passive Smoking upon Health and Neurocognitive Function
(2016)
Tobacco smoking is a major risk factor for a number of chronic diseases, including a variety of cancers, lung disease and damage to the cardiovascular system. The World Health Organization recently calculated that there ...
Impact of Aerosols (Saharan Dust and Mixed) on the East Mediterranean Oligotrophic Ecosystem; Results from Experimental Studies
(2017)
In oligotrophic environments, dust and nutrient inputs via atmospheric routes are considered important sources of macro-nutrients and micro-trace metals fuelling primary and secondary production. Yet, the impact of these ...
Immunotherapy for Tumor in the Brain: Insights From - and For - Other Tumor Sites
(2018)
Tumor immunotherapy has now shown its promise for many, its disappointments and failings for others. Going forward, brain tumor patients can both benefit and contribute. Tumor immunotherapy is steadily progressing. As ...
In Memory of Mary Ellen Avery
(2014)
Mary Ellen Avery was the driving force behind the discipline of Neonatology. She fought against convention when she published her ground-breaking paper in 1959 showing that Hyaline Membrane Disease was caused by lung ...
In Search of In Vivo MSC
(2017)
Induction of Central Nervous System Disease by the Adaptive Immune Response
(2017)
Over the last years it has become evident that many neurological diseases of the central nervous system (CNS) are induced by a specific adaptive immune response directed against molecules expressed on CNS-resident cells. ...
Individuality in music performance
(2014)
Humans are remarkably adept at identifying individuals on the basis of their facial features, or other traits such as gait or vocal timbre. Besides voice, another auditory medium capable of carrying identity information ...
Induced Resistance for Plant Defence
(2016)
In this century the human being must face the challenges of producing enough to feed a growing population in a sustainable and environmentally friendly way. The yields are with increasing frequency affected by abiotic ...
Infants’ Understanding and Production of Goal-Directed Actions in the Context of Social and Object-Related Interactions
(2017)
Since the discovery of mirror neurons, the study of human infant goal-directed actions and object manipulation has burgeoned into new and exciting research directions. A number of infant studies have begun emphasizing the ...
Infection and Inflammation: Potential Triggers of Sudden Infant Deaths
(2016)
There is a growing body of evidence that infectious agents or their products contribute to events leading to unexpected infant deaths. This issue summarizes the current information on the interactions between genetic ...
Influenza Virus Vaccines and Immunotherapies
(2016)
Influenza virus infections lead to thousands of deaths worldwide annually and billions of dollars economic burden. Despite continuing advances in our understanding of the immune evasion mechanism, the disease remains one ...
Inner Experiences: Theory, Measurement, Frequency, Content, and Functions
(2016)
One fundamental topic of scientific inquiry in psychology is the study of what William James called the 'stream of consciousness', our ongoing experience of the world and ourselves from within—our inner experiences. These ...
Innate Immune Cell Determinants of T Cell Immunity: From Basic Mechanisms to Clinical Implications
(2016)
Long-lasting T cell immunity is delivered by an array of individual T lymphocytes expressing clonally distributed and highly specific antigen receptors recognizing an almost infinite number of antigens that might enter in ...
Innate immunity and neurodegenerative disorders
(2014)
Inflammation of the brain in the context of neurodegenerative disorders is an area of intense debate and discussion, not least in terms of its pathogenic significance and the extent to which it drives disease processes and ...
History of Chemoattractant Research
(2016)
In the Research Topic "History of Chemoattractant Research" we will portray some of the key discoveries that helped to transform cell migration research into a global playing field within immunology (and beyond). Early ...
Homeostasis and Allostasis of Thyroid Function
(2018)
The discovery of the negative feedback of thyroid hormones on pituitary thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) secretion, a classical endocrine feedback control system, has shaped diagnosis and treatment of thyroid disease for ...