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Systemic disease

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Inhalation of Microplastics—A Toxicological Complexity

Florian Frédéric Vincent Breider

Humans are chronically exposed to airborne microplastics (MPs) by inhalation. Various types of polymer particles have been detected in lung samples, which could pose a threat to human health. Inhalation toxicological studies are crucial for assessing the e ...

2024

Multidisciplinary Investigation of the Gut-Brain Ecosystem in a Model of Alzheimer's Disease

Arielle Louise Planchette

The search for an understanding of the causal elements that lead to neurodegenerative diseases has motivated researchers for decades. Today, Alzheimer's disease is the most prevalent form of dementia and affects approximately fifty million people worldwide ...

EPFL2022

A Machine-Generated View of the Role of Blood Glucose Levels in the Severity of COVID-19

Henry Markram, Daniel Keller, Jay Coggan, Mohameth François Sy, Cyrille Pierre Henri Favreau, Anna-Kristin Kaufmann, Emmanuelle Logette, Francesco Casalegno, Samuel Claude Kerrien, Enrico Scantamburlo, Charlotte Lorin, Marine Laure Bertschy, Pierre-Alexandre Fonta, Jan Krepl, Emilie Delattre, Caitlin Claire Monney, Stanislav Schmidt

SARS-CoV-2 started spreading toward the end of 2019 causing COVID-19, a disease that reached pandemic proportions among the human population within months. The reasons for the spectrum of differences in the severity of the disease across the population, an ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2021

Systemic inflammation disrupts the developmental program of white matter

Yohan Van de Looij

Perinatal inflammation is a major risk factor for neurological deficits in preterm infants. Several experimental studies have shown that systemic inflammation can alter the programming of the developing brain. However, these studies do not offer detailed p ...

2011

Intraarticular application of superparamagnetic nanoparticles and their uptake by synovial membrane—an experimental study in sheep

Heinrich Hofmann, Alke Fink, Benedikt Steitz, Mathieu Chastellain

A superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticle, coated with polyvinyl alcohol, (PVA-SPION) and its fluorescently functionalized analogue (amino-PVA-Cy3.5-SPION) were compared in vivo as proof of principle for future use in magnetic drug targeting in inflammat ...

2005