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. ...