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University of Jena
Education•Jena, Thüringen, Germany•
About: University of Jena is a education organization based out in Jena, Thüringen, Germany. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Laser & Population. The organization has 22198 authors who have published 45159 publications receiving 1401514 citations. The organization is also known as: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena & Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
Topics: Laser, Population, Fiber laser, Femtosecond, Raman spectroscopy
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TL;DR: In this article, a path model for the effects of entrepreneurial personality (Big Five profile), control beliefs, and recalled early entrepreneurial competence in adolescence (early inventions, leadership, commercial activities) on two types of entrepreneurial intentions (conditional and unconditional intentions) was investigated.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the role of universities as a knowledge source for regional innovation processes and find that the intensity and quality of the research conducted by the universities have a significant effect on regional innovative output while pure size is unimportant.
Abstract: We investigate the role of universities as a knowledge source for regional innovation processes. The contribution of universities is tested on the level of German NUTS‐3 regions (Kreise) by using a variety of indicators. We find that the intensity and quality of the research conducted by the universities have a significant effect on regional innovative output while pure size is unimportant. Therefore, a policy that wants to promote regional innovation processes by building up universities should place substantial emphasis on the intensity and quality of the research conducted there. We also find the effects of universities to be concentrated in space. Obviously, the geographical proximity to particular knowledge sources is important for regional innovative activities.
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TL;DR: A state of “zero functional G” is achieved at the cellular level using HEK293 cells depleted by CRISPR/Cas9 technology of the Gs/q/12 families of Gα proteins, along with pertussis toxin-mediated inactivation of Gi/o.
Abstract: G protein-independent, arrestin-dependent signaling is a paradigm that broadens the signaling scope of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) beyond G proteins for numerous biological processes. However, arrestin signaling in the collective absence of functional G proteins has never been demonstrated. Here we achieve a state of “zero functional G” at the cellular level using HEK293 cells depleted by CRISPR/Cas9 technology of the Gs/q/12 families of Gα proteins, along with pertussis toxin-mediated inactivation of Gi/o. Together with HEK293 cells lacking β-arrestins (“zero arrestin”), we systematically dissect G protein- from arrestin-driven signaling outcomes for a broad set of GPCRs. We use biochemical, biophysical, label-free whole-cell biosensing and ERK phosphorylation to identify four salient features for all receptors at “zero functional G”: arrestin recruitment and internalization, but—unexpectedly—complete failure to activate ERK and whole-cell responses. These findings change our understanding of how GPCRs function and in particular of how they activate ERK1/2.
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TL;DR: It is expected that inclusion of tissue anisotropy information will improve source estimation procedures and find a major influence on the amplitude of EEG and MEG due to the change in conductivity and the inclusion of anisotropic volume conduction.
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TL;DR: A growing body of evidence indicates that oxidative stress is involved in photocarcinogenesis, and reactive oxygen species participate in a number of pathophysiological processes including DNA damage and lipid peroxidation and are considered to be a key factor in tumour progression.
Abstract: SummaryBackground Solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation is considered to be a major aetiological factor in melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer. A growing body of evidence indicates that oxidative stress is involved in photocarcinogenesis. However, in vivo data for human skin are still lacking. Reactive oxygen species participate in a number of pathophysiological processes including DNA damage and lipid peroxidation (LPO) and are considered to be a key factor in tumour progression.
Objectives We hypothesized that in human skin cancer the natural redox balance is disturbed and that this imbalance may result in an accumulation of LPO products.
Methods To test this, skin biopsies of superficial spreading melanoma were compared with age-matched benign melanocytic naevi and young healthy controls. Additionally, non-melanoma skin cancers (basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma) and actinic keratosis were investigated (n = 18 each). Expression of the antioxidant enzymes, copper–zinc superoxide dismutase, manganese superoxide dismutase and catalase was analysed by immunohistochemical techniques. To detect LPO products, protein-bound malondialdehyde (MDA) was visualized.
Results In human melanoma biopsies, a significant overexpression of the antioxidant enzymes was found when compared with surrounding non-tumour tissue, benign melanocytic naevi, and young controls. Intriguingly, the LPO marker MDA was significantly increased in melanoma tissue. MDA was located not only in typical melanoma cells, but also occurred in surrounding keratinocytes. In contrast, a severely disturbed antioxidant balance with diminished antioxidant enzymes was found in non-melanoma tumours, whereas MDA was elevated only in squamous cell carcinomas.
Conclusions These findings indicate that oxidative stress may play different roles in the pathogenesis of human skin cancers. In non-melanoma skin cancer, a diminished antioxidant defence caused by chronic UV exposure might contribute to multistep carcinogenesis, whereas melanoma cells exhibit increased oxidative stress which could damage surrounding tissue and thus support the progression of metastasis.
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Cornelia M. van Duijn | 183 | 1030 | 146009 |
Veikko Salomaa | 162 | 843 | 135046 |
Andreas Pfeiffer | 149 | 1756 | 131080 |
Bernhard O. Palsson | 147 | 831 | 85051 |
Robert Huber | 139 | 671 | 73557 |
Joachim Heinrich | 136 | 1309 | 76887 |
Michael Schmitt | 134 | 2007 | 114667 |
Paul D.P. Pharoah | 130 | 794 | 71338 |
David Robertson | 127 | 1106 | 67914 |
Yuri S. Kivshar | 126 | 1845 | 79415 |
Ulrich S. Schubert | 122 | 2229 | 85604 |
Andreas Hochhaus | 117 | 923 | 68685 |
Werner Seeger | 114 | 1113 | 57464 |
Th. Henning | 110 | 1036 | 44699 |
Sascha Husa | 107 | 362 | 69907 |