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Disentangling human tolerance and resistance against HIV

In ecology, "disease tolerance" is defined as an evolutionary strategy of hosts against pathogens, characterized by reduced or absent pathogenesis despite high pathogen load. To our knowledge, tolerance has to date not been quantified and disentangled from ...

Public Library Science2014

A potent and selective Sirtuin 1 inhibitor alleviates pathology in multiple animal and cell models of Huntington's disease

Ozgün Gökce, Davide Franceschini

Protein acetylation, which is central to transcriptional control as well as other cellular processes, is disrupted in Huntington's disease (HD). Treatments that restore global acetylation levels, such as inhibiting histone deacetylases (HDACs), are effecti ...

Oxford University Press2014

Experimental peripheral arterial disease: new insights into muscle glucose uptake, macrophage, and T-cell polarization during early and late stages

Rolf Gruetter, Carole Poitry-Yamate

Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a common disease with increasing prevalence, presenting with impaired walking ability affecting patient's quality of life. PAD epidemiology is known, however, mechanisms underlying functional muscle impairment remain un ...

2014

MP2RAGE provides new clinically-compatible correlates of mild cognitive deficits in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Tobias Kober, Reto Meuli, Cristina Granziera, Guillaume Bonnier, Fabio Amarù

Despite that cognitive impairment is a known early feature present in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients, the biological substrate of cognitive deficits in MS remains elusive. In this study, we assessed whether T1 relaxometry, as obtained in clinically accep ...

Springer Heidelberg2014

Cognitive Enhancers (Nootropics). Part 3: Drugs Interacting with Targets other than Receptors or Enzymes. Disease-Modifying Drugs. Update 2014

Andrea Pfeifer, Andreas Muhs

Scientists working in the field of Alzheimer's disease and, in particular, cognitive enhancers, are very productive. The review "Drugs interacting with Targets other than Receptors or Enzymes. Disease-modifying Drugs" was accepted in October 2012. In the l ...

Ios Press2014

Structural connectomics in brain diseases

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Alessandra Griffa, Patric Hagmann, Philipp Baumann

Imaging the connectome in vivo has become feasible through the integration of several rapidly developing fields of science and engineering, namely magnetic resonance imaging and in particular diffusion MRI on one side, image processing and network theory o ...

Elsevier2013

A low-cost method to assess the epidemiological importance of individuals in controlling infectious disease outbreaks

Marcel Salathé

Infectious disease outbreaks in communities can be controlled by early detection and effective prevention measures. Assessing the relative importance of each individual community member with respect to these two processes requires detailed knowledge about ...

BioMed Central2013

Genetic interplay between HLA-C and MIR148A in HIV control and Crohn disease

Jacques Fellay

Variation in the 3' untranslated region (3'UTR) of the HLA-C locus determines binding of the microRNA Hsa-miR-148a, resulting in lower cell surface expression of alleles that bind miR-148a relative to those alleles that escape its binding. The HLA-C 3'UTR ...

Natl Acad Sciences2013

Methods of treating mitochondrial dysfunction

Johan Auwerx, Laurent Mouchiroud, Richardus Houtkooper

The present invention provides methods of treating various disorders associated with mitochondrial dysfunction, including but not limited to metabolic disorders, neurodegenerative diseases, chronic inflammatory diseases, and diseases of aging. ...

2013

Robo3-Driven Axon Midline Crossing Conditions Functional Maturation of a Large Commissural Synapse

Ralf Schneggenburger, Zsolt Norbert Babai

During the formation of neuronal circuits, axon pathfinding decisions specify the location of synapses on the correct brain side and in correct target areas. We investigated a possible link between axon midline crossing and the subsequent development of ou ...

Elsevier2013

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