Publications
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Is the Recent Burst of Therapeutic Anti-Tumor Antibodies the Tip of an Iceberg?
(2018)
The high effectiveness of antibodies as anti-tumor therapeutic agents has led to a burst of research aiming to increase their therapeutic applications by the use of antibodies against new targets, new antibody formats or ...
The Ischemic Penumbra: Still the Target for Stroke Therapies?
(2015)
The ischemic penumbra was initially defined by Symon, Lassen and colleagues in the 1970s as an area of brain tissue with inadequate blood flow to maintain electric activity of neurons but adequate blood flow to preserve ...
The Foundation of Precision Medicine: Integration of Electronic Health Records with Nenomics Through Basic, Clinical, and Translational Research
(2016)
This eBook contains the 19 articles that were part of a Special Topic in Frontiers in Genetics entitled “Genetics Research in Electronic Health Records Linked to DNA Biobanks”. The Special Issue was published on-line in ...
Foundations of Theoretical Approaches in Systems Biology
(2019)
If biology in the 20th century was characterized by an explosion of new technologies and experimental methods, that of the 21st has seen an equally exuberant proliferation of mathematical and computational methods that ...
Image-Guided Radiotherapy for Effective Radiotherapy Delivery
(2016)
Image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) is a new radiotherapy technology that combines the rapid dose fall off associated with intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and daily tumor imaging allowing for high precision tumor dose ...
Imaging and monitoring astrocytes in health and disease
(2014)
Astrocytes are key cellular partners to neurons in the brain. They play an important role in multiple processes such as neurotransmitter recycling, trophic support, antioxidant defense, ionic homeostasis, inflammatory ...
Imaging in Acute Stroke - New Options and State of the Art
(2018)
One in six suffers a stroke during their lifetime and stroke remains the major cause of new onset disability in adulthood. The worldwide burden of stroke is increasing due to an ageing population, however, globally haft ...
Foot-and-Mouth Disease in Swine
(2017)
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is one of the most devastating diseases of livestock. The research topic here features nine studies supplementing the state-of-the art of the knowledge on the pathogenesis and epidemiology of ...
Inorganic Biomaterials
(2016)
The intention of the editors A. R. Boccaccini and W. Höland has been to target this e-book to a broad readership and at the same time to present scientific contributions sufficiently detailed which discuss various specific ...
Insomnia and beyond - Exploring the therapeutic potential of orexin receptor antagonists
(2014)
Orexin/hypocretin neuropeptides, produced by a few thousand neurons in the lateral hypothalamus, are of critical importance for the control of vigilance and arousal of vertebrates, from fish to amphibians, birds and mammals. ...
Integrating Computational and Neural Findings in Visual Object Perception
(2016)
The articles in this Research Topic provide a state-of-the-art overview of the current progress in integrating computational and empirical research on visual object recognition. Developments in this exciting multidisciplinary ...
Integrative Research on Organic Matter Cycling Across Aquatic Gradients
(2017)
The goal of this research topic was to motivate innovative research that blurs traditional disciplinary and geographical boundaries. As the scientific community continues to gain momentum and knowledge about how the natural ...
Intellectual Disabilities in Down Syndrome from Birth and throughout Life: Assessment and Treatment
(2017)
Research on the multiple aspects of cognitive impairment in Down syndrome (DS), from genes to behavior to treatment, has made tremendous progress in the last decade. The study of congenital intellectual disabilities such ...
Inter-cellular Electrical Signals in Plant Adaptation and Communication
(2018)
Plants use the Sun's energy to synthesize the basic biomolecules that make up all the organic matter of all organisms of terrestrial ecosystems, including ourselves. Therefore, understanding their adaptive mechanisms to ...
Inter-healthcare Professions Collaboration: Educational and Practical Aspects and New Developments
(2016)
Settings, such as patient-centered medical homes, can serve as ideal places to promote interprofessional collaboration among healthcare providers (Fjortoft et al., 2016). Furthermore, work together by teams of interprofessional ...
Interactions between emotions and social context: Basic, clinical and non-human evidence
(2014)
The emotions that we feel and also those that we perceive in others are crucial to the social functioning of both humans and non-human animals. Although the role of context has been extensively studied in basic sensory ...
Interactions between the mammalian main and accessory olfactory systems
(2014)
The functional cross-talk and structural interaction between the main and accessory olfactory bulb is a central problem in mammalian sensory neurobiology. The early supposition that volatile substances and pheromones, most ...
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Multilingualism
(2015)
This research topic stems from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Multilingualism" conference, which was hosted by the Language Research Centre at the University of Calgary. It was the first conference of its kind, which ...
International Conference on Carbon Dioxide Utilisation (ICCDU) 2016
(2018)
Carbon dioxide utilisation is a growing field of research that spans early stage laboratory chemistry through to commercial exploitation. In 2013 the CO2Chem Network (www.co2chem.com) made a successful bid to hold the 14th ...
Ion Transport in Chloroplast and Mitochondria Physiology in Green Organisms
(2017)
Chloroplasts and mitochondria both have a prokaryotic origin, carry essential genes on their own highly reduced genome and generate energy in the form of ATP for the plant cell. The ion composition and concentration in ...