Background: Glucocorticoids are potent anti-inflammatory agents used for the treatment of diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, inflammatory bowel disease and psoriasis. Unfortunately, usage is limited because of metabolic side-effects, e.g. insulin resistance, glucose intolerance and diabetes. …

tIn this study we aimed to identify genes that are responsive to pertussis toxin (PTx) and might eventu-ally be used as biological markers in a testing strategy to detect residual PTx in vaccines. By microarrayanalysis we screened six human cell types (bronchial epithelial cell line BEAS-2B, fetal lung …

De makers van het vernieuwde racefietspedaal, de 3ax, beweren dat de knieklachten door het toevoegen van een extra bewegingsvrijheid (de in- en eversie) verdwijnen. In dit onderzoek wordt er gekeken wat de invloed is van de 3ax op de kinematica: de horizontale verplaatsing van de knie in frontale vlak …

Phytophthora infestans, the causal agent of late blight, remains the main threat to potato production worldwide. Screening of 19 accessions of Solanum dulcamara with P. infestans isolate Ipo82001 in detached leaf assays revealed strong resistance in an individual belonging to accession A54750069-1. This …

This study aims to contribute to an emerging literature that seeks to understand how identity markers on social networking sites (SNSs) shape interpersonal impressions, and particularly the boundaries that SNSs present for articulating unconstrained “hoped-for possible selves.” An experiment employing …

INTRODUCTION: It is difficult to adjust fluid balance adequately in patients with severe burns due to various physical changes. B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) is emerging as a potential marker of hydration state. Proteinuria is used as a predictor of outcome in severe illness and might correlate to …

The main purpose of the research was the development and testing of an assessment tool for the grading of Dutch students' performance in information problem solving during their study tasks. Scholarly literature suggests that an analytical scoring rubric would be a good tool for this.Described in this …

Obesitas is een wereldwijd groeiend probleem. Obesitas kan leiden tot allerlei medische problemen. Daarnaast kan het ook psychische en psychologische gevolgen met zich mee brengen. Behandeling van obesitas zou zo snel mogelijk ingezet moeten worden, mede omdat bekend is dat obesitas bij kinderen zich …

Physical activity (PA) and physical fitness (PF) are inversely associated with the clustering of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors (RF) associated with the metabolic syndrome (MS). However, the role of individual components of PA, that is, intensity, duration and volume, and the inter-relationship …

Om het bewegingsbereik van het lage lordotische gebied van de wervelkolom te meten zijn röntgen en MRI de meest gebruikte methoden. Aangezien er bij (alledaagse) bewegingen van de lordotische wervelkolom, bewegingen in verschillende vlakken tegelijkertijd plaatsvinden is het dynamisch meten van het bewegingsbereik …