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University of Antwerp
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About: University of Antwerp is a education organization based out in Antwerp, Belgium. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Large Hadron Collider. The organization has 16682 authors who have published 48837 publications receiving 1689748 citations. The organization is also known as: Universiteit Antwerpen & UAntwerp.
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TL;DR: Despite the commercial formulations of PBDEs never having been manufactured in, nor imported into New Zealand, their presence in dusts from that country suggests international trade in PBDE-containing goods is an important pathway effecting their global distribution.
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TL;DR: The widely documented beneficial role of vaginal Lactobacillus species demonstrates the potential of data on the composition and activity of lactobacilli as biomarkers for vaginal health, and the substantiation and further validation of such biomarkers will allow the design of better targeted probiotic strategies.
Abstract: The human body is colonized by a vast number of microorganisms collectively referred to as the human microbiota. One of the main microbiota body sites is the female genital tract, commonly dominated by Lactobacillus spp., in approximately 70% of women. Each individual species can constitute approximately 99% of the ribotypes observed in any individual woman. The most frequently isolated species are Lactobacillus crispatus, Lactobacillus gasseri, Lactobacillus jensenii and Lactobacillus iners. Residing at the port of entry of bacterial and viral pathogens, the vaginal Lactobacillus species can create a barrier against pathogen invasion since mainly products of their metabolism secreted in the cervicovaginal fluid can play an important role in the inhibition of bacterial and viral infections. Therefore, a Lactobacillus-dominated microbiota appears to be a good biomarker for a healthy vaginal ecosystem. This balance can be rapidly altered during processes such as menstruation, sexual activity, pregnancy and various infections. An abnormal vaginal microbiota is characterized by an increased diversity of microbial species, leading to a condition known as bacterial vaginosis. Information on the vaginal microbiota can be gathered from the analysis of cervicovaginal fluid, by using the Nugent scoring or the Amsel’s criteria, or at the molecular level by investigating the number and type of Lactobacillus species. However, when translating this to the clinical setting, it should be noted that the absence of a Lactobacillus-dominated microbiota does not appear to directly imply a diseased condition or dysbiosis. Nevertheless, the widely documented beneficial role of vaginal Lactobacillus species demonstrates the potential of data on the composition and activity of lactobacilli as biomarkers for vaginal health. The substantiation and further validation of such biomarkers will allow the design of better targeted probiotic strategies.
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04 Jun 2009
TL;DR: This article presented a brief overview of the main challenges in the extraction of semantic relations from English text, and discuss the shortcomings of previous data sets and shared tasks, and introduced a new task, which will be part of SemEval-2010: multi-way classification of mutually exclusive semantic relations between pairs of common nominals.
Abstract: We present a brief overview of the main challenges in the extraction of semantic relations from English text, and discuss the shortcomings of previous data sets and shared tasks. This leads us to introduce a new task, which will be part of SemEval-2010: multi-way classification of mutually exclusive semantic relations between pairs of common nominals. The task is designed to compare different approaches to the problem and to provide a standard testbed for future research, which can benefit many applications in Natural Language Processing.
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TL;DR: The clinical, pathophysiological and therapeutical aspects of both central and peripheral nervous system complications in uremia are addressed, which can give rise to acute femoral neuropathy, rejection encephalopathy and neuropathy in graft versus host disease.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured plasma AP reactants, such as haptoglobin (Hp), immunoglobulin G (IgG), IgM, fibrinogen (Fb), complement component 3 (C3C), C4, alpha 1-antitrypsin (alpha 1 AT), alpha 1 acid-glycoprotein (α 1S) and hemopexin (Hpx), in 27 schizophrenic, 23 manic, 29 major depressed and 21 normal subjects.
Abstract: Recently, an acute phase (AP) protein response has been reported in major depression. In order to examine whether an AP response occurs in other psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia and mania, the authors measured plasma AP reactants, such as haptoglobin (Hp), immunoglobulin G (IgG), IgM, fibrinogen (Fb), complement component 3 (C3C), C4, alpha 1-antitrypsin (alpha 1 AT), alpha 1-acid-glycoprotein (alpha 1S) and hemopexin (Hpx), in 27 schizophrenic, 23 manic, 29 major depressed and 21 normal subjects. Schizophrenic patients had significantly higher plasma Hp, Fb, C3C, C4, alpha 1S and Hpx than normal controls. Manic subjects showed significantly higher plasma Hp, Fb, alpha 1S and Hpx than normal volunteers. Depressed subjects had significantly higher plasma Hp, Fb, C3C, C4 and alpha 1S than normal controls. Overall, the above disorders in AP reactants were more pronounced in schizophrenic than in depressed subjects. No significant differences in the above AP reactants could be found between normal volunteers, and schizophrenic, manic or depressed patients who underwent chronic treatment with psychotropic drugs. Plasma Hp, Fb, C3C, C4, alpha 1S, and Hpx were significantly higher in schizophrenic, manic and depressed patients who were non-medicated than in those who were treated with antidepressants, antipsychotics or lithium. The results suggest that not only major depression but also schizophrenia and mania are accompanied by an AP response, and that the latter may be suppressed by (sub)chronic treatment with psychotropic drugs.
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Cornelia M. van Duijn | 183 | 1030 | 146009 |
John Hardy | 177 | 1178 | 171694 |
Mark Gerstein | 168 | 751 | 149578 |
Hannes Jung | 159 | 2069 | 125069 |
Rui Zhang | 151 | 2625 | 107917 |
Dirk Inzé | 149 | 647 | 74468 |
Walter Paulus | 149 | 809 | 86252 |
Robin Erbacher | 138 | 1721 | 100252 |
Rupert Leitner | 136 | 1201 | 90597 |
Alison Goate | 136 | 721 | 85846 |
Andrea Giammanco | 135 | 1362 | 98093 |
Maria Spiropulu | 135 | 1455 | 96674 |
Peter Robmann | 135 | 1438 | 97569 |
Michael Tytgat | 134 | 1449 | 94133 |
Matthew Herndon | 133 | 1732 | 97466 |