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University of Marburg

EducationMarburg, Germany
About: University of Marburg is a education organization based out in Marburg, Germany. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Virus. The organization has 23195 authors who have published 42907 publications receiving 1506069 citations. The organization is also known as: Philipps University of Marburg & Philipps-Universität.
Topics: Population, Virus, Gene, Exciton, Photoluminescence


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TL;DR: The bacterial community developed through successional stages, leading at the RNA level to almost stable community patterns within 21 days after flooding, which suggests that the community dynamics can be explained by the principles of r- and K-selection.
Abstract: Cultivation-independent techniques were applied to assess the succession and phylogenetic composition of bacterial communities in a vertical oxygen gradient in flooded, unplanted paddy soil microcosms. Microsensor measurements showed that within 6 h of flooding, oxygen was depleted from 200 microM at the floodwater-soil interface to undetectable amounts at a depth of approximately 2 mm and below. The gradient was quite stable over time, although the oxygen depletion was less pronounced 84 days than 6 h after flooding. Community fingerprint patterns were obtained by terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis from the oxic, transition, and anoxic zones of triplicate soil microcosms at 0, 1 and 6 h, and 1, 2, 7, 21, 30, 42, 84, and 168 days after flooding. Correspondence analyses revealed that T-RFLP patterns obtained using either community DNA or RNA were affected by time and oxygen zone, and that there was a significant interaction between the effects of time and oxygen zone. The temporal dynamics of bacterial populations were resolved more clearly using RNA than using DNA. At the RNA level, successional community dynamics were most pronounced from 1 h to 2 days and less pronounced from 2 to 21 days after flooding, for both oxic and anoxic zones. No effect of time or oxygen zone on the community dynamics was observed from 21 to 168 days after flooding. Dominant early successional populations were identified by cloning and comparative sequence analysis of environmental 16S rRNA and 16S rRNA genes as members of the Betaproteobacteria (oxic zone) and the clostridial cluster I (anoxic zone). Dominant late successional populations belonged to the Verrucomicrobia and Nitrospira (detected mainly in the oxic zone), and to the Myxococcales (detected mainly in the anoxic zone). In conclusion, the bacterial community developed through successional stages, leading at the RNA level to almost stable community patterns within 21 days after flooding. This principal finding, in combination with the phylogenetic identity of early- and late-appearing populations, suggests that the community dynamics can be explained by the principles of r- and K-selection.

332 citations

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TL;DR: Receptor-binding specificity of pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 virus determined by carbohydrate microarray is determined by carbohydrates microarray.
Abstract: Receptor-binding specificity of pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 virus determined by carbohydrate microarray

332 citations

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TL;DR: The data suggest that a generalized mitochondrial failure may be implicated in atypical parkinsonian syndromes but do not support the hypothesis that an generalized complex I inhibition results in the rather selective nigral lesion observed in Parkinson's disease.
Abstract: In Parkinson's disease, nigral dopaminergic neurones degenerate, whereas post-synaptic striatal target neurones are spared. In some atypical parkinsonian syndromes, both nigral and striatal neurones degenerate. Reduced activity of complex I of the mitochondrial respiratory chain has been implicated in both conditions, but it remains unclear if this affects the whole organism or only the degenerating brain structures. We therefore investigated the differential vulnerability of various brain structures to generalized complex I inhibition. Male Lewis rats infused with rotenone, a lipophilic complex I inhibitor [2.5 mg/kg/day intraveneously (i.v.) for 28 days], were compared with vehicle-infused controls. They showed reduced locomotor activity and loss of striatal dopaminergic fibres (54%), nigral dopaminergic neurones (28.5%), striatal serotoninergic fibres (34%), striatal DARPP-32-positive projection neurones (26.5%), striatal cholinergic interneurones (22.1%), cholinergic neurones in the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus (23.7%) and noradrenergic neurones in the locus ceruleus (26.4%). Silver impregnation revealed pronounced degeneration in basal ganglia and brain stem nuclei, whereas the hippocampus, cerebellum and cerebral cortex were less affected. These data suggest that a generalized mitochondrial failure may be implicated in atypical parkinsonian syndromes but do not support the hypothesis that a generalized complex I inhibition results in the rather selective nigral lesion observed in Parkinson's disease.

331 citations

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TL;DR: A general method is presented integrating the concept of adaptive interim analyses into classical group sequential testing to allow the researcher to represent every group sequential plan as an adaptive trial design and to make design changes during the course of the trial after every interim analysis.
Abstract: A general method is presented integrating the concept of adaptive interim analyses into classical group sequential testing. This allows the researcher to represent every group sequential plan as an adaptive trial design and to make design changes during the course of the trial after every interim analysis in the same way as with adaptive designs. The concept of adaptive trial designing is thereby generalized to a large variety of possible sequential plans.

331 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
John C. Morris1831441168413
Russel J. Reiter1691646121010
Martin J. Blaser147820104104
Christopher T. Walsh13981974314
Markus Cristinziani131114084538
James C. Paulson12644352152
Markus F. Neurath12493462376
Nicholas W. Wood12361466270
Florian Lang116142166496
Howard I. Maibach116182160765
Thomas G. Ksiazek11339846108
Frank Glorius11366349305
Eberhard Ritz111110961530
Manfred T. Reetz11095942941
Wolfgang H. Oertel11065351147
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
2023142
2022412
20212,103
20201,918
20191,749
20181,592