Background Dialysis and kidney transplant patients are vulnerable populations for COVID-19
related disease and mortality. Methods We conducted a prospective study exploring the …

Proliferation of fibrotic tissue (desmoplasia) is one of the hallmarks of several epithelial
tumors including pancreatic adenocarcinoma. This tissue reaction may be deleterious or …

Although studies in vivo revealed promising results in bone regeneration after implantation
of scaffolds together with osteogenic progenitor cells, basic questions remain how material …

Pancreatic cancer can seldom be resected, and chemotherapy has only a limited effect on
survival or tumour load. We did a phase I/II trial in 14 patients with pancreatic cancer to assess …

BACKGROUND The etiology of tumors arising in the biliary tract remains unclear. Several
previous studies have detected Helicobacter pylori organisms in bile from patients with …

Intracellular replication of Salmonella enterica requires the formation of a unique organelle
termed Salmonella‐containing vacuole (SCV). The type III secretion system (T3SS) encoded …

A common approach for the quantification of Black Carbon (BC) in soils and sediments
represents the chemical oxidation with acid potassium dichromate. Because this method is still …

Mechanical interactions of mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) with the environment play a
significant role in controlling the diverse biological functions of these cells. Mechanical forces are …

The current state of validation and implementation strategies of massively parallel sequencing
(MPS) technology for the analysis of STR markers for forensic genetics use is described, …

Human papillomavirus (HPV) infections in oral carcinomas and normal oral mucosa were
studied by consensus primer screening and typing for HPV types 6/11,16 and 18 DNA. After …