supported by the Faculty Research Fund(Faculty of Medicine&Health Science,Keele University)Career Development Award–(April 2022)(to SJB)。
Spinal muscular atrophy(SMA)is a genetic condition that results in selective lower motor neuron loss with concomitant muscle weakness and atrophy.The genetic cause of SMA was understood in 1995 when loss or impairment...
Supported by the Natural Science Foundation of the Zhejiang Province(No.LGD22H120002).
AIM:To investigate the factors influencing meibomian gland atrophy(MGA)in children with allergic conjunctivitis(AC).METHODS:In this cross-sectional study,60 children with AC aged 6-17y and 20 age-matched children with...
AIM:To identify optical coherence tomography(OCT)features present at the diagnosis of neovascular age-related macular degeneration(nAMD)that could predict retinal atrophy(RA)and visual performance in patients treated ...
Supported by The New Faculty Research Grant of Pusan National University,2023;The Research Grant of the Chungbuk National University in 2023.
BACKGROUND Intramuscular corticosteroid injection may cause adverse effects such as dermal and/or subcutaneous atrophy,alopecia,hypopigmentation,and hyperpigmentation.Although cutaneous atrophy can spontaneously resol...
supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft;EXC 2145 SyNergy;Grant No.390857198 (to PL)。
Parkinson's disease(PD) and atypical Parkinsonian syndromes,such as multiple system atrophy(MSA) and Dementia with Lewy bodies,are neurodegenerative movement disorders characterized by the accumulation of alphasynucle...
Shahar Dubiner was supported by the Azrieli Graduate Studies Fellowship.
In winter,many reptiles have a period of inactivity(“brumation”).During brumation there is no energetic intake,therefore there would be an advantage to reducing energetic expenditure.The size of energetically costly...
Objective To quantify cerebral cortical and deep gray matter atrophy in patients with multiple sclerosis(MS) and explore its correlation with impairment in domains of cognitive function.Methods Twenty patients with MS...
FWO Research Grants G.0B96.20N(PV,PT),G.0C76.18N(PV),G.0B71.18N(PV);G.0A93.22N(PV);Special Research Fund UGent(Methusalem grant BOF16/MET_V/007(PV);BOF22/MET_V/007(PV);iBOF ATLANTIS grant 20/IBF/039(PV));EOS MODEL-IDI Grant(30826052)(PV);EOS CD-INFLADIS(40007512)(PV);Foundation against Cancer(F/2016/865,F/2020/1505)(PV).FWO fundamental research fellowship PhD grant(MRP)(11A7222N);FWO senior postdoctoral fellowship(CM)(12Y2122N);DFG research fellowship(CM)(MA 7770/1-1);Cancer Research Institute Ghent(CRIG)consortia;Ghent Gut Inflammation Group(GGIG)consortia.Flanders Institute for Biotechnology(VIB).
Acute systemic inflammation critically alters the function of the immune system,often promoting myelopoiesis at the expense of lymphopoiesis.In the thymus,systemic inflammation results in acute thymic atrophy and,cons...
from CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences(CIFMS)(2021-I2M-1-002);National Key Clinical Specialty Construction Project(ZK108000);National High-Level Hospital Clinical Research Funding(2022-PUMCH-B-024);National Natural Science Foundation of China,Joint Fund Project(U20A600).
Background:A high prevalence of diabetes mellitus(DM)coexisting with autoimmune pancreatitis(AIP)is observed.However,evidence on the circumstances under which corticosteroid therapy(CST)for AIP improves or worsens DM ...
supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.32271326,32071212,and 31770833 to Y.L.and No.32201040 to L.W.);the Key Project of Basic Research,Science and Technology R&D Fund of Shenzhen(No.JCYJ20200109144418639 to Y.L.).
A pathological hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease(AD),the most common neurodegenerative disease in elderly people,is the formation of neurofibrillary tangles(NFTs),which are mainly composed of bundles of amyloid fibrils...