Publications
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Neural Plasticity for Rich and Uncertain Robotic Information Streams
(2016)
Models of adaptation and neural plasticity are often demonstrated in robotic scenarios with heavily pre-processed and regulated information streams to provide learning algorithms with appropriate, well timed, and meaningful ...
Neuro-Development and Psychological Issues in Congenital Heart Defects
(2018)
The advances in the peri-operative management of congenital heart defects have substantially improved the survival of infants over the last few decades, reaching >95% survival in the reports of the international congenital ...
Obesity and Diabetes: Energy Regulation by Free Fatty Acid Receptors
(2016)
Food intake regulates energy balance and its dysregulation leads to metabolic disorder, such as obesity and diabetes. During feeding, free fatty acids (FFAs) are not only essential nutrients but also act as signaling ...
Obesity-induced inflammation and insulin resistance
(2014)
Immune response and metabolic regulation are highly integrated and this interface maintains a central homeostatic system, dysfunction of which can cause obesity-associated metabolic disorder such as type 2 diabetes, fatty ...
Neuroactive metabolites of ethanol: a behavioral and neurochemical synopsis
(2015)
Ethanol is a very elusive drug, which has mechanisms of action that are diverse and relatively non-selective. Moreover, ethanol has been demonstrated to be a biologically active substance by itself, but also a pro-drug of ...
Neuroanatomy and transgenic technologies
(2015)
Neuroanatomists increasingly rely on techniques enabling them to manipulate genes in defined brain cell populations. In particular, engineered transgenes, which encode a variety of fluorescent reporter proteins can be ...
New anti-infective strategies for treatment of tularemia
(2014)
Francisella tularensis, the causative agent of tularemia, is a paradigm among human pathogens. This Gram-negative bacterium has an intracellular lifestyle, which probably reflects an adaptation to its natural animal and ...
New Perspectives in Neurosteroids action: a Special Player Allopregnanolone
(2015)
Early in the 80’s date the first observations on the existence of hormonal steroids that may be synthesized and act in the nervous system. In order to refer to these endogenous steroids, proved important to control both ...
NK Cell-Based Cancer Immunotherapy
(2016)
Natural killer (NK) cells are innate lymphoid cells that have a significant role in regulating the defenses against cancer development and certain viral infections. They are equipped with an array of activating and inhibitory ...
NLR-protein functions in immunity
(2015)
The Nod-like receptor (NLR) family of proteins are evolutionary conserved molecules that in plants and mammals have been implicated in innate immune sensing of microbes and infection-associated physiological changes, ...