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Self in motion: sensorimotor and cognitive mechanisms in gait agency

Acting in our environment and experiencing ourselves as conscious agents are fundamental aspects of human selfhood. While large advances have been made with respect to understanding human sensorimotor control from an engineering approach, knowledge about i ...

Amer Physiological Soc2013

Targeting accuracy of transcranial magnetic resonance-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound brain therapy: a fresh cadaver model

Najat Salameh

This work aimed at evaluating the accuracy of MR-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound (MRgHIFU) brain therapy in human cadaver heads. ...

2013

Validation of an in vitro digestive system for studying macronutrient decomposition in humans

Martinus Gijs, Guy Vergères, Flurina Schwander, Reto Portmann

The digestive process transforms nutrients and bioactive compounds contained in food to physiologically active compounds. In vitro digestion systems have proven to be powerful tools for understanding and monitoring the complex transformation processes that ...

2012

Embodied space in architecture, cognitive neuroscience, and virtual reality

Isabella Maria Pasqualini

Recent findings in cognitive neuroscience enable improved understanding of embodiment and egocentric space in architecture. From a historical perspective the human body has been inferred as a reference in the debate of architectonic proportion. It was sugg ...

EPFL2012

Development of a 3D finite element muscle model

Christoph Anselm Engelhardt

Stability of the shoulder, more precisely the glenohumeral joint, can only be achieved in case of healthy and well coordinated muscular activity in the upper limb. Degenerative deseases like osteoarthritis, muscle deficiencies or injuries can lead to insta ...

2012

Fabrication of drug delivering composite microspheres: Evaluation/optimization of different process parameters

Ulrike Kettenberger

Polymer or composite microspheres are commonly used for a controlled drug delivery in the human body. The fabrication of those microspheres involves numerous parameters that influence the resulting composition, size and structure of the microspheres. The o ...

2011

An ontology-based comparative anatomy information system

Introduction: This paper describes the design, implementation, and potential use of a comparative anatomy information system (CAIS) for querying on similarities and differences between homologous anatomical structures across species, the knowledge base it ...

2011

Seeing and identifying with a virtual body decreases pain perception

Olaf Blanke, Bigna Lenggenhager, Roland von Känel

Pain and the conscious mind (or the self) are experienced in our body. Both are intimately linked to the subjective quality of conscious experience. Here, we used virtual reality technology and visuo-tactile conflicts in healthy subjects to test whether ex ...

2011

Searching for the Protein Targets of Bioactive Molecules

Kai Johnsson, Christopher Chidley, Cindy Fellay, Hirohito Haruki, Miriam Grønlund Pedersen, Simone Moser

The identification of all protein targets of a given drug or bioactive molecule within the human body is a prerequisite for an understanding of its beneficial and deleterious activities. Current approaches to reveal protein targets often fail to reveal phy ...

Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft2011

Structural and functional differences in the long non-coding RNA hotair in mouse and human

Denis Duboule, Patrick Schorderet

Long non-coding RNAs regulate various biological processes such as dosage compensation, imprinting, and chromatin organization. HOTAIR, a paradigm of this new class of RNAs, is localized within the human HOXC gene cluster and was shown, in human cells, to ...

Public Library of Science2011

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