Advice utilization during judgment and decision-making is an integral part of everyday life. The most stable finding in the literature on advice taking is that judges tend to place too much ...

Nearly 60% of patients infected with HIV are affected by neurological and psychiatric symptoms. The motor and cognitive dysfunctions, as well as behavioral changes are described by the term ...

Intracellular calcium (Ca2+) is a central second messenger, which translates the electrical signal into cardiac contraction. This process is termed excitation-contraction coupling (E-C ...

The hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD) is the loss of dopaminergic (DA) neurons in the substantia nigra (SN), the depletion of striatal dopamine levels, and the presence of intraneuronal proteinaceous cytoplasmatic ...

Activation of intestinal epithelial cells (IEC) may occur either by luminal antigens stimulation or by inflammatory signals deriving from immune cells in the close vicinity. Production of chemokines by the intestinal ...

The development of different tumor entities can often be correlated with a viral infection. One of this tumor associated viruses is the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). More than 90% of the human ...

A comparison analysis in structure related Indolamine of Melatonin showed that small changes of Substituenten already draw considerable losses after themselves in oxidation chemistry. ...

The PhD thesis offers a new explanation for escalation of commitment. Escalation of commitment is the tendency to persist in losing courses of action or to throw good money after bad. ...

During the last years it has become apparent that an increased exposure to UV-irradiation is accompanied by noxious side effects. Ethylhexyl-methoxycinnamate (OMC), a cinnamate derivative, ...

In this dissertation, characteristic somatomotor-, neuroautonomic- and endocrine responses of mice to external stimuli with innate or learned aversive attributes were investigated. Unconditioned ...