Recently, several lines of evidence suggested that activated fibroblasts might contribute to bone resorption in rheumatoid arthritis and also in aseptic prosthesis loosing. Till now, only ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is considered to be an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS), the etiology of which remains unclear. It is generally held that ...

Hornungia petraea is a winter annual species of the Brassicaceae. The species has a submediterranean-subatlantic distribution. On the basis of H. petraea populations, different ...

Plants translocate photoassimilates, e.g. sucrose, through a specialized transport tissue called phloem. This long distance transport between different parts of the plant is essential for ...

The present dissertation describes the empirical approach employed in the development of a system of tools to aid the evaluation and selection process for students entering the eleventh ...

Prostate cancer is the most frequent cancer in man and the second leading cause of cancer related deaths in western countries. The cancer first developes as an androgen-dependent lesion, ...

This study demonstrates the usefulness and efficiency but also the limits of archival sources and collections for the reconstruction of historical biodiversity. The research focuses on the ...

For autotrophic CO2 assimilation Ralstonia eutropha H16 requires the enzymes of the Calvin cycle. The genetic control involved in the adjustment of carbon metabolism between ...

In the framework of this study, the transcriptional and translational regulation of rat Tnp2 gene were investigated by means of in vitro and in vivo systems. In order to determine the minimal ...

Defined motoneuron populations in the brain stem and spinal cord are selectively damaged during Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), which has been linked to perturbed Ca2+ metabolism and ...