Publications
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Microorganisms for Functional Food
(2016)
Nowadays, most of Western consumers are aware that a targeted diet could be an important tool for fighting ageing and diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, and obesity. Microorganisms may be exploited for setting up ...
Melt Water Retention Processes in Snow and Firn on Ice Sheets and Glaciers: Observations and Modeling
(2018)
Melt takes place where the surface of glaciers or ice sheets interacts with the atmosphere. While the processes governing surface melt are fairly well understood, the pathways of the meltwater, from its origin to the moment ...
Macrocognition: The Science and Engineering of Sociotechnical Work Systems
(2018)
The increasing complexity of work systems and changes in the nature of workplace technology over the past century have resulted in an exponential shift in the nature of work activities, from physical labor to cognitive ...
Language, Cognition and Gender
(2016)
Gender inequality remains an issue of high relevance, and controversy, in society. Previous research shows that language contributes to gender inequality in various ways: Gender-related information is transmitted through ...
A living history of immunology
(2015)
In the highly competitive world of biomedical science, often the rush to publish and to be recognized as "first" with a new discovery, concept or method, is lost in the hurly-burly of the moment, as "the maddening crowd" ...
Liver Myofibroblasts
(2016)
Myofibroblasts (MFB) are found in most tissues of the body. They have the matrix-producing functions of fibroblasts and contractile properties that are known from smooth muscle cells. Fundamental work of the last decades ...
Lateralization and cognitive systems
(2015)
Left-right asymmetries of structure and function are a common organization principle in the brains of humans and non-human vertebrates alike. While there are inherently asymmetric systems such as the human language system ...
Less and Non-invasive Hemodynamic Monitoring Techniques
(2018)
In the perioperative setting and in intensive care medicine, early and effective hemodynamic management including fluid therapy and administration of vasoactive drugs to maintain vital organ perfusion and oxygen delivery ...
Mechanisms of neuroinflammation and inflammatory neurodegeneration in acute brain injury
(2015)
Mechanisms of brain-immune interactions became a cutting-edge topic in systemic neurosciences over the past years. Acute lesions of the brain parenchyma, particularly, induce a profound and highly complex neuroinflammatory ...
Mechanisms underlying firing in healthy and sick human motoneurons
(2015)
Since the latter half of the twentieth century an enormous amount of knowledge about mammalian motoneuron pools has been collected. This progress was enabled mostly by the development of the precise techniques of intracellular ...