@phdthesis{Aaken2003,
  author    = {Aaken, Claas van},
  title     = {Adjuvante Radiochemotherapie des Rektumkarzinoms - multizentrische retrospektive Analyse von 534 Patienten in Franken - Behandlungsergebnisse der Strahlentherapie und Evaluation (A) - eine retrospektive Analyse des Krankengutes 6 fr{\"a}nkischer Strahlenkliniken im Zeitraum 4/93 bis 3/98},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-7681},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2003},
  abstract  = {Die adjuvante Radiochemotherapie des Rektumkarzinoms im UICC-Stadium II/III wird seit 1991 vom National Cancer Institute (NCI) und in Deutschland seit 1994 als Standard empfohlen. Die Qualit{\"a}t und Ergebnisse der postoperativen Therapie in der t{\"a}glichen klinischen Praxis wurden fl{\"a}chendeckend retrospektiv untersucht. Insgesamt wurden 534 Patienten aus sechs Institutionen ausgewertet, die zwischen 1993 und 1998 behandelt wurden. Die beteiligten Kliniken versorgten strahlentherapeutisch fl{\"a}chendeckend große Teile des nordbayerischen Raumes. Die Stadienverteilung der Patienten war: UICC I 1\%, II 28\%, III 69\% und IV 2\%. 92\% erhielten eine RChT, 8\% eine alleinige RT. Die mediane Nachbeobachtungszeit der Patienten betrug 40 Monate. Ergebnisse (Teil A): Nur etwa 37\% der epidemiologisch erwarteten Patienten wurden entsprechend der Konsensusvereinbarung einer postoperativen Therapie zugewiesen. Nach 5 Jahren betrug die aktuarische lokale Kontrolle 75\%, die Freiheit von Fernmetastasen 56\%, das krankheitsfreie {\"U}berleben 53\% und das Gesamt{\"u}berleben 57\%. Weitere Ergebnisse siehe Teil B. Schlussfolgerung: Der niedrige Anteil von der adjuvanten Therapie zugewiesenen Patienten sowie die im Vergleich zu randomisierten Studien ung{\"u}nstigeren Ergebnisse weisen auf die Auswahl eines Risikokollektivs hin. Anstelle einer stadienbezogenen Zuweisung scheint eine Auswahl mit individueller Risikoabsch{\"a}tzung bevorzugt zu werden. Neben Therapieverbesserungen durch randomisierte Studien sollten ebenso Anstrengungen zur {\"U}bertragung dieser Ergebnisse in die fl{\"a}chendeckende Praxis {\"u}bernommen werden.},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{AbboudAsendorfHeinrichetal.2021,
  author    = {Abboud, Tammam and Asendorf, Thomas and Heinrich, Jutta and Faust, Katharina and Krieg, Sandro M. and Seidel, Kathleen and Mielke, Dorothee and Matthies, Cordola and Ringel, Florian and Rohde, Veit and Szel{\´e}nyi, Andrea},
  title     = {Transcranial versus direct cortical stimulation for motor-evoked potentials during resection of supratentorial tumors under general anesthesia (the TRANSEKT-trial): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial},
  series = {Biomedicines},
  volume    = {9},
  journal   = {Biomedicines},
  number    = {10},
  issn      = {2227-9059},
  doi       = {10.3390/biomedicines9101490},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-248513},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Background: Monitoring of motor function during surgery for supratentorial tumors under general anesthesia applies either transcranial electrical stimulation (TES) or direct cortical stimulation (DCS) to elicit motor-evoked potentials. To date, there is no guideline that favor one method over the other. Therefore, we designed this randomized study to compare between both methods regarding the prediction of postoperative motor deficits and extent of tumor resection. Methods: This is a multicenter (six centers in Germany and one in Switzerland), double blind, parallel group, exploratory, randomized controlled clinical trial. Patients without or with mild paresis, who are scheduled for surgical resection of motor-eloquent brain tumors under general anesthesia will be randomized to surgical resection under TES or surgical resection under DCS. The primary endpoint is sensitivity and specificity in prognosis of motor function 7 days after surgery. The main secondary endpoint is the extent of tumor resection. The study is planned to include 120 patients within 2 years. Discussion: The present exploratory study should compare TES and DCS regarding sensitivity and specificity in predicting postoperative motor deficit and extent of tumor resection to calculate the required number of patients in a confirmatory trial to test the superiority of one method over the other.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{AbdElAzizElMaghrabyEwaldetal.2021,
  author    = {Abd El-Aziz, Asmaa M. and El-Maghraby, Azza and Ewald, Andrea and Kandil, Sherif H.},
  title     = {In-vitro cytotoxicity study: cell viability and cell morphology of carbon nanofibrous scaffold/hydroxyapatite nanocomposites},
  series = {Molecules},
  volume    = {26},
  journal   = {Molecules},
  number    = {6},
  issn      = {1420-3049},
  doi       = {10.3390/molecules26061552},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-234037},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Electrospun carbon nanofibers (CNFs), which were modified with hydroxyapatite, were fabricated to be used as a substrate for bone cell proliferation. The CNFs were derived from electrospun polyacrylonitrile (PAN) nanofibers after two steps of heat treatment: stabilization and carbonization. Carbon nanofibrous (CNF)/hydroxyapatite (HA) nanocomposites were prepared by two different methods; one of them being modification during electrospinning (CNF-8HA) and the second method being hydrothermal modification after carbonization (CNF-8HA; hydrothermally) to be used as a platform for bone tissue engineering. The biological investigations were performed using in-vitro cell counting, WST cell viability and cell morphology after three and seven days. L929 mouse fibroblasts were found to be more viable on the hydrothermally-modified CNF scaffolds than on the unmodified CNF scaffolds. The biological characterizations of the synthesized CNF/HA nanofibrous composites indicated higher capability of bone regeneration.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{AbdaKrysciakKrohnMoltetal.2015,
  author    = {Abda, Ebrahim M. and Krysciak, Dagmar and Krohn-Molt, Ines and Mamat, Uwe and Schmeisser, Christel and F{\"o}rstner, Konrad U. and Schaible, Ulrich E. and Kohi, Thomas A. and Nieman, Stefan and Streit, Wolfgang R.},
  title     = {Phenotypic Heterogeneity Affects Stenotrophomonas maltophilia K279a Colony Morphotypes and \(\beta\)-Lactamase Expression},
  series = {Frontiers in Microbiology},
  volume    = {6},
  journal   = {Frontiers in Microbiology},
  number    = {1373},
  doi       = {10.3389/fmicb.2015.01373},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-136446},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {Phenotypic heterogeneity at the cellular level in response to various stresses, e.g., antibiotic treatment has been reported for a number of bacteria. In a clonal population, cell-to-cell variation may result in phenotypic heterogeneity that is a mechanism to survive changing environments including antibiotic therapy. Stenotrophomonas rnaltophilia has been frequently isolated from cystic fibrosis patients, can cause numerous infections in other organs and tissues, and is difficult to treat due to antibiotic resistances. S. maltophilia K279a produces the Li and L2 beta-lactamases in response to beta-lactam treatment. Here we report that the patient isolate S. rnaltophilia K279a diverges into cellular subpopulations with distinct but reversible morphotypes of small and big colonies when challenged with ampicillin. This observation is consistent with the formation of elongated chains of bacteria during exponential growth phase and the occurrence of mainly rod-shaped cells in liquid media. RNA-seq analysis of small versus big colonies revealed differential regulation of at least seven genes among the colony morphotypes. Among those, bleu and bla(L2) were transcriptionally the most strongly upregulated genes. Promoter fusions of b/a(L1) and b/a(L2) genes indicated that expression of both genes is also subject to high levels of phenotypic heterogeneous expression on a single cell level. Additionally, the comE homolog was found to be differentially expressed in homogenously versus heterogeneously bla(L2) expressing cells as identified by RNA(seq) analysis. Overexpression of cornE in S. maltophilia K279a reduced the level of cells that were in a bla(L2)-ON mode to 1\% or lower. Taken together, our data provide strong evidence that S. maltophilia K279a populations develop phenotypic heterogeneity in an ampicillin challenged model. This cellular variability is triggered by regulation networks including b/a(L1), b/a(L2), and comE.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{AbdaliBarthNorouzyetal.2013,
  author    = {Abdali, Narges and Barth, Enrico and Norouzy, Amir and Schulz, Robert and Nau, Werner M. and Kleinekathofer, Ulrich and Tauch, Andreas and Benz, Roland},
  title     = {Corynebacterium jeikeium jk0268 Constitutes for the 40 Amino Acid Long PorACj, Which Forms a Homooligomeric and Anion- Selective Cell Wall Channel},
  series = {PLoS ONE},
  volume    = {8},
  journal   = {PLoS ONE},
  number    = {10},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-129989},
  pages     = {e75651},
  year      = {2013},
  abstract  = {Corynebacterium jeikeium, a resident of human skin, is often associated with multidrug resistant nosocomial infections in immunodepressed patients. C. jeikeium K411 belongs to mycolic acid-containing actinomycetes, the mycolata and contains a channel-forming protein as judged from reconstitution experiments with artificial lipid bilayer experiments. The channel-forming protein was present in detergent treated cell walls and in extracts of whole cells using organic solvents. A gene coding for a 40 amino acid long polypeptide possibly responsible for the pore-forming activity was identified in the known genome of C. jeikeium by its similar chromosomal localization to known porH and porA genes of other Corynebacterium strains. The gene jk0268 was expressed in a porin deficient Corynebacterium glutamicum strain. For purification temporarily histidine-tailed or with a GST-tag at the N-terminus, the homogeneous protein caused channel-forming activity with an average conductance of 1.25 nS in 1M KCl identical to the channels formed by the detergent extracts. Zero-current membrane potential measurements of the voltage dependent channel implied selectivity for anions. This preference is according to single-channel analysis caused by some excess of cationic charges located in the channel lumen formed by oligomeric alpha-helical wheels. The channel has a suggested diameter of 1.4 nm as judged from the permeability of different sized hydrated anions using the Renkin correction factor. Surprisingly, the genome of C. jeikeium contained only one gene coding for a cell wall channel of the PorA/PorH type found in other Corynebacterium species. The possible evolutionary relationship between the heterooligomeric channels formed by certain Corynebacterium strains and the homooligomeric pore of C. jeikeium is discussed.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{AbdaliYounasMafakherietal.2018,
  author    = {Abdali, Narges and Younas, Farhan and Mafakheri, Samaneh and Pothula, Karunakar R. and Kleinekath{\"o}fer, Ulrich and Tauch, Andreas and Benz, Roland},
  title     = {Identification and characterization of smallest pore-forming protein in the cell wall of pathogenic Corynebacterium urealyticum DSM 7109},
  series = {BMC Biochemistry},
  volume    = {19},
  journal   = {BMC Biochemistry},
  doi       = {10.1186/s12858-018-0093-9},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-226959},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {Background: Corynebacterium urealyticum, a pathogenic, multidrug resistant member of the mycolata, is known as causative agent of urinary tract infections although it is a bacterium of the skin flora. This pathogenic bacterium shares with the mycolata the property of having an unusual cell envelope composition and architecture, typical for the genus Corynebacterium. The cell wall of members of the mycolata contains channel-forming proteins for the uptake of solutes. Results: In this study, we provide novel information on the identification and characterization of a pore-forming protein in the cell wall of C. urealyticum DSM 7109. Detergent extracts of whole C. urealyticum cultures formed in lipid bilayer membranes slightly cation-selective pores with a single-channel conductance of 1.75 nS in 1 M KCl. Experiments with different salts and non-electrolytes suggested that the cell wall pore of C. urealyticum is wide and water-filled and has a diameter of about 1.8 nm. Molecular modelling and dynamics has been performed to obtain a model of the pore. For the search of the gene coding for the cell wall pore of C. urealyticum we looked in the known genome of C. urealyticum for a similar chromosomal localization of the porin gene to known porH and porA genes of other Corynebacterium strains. Three genes are located between the genes coding for GroEL2 and polyphosphate kinase (PKK2). Two of the genes (cur_1714 and cur_1715) were expressed in different constructs in C. glutamicum Delta porA Delta porH and in porin-deficient BL21 DE3 Omp8 E. coli strains. The results suggested that the gene cur_1714 codes alone for the cell wall channel. The cell wall porin of C. urealyticum termed PorACur was purified to homogeneity using different biochemical methods and had an apparent molecular mass of about 4 kDa on tricine-containing sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). Conclusions: Biophysical characterization of the purified protein (PorACur) suggested indeed that cur_1714 is the gene coding for the pore-forming protein in C. urealyticum because the protein formed in lipid bilayer experiments the same pores as the detergent extract of whole cells. The study is the first report of a cell wall channel in the pathogenic C. urealyticum.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Abdelmohsen2010,
  author    = {Abdelmohsen, Usama Ramadan},
  title     = {Antimicrobial Activities from Plant Cell Cultures and Marine Sponge-Associated Actinomycetes},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-51483},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2010},
  abstract  = {This thesis is divided into three parts with the main goal allocating novel antimicrobial compounds that could be used as future antibiotics. The first part aimed to evaluate the potential of plant suspension cultures for the production of antimicrobial proteins. The extracellular, intracellular and cell wall bound fractions of seven heterotrophic and photomixotrophic plant cell suspension cultures treated with nine different elicitors were tested for the elicitor dependent production of antimicrobial proteins. Bioactivities were tested against a selected panel of human isolates including Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria as well as fungi using the disc diffusion assay. The intracellular fractions of elicited cell cultures were more active than extracellular fractions while the cell wall bound fractions showed lowest activities. Among the 21 fractions tested, the intracellular fraction of Lavendula angustifolia elicited with DC3000 was most active against Candida maltosa. The second most active fraction was the intracellular fraction of Arabidopsis thaliana elicited with salicylic acid which was moreover active against all test strains. The antimicrobial activity of elicited Arabidopsis thaliana cell cultures was tested by bioautography to locate the antimicrobial proteins in the crude extract. The intracellular fraction of photomixotrophic Arabidopsis thaliana cells elicited with salicylic acid was selected for further gel filtration chromatography on S-200 column leading to the purification of one 19 kDa antimicrobially active protein, designated, AtAMP. Our findings suggest that elicited plant cell cultures may present a new promising alternative source of antimicrobial proteins. The second part comprises the isolation of actinomycetes associated with marine sponges and testing the bioactivities of new species for further investigations. Actinobacterial communities of eleven taxonomically different sponges that had been collected from offshore Ras Mohamed (Egypt) and from Rovinj (Croatia) were investigated by a culture-based approach using different standard media for isolation of actinomycetes and media enriched with aqueous sponge extract to target rare and new actinomycete species. Phylogenetic characterization of 52 representative isolates out of 90 based on almost complete sequences of genes encoding 16S rRNA supported their assignment to 18 different actinomycete genera. Altogether 14 putatively new species were identified based on sequence similarity values below 98.2\% to other strains in the NCBI database. The use of M1 agar amended with aqueous sponge extract yielded a putative new genus related to Rubrobacter which highlighting the need for innovative cultivation protocols. Biological activity testing showed that five isolates were active against Gram-positives only, one isolate was active against Candida albicans only and one isolate showed activity against both groups of pathogens. Moreover, the antiparasistic activity was documented for four isolates. These results showed a high diversity of actinomycetes associated with marine sponges as well as highlighted their potential to produce anti-infective agents. The third part of the thesis focused on the isolation and structure elucidation of new bioactive compounds. Streptomyces strain RV15 recovered from sponge Dysidea tupha, was selected for further chemical analysis by virtue of the fact that it exhibited the greatest antimicrobial potential against Staphylococcus aureus as well as Candida albicans among the all tested strains. Moreover, members of the genus Streptomyces are well known as prolific producers of interesting pharmacologically active metabolites. Chemical analysis of the methanolic crude extract using different chromatographic tools yielded four new compounds. The structures of the new compounds were spectroscopically elucidated to be four new cyclic peptides, namely, cyclodysidins A-D. Their bioactivity was tested against different proteases, bacteria and Candida as well as tumor cell lines. The compounds did not show any significant activities at this point.},
  subject      = {Antimikrobieller Wirkstoff},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Abele2009,
  author    = {Abele, Marion},
  title     = {Die Bedeutung des Zwei-Partner-Sekretionssystems f{\"u}r die Adh{\"a}renz von Meningokokken an Epithelzellen},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-45369},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2009},
  abstract  = {Das two-partner secretion-system (TPS-System) ist ein unter Gram-negativen Bakterien weit verbreiteter Weg der Proteinsekretion. Die als TpsA bezeichneten Exoproteine des TPS Systems ben{\"o}tigen ein spezifisches Partnerprotein (genannt TpsB) in Form eines kanalbildenden Transporters. Im sequenzierten Genom des Meningokokkenstammes MC58 finden sich f{\"u}nf putative tpsA Gene, die als hemagglutinin/hemolysin-related protein (hrps) bezeichnete werden. Neben MC58 finden sich auch in den anderen sequenzierten Meningokokkenst{\"a}mmen (FAM18, Z2491, alpha14) hrps. Diese weisen N-terminal Homologien zum filament{\"o}sen H{\"a}magglutinin (FHA) von B. pertussis auf, das als TpsA-Protein des two-partner-secretion-system (TPS) aus der Zelle transportiert wird. In dieser Arbeit werden die hrps als hrpA Gene bzw. HrpA-Proteine bezeichnet. Alle sequenzierten Meningokokkenst{\"a}mme verf{\"u}gen {\"u}ber tpsB homologe Gene (hrpB), die jeweils in enger Nachbarschaft zu den hrpA Genen zu finden sind. Das Vorhandensein von hrpA und hrpB Genen deutet darauf hin, dass auch Meningokokken {\"u}ber ein funktionales TPS-System verf{\"u}gen. Bei einer Dot-Blot-Analyse von 830 Meningokokkenst{\"a}mmen aus einer bayerischen Tr{\"a}gerstudie mit Sonden spezifisch f{\"u}r die C-terminalen Bereiche der im Stamm MC58 gefundenen hrpA Gene hybridisierten 80\% der ausgewerteten St{\"a}mme mit mindestens einer der Sonden. St{\"a}mme der hypervirulenten klonalen Komplexen (ST-8, ST-11, ST32, ST-44) zeigten sogar in {\"u}ber 99\% eine positive Reaktion. Dagegen wiesen die nicht-hypervirulenten klonalen Komplexe zu 29\% im Dot Blot kein hrpA auf, das homolog zu den hrpA Genen von Stamm MC58 ist, wobei es sich hierbei mehrheitlich (82\%) um cnl St{\"a}mme handelte, so dass sich nur in 10\% der untersuchten Kapsel-null-locus-St{\"a}mme (cnl) ein zu den hrpA Genen von MC58 homologes Gen nachweisen ließ. Mit der Hypothese, dass auch diese St{\"a}mme ein hrpA besitzen, welches sich im C-terimalen Anteil von denen des MC58 unterscheidet wurden in dieser Arbeit Dot Blots durchgef{\"u}hrt, deren Sonde spezifisch f{\"u}r das hrpB NMC0443 war. 97,6\% der mit dieser Sonde untersuchten St{\"a}mme zeigten die Anwesenheit eines hrpB Homologs. Um die Vermutung zu best{\"a}tigen, dass allen hrpB Genen ein zugeh{\"o}riges hrpA Gen benachbart liegt, wurden repr{\"a}sentativ PCRs von h{\"a}ufigen klonalen Komplexen durchgef{\"u}hrt. Dabei konnte gezeigt werden, dass ein TPS-System sowohl in den hypervirulenten als auch den nicht-hypervirulenten klonalen Komplexen der Meningokokken vorkommt. Die vielf{\"a}ltigen Funktionen von bereits untersuchten TpsA Proteinen sind zumeist mit der Pathogenit{\"a}t der Bakterien assoziiert. In dieser Arbeit wurde ein m{\"o}glicher Einfluss der HrpA Proteine auf die Adh{\"a}sion der Bakterien an humane Zellen untersucht. Es konnte gezeigt werden, dass sowohl eine kapsellose, als auch eine kapsellose, LPS-trunkierte hrpA Deletionsmutante signifikant schlechter an Epithelzellen adh{\"a}riert als die parentalen Vergleichsst{\"a}mme. Ebenso zeigten die analog durchgef{\"u}hrten Infektionsversuche mit der hrpB Deletionsmutante einen Adh{\"a}renzverlust, der jedoch nur f{\"u}r die unbekapselte und LPS trunkierte hrpB Deletionsmutante signifikant war. In dieser Arbeit ist es gelungen das HrpB Protein des Stammes 2120 in E. coli zu exprimieren und aufzureinigen, sodass die Entwicklung eines gegen HrpB gerichteten Antik{\"o}rpers in Auftrag gegeben werden konnte. Mit Hilfe dieses Antik{\"o}rpers sollen noch offene Fragen zur Synthese und dem Transport des HrpB Transportproteins beantwortet werden. Außerdem k{\"o}nnen weitere Untersuchungen zur Lage und Verteilung der HrpBs in der Meningokokkenmembran dazu beitragen, weiteren Aufschluss {\"u}ber die Komplexit{\"a}t von Pathogenit{\"a}t und Virulenz von N. meningitidis zu geben.},
  subject      = {W{\"u}rzburg / Institut f{\"u}r Hygiene und Mikrobiologie},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Abele2002,
  author    = {Abele, Tobias},
  title     = {Invasion, Replikation und Stadienkonversion von Toxoplasma gondii in permanenten ZNS-Zelllinien der Ratte},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-4521},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2002},
  abstract  = {Permanente ZNS-Zelllinien der Ratte wurden mit Toxoplasma gondii unter Betrachtung der Invasions-, Replikations- und Stadienkonversionf{\"a}higeit des Parasiten infiziert. Additiv zu bekannten Tiermodellen konnte so ein Zellkulturmodell zur Erforschung der zerebralen Persistenz des Protozoons etabliert werden.},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Abels2014,
  author    = {Abels, Henrike},
  title     = {Sprachkompetenz und motorische F{\"a}higkeiten von S{\"a}uglingen mit lagerungsbedingtem Plagiozephalus und Helmtherapie im Alter von sechs und zw{\"o}lf Monaten im Vergleich zu gleichaltrigen unauff{\"a}lligen S{\"a}uglingen},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-102084},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {Die vorliegende Arbeit wurde im Rahmen eines interdisziplin{\"a}ren Forschungsprojektes der Universit{\"a}tsklinik W{\"u}rzburg verfasst (IZKF-Studiennr. F-164, CFCW-Projekt). Ziel dieser Arbeit war es, explorativ zu untersuchen, inwieweit ein Lagerungsplagiozephalus (LP) die sprachlich-kognitive und motorische Entwicklung eines S{\"a}uglings/ Kindes beeinflusst und ob es Hinweise auf eine Auswirkung der Dauer der Therapie mittels Kopforthese auf die fr{\"u}hkindliche Entwicklung gibt. Sie liefert erstmalig Untersuchungsdaten zur vorsprachlichen und fr{\"u}hen sprachlichen Entwicklung von S{\"a}uglingen mit LP. Das Probandenkollektiv bestand aus 71 Probanden (Plagiozephalus mit Helmtherapie (PMH)-Gruppe: N=36, Kontrollgruppe (KG): N=35). Im Alter von zw{\"o}lf Monaten wurde die Sprachleistung aller Probanden mithilfe des ELFRA-1 eingesch{\"a}tzt. Zudem wurden die Ergebnisse der deutschen Fassung der BSID II vom sechsten und zw{\"o}lften Lebensmonat herangezogen. Um den Effekt der Helmtherapie auf die Entwicklung der Kinder mit LP zu ber{\"u}cksichtigen, fand eine Korrelation zwischen der Tragedauer und sprachproduktiven, sprachperzeptiven, gestischen, (fein-)motorischen und kognitiven Leistungen der Probanden statt. Ein maskierender Einfluss des Co-Faktors SLI-Risiko auf die Befunde konnte ausgeschlossen werden. Zusammengefasst zeigen die hier untersuchten S{\"a}uglinge mit LP im Alter von sechs Monaten statistisch gerade signifikant schlechtere motorische F{\"a}higkeiten als S{\"a}uglinge mit normaler Kopfform. Im Alter von zw{\"o}lf Monaten holen sie diese Defizite jedoch auf und sind teilweise sogar motorisch geschickter als die Vergleichsgruppe. Die kognitive Entwicklung von Kindern mit LP scheint nicht verz{\"o}gert zu sein, wie in der Fachliteratur postuliert. In den Analysen zeigte sich kein signifikanter Zusammenhang zwischen der Helmtragedauer und den sprachlichen (ELFRA-1) und kognitiven (BSID: MDI 12 Monate) F{\"a}higkeiten der Probanden mit LP. Die motorischen F{\"a}higkeiten (BSID: PDI 12 Monate) zeigten einen statistisch signifikanten Zusammenhang zur Tragedauer der Kopforthese. Je l{\"a}nger der Helm getragen wurde, desto besser fielen die motorischen Leistungen der Probanden im Alter von zw{\"o}lf Monaten aus. Zus{\"a}tzlich wurden Vokalisationen einer Untergruppe (High-Contrast-Gruppe (HC), N=20) im Hinblick auf melodische Variationsf{\"a}higkeiten im sechsten Lebensmonat untersucht. Dazu wurden die digitalen Lautaufnahmen im S{\"a}uglingslabor des ZVES an der Poliklinik f{\"u}r Kieferorthop{\"a}die editiert und mithilfe spezifischer Analyseprogramme quantitativ analysiert. Die S{\"a}uglinge mit LP wiesen genauso variantenreiche Melodien in ihren Vokalisationen auf wie die S{\"a}uglinge der Kontrollgruppe. Sp{\"a}tere Sprachauff{\"a}lligkeiten w{\"u}rden sich bereits in diesen vorsprachlichen F{\"a}higkeiten manifestieren. Auch wenn zuk{\"u}nftige Studien best{\"a}tigen, dass ein LP - entgegen den Erkenntnissen anderer Autoren (Korpilahti et al. 2012, Speltz et al. 2010 u.a.) - keine kognitiven Beeintr{\"a}chtigungen zur Folge hat, ist die Therapie dieser Sch{\"a}delasymmetrie auf psychosozialer Ebene und wegen m{\"o}glicher Auswirkungen auf das maxillomandibul{\"a}re System zu bef{\"u}rworten (Meyer-Marcotty et al. 2012).},
  subject      = {Lagerungsplagiozephalus},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{AbimannanSumathiKrishnarajasekharetal.2019,
  author    = {Abimannan, Nagarajan and Sumathi, G. and Krishnarajasekhar, O. R. and Sinha, Bhanu and Krishnan, Padma},
  title     = {Clonal Clusters and Virulence Factors of Methicillin-Resistant \(Staphylococcus\) \(Aureus\): Evidence for Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant \(Staphylococcus\) \(Aureus\) Infiltration into Hospital Settings in Chennai, South India},
  series = {Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology},
  volume    = {37},
  journal   = {Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology},
  number    = {3},
  doi       = {10.4103/ijmm.IJMM_18_271},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-226963},
  pages     = {326-336},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Background and Objective: Staphylococcus aureus is one of the major pathogens of nosocomial infections as wells as community-acquired (CA) infections worldwide. So far, large-scale comprehensive molecular and epidemiological characterisation of S. aureus from very diverse settings has not been carried out in India. The objective of this study is to evaluate the molecular, epidemiological and virulence characteristics of S. aureus in both community and hospital settings in Chennai, southern India. Methods: S. aureus isolates were obtained from four different groups (a) healthy individuals from closed community settings, (b) inpatients from hospitals, (c) outpatients from hospitals, representing isolates of hospital-community interface and (d) HIV-infected patients to define isolates associated with the immunocompromised. Antibiotic susceptibility testing, multiplex polymerase chain reactions for detection of virulence and resistance determinants, molecular typing including Staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) and agr typing, were carried out. Sequencing-based typing was done using spa and multilocus sequence typing (MLST) methods. Clonal complexes (CC) of hospital and CA methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) were identified and compared for virulence and resistance. Results and Conclusion: A total of 769 isolates of S. aureus isolates were studied. The prevalence of MRSA was found to be 7.17\%, 81.67\%, 58.33\% and 22.85\% for groups a, b, c and d, respectively. Of the four SCCmec types (I, III, IV and V) detected, SCCmec V was found to be predominant. Panton-Valentine leucocidin toxin genes were detected among MRSA isolates harbouring SCCmec IV and V. A total of 78 spa types were detected, t657 being the most prevalent. 13 MLST types belonging to 9 CC were detected. CC1 (ST-772, ST-1) and CC8 (ST238, ST368 and ST1208) were found to be predominant among MRSA. CA-MRSA isolates with SCCmec IV and V were isolated from all study groups including hospitalised patients and were found to be similar by molecular tools. This shows that CA MRSA has probably infiltrated into the hospital settings.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{AboagyeWeberMerdianetal.2021,
  author    = {Aboagye, B. and Weber, T. and Merdian, H. L. and Bartsch, D. and Lesch, K. P. and Waider, J.},
  title     = {Serotonin deficiency induced after brain maturation rescues consequences of early life adversity},
  series = {Scientific Reports},
  volume    = {11},
  journal   = {Scientific Reports},
  number    = {1},
  issn      = {2045-2322},
  doi       = {10.1038/s41598-021-83592-4},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-258626},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Brain serotonin (5-HT) system dysfunction is implicated in depressive disorders and acute depletion of 5-HT precursor tryptophan has frequently been used to model the influence of 5-HT deficiency on emotion regulation. Tamoxifen (TAM)-induced Cre/loxP-mediated inactivation of the tryptophan hydroxylase-2 gene (Tph2) was used to investigate the effects of provoked 5-HT deficiency in adult mice (Tph2 icKO) previously subjected to maternal separation (MS). The efficiency of Tph2 inactivation was validated by immunohistochemistry and HPLC. The impact of Tph2 icKO in interaction with MS stress (Tph2 icKOxMS) on physiological parameters, emotional behavior and expression of 5-HT system-related marker genes were assessed. Tph2 icKO mice displayed a significant reduction in 5-HT immunoreactive cells and 5-HT concentrations in the rostral raphe region within four weeks following TAM treatment. Tph2 icKO and MS differentially affected food and water intake, locomotor activity as well as panic-like escape behavior. Tph2 icKO prevented the adverse effects of MS stress and altered the expression of the genes previously linked to stress and emotionality. In conclusion, an experimental model was established to study the behavioral and neurobiological consequences of 5-HT deficiency in adulthood in interaction with early-life adversity potentially affecting brain development and the pathogenesis of depressive disorders.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Aboagye2019,
  author    = {Aboagye, Benjamin},
  title     = {Behavioral and physiologic consequences of inducible inactivation of the \(Tryptophan\) \(hydroxylase\) 2 gene in interaction with early-life adversity},
  doi       = {10.25972/OPUS-17358},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-173581},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Disruptions in brain serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) signaling pathways have been associated with etiology and pathogenesis of various neuropsychiatric disorders, but specific neural mechanisms of 5-HT function are yet to be fully elucidated. Tryptophan hydroxylase 2 (TPH2) is the rate-limiting enzyme for brain 5-HT synthesis. Therefore, in this study a tamoxifen (Tam)-inducible cre-mediated conditional gene (Tph2) knockout in adult mouse brain (Tph2icKO) has been established to decipher the specific role of brain 5-HT in the regulation of behavior in adulthood. Immunohistochemistry and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) were used first to test the efficacy of Tam-inducible inactivation of Tph2 and consequential reduction of 5-HT in adult mouse brain. Tam treatment resulted in ≥90\% reduction in the number of 5-HT immuno-reactive cells in the anterior raphe nuclei. HPLC revealed a significant reduction in concentration of 5-HT and its metabolite 5-hydroxyindole acetic acid (5-HIAA) in selected brain regions of Tph2icKO, indicating the effectiveness of the protocol used. Second, standard behavioral tests were used to assess whether reduced brain 5-HT concentrations could alter anxiety-, fear- and depressive-like behavior in mice. No altered anxiety- and depressive-like behaviors were observed in Tph2icKO compared to control mice (Tph2CON) in all indices measured, but Tph2icKO mice exhibited intense and sustained freezing during context-dependent fear memory retrieval. Tph2icKO mice also exhibited locomotor hyperactivity in the aversive environments, such as the open field, and consumed more food and fluid than Tph2CON mice. Lastly, the combined effect of maternal separation (MS) stress and adult brain 5-HT depletion on behavior was assessed in male and female mice. Here, MS stress, 5-HT depletion and their interaction elicited anxiety-like behavior in a sex-dependent manner. MS reduced exploratory behavior in both male and female mice. Reduced 5-HT enhanced anxiety in female, but not in male mice. Furthermore, expression of genes related to the 5-HT system and emotionality (Tph2, Htr1a, Htr2a, Maoa and Avpr1a) was assessed by performing a quantitative real-time PCR. In Tph2icKO mice there was a reduction in expression of Tph2 in the raphe nuclei of both male and female mice. Interaction between MS stress and 5-HT deficiency was detected showing increased Htr2a and Maoa expression in raphe and hippocampus respectively of female mice. In male mice, MS stress and 5-HT depletion interaction effects reduced Avpr1a expression in raphe, while the expression of Htr1a, Htr2a and Maoa was differentially altered by 5-HT depletion and MS in various brain regions.},
  subject      = {Anxiety},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Abt2020,
  author    = {Abt, Alexander},
  title     = {Einfluss von HGF und Foretinib auf den Glukosestoffwechsel bei Zelllinien des oralen Plattenepithelkarzinoms},
  doi       = {10.25972/OPUS-20728},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-207286},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {Die Aktivierung des HGF/c-Met-Signalweges wird unter anderem seit l{\"a}ngerer Zeit als verantwortlicher Mechanismus f{\"u}r die Entwicklung von Resistenzen gegen den EGF-Rezeptor gerichteter Medikamente diskutiert. In verschiedenen Studien konnte die klinische Bedeutung des HGF/c-Met-Signalwegs belegt werden. In der j{\"u}ngeren Vergangenheit konzentriert sich die Forschung immer mehr auf das Tumormikromilieu und dessen Einfluss auf die Tumorprogression. So konnte gezeigt werden, dass erh{\"o}hte Laktatwerte, resultierend aus einer gesteigerten Glykolyse, zytotoxische T-Zellen inhibieren. Es wurden vier etablierte Zelllinien des oralen Plattenepithelkarzinoms sowie eine Zelllinie eines Mukoepidermoidkarzinom verwendet, um den Einfluss von HGF und des Tyrosinkinaseinhibitors Foretinib auf den Glukosemetabolismus zu pr{\"u}fen. Bei allen Zelllinien konnte der c-Met-Rezeptor nachgewiesen werden. Ebenso konnte in einem ELISA belegt werden, dass die Zelllinien selbst kein HFG produzieren. Es wurden proliferationsf{\"o}rdernde Effekte f{\"u}r HGF sowie zytotoxische Effekte durch Foretinib aufgezeigt. Ferner konnte der proliferationsf{\"o}rdernde Effekt durch HGF durch die Behandlung mit Foretinib aufgehoben werden. Im RT-PCR-Verfahren wurden die Auswirkungen auf die Transkription verschiedener Gene, die f{\"u}r wichtige Enzyme des Glukosemetabolismus kodieren, nach der Stimulation mit HGF sowie der Inhibition mit Foretinib untersucht. Es konnten substanzielle Ver{\"a}nderungen in der Expression einzelner Gene nachgewiesen werden. Zelllinien{\"u}bergreifend konnte allerdings keine verst{\"a}rkte bzw. verminderte Transkription durch die Behandlung mit HGF bzw. Foretinib nachgewiesen werden. Die Ergebnisse lassen auf die Komplexit{\"a}t der Regulierung des Glukosemetabolismus schließen. In der Durchflusszytometrie konnte gezeigt werden, dass eine Behandlung mit HGF nicht zu einer Zunahme des GLUT1 in der Zellmembran f{\"u}hrt, wohingegen eine Behandlung mit Foretinib mit einer gesteigerten Menge von GLUT1 einhergeht. Die Ergebnisse der vorliegenden Arbeit belegen einen Einfluss des HGF/c-Met-Signalwegs auf den Glukosemetabolismus bei Zelllinien des oralen Plattenepithelkarzinoms.},
  subject      = {Hepatozyten-Wachstumsfaktor},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{AbuHalimaHaeuslerBackesetal.2017,
  author    = {Abu-Halima, Masood and H{\"a}usler, Sebastian and Backes, Christina and Fehlmann, Tobias and Staib, Claudia and Nestel, Sigrun and Nazarenko, Irina and Meese, Eckart and Keller, Andreas},
  title     = {Micro-ribonucleic acids and extracellular vesicles repertoire in the spent culture media is altered in women undergoing \(In\) \(Vitro\) Fertilization},
  series = {Scientific Reports},
  volume    = {7},
  journal   = {Scientific Reports},
  doi       = {10.1038/s41598-017-13683-8},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-173632},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are class of small RNA molecules with major impact on gene regulation. We analyzed the potential of miRNAs secreted from pre-implantation embryos into the embryonic culture media as biomarkers to predict successful pregnancy. Using microarray analysis, we profiled the miRNome of the 56 spent culture media (SCM) after embryos transfer and found a total of 621 miRNAs in the SCM. On average, we detected 163 miRNAs in SCM of samples with failed pregnancies, but only 149 SCM miRNAs of embryos leading to pregnancies. MiR-634 predicted an embryo transfer leading to a positive pregnancy with an accuracy of 71\% and a sensitivity of 85\%. Among the 621 miRNAs, 102 (16.4\%) showed a differential expression between positive and negative outcome of pregnancy with miR-29c-3p as the most significantly differentially expressed miRNA. The number of extracellular vehicles was lower in SCM with positive outcomes (3.8 × 10\(^9\)/mL EVs), as compared to a negative outcome (7.35 × 10\(^9\)/mL EVs) possibly explaining the reduced number of miRNAs in the SCM associated with failed pregnancies. The analysis of the miRNome in the SCM of couples undergoing fertility treatment lays the ground towards development of biomarkers to predict successful pregnancy and towards understanding the role of embryonic miRNAs found in the SCM.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{AchenbachHuppertzZemanetal.2022,
  author    = {Achenbach, Leonard and Huppertz, Gunnar and Zeman, Florian and Weber, Johannes and Luig, Patrick and Rudert, Maximilian and Krutsch, Werner},
  title     = {Multicomponent stretching and rubber band strengthening exercises do not reduce overuse shoulder injuries: a cluster randomised controlled trial with 579 handball athletes},
  series = {BMJ Open Sport \& Exercise Medicine},
  volume    = {8},
  journal   = {BMJ Open Sport \& Exercise Medicine},
  number    = {1},
  issn      = {2055-7647},
  doi       = {10.1136/bmjsem-2021-001270},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-300770},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {Objectives Handball is associated with a high risk of overuse shoulder injury. This study investigated if an injury prevention programme effectively reduces overuse injury to the throwing shoulder of handball athletes. Methods 61 men's and women's handball teams (u-19 and senior athletes) were cluster-randomised into an intervention and a control group in the 2019-2020 season. Players of the intervention group regularly carried out an injury prevention programme. Both groups documented overuse shoulder injuries via an online questionnaire every second week. The primary endpoint was the prevalence of overuse injury to the throwing shoulder. Secondary endpoints were the influence of compliance on the primary endpoint and intensity of overuse shoulder symptoms measured by a shortened, handball-specific Western Ontario Shoulder Index (WOSI). Results 31 teams (295 players) in the intervention group and 30 teams (284 players) in the control group were included for analyses. The overall questionnaire response rate was 61\%. The average prevalence of overuse shoulder injury did not significantly differ between the intervention group (n=109, 38.4\% (95\% CI 32.9\% to 44.2\%)) and the control group (n=106, 35.9\% (95\% CI 30.7\% to 41.6\%), p=0.542). Compliance with the intervention programme did not significantly affect overuse shoulder injury (p=0.893). Using generalised estimating equations for WOSI, the estimated mean for the intervention group was 44.6 points (95\% CI 42.0 to 47.1) and 47.6 points for the control group (95\% CI 44.9 to 50.3, p=0.111). Conclusions A multicomponent exercise programme using rubber bands and stretching did not significantly reduce the prevalence or symptoms of overuse throwing shoulder injury in handball athletes of both sexes. Randomised controlled study; level of evidence I.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{AcqualagnaBotrelVidaurreetal.2016,
  author    = {Acqualagna, Laura and Botrel, Loic and Vidaurre, Carmen and K{\"u}bler, Andrea and Blankertz, Benjamin},
  title     = {Large-Scale Assessment of a Fully Automatic Co-Adaptive Motor Imagery-Based Brain Computer Interface},
  series = {PLoS ONE},
  volume    = {11},
  journal   = {PLoS ONE},
  number    = {2},
  doi       = {10.1371/journal.pone.0148886},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-167230},
  pages     = {e0148886},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {In the last years Brain Computer Interface (BCI) technology has benefited from the development of sophisticated machine leaning methods that let the user operate the BCI after a few trials of calibration. One remarkable example is the recent development of co-adaptive techniques that proved to extend the use of BCIs also to people not able to achieve successful control with the standard BCI procedure. Especially for BCIs based on the modulation of the Sensorimotor Rhythm (SMR) these improvements are essential, since a not negligible percentage of users is unable to operate SMR-BCIs efficiently. In this study we evaluated for the first time a fully automatic co-adaptive BCI system on a large scale. A pool of 168 participants naive to BCIs operated the co-adaptive SMR-BCI in one single session. Different psychological interventions were performed prior the BCI session in order to investigate how motor coordination training and relaxation could influence BCI performance. A neurophysiological indicator based on the Power Spectral Density (PSD) was extracted by the recording of few minutes of resting state brain activity and tested as predictor of BCI performances. Results show that high accuracies in operating the BCI could be reached by the majority of the participants before the end of the session. BCI performances could be significantly predicted by the neurophysiological indicator, consolidating the validity of the model previously developed. Anyway, we still found about 22\% of users with performance significantly lower than the threshold of efficient BCI control at the end of the session. Being the inter-subject variability still the major problem of BCI technology, we pointed out crucial issues for those who did not achieve sufficient control. Finally, we propose valid developments to move a step forward to the applicability of the promising co-adaptive methods.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Adae2009,
  author    = {Adae, Jasmin},
  title     = {Interaktion von malignen Tumorzellen mit extrazellul{\"a}rer Matrix und Migration: Rolle von Rac und ROCK},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-52894},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2009},
  abstract  = {Auf dem Weg vom Prim{\"a}rtumor zur systemischen Metastasierung, der Haupttodesursache von Krebserkrankungen, ist die Einzelzellmigration von Tumorzellen durch dreidimensionales Bindegewebe ein entscheidender Schritt. Die vorliegende Arbeit zeigt Untersuchungen zur Tumorzellmigration und -plastizit{\"a}t in einem 3D-Migrationsmodell. Kleine G-Proteine kontrollieren Zytoskelettfunktionen, insbesondere Aktinpolymerisation und die Bildung von Zellprotrusionen durch Rac sowie Actomyosinkontraktion durch Rho. Durch pharmakologische Inhibitoren von Rac und dem Rho-Effektor ROCK soll deren Bedeutung f{\"u}r Einzelzellmigration in einem dreidimensionalen Modell und vor allem der Effekt auf Morphologie, Plastizit{\"a}t und Migration von Tumorzellen gekl{\"a}rt werden. Nach Inhibition von ROCK zeigen hochinvasive HT1080 Fibrosarkomzellen einen multipolar-dendritischen und sessilen Ph{\"a}notyp. Nach Hemmung von Rac wird hingegen ein rundlicher, aber ebenfalls apolarer und sessiler Ph{\"a}notyp induziert. Bei simultaner Inhibition von Rac und ROCK entstehen rundliche, apolare, sessile Zellen mit abortiven Pseudopodien. Wird das Gleichgewicht von Rac und ROCK durch konstitutive Aktivierung von ROCK gest{\"o}rt, so entsteht eine zweigeteilte Population, bestehend aus rundlichen Zellen, die Blebs bilden, und langgezogenen Zellen. Nach Sortierung nach ihrem ß1-Integrinexpressionsniveau zeigten Zellen mit niedriger Integrin-Expression einen rundlichen Migrationstyp mit blasenartigen dynamischen Protrusionen, w{\"a}hrend Zellen mit hoher Integrin-Expression langgezogen-mesenchymal migrierten. Somit steuern ROCK und Rac gemeinsam und zeitgleich die mesenchymale Einzelzellmigration. W{\"a}hrend Rac Protrusion vermittelt, ist ROCK f{\"u}r Kontraktilit{\"a}t und Retraktion verantwortlich. Erst durch Koordination von Rac und Rho/ROCK entsteht somit Polarit{\"a}t und 3D mesenchymale Migration.},
  subject      = {Zellmigration},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{AdakuChilakaMally2020,
  author    = {Adaku Chilaka, Cynthia and Mally, Angela},
  title     = {Mycotoxin Occurrence, Exposure and Health Implications in Infants and Young Children in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review},
  series = {Foods},
  volume    = {9},
  journal   = {Foods},
  number    = {11},
  issn      = {2304-8158},
  doi       = {10.3390/foods9111585},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-219250},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {Infants and young children (IYC) remain the most vulnerable population group to environmental hazards worldwide, especially in economically developing regions such as sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). As a result, several governmental and non-governmental institutions including health, environmental and food safety networks and researchers have been proactive toward protecting this group. Mycotoxins, toxic secondary fungal metabolites, contribute largely to the health risks of this young population. In SSA, the scenario is worsened by socioeconomic status, poor agricultural and storage practices, and low level of awareness, as well as the non-establishment and lack of enforcement of regulatory limits in the region. Studies have revealed mycotoxin occurrence in breast milk and other weaning foods. Of concern is the early exposure of infants to mycotoxins through transplacental transfer and breast milk as a consequence of maternal exposure, which may result in adverse health effects. The current paper presents an overview of mycotoxin occurrence in foods intended for IYC in SSA. It discusses the imperative evidence of mycotoxin exposure of this population group in SSA, taking into account consumption data and the occurrence of mycotoxins in food, as well as biomonitoring approaches. Additionally, it discusses the health implications associated with IYC exposure to mycotoxins in SSA.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{AdamBaeurleBrodskyetal.2014,
  author    = {Adam, Christian and Baeurle, Anne and Brodsky, Jeffrey L. and Schrama, David and Wipf, Peter and Becker, J{\"u}rgen Christian and Houben, Roland},
  title     = {The HSP70 Modulator MAL3-101 Inhibits Merkel Cell Carcinoma},
  doi       = {10.1371/journal.pone.0092041},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-112795},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {Merkel Cell Carcinoma (MCC) is a rare and highly aggressive neuroendocrine skin cancer for which no effective treatment is available. MCC represents a human cancer with the best experimental evidence for a causal role of a polyoma virus. Large T antigens (LTA) encoded by polyoma viruses are oncoproteins, which are thought to require support of cellular heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) to exert their transforming activity. Here we evaluated the capability of MAL3-101, a synthetic HSP70 inhibitor, to limit proliferation and survival of various MCC cell lines. Remarkably, MAL3-101 treatment resulted in considerable apoptosis in 5 out of 7 MCC cell lines. While this effect was not associated with the viral status of the MCC cells, quantitative mRNA expression analysis of the known HSP70 isoforms revealed a significant correlation between MAL3-101 sensitivity and HSC70 expression, the most prominent isoform in all cell lines. Moreover, MAL3-101 also exhibited in vivo antitumor activity in an MCC xenograft model suggesting that this substance or related compounds are potential therapeutics for the treatment of MCC in the future.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{AdamKircherSbieraetal.2021,
  author    = {Adam, Pia and Kircher, Stefan and Sbiera, Iuliu and Koehler, Viktoria Florentine and Berg, Elke and Kn{\"o}sel, Thomas and Sandner, Benjamin and Fenske, Wiebke Kristin and Bl{\"a}ker, Hendrik and Smaxwil, Constantin and Zielke, Andreas and Sipos, Bence and Allelein, Stephanie and Schott, Matthias and Dierks, Christine and Spitzweg, Christine and Fassnacht, Martin and Kroiss, Matthias},
  title     = {FGF-Receptors and PD-L1 in Anaplastic and Poorly Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: Evaluation of the Preclinical Rationale},
  series = {Frontiers in Endocrinology},
  volume    = {12},
  journal   = {Frontiers in Endocrinology},
  issn      = {1664-2392},
  doi       = {10.3389/fendo.2021.712107},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-244653},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Background Treatment options for poorly differentiated (PDTC) and anaplastic (ATC) thyroid carcinoma are unsatisfactory and prognosis is generally poor. Lenvatinib (LEN), a multi-tyrosine kinase inhibitor targeting fibroblast growth factor receptors (FGFR) 1-4 is approved for advanced radioiodine refractory thyroid carcinoma, but response to single agent is poor in ATC. Recent reports of combining LEN with PD-1 inhibitor pembrolizumab (PEM) are promising. Materials and Methods Primary ATC (n=93) and PDTC (n=47) tissue samples diagnosed 1997-2019 at five German tertiary care centers were assessed for PD-L1 expression by immunohistochemistry using Tumor Proportion Score (TPS). FGFR 1-4 mRNA was quantified in 31 ATC and 14 PDTC with RNAscope in-situ hybridization. Normal thyroid tissue (NT) and papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) served as controls. Disease specific survival (DSS) was the primary outcome variable. Results PD-L1 TPS≥50\% was observed in 42\% of ATC and 26\% of PDTC specimens. Mean PD-L1 expression was significantly higher in ATC (TPS 30\%) than in PDTC (5\%; p<0.01) and NT (0\%, p<0.001). 53\% of PDTC samples had PD-L1 expression ≤5\%. FGFR mRNA expression was generally low in all samples but combined FGFR1-4 expression was significantly higher in PDTC and ATC compared to NT (each p<0.001). No impact of PD-L1 and FGFR 1-4 expression was observed on DSS. Conclusion High tumoral expression of PD-L1 in a large proportion of ATCs and a subgroup of PDTCs provides a rationale for immune checkpoint inhibition. FGFR expression is low thyroid tumor cells. The clinically observed synergism of PEM with LEN may be caused by immune modulation.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Adam2024,
  author    = {Adam, Pia Sophie},
  title     = {Expression von PD-L1 und FGFR1-4 beim anaplastischen und gering differenzierten Schilddr{\"u}senkarzinom - Evaluation als pr{\"a}klinische diagnostische Marker},
  doi       = {10.25972/OPUS-35939},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-359391},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2024},
  abstract  = {Background: Treatment options for poorly differentiated (PDTC) and anaplastic (ATC) thyroid carcinoma are unsatisfactory and prognosis is generally poor. Lenvatinib (LEN), a multi-tyrosine kinase inhibitor targeting fibroblast growth factor receptors (FGFR) 1-4 is approved for advanced radioiodine refractory thyroid carcinoma, but response to single agent is poor in ATC. Recent reports of combining LEN with PD-1 inhibitor pembrolizumab (PEM) are promising. Materials and methods: Primary ATC (n=93) and PDTC (n=47) tissue samples diagnosed 1997-2019 at five German tertiary care centers were assessed for PD-L1 expression by immunohistochemistry using Tumor Proportion Score (TPS). FGFR 1-4 mRNA was quantified in 31 ATC and 14 PDTC with RNAscope in-situ hybridization. Normal thyroid tissue (NT) and papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) served as controls. Disease specific survival (DSS) was the primary outcome variable. Results: PD-L1 TPS≥50\% was observed in 42\% of ATC and 26\% of PDTC specimens. Mean PD-L1 expression was significantly higher in ATC (TPS 30\%) than in PDTC (5\%; p<0.01) and NT (0\%, p<0.001). 53\% of PDTC samples had PD-L1 expression ≤5\%. FGFR mRNA expression was generally low in all samples but combined FGFR1-4 expression was significantly higher in PDTC and ATC compared to NT (each p<0.001). No impact of PD-L1 and FGFR 1-4 expression was observed on DSS. Conclusion: High tumoral expression of PD-L1 in a large proportion of ATCs and a subgroup of PDTCs provides a rationale for immune checkpoint inhibition. FGFR expression is low thyroid tumor cells. The clinically observed synergism of PEM with LEN may be caused by immune modulation.},
  subject      = {Schilddr{\"u}senkrebs},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{AdamAhrweilerSahaMoelleretal.1993,
  author    = {Adam, W. and Ahrweiler, M. and Saha-M{\"o}ller, C. R. and Sauter, M. and Sch{\"o}nberger, A. and Epe, B. and M{\"u}ller, E. and Schiffmann, D. and Stopper, Helga and Wild, D.},
  title     = {Genotoxicity studies of benzofuran dioxetanes and epoxides with isolated DNA, bacteria and mammalian cells},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-63420},
  year      = {1993},
  abstract  = {1.2-Dioxetanes, very reactive and high energy molecules. are involved as labile intermediates in dioxygenase- activated aerobic metabolism and in physiological processes. Various toxico1ogica1 tests reveal that dioxetanes are indeed genotoxic. In supercoiled DNA of bacteriophage PM2 they induce endonucleasesensitive sites, most of them are FPG protein-sensitive base modifications (8-hydroxyguanine, fonnamidopyrimidines). Pyrimidinedimersand sites ofbase loss (AP sites) which were probed by UV endonuclease and exonuclease 111 are minor lesions in this system. While the alky1-substituted dioxetanes do not show any significant mutagenic activity in different Salmonella typhimurium strains, heteroarene dioxetanes such as benzofuran and furocoumarin dioxetanes are strongly mutagenic in S. typhimurium strain TA I 00. DNA adducts formed with an intermediary alkyJating agent appear to be responsible for the mutagenic activity of benzofuran dioxetane. We assume that the benzofuran epoxides, generated in situ from benzofuran dioxetanes by deoxygenation are the ultimate mutagens of the latter. since benzofuran epoxides are highly mutagenic in the S. typhimurium strain TAIOO and they form DNA adducts. as detected by the 212Ppostlabelling technique. Our results imply that the type of D NA darnage promoted by dioxetanes is dependent on the structural feature of dioxetanes. Furthermore, the direct photochemical DNA darnage by energy transfer. i.e., pyrimidine dimers, plays a minor role in the genotoxicity of dioxetanes. Instead, photooxidation dominates in isolated DNA. while radical darnage and alkylation prevail in the cellular system.},
  subject      = {Toxikologie},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Adamek2008,
  author    = {Adamek, Anna Katharina},
  title     = {Einfluss des Immunsystems und der endothelialen NO-Synthase auf den myokardialen isch{\"a}mischen Schaden},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-35795},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2008},
  abstract  = {Die Entwicklung von therapeutischen Strategien, die den infarktbedingten Untergang des Myokardgewebes minimieren und die Gewebsheilung nach abgelaufenem Myokardinfarkt unterst{\"u}tzen, geh{\"o}rt zu dem Hauptziel in der modernen Kardiologie. Bis jedoch eine spezifische Intervention als Therapieform anerkannt wird, ist ein detailliertes Entschl{\"u}sseln der zellul{\"a}ren und molekularen Mechanismen w{\"a}hrend und nach der Myokardsch{\"a}digung notwendig. Die vorliegende Arbeit besch{\"a}ftigt sich intensiv mit den Vorg{\"a}ngen der Stickstoffmonoxid- (NO) Produktion und der Inflammation nach Okklusion von Kranzarterien. Im ersten Teil der Dissertation steht die endotheliale NO-Synthase-Expression (eNOS) im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung. eNOS ist als wichtiger Katalysator an der Biosynthese von Stickstoffmonoxid, das als protektiver Faktor f{\"u}r die Gef{\"a}ßhom{\"o}ostase seit Jahren bekannt ist, beteiligt. Ferner besteht experimentell sehr gute Evidenz daf{\"u}r, dass der endothelialen NO-Synthase am Ausmaß des kardialen Isch{\"a}mie-/ Reperfusionsschadens eine entscheidende Rolle zukommt. Folglich wurde mittels der Substanz AVE 9488 versucht, die eNOS-Expression in M{\"a}usen zu steigern und den Effekt auf das Infarktgeschehen n{\"a}her zu betrachten. Die Behandlung mit AVE 9488 erzielte einen signifikant reduzierten Isch{\"a}mie-/Reperfusionsschaden. Bei anschließenden Isch{\"a}mie-/Reperfusionsveruchen mit eNOS defizienten M{\"a}usen war der protektive Effekt wieder aufgehoben. Der Erfolg dieser Substanz wird in der signifikanten Reduktion des oxidativen Stresses vermutet. Ein zus{\"a}tzlicher wichtiger Parameter, der w{\"a}hrend der Isch{\"a}mie/Reperfusion aktiviert wird, ist der Schl{\"u}ssel-Transkriptionsfaktor Nuclear Factor kappa B (NF-kB). Durch seine Bindung an bestimmte Enhancer und Promotoren reguliert der Faktor die Entz{\"u}ndungsprozesse, indem er die Genexpression proinflammatorischer Marker verst{\"a}rkt. Folglich wurden eine Reduktion der Inflammation sowie ein protektiver Effekt nach erfolgter isch{\"a}mischer Sch{\"a}digung durch Hemmung von NF-kB angenommen. Zur Pr{\"u}fung dieser Hypothese wurden NF-kB-Untereinheit p50 defiziente M{\"a}use (p50 KO) einer Okklusion einer Herzkranzarterie unterzogen. Durch die Hemmung der NF-kB-Aktivierung kam es zu einer signifikanten Reduzierung des Infarktareals im Vergleich zu den entsprechenden Wildtyp-M{\"a}usen. Der große Benefit konnte auf die geringere Einwanderung der neutrophilen Granulozyten in das infarzierte Gebiet zur{\"u}ckgef{\"u}hrt werden. Knochenmarktransplantationsversuche mit p50 KO- und Wildtyp-Knochenmark untermauerten die Beobachtung, dass die beeintr{\"a}chtigte Aktivierung von NF-kB in p50 defizienten Leukozyten protektive Effekte in der Isch{\"a}mie/Reperfusion vermittelt. Die Aktivierung der proinflammatorischen Proteine w{\"a}hrend des linksventrikul{\"a}ren Remodelings nach Myokardinfarkt geh{\"o}rt zum Fokus des dritten Teils dieser Arbeit. Dieser Teil besch{\"a}ftigt sich mit der Frage, inwieweit eine hochdosierte Aspirin-Therapie die linksventrikul{\"a}ren Umbauprozesse g{\"u}nstig beeinflussen kann. Daf{\"u}r wurden M{\"a}use f{\"u}r 4 Wochen mit Placebo oder Aspirin (120 mg/kg pro Tag) mittels osmotischer Mini-Pumpen, die 2 Stunden nach Ligatur der Kranzarterie implantiert wurden, behandelt. In beiden Gruppen kam es zur erwarteten linksventrikul{\"a}ren Dilatation nach Myokardinfarkt, jedoch ohne signifikanten Unterschied zwischen Placebo- und Aspirin-behandelten Tieren. Es kam allerdings zu einer erwarteten Reduktion proinflammatorischer Proteine durch die Aspirin-Therapie. So war die Expression von Tumor-Nekrose-Faktor-alpha; (TNF-alpha) und Interleukin-1ß (IL-ß) in der Aspirin-Gruppe signifikant reduziert. Zusammenfassend l{\"a}sst sich sagen, dass durch die gezielte Beeinflussung bestimmter Faktoren in der Isch{\"a}mie/Reperfusion wie z. B. die Verst{\"a}rkung der eNOS-Expression oder die Hemmung der NF-kB-Aktivierung die Isch{\"a}miesch{\"a}digung signifikant reduziert werden kann.},
  subject      = {Isch{\"a}mie},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{AdamiDragstedEnigetal.1993,
  author    = {Adami, Hans-Olov and Dragsted, Lars and Enig, Bent and Hansen, Jens and Haraldsd{\´o}ttir, J{\´o}hanna and Hill, Michael J. and Holm, Lars Erik and Knudsen, Ib and Larsen, Jens-Jorgen and Lutz, Werner K. and Osler, Merete and Overvad, Kim and Sabroe, Svend and Sanner, Tore and Strube, Michael and Sorensen, Thorkild I. A. and Thorling, Eivind B.},
  title     = {Report from the working group on diet and cancer.},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-71601},
  year      = {1993},
  abstract  = {No abstract available.},
  subject      = {Krebs <Medizin>},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{AdelfingerBesslerCeciletal.2015,
  author    = {Adelfinger, Marion and Bessler, Simon and Cecil, Alexander and Langbein-Laugwitz, Johanna and Frentzen, Alexa and Gentschev, Ivaylo and Szalay, Aladar A.},
  title     = {Preclinical Testing Oncolytic Vaccinia Virus Strain GLV-5b451 Expressing an Anti-VEGF Single-Chain Antibody for Canine Cancer Therapy},
  series = {Viruses},
  volume    = {7},
  journal   = {Viruses},
  doi       = {10.3390/v7072811},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-125705},
  pages     = {4075-4092},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {Virotherapy on the basis of oncolytic vaccinia virus (VACV) strains is a novel approach for canine cancer therapy. Here we describe, for the first time, the characterization and the use of VACV strain GLV-5b451 expressing the anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) single-chain antibody (scAb) GLAF-2 as therapeutic agent against different canine cancers. Cell culture data demonstrated that GLV-5b451 efficiently infected and destroyed all four tested canine cancer cell lines including: mammary carcinoma (MTH52c), mammary adenoma (ZMTH3), prostate carcinoma (CT1258), and soft tissue sarcoma (STSA-1). The GLV-5b451 virus-mediated production of GLAF-2 antibody was observed in all four cancer cell lines. In addition, this antibody specifically recognized canine VEGF. Finally, in canine soft tissue sarcoma (CSTS) xenografted mice, a single systemic administration of GLV-5b451 was found to be safe and led to anti-tumor effects resulting in the significant reduction and substantial long-term inhibition of tumor growth. A CD31-based immuno-staining showed significantly decreased neo-angiogenesis in GLV-5b451-treated tumors compared to the controls. In summary, these findings indicate that GLV-5b451 has potential for use as a therapeutic agent in the treatment of CSTS.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Adelhardt2007,
  author    = {Adelhardt, Melanie},
  title     = {Einfluß der Dialysetherapie auf den Genomschaden von Nierenpatienten in einer prospektiven Studie},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-23123},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2007},
  abstract  = {Patienten mit terminaler Niereninsuffizienz haben im Vergleich zur Normalbev{\"o}lkerung eine deutlich erh{\"o}hte Inzidenz maligner Erkrankungen. Fr{\"u}here Untersuchungen zeigten, dass periphere Blutlymphozyten dieser Patienten einen h{\"o}heren genetischen Schaden aufweisen, wodurch das Risiko einer malignen Entartung steigt. In dieser Arbeit wurde der genetische Schaden mithilfe zweier Testverfahren, Comet Assay und Mikrokerntest, untersucht. Es handelte sich um eine prospektive Studie mit zwei Patientenkollektiven. Die erste Gruppe bestand aus Patienten, die aufgrund einer terminalen Niereninsuffizienz innerhalb der n{\"a}chsten Monate eine Dialysetherapie mittels konventioneller H{\"a}modialyse beginnen mußten. Die zweite Gruppe bildeten Dialysepatienten, die im Verlauf von konventioneller Dialyse auf H{\"a}modiafiltration umgestellt wurden. Bei allen Patienten wurde der genetische Schaden der peripheren Blutlymphozyten in den Monaten vor und nach Therapiebeginn bzw. Therapieumstellung regelm{\"a}ßig untersucht. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass 4 der 10 Pr{\"a}dialysepatienten nach Beginn der Dialyse einen niedrigeren genetischen Schaden hatten, 2 Patienten hatten unterschiedliche Werte in Comet Assay und Mikrokerntest und bei 2 Patienten ergab sich im Verlauf eine h{\"o}here DNA-Sch{\"a}digung. Die verbliebenen 2 Patienten mußten aufgrund einer konstant bleibenden Niereninsuffizienz nicht mit der Dialysetherapie beginnen. Bei Zusammenfassung aller Einzelwerte zeigte sich, dass das Kollektiv der Pr{\"a}dialysepatienten insgesamt vom Beginn der Behandlung profitiert hat. In der Gruppe der Dialysepatienten hatte 2 von 7 Patienten nach Umstellung auf H{\"a}modiafiltration eine geringere DNA-Sch{\"a}digung, 2 Patienten zeigten unterschiedliche Ergebnisse im Comet Assay und Mikrokerntest und 2 weitere Patienten wiesen eine h{\"o}heren genetischen Schaden in den Lymphozyten auf. Ein Patient konnte bei fehlenden Vorwerten nicht ber{\"u}cksichtigt werden. Im Gruppenvergleich zeigte sich f{\"u}r alle Dialysepatienten ein gleichbleibender DNA-Schaden, gemessen mithilfe des Comet Assays bei leicht erh{\"o}hten Mikrokernraten. Jedoch hatte sich die Zellproliferation ebenfalls etwas verbessert. Zusammenfassend ergibt sich somit in beiden Gruppen kein eindeutiges Ergebnis, woraus neue Therapieempfehlungen f{\"u}r Patienten mit terminaler Niereninsuffizienz abzuleiten w{\"a}ren. Um weiter Einflußvariablen auf die H{\"o}he des genetischen Schadens festzustellen, sind weiter Untersuchungen mit gr{\"o}ßeren Patientenkollektiven erforderlich.},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{AdeyemoSiren1992,
  author    = {Adeyemo, M. and Sir{\´e}n, Anna-Leena},
  title     = {Cardio-respiratory changes and mortality in the conscious rat induced by (+)- and (±)- anatoxin-a},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-63027},
  year      = {1992},
  abstract  = {0. M. ADEYEMO and A.-L. SIREN. Cardio-respiratory changes and mortality in the conscious rat induced by ( + )- and ( ± )-anatoxin-a. Toxicon 30, 899-905, 1992.-Anatoxin-a (AnTx-a) isapotent nicotinic cholinergic receptor agonist. The relative potencies of the ( + )-AnTx-a and the racemic mixture ( ± )-AnTxa were investigated in the conscious rat by comparing their effects on mean arterial blood pressure (BP), heart rate (HR), blood oxygen and carbon dioxide pressures (p02 and pC02, respective1y), acid-base balance (pH) and mortality. The present experiments show that while both forms of AnTx-a produce dose-dependent increases in BP and decreases in HR, ( + )-AnTx-a is about IO-fo1d morepotent than the optically inactive isomer. ( + )-AnTx-a was also 6-fo1d more potent than ( ± )-AnTx-a in produclog severe hypoxemia, and more than 4-fold as potent as the (±}-AnTx-a in producing significant hypercapnia accompanied with severe acidosis. The approximate median Iethai dose (Ln so) of ( + )-AnTx-a was about 5-fold less than that of ( ± )-AnTx-a. We conclude that ( + )-AnTx-a is more potent than the ( ± )-AnTx-a racemic mixture in causing detrimental cardio-respiratory changes and therefore increased mortality in the rat.},
  subject      = {Neurobiologie},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{AdeyemoShapiraTombaccinietal.1991,
  author    = {Adeyemo, O. M. and Shapira, S. and Tombaccini, D. and Pollard, H. and Feuerstein, G. and Sir{\´e}n, Anna-Leena},
  title     = {A goldfish model for evaluation of the neurotoxicit of \(\omega\)-conotoxin GVIA and screening of monoclonal antibodies},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-63087},
  year      = {1991},
  abstract  = {A Goldfish Model for Evaluation of the Neurotaxicity of \(\omega\)-Conotoxin GVI A and Screening of Monoclonal Antibodies. ADEYEMO, 0. M .. SHAPIRA, S., TOMBACCINI, D., POLLARD, H. 8 .• FEUERSTEIN, G .. AND SIREN, A-L. ( 1991 ). Toxicol. App/. Pharmaco/. 108, 489-496. The neurotoxicity of \(\omega\)-conotoxin (\(\omega\)-CgTx), a potent neuronal voltage-sensitive calcium channel blocker, was measured using a new bioassay. \(\omega\)-CgTx was administered intraperitoneally (ip) to goldfish weighing approximately 1.6 g, and dose-related changes were observed over a 2-hr period. \(\omega\)CgTx induced time- and dose-dependent abnormal swimming behavior (ASB) and mortality. The antitoxin activity of the antiborlies was investigated in vivo by either ( l) preincubation of the antibody with w-CgTx at 4°C overnight, or (2) pretreatment with antibody, 30 min before \(\omega\)CgTx injection in a 10:1 antibody/\(\omega\)-CgTx molar ratio. The LD50 dose of \(\omega\)-CgTx in goldfish was 5 nmol/kg ip, and preincubation of monoclonal antibody (50 nmol/kg ip) with \(\omega\)-CgTx (5 nmol/kg ip) significantly (p < 0.05) reduced mortality. ASB, and toxicity time. The antitoxin activity of the monoclonal antiborlies evidenced in the goldfish bioassay was further tested in the conscious rat. In the rat, the increases in mean arterial pressure and heart rate induced by \(\omega\)-CgTx (0.03 nmol/rat icv) were significantly (p < 0.02 and p < 0.0 l, respectively) attenuated by preincubation of the toxin with the antibody (0.3 nmol/rat). We conclude that the goldfish bioassay provides a simple. accurate, and inexpensive in vivo model for the study of the toxicity of \(\omega\)CgTx},
  subject      = {Neurobiologie},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Adhikari2024,
  author    = {Adhikari, Bikash},
  title     = {Targeted degradation of Myc-interacting oncoproteins},
  doi       = {10.25972/OPUS-31732},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-317326},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2024},
  abstract  = {The hallmark oncoprotein Myc is a major driver of tumorigenesis in various human cancer entities. However, Myc's structural features make it challenging to develop small molecules against it. A promising strategy to indirectly inhibit the function of Myc is by targeting its interactors. Many Myc-interacting proteins have reported scaffolding functions which are difficult to target using conventional occupancy- driven inhibitors. Thus, in this thesis, the proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC) approach was used to target two oncoproteins interacting with Myc which promote the oncogenicity of Myc, Aurora-A and WDR5. PROTACs are bifunctional small molecules that bind to the target protein with one ligand and recruit a cellular E3- ligase with the other ligand to induce target degradation via the ubiquitin- proteasome system. So far, the most widely used E3-ligases for PROTAC development are Cereblon (CRBN) and von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor (VHL). Furthermore, there are cases of incompatibility between some E3-ligases and proteins to bring about degradation. Hence there is a need to explore new E3- ligases and a demand for a tool to predict degradative E3-ligases for the target protein in the PROTAC field. In the first part, a highly specific mitotic kinase Aurora-A degrader, JB170, was developed. This compound utilized Aurora-A inhibitor alisertib as the target ligand and thalidomide as the E3-ligase CRBN harness. The specificity of JB170 and the ternary complex formation was supported by the interactions between Aurora-A and CRBN. The PROTAC-mediated degradation of Aurora-A induced a distinct S- phase defect rather than mitotic arrest, shown by its catalytic inhibition. The finding demonstrates that Aurora-A has a non-catalytic role in the S-phase. Furthermore, the degradation of Aurora-A led to apoptosis in various cancer cell lines. In the second part, two different series of WDR5 PROTACs based on two protein- protein inhibitors of WDR5 were evaluated. The most efficient degraders from both series recruited VHL as a E3-ligase and showed partial degradation of WDR5. In addition, the degradation efficiency of the PROTACs was significantly affected by the linker nature and length, highlighting the importance of linker length and composition in PROTAC design. The degraders showed modest proliferation defects at best in cancer cell lines. However, overexpression of VHL increased the degradation efficiency and the antiproliferative effect of the PROTACs. In the last part, a rapamycin-based assay was developed to predict the degradative E3-ligase for a target. The assay was validated using the WDR5/VHL and Aurora- A/CRBN pairs. The result that WDR5 is degraded by VHL but not CRBN and Aurora-A is degraded by CRBN, matches observations made with PROTACs. This technique will be used in the future to find effective tissue-specific and essential E3-ligases for targeted degradation of oncoproteins using PROTACs. Collectively, the work presented here provides a strategy to improve PROTAC development and a starting point for developing Aurora-A and WDR5 PROTACs for cancer therapy.},
  subject      = {Degradation},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Adler2022,
  author    = {Adler, Philipp},
  title     = {Erfolgsrate wurzelkanalgef{\"u}llter Z{\"a}hne in Abh{\"a}ngigkeit von der Obturationstechnik: Adh{\"a}sive Obturation mit Continuous-Wave-Technik versus Single-Cone-Obturation mit silikonbasiertem oder epoxidharzbasiertem Sealer},
  doi       = {10.25972/OPUS-27815},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-278158},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {Bei der vorliegenden Arbeit handelt es sich um eine klinische und radiologische Nachuntersuchung von insgesamt 114 Patientinnen und Patienten, die zwischen 2009 und 2012 in der Poliklinik f{\"u}r Zahnerhaltung und Parodontologie der Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg von approbierten Zahn{\"a}rztinnen und Zahn{\"a}rzten endodontisch behandelt wurden. Dabei kamen drei verschiedene Obturationsmethoden zum Einsatz. 1. Single-Cone-Technik mit Guttapercha und AH Plus® (SCGP) 2. Single-Cone-Technik mit Guttapercha und GuttaFlow® (SCGF) 3. Adh{\"a}sive Obturation in Continuous-Wave-Technik mit Resilon® (CWR) Die Erhebung der Ausgangsvariablen (zum Behandlungszeitpunkt) erfolgte retrospektiv unter Zuhilfenahme der klinischen und radiologischen Dokumentation. Die Reevaluation des periapikalen Zustands der Z{\"a}hne und die Erhebung weiterer klinischer Parameter erfolgte im Rahmen eines aktiven Patientenrecalls nach durchschnittlich 6,3 Jahren. Dabei wurden mit m{\"o}glichst hoher Standardisierung postoperative Einzelzahnaufnah-men angefertigt. Diese wurden anhand der PAI-Klassifikation ausgewertet, um den pe-riapikalen Zustand der Z{\"a}hne vor und nach Therapie zu bestimmen. PAI-Werte von 1 und 2 galten als Behandlungserfolg, Grad 3 bis 5 als Misserfolg. Im Hinblick auf die de-finierten Arbeitshypothesen wurden die Erfolgsraten innerhalb der Kohorten miteinander verglichen. Das vorrangige Ziel der hier vorliegenden Arbeit war, zu untersuchen, ob der endodontische Behandlungserfolg abh{\"a}ngig von der jeweiligen Obturationsmethode ist und ob technikspezifische Unterschiede sich einerseits auf die Qualit{\"a}t der Obturation und andererseits auf das Auftreten m{\"o}glicher Komplikationen, wie der periapikalen Extrusion von Wurzelf{\"u}llmaterial, auswirken. Ferner sollten diese Aspekte neben weite-ren zahn- und patientenbezogenen Variablen bez{\"u}glich ihres Einflusses auf die Erfolgs-rate der endodontischen Therapie analysiert werden. Es konnten keine signifikanten Unterschiede der endodontischen Erfolgsraten zwischen den hier untersuchten Obturationsmethoden ermittelt werden (p = ,16). In der SCGP-Kohorte lag die Erfolgsrate bei 85 \% (34/40) verglichen mit 68,8 \% (44/64) f{\"u}r CWR und 80 \% (8/10) f{\"u}r SCGF. Die Homogenit{\"a}t der Obturation (p = ,2) und die Extrusion von Wurzelf{\"u}llmaterial in das periapikale Gewebe (p = ,93) zeigten keine Abh{\"a}ngigkeit von der gew{\"a}hlten Obturationstechnik. Die L{\"a}nge der Wurzelkanalf{\"u}llung hingegen unter-schied sich signifikant zwischen den Kohorten (p = ,04*). Die Obturation mittels SCGP-Technik erzielte den h{\"o}chsten Anteil ad{\"a}quater Wurzelkanalf{\"u}llungen (92,5 \%, 37/40) gegen{\"u}ber SCGF (80 \%, 8/10) und CWR (71,88 \%, 46/64). Die CWR-Methode zeigte mit 18,8 \% (12/64) den h{\"o}chsten Anteil an unterf{\"u}llten Obturationen (SCGP: 7,5 \%, 3/40; SCGF: 0 \%). Unabh{\"a}ngig von der Obturationsmethodik zeigte sich der endodontische Behandlungs-erfolg im Allgemeinen unbeeinflusst von der Qualit{\"a}t der Wurzelkanalf{\"u}llungen. Die Va-riablen Obturationsl{\"a}nge (p = ,12) und -homogenit{\"a}t (p = ,11) sowie die Extrusion von Wurzelf{\"u}llmaterial in die periapikale Region (p = 1,00) zeigten keinen signifikanten Ein-fluss auf die Erfolgsrate. Das Durchschnittsalter im Patientenkollektiv betrug 60 Jahre mit einer tendenziellen {\"U}berrepr{\"a}sentation weiblicher Probandinnen (60,5 \%, 69/114). 73 \% (81/111, 3 Mis-sings) der Studienteilnehmer/-innen wurden ab einem PSI-Grad von 3 als parodontal erkrankt eingestuft und 23,7 \% (27/114) zeigten eine positive Raucheranamnese. Der BMI betrug im Durchschnitt 26,3 kg/m2. 42,3 \% (47/111, 3 Missings) der Studienteil-nehmer/-innen wurden anhand der Einnahme von Medikamenten zur Therapie bzw. Pr{\"a}vention von kardiovaskul{\"a}ren Erkrankungen und/oder oraler Antidiabetika als chro-nisch erkrankt klassifiziert (chronic disease medication, CDM). Das Recallintervall be-trug durchschnittlich 6,3 Jahre mit einem Minimum von 4,7 und einem Maximum von 8,7 Jahren. Die patientenbezogenen Variablen Alter (p = ,45), Geschlecht (p = ,67), Pa-rodontitis (p = ,08), BMI (p = ,58), CDM (p = ,19), Recallintervall (p = ,08) und Rauchen (p = ,34) zeigten keinen signifikanten Einfluss auf den endodontischen Behandlungser-folg. Unter den zahnbezogenen Variablen beeinflusste lediglich der pr{\"a}operative apikale Sta-tus den endodontischen Erfolg signifikant (p = ,007*). Z{\"a}hne mit pr{\"a}operativer apikaler L{\"a}sion zeigten eine Erfolgsrate von 66,2 \% (47/71) gegen{\"u}ber 90,7 \% (n = 39/43) bei F{\"a}llen ohne apikale L{\"a}sion. Die Misserfolgswahrscheinlichkeit bei Vorliegen einer pr{\"a}operativen L{\"a}sion war um den Faktor 4,98 erh{\"o}ht (OR = 4,98, 95 \% KI: 1.60, 15,57, p = ,006*). Zwischen Kompositf{\"u}llungen, Teilkronen, Vollkronen, Teleskopkronen und Br{\"u}ckenversorgungen konnten keine relevanten Unterschiede in den Erfolgsraten er-mittelt werden (p = ,29). Gleiches galt f{\"u}r ad{\"a}quate (76,6 \%, 82/107) und inad{\"a}quate (57,1 \%, 4/7) Restaurationen (p = ,36). Ebenso zeigten die Erfolgsraten von Wurzelka-nalrevisionen (70,5 \%, 31/44) und Prim{\"a}rbehandlungen (78,6 \%, 55/70) keine signifikan-ten Abweichungen voneinander (p = ,45). Molaren waren im Studienkollektiv mit 56,1 \% (64/114) gegen{\"u}ber Pr{\"a}molaren und Frontz{\"a}hnen mit je 21,9 \% (25/114) {\"u}berrepr{\"a}sen-tiert. Der Zahntyp (p = ,07) und die Ausgangsdiagnose (p = ,22) stellten keine relevanten Einflussfaktoren des endodontischen Erfolgs dar.},
  subject      = {Endodontie},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{AdolfBraunFussetal.2020,
  author    = {Adolf, Christian and Braun, Leah T. and Fuss, Carmina T. and Hahner, Stefanie and K{\"u}nzel, Heike and Handgriff, Laura and Sturm, Lisa and Heinrich, Daniel A. and Schneider, Holger and Bidlingmaier, Martin and Reincke, Martin},
  title     = {Spironolactone reduces biochemical markers of bone turnover in postmenopausal women with primary aldosteronism},
  series = {Endocrine},
  volume    = {69},
  journal   = {Endocrine},
  number    = {3},
  issn      = {1355-008X},
  doi       = {10.1007/s12020-020-02348-8},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-315966},
  pages     = {625-633},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {Context Primary aldosteronism (PA) is the most frequent form of endocrine hypertension. Besides its deleterious impact on cardiovascular target organ damage, PA is considered to cause osteoporosis. Patients and methods We assessed bone turnover in a subset of 36 postmenopausal women with PA. 18 patients had unilateral PA and were treated by adrenalectomy, whereas 18 patients had bilateral PA and received mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist (MRA) therapy respectively. 18 age- and BMI-matched females served as controls. To estimate bone remodeling, we measured the bone turnover markers intact procollagen 1 N-terminal propeptide, bone alkaline phosphatase, osteocalcin and tartrate resistant acid phosphatase 5b in plasma by chemiluminescent immunoassays at time of diagnosis and one year after initiation of treatment. Study design Observational longitudinal cohort study. Setting Tertiary care hospital. Results Compared with controls, patients with PA had mildly elevated osteocalcin at baseline (p = 0.013), while the other bone markers were comparable between both groups. There were no differences between the unilateral and the bilateral PA subgroup. One year after initiation of MRA treatment with spironolactone bone resorption and bone formation markers had significantly decreased in patients with bilateral PA. In contrast, patients adrenalectomized because of unilateral PA showed no significant change of bone turnover markers. Conclusion This study shows that aldosterone excess in postmenopausal women with PA is not associated with a relevant increase of bone turnover markers at baseline. However, we observed a significant decrease of bone markers in patients treated with spironolactone, but not in patients treated by adrenalectomy.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{AdolfiDuKneitzetal.2021,
  author    = {Adolfi, Mateus C. and Du, Kang and Kneitz, Susanne and Cabau, C{\´e}dric and Zahm, Margot and Klopp, Christophe and Feron, Romain and Paix{\~a}o, R{\^o}mulo V. and Varela, Eduardo S. and de Almeida, Fernanda L. and de Oliveira, Marcos A. and N{\´o}brega, Rafael H. and Lopez-Roques, C{\´e}line and Iampietro, Carole and Lluch, J{\´e}r{\^o}me and Kloas, Werner and Wuertz, Sven and Schaefer, Fabian and St{\"o}ck, Matthias and Guiguen, Yann and Schartl, Manfred},
  title     = {A duplicated copy of id2b is an unusual sex-determining candidate gene on the Y chromosome of arapaima (Arapaima gigas)},
  series = {Scientific Reports},
  volume    = {11},
  journal   = {Scientific Reports},
  number    = {1},
  doi       = {10.1038/s41598-021-01066-z},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-265672},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Arapaima gigas is one of the largest freshwater fish species of high ecological and economic importance. Overfishing and habitat destruction are severe threats to the remaining wild populations. By incorporating a chromosomal Hi-C contact map, we improved the arapaima genome assembly to chromosome-level, revealing an unexpected high degree of chromosome rearrangements during evolution of the bonytongues (Osteoglossiformes). Combining this new assembly with pool-sequencing of male and female genomes, we identified id2bbY, a duplicated copy of the inhibitor of DNA binding 2b (id2b) gene on the Y chromosome as candidate male sex-determining gene. A PCR-test for id2bbY was developed, demonstrating that this gene is a reliable male-specific marker for genotyping. Expression analyses showed that this gene is expressed in juvenile male gonads. Its paralog, id2ba, exhibits a male-biased expression in immature gonads. Transcriptome analyses and protein structure predictions confirm id2bbY as a prime candidate for the master sex-determiner. Acting through the TGF beta signaling pathway, id2bbY from arapaima would provide the first evidence for a link of this family of transcriptional regulators to sex determination. Our study broadens our current understanding about the evolution of sex determination genetic networks and provide a tool for improving arapaima aquaculture for commercial and conservation purposes.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{AdolfiHerpinMartinezBengocheaetal.2021,
  author    = {Adolfi, Mateus C. and Herpin, Amaury and Martinez-Bengochea, Anabel and Kneitz, Susanne and Regensburger, Martina and Grunwald, David J. and Schartl, Manfred},
  title     = {Crosstalk Between Retinoic Acid and Sex-Related Genes Controls Germ Cell Fate and Gametogenesis in Medaka},
  series = {Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology},
  volume    = {8},
  journal   = {Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology},
  issn      = {2296-634X},
  doi       = {10.3389/fcell.2020.613497},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-222669},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Sex determination (SD) is a highly diverse and complex mechanism. In vertebrates, one of the first morphological differences between the sexes is the timing of initiation of the first meiosis, where its initiation occurs first in female and later in male. Thus, SD is intimately related to the responsiveness of the germ cells to undergo meiosis in a sex-specific manner. In some vertebrates, it has been reported that the timing for meiosis entry would be under control of retinoic acid (RA), through activation of Stra8. In this study, we used a fish model species for sex determination and lacking the stra8 gene, the Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes), to investigate the connection between RA and the sex determination pathway. Exogenous RA treatments act as a stress factor inhibiting germ cell differentiation probably by activation of dmrt1a and amh. Disruption of the RA degrading enzyme gene cyp26a1 induced precocious meiosis and oogenesis in embryos/hatchlings of female and even some males. Transcriptome analyzes of cyp26a1-/-adult gonads revealed upregulation of genes related to germ cell differentiation and meiosis, in both ovaries and testes. Our findings show that germ cells respond to RA in a stra8 independent model species. The responsiveness to RA is conferred by sex-related genes, restricting its action to the sex differentiation period in both sexes.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{AdolphFleischhackGaabetal.2021,
  author    = {Adolph, Jonas E. and Fleischhack, Gudrun and Gaab, Christine and Mikasch, Ruth and Mynarek, Martin and Rutkowski, Stefan and Sch{\"u}ller, Ulrich and Pfister, Stefan M. and Pajtler, Kristian W. and Milde, Till and Witt, Olaf and Bison, Brigitte and Warmuth-Metz, Monika and Kortmann, Rolf-Dieter and Dietzsch, Stefan and Pietsch, Torsten and Timmermann, Beate and Tippelt, Stephan},
  title     = {Systemic chemotherapy of pediatric recurrent ependymomas: results from the German HIT-REZ studies},
  series = {Journal of Neuro-Oncology},
  volume    = {155},
  journal   = {Journal of Neuro-Oncology},
  number    = {2},
  organization    = {German GPOH HIT-Network},
  issn      = {0167-594X},
  doi       = {10.1007/s11060-021-03867-8},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-308302},
  pages     = {193-202},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Purpose Survival in recurrent ependymoma (EPN) depends mainly on the extent of resection achieved. When complete resection is not feasible, chemotherapy is often used to extend progression-free and overall survival. However, no consistent effect of chemotherapy on survival has been found in patients with recurrent EPN. Methods Systemic chemotherapeutic treatment of 138 patients enrolled in the German HIT-REZ-studies was analyzed. Survival depending on the use of chemotherapy, disease-stabilization rates (RR), duration of response (DOR) and time to progression (TTP) were estimated. Results Median age at first recurrence was 7.6 years (IQR: 4.0-13.6). At first recurrence, median PFS and OS were 15.3 (CI 13.3-20.0) and 36.9 months (CI 29.7-53.4), respectively. The Hazard Ratio for the use of chemotherapy in local recurrences in a time-dependent Cox-regression analysis was 0.99 (CI 0.74-1.33). Evaluable responses for 140 applied chemotherapies were analyzed, of which sirolimus showed the best RR (50\%) and longest median TTP [11.51 (CI 3.98; 14.0) months] in nine patients, with the strongest impact found when sirolimus was used as a monotherapy. Seven patients with progression-free survival > 12 months after subtotal/no-resection facilitated by chemotherapy were found. No definitive survival advantage for any drug in a specific molecularly defined EPN type was found. Conclusion No survival advantage for the general use of chemotherapy in recurrent EPN was found. In cases with incomplete resection, chemotherapy was able to extend survival in individual cases. Sirolimus showed the best RR, DOR and TTP out of all drugs analyzed and may warrant further investigation.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Aehnlich2022,
  author    = {Aehnlich, Flora},
  title     = {Untersuchungen zur Pr{\"a}sentation kryptischer und kanonischer Peptide {\"u}ber den MHC-Klasse-I-Komplex in Patienten mit akuter myeloischer Leuk{\"a}mie},
  doi       = {10.25972/OPUS-27003},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-270036},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {Die AML stellt mit einem Anteil von 80 \% an den akuten Leuk{\"a}mien bei Erwachsenen eine bedeutende Erkrankung f{\"u}r die Gesellschaft dar. Aufgrund fehlender durchbrechender Erfolge in der Therapieentwicklung liegt die durchschnittliche F{\"u}nfjahres{\"u}berlebensrate dennoch nur bei etwa 25 \%. Der Blick auf die Kraft des Graft-versus-Leuk{\"a}mie-Effekts nach allogener Stammzelltransplantation, eine Langzeitremission der AML erzielen zu k{\"o}nnen, weist jedoch auf die Immunogenit{\"a}t und Eignung der Erkrankung f{\"u}r neue immuntherapeutische Ans{\"a}tze hin. Anhand der Kartierung der in-vivo pr{\"a}sentierten MHC-Klasse-I-Peptidome auf AML-Blasten sollten in dieser Arbeit potenziell geeignete Therapietargets identifiziert werden, um eine breitere Anwendung immuntherapeutischer Strategien bei AML-Patienten zu erm{\"o}glichen. Auf prim{\"a}ren Patientenmaterialien, Zelllinien und benignen Zellen wurden hierzu {\"u}ber eine Immunoaffinit{\"a}tschromatographie mit nachfolgenden Purifizierungsschritten die MHC-pr{\"a}sentierten Peptide massenspekrometrisch-basiert identifiziert. Zus{\"a}tzlich erfolgte eine Quantifizierung der Oberfl{\"a}chen- und intrazellul{\"a}ren MHC-Klasse-I-Molek{\"u}le der verwendeten Proben durch einen indirekten Immunfluoreszenz-Assay. Unter der Gesamtheit von 17.750 identifizierten nicht-redundanten MHC-Klasse- I-pr{\"a}sentierten Peptiden konnte eine Vielzahl von 5.626 Peptiden mit Pr{\"a}sentationsfrequenzen bis zu 72 \% als AML-exklusiv beschrieben werden. Hierunter wurden 240 kryptische Peptide vermeintlich nicht-codierenden Ursprungs identifiziert. Zudem wurden mehrere potenziell CMV-kreuzreaktive AML-Peptide erfasst, die zu der reduzierten Rezidivrate bei CMV-Infektion nach allogener Stammzelltransplantation f{\"u}hren k{\"o}nnten. Bei der MHC-Quantifizierung wiesen die AML-Blasten keine verminderte MHC-Expression auf und stellten sich somit als geeignete Target-Zellen f{\"u}r eine T-Zell-Immuntherapie dar.},
  subject      = {Akute myeloische Leuk{\"a}mie},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{AertsEberleinHolmetal.2021,
  author    = {Aerts, An and Eberlein, Uta and Holm, S{\"o}ren and Hustinx, Roland and Konijnenberg, Mark and Strigari, Lidia and van Leeuwen, Fijs W. B. and Glatting, Gerhard and Lassmann, Michael},
  title     = {EANM position paper on the role of radiobiology in nuclear medicine},
  series = {European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging},
  volume    = {48},
  journal   = {European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging},
  number    = {11},
  doi       = {10.1007/s00259-021-05345-9},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-265595},
  pages     = {3365-3377},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {With an increasing variety of radiopharmaceuticals for diagnostic or therapeutic nuclear medicine as valuable diagnostic or treatment option, radiobiology plays an important role in supporting optimizations. This comprises particularly safety and efficacy of radionuclide therapies, specifically tailored to each patient. As absorbed dose rates and absorbed dose distributions in space and time are very different between external irradiation and systemic radionuclide exposure, distinct radiation-induced biological responses are expected in nuclear medicine, which need to be explored. This calls for a dedicated nuclear medicine radiobiology. Radiobiology findings and absorbed dose measurements will enable an improved estimation and prediction of efficacy and adverse effects. Moreover, a better understanding on the fundamental biological mechanisms underlying tumor and normal tissue responses will help to identify predictive and prognostic biomarkers as well as biomarkers for treatment follow-up. In addition, radiobiology can form the basis for the development of radiosensitizing strategies and radioprotectant agents. Thus, EANM believes that, beyond in vitro and preclinical evaluations, radiobiology will bring important added value to clinical studies and to clinical teams. Therefore, EANM strongly supports active collaboration between radiochemists, radiopharmacists, radiobiologists, medical physicists, and physicians to foster research toward precision nuclear medicine.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{AfonsoGrunzHoffmeierMuelleretal.2015,
  author    = {Afonso-Grunz, Fabian and Hoffmeier, Klaus and M{\"u}ller, S{\"o}ren and Westermann, Alexander J. and Rotter, Bj{\"o}rn and Vogel, J{\"o}rg and Winter, Peter and Kahl, G{\"u}nter},
  title     = {Dual 3'Seq using deepSuperSAGE uncovers transcriptomes of interacting Salmonella enterica Typhimurium and human host cells},
  series = {BMC Genomics},
  volume    = {16},
  journal   = {BMC Genomics},
  number    = {323},
  doi       = {10.1186/s12864-015-1489-1},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-143230},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {Background: The interaction of eukaryotic host and prokaryotic pathogen cells is linked to specific changes in the cellular proteome, and consequently to infection-related gene expression patterns of the involved cells. To simultaneously assess the transcriptomes of both organisms during their interaction we developed dual 3'Seq, a tag-based sequencing protocol that allows for exact quantification of differentially expressed transcripts in interacting pro-and eukaryotic cells without prior fixation or physical disruption of the interaction. Results: Human epithelial cells were infected with Salmonella enterica Typhimurium as a model system for invasion of the intestinal epithelium, and the transcriptional response of the infected host cells together with the differential expression of invading and intracellular pathogen cells was determined by dual 3'Seq coupled with the next-generation sequencing-based transcriptome profiling technique deepSuperSAGE (deep Serial Analysis of Gene Expression). Annotation to reference transcriptomes comprising the operon structure of the employed S. enterica Typhimurium strain allowed for in silico separation of the interacting cells including quantification of polycistronic RNAs. Eighty-nine percent of the known loci are found to be transcribed in prokaryotic cells prior or subsequent to infection of the host, while 75\% of all protein-coding loci are represented in the polyadenylated transcriptomes of human host cells. Conclusions: Dual 3'Seq was alternatively coupled to MACE (Massive Analysis of cDNA ends) to assess the advantages and drawbacks of a library preparation procedure that allows for sequencing of longer fragments. Additionally, the identified expression patterns of both organisms were validated by qRT-PCR using three independent biological replicates, which confirmed that RELB along with NFKB1 and NFKB2 are involved in the initial immune response of epithelial cells after infection with S. enterica Typhimurium.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{AgarwalYangRiceetal.2014,
  author    = {Agarwal, Shailesh R. and Yang, Pei-Chi and Rice, Monica and Singer, Cherie A. and Nikolaev, Viacheslav O. and Lohse, Martin J. and Clancy, Colleen E. and Harvey, Robert D.},
  title     = {Role of Membrane Microdomains in Compartmentation of cAMP Signaling},
  series = {PLOS ONE},
  volume    = {9},
  journal   = {PLOS ONE},
  number    = {4},
  issn      = {1932-6203},
  doi       = {10.1371/journal.pone.0095835},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-116673},
  pages     = {e95835},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {Spatially restricting cAMP production to discrete subcellular locations permits selective regulation of specific functional responses. But exactly where and how cAMP signaling is confined is not fully understood. Different receptors and adenylyl cyclase isoforms responsible for cAMP production are not uniformly distributed between lipid raft and non-lipid raft domains of the plasma membrane. We sought to determine the role that these membrane domains play in organizing cAMP responses in HEK293 cells. The freely diffusible FRET-based biosensor Epac2-camps was used to measure global cAMP responses, while versions of the probe targeted to lipid raft (Epac2-MyrPalm) and non-raft (Epac2-CAAX) domains were used to monitor local cAMP production near the plasma membrane. Disruption of lipid rafts by cholesterol depletion selectively altered cAMP responses produced by raft-associated receptors. The results indicate that receptors associated with lipid raft as well as non-lipid raft domains can contribute to global cAMP responses. In addition, basal cAMP activity was found to be significantly higher in non-raft domains. This was supported by the fact that pharmacologic inhibition of adenylyl cyclase activity reduced basal cAMP activity detected by Epac2-CAAX but not Epac2-MyrPalm or Epac2-camps. Responses detected by Epac2-CAAX were also more sensitive to direct stimulation of adenylyl cyclase activity, but less sensitive to inhibition of phosphodiesterase activity. Quantitative modeling was used to demonstrate that differences in adenylyl cyclase and phosphodiesterase activities are necessary but not sufficient to explain compartmentation of cAMP associated with different microdomains of the plasma membrane.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Aggar2024,
  author    = {Aggar, Sara},
  title     = {Plastizit{\"a}t regulatorischer T-Zellen in Abh{\"a}ngigkeit des umgebenden Zytokinmilieus},
  doi       = {10.25972/OPUS-35187},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-351870},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2024},
  abstract  = {Eine Dysbalance zwischen regulatorischen und proinflammatorischen T-Helferzellen kann zu Autoimmunerkrankungen f{\"u}hren. In dieser methodischen Arbeit wurde die Polarisierbarkeit von peripheren T-Lymphozyten durch verschiedene Zytokin-Stimuli untersucht. Hauptziel war es, CD4+CD25-CD127- Lymphozyten durch Stimulation mit einem IL-2 und TGFβ-beinhaltenden Zytokin-Cocktail (Treg-Cocktail) zu iTregs zu polarisieren und deren Suppressionsfunktion auf autologe Effektor-Leukozyten zu untersuchen. Es erfolgte eine Ph{\"a}notypisierung der PBMCs gesunder Probanden, insbesondere im Hinblick auf die Verteilung der T-Lymphozyten-Subpopulationen, deren Zytokinproduktion und FoxP3-Expression. Zudem wurden aus den PBMCs der Probanden Tregs (CD4+CD25+CD127low/-) sowie CD4+CD25-CD127- Zellen isoliert und deren Funktionsf{\"a}higkeit durch die Untersuchung ihrer Suppressionsfunktion auf autologe Effektor-Lymphozyten analysiert. Die Zellen wurden mittels verschiedener Zytokin-Cocktails in Richtung Treg sowie in Richtung Th17-Zellen polarisiert; anschließend wurde die Funktionsf{\"a}higkeit der polarisierten Zellen in Suppression-Assays gemessen. Wir konnten zeigen, dass die CD4+CD25+CD127low/- Zellen Tregs mit der F{\"a}higkeit zur Suppression der Proliferation autologer Effektor-Lymphozyten waren. Bei den CD4+CD25-CD127-Zellen handelte es sich um T-Lymphozyten ohne Suppressionsfunktion. Nach Stimulation der CD4+CD25-CD127-Zellen mit dem Treg-Cocktail zeigten die Zellen eine mit den Tregs vergleichbare Suppressionsfunktion. Mit dieser Studie haben wir eine aktuelle methodische Quelle f{\"u}r die Untersuchung von Ph{\"a}notyp und Funktion regulatorischer T-Zellen sowie f{\"u}r die Stimulation peripherer T-Lymphozyten hin zu Tregs geschaffen, die als Basis f{\"u}r Folgeversuche dienen soll, in denen Zellen von Patienten mit Autoimmunkrankheiten untersucht werden sollen. Da sich die Inflammation bei Autoimmunerkrankungen insbesondere in den betroffenen Geweben abspielt, w{\"a}re eine Studie anzustreben, in der aus dem Blut isolierte T-Lymphozyten den Zellen aus den entz{\"u}ndeten Geweben gegen{\"u}bergestellt werden. Erg{\"a}nzend sollte eine Ph{\"a}notypisierung der Tregs und der CD4+CD25-CD127- Zellen nach der Zytokin-Stimulation erfolgen. Zusammenfassend konnte die Plastizit{\"a}t peripherer T-Lymphozyten in Richtung Treg gezeigt werden. Besonders hervorzuheben ist die bislang wenig untersuchte Zellpopulation der CD4+CD25-CD127- Zellen, die eine vielversprechende Zellpopulation f{\"u}r die in vitro Induktion von Tregs darstellt.},
  subject      = {Regulatorischer T-Lymphozyt},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{AghaiZimmermannKurlbaumetal.2021,
  author    = {Aghai, Fatemeh and Zimmermann, Sebastian and Kurlbaum, Max and Jung, Pius and Pelzer, Theo and Klinker, Hartwig and Isberner, Nora and Scherf-Clavel, Oliver},
  title     = {Development and validation of a sensitive liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry assay for the simultaneous determination of ten kinase inhibitors in human serum and plasma},
  series = {Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry},
  volume    = {413},
  journal   = {Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry},
  issn      = {1618-2642},
  doi       = {10.1007/s00216-020-03031-7},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-231925},
  pages     = {599-612},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {A liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry method for the analysis of ten kinase inhibitors (afatinib, axitinib, bosutinib,cabozantinib, dabrafenib, lenvatinib, nilotinib, osimertinib, ruxolitinib, and trametinib) in human serum and plasma for theapplication in daily clinical routine has been developed and validated according to the US Food and Drug Administration andEuropean Medicines Agency validation guidelines for bioanalytical methods. After protein precipitation of plasma samples withacetonitrile, chromatographic separation was performed at ambient temperature using a Waters XBridge® Phenyl 3.5μm(2.1×50 mm) column. The mobile phases consisted of water-methanol (9:1, v/v) with 10 mM ammonium bicarbonate as phase A andmethanol-water (9:1, v/v) with 10 mM ammonium bicarbonate as phase B. Gradient elution was applied at a flow rate of 400μL/min. Analytes were detected and quantified using multiple reaction monitoring in electrospray ionization positive mode. Stableisotopically labeled compounds of each kinase inhibitor were used as internal standards. The acquisition time was 7.0 min perrun. All analytes and internal standards eluted within 3.0 min. The calibration curves were linear over the range of 2-500 ng/mLfor afatinib, axitinib, bosutinib, lenvatinib, ruxolitinib, and trametinib, and 6-1500 ng/mL for cabozantinib, dabrafenib, nilotinib,and osimertinib (coefficients of correlation≥0.99). Validation assays for accuracy and precision, matrix effect, recovery,carryover, and stability were appropriate according to regulatory agencies. The rapid and sensitive assay ensures high throughputand was successfully applied to monitor concentrations of kinase inhibitors in patients.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Aghazadeh2013,
  author    = {Aghazadeh, Yashar},
  title     = {Vagus-evozierte Potentiale zur Fr{\"u}hdiagnose der Alzheimer-Erkrankung},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-85038},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2013},
  abstract  = {Die Ergebnisse von bisherigen neuropathologischen Studien konnten die wichtige Bedeutung bestimmter Hirnstammareale bei der Pathogenese der Alzheimer-Erkrankung belegen. Zu diesen Strukturen geh{\"o}ren vor allem die Vaguskerngebiete, die in Anbetracht der zeitlich-topographischen Entwicklungsdynamik der AD als fr{\"u}he Pr{\"a}dilektionsstellen f{\"u}r die Alzheimer-typischen Pathologien fungieren k{\"o}nnten. Eine Ausbreitung dieser Pathologie nach kranial, wie etwa ins limbische System und in andere kortikale Hirnregionen, erfolgt erst in sp{\"a}teren Krankheitsstadien. Deshalb w{\"a}re es im Hinblick auf die Fr{\"u}herkennung einer AD von großem diagnostischem Nutzen, eine geeignete nicht-invasive Methode zum Nachweis der Hirnstammaffektion zu entwickeln. Diese k{\"o}nnte insbesondere im Rahmen eines Screeningprogrammes f{\"u}r MCI-Patienten, die ohnehin ein stark erh{\"o}htes Risiko f{\"u}r Entwicklung einer AD aufweisen, eingesetzt werden. In Anbetracht solcher makroskopisch oft nicht sichtbarer pathologischer Ver{\"a}nderungen im Hirnstamm, die meist der Nachweisbarkeit durch die strukturelle moderne Bildgebung entgehen, ist die Technik der Vagus-evozierten Potentiale (VSEP) wegen ihrer exzellenten zeitlichen Aufl{\"o}sung m{\"o}glicherweise in der Lage, durch Erfassung der Funktionsst{\"o}rungen der Vagus-Kerngebiete, eine Affektion dieser Strukturen festzustellen. Eine solche Funktionsst{\"o}rung sollte sich dann als eine Latenzverz{\"o}gerung der Potentiale darstellen. Zu diesem Zweck wurden in dieser Arbeit insgesamt 52 Personen (13 Alzheimer-Patienten, 12 MCI-Patienten und 27 gesunden Probanden) in einer ersten Sitzung neuropsychologisch und in der zweiten Sitzung elektrophysiologisch untersucht, wobei in der ersten Sitzung zus{\"a}tzlich eine ausf{\"u}hrliche Anamnese erhoben wurde. In der zweiten Sitzung wurde dann nach elektrischer Stimulation des Hautastes des N. Vagus am {\"a}ußeren Geh{\"o}rgang auf beiden Seiten mittels 2 haard{\"u}nnen Kupferdr{\"a}hten, jeweils die VSEP in Form der Fernfeldpotentiale {\"u}ber EEG-Elektroden abgeleitet. Die Stimulation erfolgte analog zu den vorangegangenen Arbeiten mit einer Stimulationsst{\"a}rke von 8mA, einer Stimulationsdauer von 0,1 msec und einem Interstimulusintervall von 2 sec, zuerst auf der rechten und danach auf der linken Seite mit 100 Wiederholungen pro Seite, wobei nach 50 artefaktfreien Kurven in einer Stimulationspause von 5 sek. die Stimulationselektroden in ihrer Polarisierung manuell gedreht wurden. Da es bisher keine Standarddefinition f{\"u}r die fr{\"u}hestm{\"o}gliche Latenz (P1) bei der Ableitung der VSEP existiert, wurde in dieser Arbeit die Auswertung der VSEP mit zwei Methoden durchgef{\"u}hrt, wobei die erste Latenz P1 im ersten Ansatz abh{\"a}ngig und im zweiten Ansatz unabh{\"a}ngig von der Potentialamplitude definiert wurde. Demnach konnten je nach Analysemethode unterschiedliche Anzahlen an auswertbaren Potentialkurven eingeschlossen werden. Die dieser Arbeit zugrunde liegende Hypothese, dass die VSEP bei Alzheimer-Patienten sich gegen{\"u}ber MCI-Patienten und Kontrollpersonen durch eine Latenzverz{\"o}gerung kennzeichnen, konnte in der prim{\"a}ren statistischen Auswertung mittels Bi- und Univarianzanalyse (3x2 und 3x1 ANOVA) nicht best{\"a}tigt werden, und zwar weder im amplitudenabh{\"a}ngigen noch im amplitudenunabh{\"a}ngigen Modul. Eine der m{\"o}glichen Erkl{\"a}rungen hierf{\"u}r ist die geringe Anzahl an untersuchten Patienten, sodass die zuk{\"u}nftigen Studien mit gr{\"o}ßeren Subgruppen erfolgen sollen. Erst nach statistischer Analyse von hemisph{\"a}renspezifischen Mittelwerten und zwar nur f{\"u}r die rechte Hemisph{\"a}re konnte ausschließlich f{\"u}r P2 in der amplitudenunabh{\"a}ngigen Auswertung ein hypothesenkonformes Ergebnis erreicht werden. Eine Latenzverz{\"o}gerung in der MCI-Gruppe gegen{\"u}ber Kontrollpersonen konnte in den statistischen Analysen nicht gezeigt werden. In der ersten Sitzung wurde bei allen Patienten und Probanden mittels CERAD-Testbatterie der neuropsychologische Status erhoben. Anschließend wurden die Ergebnisse der VSEP aus der amplitudenunabh{\"a}ngigen Auswertung und CERAD miteinander verglichen, woraus sich eine signifikant negative Korrelation zwischen den einzelnen Testabschnitten (Semantische Fl{\"u}ssigkeit, Lernen und Speichern einer Wortliste sowie Figurenabzeichnung) und den Latenzzeiten ergab. Außerdem wurde zwecks Screening und besserem Vergleich mit den Voruntersuchungen im Rahmen der klinischen Betreuung der Patienten, der kurze neuropsychologische Test DemTect durchgef{\"u}hrt. F{\"u}r die Weiterentwicklung der Methode der VESP ist es unerl{\"a}sslich, mittels weiteren Studien die Entwicklung der evozierten Potentiale bei den bereits untersuchten Personen im Verlauf zu beobachten. Die Dynamik der MCI mit erh{\"o}htem Risiko zur Entwicklung einer AD macht es verst{\"a}ndlich, dass eine solche Verlaufskontrolle insbesondere in dieser Gruppe sehr erstrebenswert ist. Parallel zu den klinischen Verlaufskontrollen, die in der Ged{\"a}chtnisambulanz der Klinik und Poliklinik f{\"u}r Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie der Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg bei nahezu allen MCI- und AD-Patienten durchgef{\"u}hrt wurden, wurde zur Evaluation der Ver{\"a}nderungen der VSEP f{\"u}r die in dieser Studie eingeschlossenen Patienten ein 12-monatiges Zeitintervall f{\"u}r die Verlaufsmessung der VSEP gew{\"a}hlt. Diese Verlaufsmessung wurde nach dem Abschluss dieser Arbeit von der Arbeitsgruppe von Thomas Polak et al. in der oben genannten Klinik durchgef{\"u}hrt und wird eigenst{\"a}ndig beschrieben. Solche Verlaufskontrollen k{\"o}nnen es erm{\"o}glichen, im Falle des {\"U}bergangs der MCI in AD fr{\"u}hzeitig mit aktuellen symptomatischen Behandlungen und insbesondere zuk{\"u}nftig zu entwickelnden neuroprotektiven Therapien zu beginnen. Hierdurch bestehen prinzipiell gr{\"o}ßere Erfolgsaussichten, die Progression der irreversiblen Nervenzellsch{\"a}digung im Rahmen der neurodegenerativen Erkrankung zu verlangsamen oder gar aufzuhalten.},
  subject      = {Alzheimer-Krankheit},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Agorastou2022,
  author    = {Agorastou, Vaia},
  title     = {Nycthemerale Augeninnendruckschwankungen und Glaukomprogression},
  doi       = {10.25972/OPUS-26417},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-264176},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {Die n{\"a}chtliche (24-st{\"u}ndige) {\"U}berwachung des intraokularen Drucks (IOD) bei station{\"a}ren Glaukompatienten wird in Europa seit mehr als 100 Jahren eingesetzt, um Spitzenwerte zu erkennen, die w{\"a}hrend der regul{\"a}ren Sprechstundenzeiten {\"u}bersehen werden. Daten, die diese Praxis unterst{\"u}tzen, fehlen, zum Teil weil es schwierig ist, manuell erstellte IOD-Kurven mit dem objektiven Verlauf des Glaukoms zu korrelieren. Um dieses Problem zu beheben, haben wir automatisierte IOD-Datenextraktionswerkzeuge eingesetzt und auf eine Korrelation mit einem fortschreitenden Verlust der retinalen Nervenfaserschicht auf der optischen Koh{\"a}renztomographie im Spektralbereich (SDOCT) getestet.},
  subject      = {Glaukom},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{AgranovskyDolyaGorboulevetal.1981,
  author    = {Agranovsky, A. A. and Dolya, V. V. and Gorboulev, Valentin G. and Kozlov, J. V. and Atabekov, J. G.},
  title     = {Aminoacylation of barley stripe mosaic virus RNA: polyadenylate-containing RNA has a 3'-terminal tyrosine-accepting structure},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-32566},
  year      = {1981},
  abstract  = {Barley stripe mosaic virus (BSMV) RNA which was previously reported to contain poly(A) sequences (Agranovsky et al., 1978) can be specifically esterified with tyrosine in vitro in the presence of an aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase fraction from wheat embryos. All the three RNA components of the BSMV strain with a three-component genome (Norwich) and both RNA components of a two-component strain (Russian) can be tyrosylated. The poly(A)-containing (bound to oligo(dT)-cellulose) and poly(A)-deficient(not bound to oligo(dT)-cellulose) fractions of BSMV RNA display a similar amino acidaccepting ability. The nucleotide sequence which accepts tyrosine is coupled with the intact genomic polyadenylated BSMV RNA. The viral RNA isolated after sucrose density gradient centrifugation under drastic denaturing conditions retains its aminoacylating activity, which suggests that this activity is not due to the presence in a BSMV RNA preparation of a tyrosine tRNA associated with BSMV RNA. Inhibition of aminoacylation of the 3'-oxidized (treated with sodium metaperiodate) BSMV RNA suggests that the tyrosine-accepting structure is localized at the 3' terminus of BSMV RNA molecules. It is shown that segments of different lengths obtained upon random fragmentation can be tyrosylated. The 3'-terminal (tyrosine-accepting) poly(A)+ segments can be isolated. The shortest segments of viral RNA capable of being aminoacylated [i.e., containing both tRNA-like structure and poly(A)] consists of approximately 150-200 nucleotides. The analysis of the oligonucleotides derived from individual BSMV RNA components labeled with 32P at the 3' end revealed two types of 3'-terminal sequences different from poly(A). It is suggested that a poly(A) sequence is intercalated between a 3'-terminal tyrosineaccepting structure and the 5'-terminal portion of poly(A)+ BSMV RNA.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{AguzziBothAnhauseretal.1992,
  author    = {Aguzzi, A. and Both, K. and Anhauser, I. and Horak, I. and Rethwilm, Axel and Wagner, EF.},
  title     = {Expression of human foamy virus is differentially regulated during development in transgenic mice},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-55290},
  year      = {1992},
  abstract  = {Tbe human foamy virus (HFV) is a recently characterized member ofthe spumavirus family. Although no diseases have been unequivocally associated with HFV infection, expression of HFV regulatory genes in transgenie mice induces a characteristic aeute neuro degenerative disease and a myopathy. To better eharaeterize the sequenee of events leading to disease, and to gain a better understanding of the underlying pathogenetic meehanisms, we have analyzed in detail the transgene expression pattern during development. Transcription of a construet containing all regulatory elements and aneillary genes of mv was analyzed by in situ hybridization and was shown to occur in two distinct phases. At midgestation, low but widespread expression was first deteeted in eells of extraembryonie tissues. Later, various tissues originating from embryonie mesoderm, neuroeetoderm, and neural erest transeribed the transgene at moderate levels. However, expression deereased dramatically during late gestation and was suppressed shortly after birth. After a latency period of up to 5 weeks, transeription of the transgene resumed in single eelJs distributed irregularly in the central nervous system and in the skeletal museIe. By the age of 8 weeks, an increasing number of eells displayed much higher expression levels than in embryonie Iife and eventually underwent severe degenerative ehanges. These findings demonstrate that HFV transgene expression is differentially regulated in development and that HFV cytotoxicity may be dose-dependent. Such biphasic pattern of expression differs from that of murine retroviruses and may be explained by the specificity of HFV regulatory elements in combination with cellular faetors. Future studies of this model system should, therefore, provide novel insights in the mechanisms controlling retrovirallatency.},
  subject      = {Virologie},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{AguzziWagnerNetzeretal.1993,
  author    = {Aguzzi, A. and Wagner, E. F. and Netzer, K. O. and Bothe, K. and Anhauser, I. and Rethwilm, Axel},
  title     = {Human foamy virus proteins accumulate in neurons and induce multinucleated giant cells in the brain of transgenic mice},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-47356},
  year      = {1993},
  abstract  = {Humanfoamy virus (HFV) is a retrovirus encoding structural genes and, like human immunodeficiency virus and human T ceU leukemia virus I, several anciUary reading frames collectively termed the belgenes. We have previously shown that HFV transgenic mice develop an encephalopathy with neuronal loss in hippocampus and cerebral cortex. We have now raised and characterized rabbit antisera to various recombinant portions of gag, pot, env, and bel-I, the viraltransactivator. Immunoreactivity for gag and bel-I was observed in nuclei and processes of hippocampal and cortical neurons before the onset of morphological lesions and correlated with the appearance of HFV mRNA. Astrocyte-derived multinucleated giant ceUs containing HFV proteins were present in the brain oftransgenic mice coexpressingfuU- length HFV genes but not in mice expressing truncated gag and env, suggesting that these genes contain afusogenic domain. Expression of fuU-length structural genes decreased the life expectancy oftransgenic mice, implying an a4Juvant rolefor these proteins in HFV-induced brain damage. (Am] Pathol 1993, 142:1061-1072)},
  subject      = {Molekularpathologie},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{AhmadWolberEckardtetal.2012,
  author    = {Ahmad, Ruhel and Wolber, Wanja and Eckardt, Sigrid and Koch, Philipp and Schmitt, Jessica and Semechkin, Ruslan and Geis, Christian and Heckmann, Manfred and Br{\"u}stle, Oliver and McLaughlin, John K. and Sir{\´e}n, Anna-Leena and M{\"u}ller, Albrecht M.},
  title     = {Functional Neuronal Cells Generated by Human Parthenogenetic Stem Cells},
  series = {PLoS One},
  volume    = {7},
  journal   = {PLoS One},
  number    = {8},
  doi       = {10.1371/journal.pone.0042800},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-130268},
  pages     = {e42800},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {Parent of origin imprints on the genome have been implicated in the regulation of neural cell type differentiation. The ability of human parthenogenetic (PG) embryonic stem cells (hpESCs) to undergo neural lineage and cell type-specific differentiation is undefined. We determined the potential of hpESCs to differentiate into various neural subtypes. Concurrently, we examined DNA methylation and expression status of imprinted genes. Under culture conditions promoting neural differentiation, hpESC-derived neural stem cells (hpNSCs) gave rise to glia and neuron-like cells that expressed subtype-specific markers and generated action potentials. Analysis of imprinting in hpESCs and in hpNSCs revealed that maternal-specific gene expression patterns and imprinting marks were generally maintained in PG cells upon differentiation. Our results demonstrate that despite the lack of a paternal genome, hpESCs generate proliferating NSCs that are capable of differentiation into physiologically functional neuron-like cells and maintain allele-specific expression of imprinted genes. Thus, hpESCs can serve as a model to study the role of maternal and paternal genomes in neural development and to better understand imprinting-associated brain diseases.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Aicha2020,
  author    = {Aicha, Diaa},
  title     = {Hypertrophe obstruktive Kardiomyopathie: Vorhersagewert des ESC-Risikoscore f{\"u}r den pl{\"o}tzlichen Herztod bei Patienten nach Alkoholseptumablation},
  doi       = {10.25972/OPUS-19364},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-193649},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {Abstrakt Hypertrophe Kardiomyopathie (HCM) ist eine genetisch bedingte Herzmuskelerkrankung mit einer Pr{\"a}valenz von 0,2 bis 0,6\% und einem SCD-Risiko von 0,5 bis 1\% pro Jahr. HCM ist die h{\"a}ufigste Ursache f{\"u}r pl{\"o}tzlichen Herztod in jungem Alter. Seit Jahrzehnten wird bei HCM der optimale Vorhersagescore f{\"u}r SCD untersucht. Der erste validierte SCD-Sore bei HCM wurde im Jahr 2014 in die ESC-Leitlinien integriert. Ziel der Studie: Vergleich des berechneten SCD-Scores bei HCM aus dem Jahr 2014 vor und nach Alkohol- Septum-Ablation (PTSMA) mit dem erreichten Endpunkt (SCD). Methoden: 56 Patienten mit hypertropher obstruktiver Kardiomyopathie (HOCM) und Erst-PTSMA im Jahr 2009 wurden eingeschlossen: Alter 53,9 ± 11,5 Jahre, 7\% positive Familienanamnese f{\"u}r SCD, 9\% ungekl{\"a}rte Synkope im letzten Jahr, 43\% NSVT, maximale LV-Wanddicke 20,2 ± 4,3 mm, maximaler LVOT-Gradient 118 ± 42 mmHg, LA-Durchmesser 45,3 ± 6,4 mm. Ergebnisse: Vor dem ersten PTSMA hatten die HOCM-Patienten einen errechneten SCD-Wert von 4,2 ± 3,2\%, nach PTSMA von 3,2 ± 2,2\%. Wir beobachteten 2 (3,6\%) SCD-F{\"a}lle in 5 Jahren. Die PTSMA f{\"u}hrte zu einer signifikanten Reduktion des errechneten SCD-Scores von 1,0 ± 2,8\%, p <0,05. Diese Reduktion war haupts{\"a}chlich durch die signifikante Reduktion des LVOT-Gradienten (durchschnittlich 54 ± 42 mmHg, p <0,05) zur{\"u}ckzuf{\"u}hren. Fazit: PTSMA ist eine etablierte Behandlung zur Verbesserung der Symptome bei HOCM-Patienten ohne Hinweis auf eine h{\"o}here Mortalit{\"a}t nach induziertem Infarkt. Der ESC-SCD-Score ist nur ein Hilfsalgorithmus f{\"u}r die individuelle Entscheidung bez{\"u}glich einer prim{\"a}rprophylaktischen AICD-Implantation.},
  subject      = {HCM},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Aichholzer2020,
  author    = {Aichholzer, Mareike},
  title     = {Ver{\"a}nderungen im intestinalen Mikrobiom bei Patienten mit akuter Leuk{\"a}mie im longitudinalen Verlauf},
  doi       = {10.25972/OPUS-19921},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-199213},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {In der vorliegenden Studie wurden Ver{\"a}nderungen des Darmmikrobioms anhand von Stuhlproben von Patienten mit akuter Leuk{\"a}mie longitudinal untersucht. Die Patienten wurden mit intensiver Chemotherapie behandelt. Die Therapie als auch die Erkrankung selbst f{\"u}hrte zu einer erheblichen Immunsuppression der Patienten. Prophylaktisch und therapeutisch wurden intensive Antibiotikatherapien bei allen Patienten durchgef{\"u}hrt. Das Mikrobiom wurde quantitativ und qualitativ analysiert. Die Bakterienmenge der Stuhlproben wurde mittels quantitativer Polymerase-Kettenreaktion und die Diversit{\"a}t des Mikrobioms mittels 16s rDNA Sequenzierung aufgezeigt. Zus{\"a}tzlich dazu fand eine mikrobiologische Kultivierung von Bakterien in Rektalabstrichen statt, um multiresistente Keime nachzuweisen. Ebenso wurde der klinische Verlauf der Patienten dokumentiert. Insgesamt wurde das Mikrobiom von drei verschiedenen Studiengruppen untersucht: Patienten mit akuter Leuk{\"a}mie, Patienten, die mit multiresistenten Keimen besiedelt waren und sich in der Nachsorge der W{\"u}rzburger interdisziplin{\"a}ren onkologischen Tagesklinik befanden sowie gesunde Probanden. Im Mikrobiom der Patienten mit akuter Leuk{\"a}mie war eine deutlich geringere Diversit{\"a}t sowie eine deutlich geringere Bakterienmenge im Vergleich zu beiden anderen Studiengruppen festzustellen. Das Mikrobiom {\"a}nderte sich w{\"a}hrend des Therapieverlaufs erheblich und am Beispiel von einigen Patienten konnte gezeigt werden, dass einzelne Bakterien das Mikrobiom dominierten. Des Weiteren waren im Mikrobiom der Patienten mit akuter Leuk{\"a}mie mehr potenziell pathogene sowie weniger potenziell protektive Bakterien im Vergleich zur Kontrollgruppe vorhanden. Zusammenfassend l{\"a}sst sich sagen, dass sich das Mikrobiom der Patienten mit akuter Leuk{\"a}mie deutlich von dem der anderen Studiengruppen unterscheidet. Um die Daten zu validieren und einen eventuellen Einfluss des Mikrobioms auf das {\"U}berleben der Patienten zu identifizieren, sollten die Untersuchungen an einer deutlich gr{\"o}ßeren Studienpopulation wiederholt werden.},
  subject      = {Akute Leuk{\"a}mie},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Aichinger2007,
  author    = {Aichinger, Eric},
  title     = {Risikoberechnung bei der Muskeldystrophie Duchenne und der Muskeldystrophie Becker},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-27000},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2007},
  abstract  = {Risikoberechnung in Familien mit Muskeldystrophie Duchenne oder Muskeldystrophie Becker. Unter Ber{\"u}cksichtigung eines Keimzellmosaiks, heterogener Neumutationsraten und der M{\"o}glichkeit homozygot betroffener Frauen.},
  language  = {de}
}