TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bousquet, J.
A1  - Onorato, G. L.
A1  - Bachert, C.
A1  - Barbolini, M.
A1  - Bedbrook, A.
A1  - Bjermer, L.
A1  - Correia de Sousa, J.
A1  - Chavannes, N. H.
A1  - Cruz, A. A.
A1  - De Manuel Keenoy, E.
A1  - Devillier, P.
A1  - Fonseca, J.
A1  - Hun, S.
A1  - Kostka, T.
A1  - Hellings, P. W.
A1  - Illario, M.
A1  - Ivancevich, J. C.
A1  - Larenas-Linnemann, D.
A1  - Millot-Keurinck, J.
A1  - Ryan, D.
A1  - Samolinski, B.
A1  - Sheikh, A.
A1  - Yorgancioglu, A.
A1  - Agache, I.
A1  - Arnavielhe, S.
A1  - Bewick, M.
A1  - Annesi-Maesano, I.
A1  - Anto, J. M.
A1  - Bergmann, K. C.
A1  - Bindslev-Jensen, C.
A1  - Bosnic-Anticevich, S.
A1  - Bouchard, J.
A1  - Caimmi, D. P.
A1  - Camargos, P.
A1  - Canonica, G. W.
A1  - Cardona, V.
A1  - Carriazo, A. M.
A1  - Cingi, C.
A1  - Cogan, E.
A1  - Custovic, A.
A1  - Dahl, R.
A1  - Demoly, P.
A1  - De Vries, G.
A1  - Fokkens, W. J.
A1  - Fontaine, J. F.
A1  - Gemicioğlu, B.
A1  - Guldemond, N.
A1  - Gutter, Z.
A1  - Haahtela, T.
A1  - Hellqvist-Dahl, B.
A1  - Jares, E.
A1  - Joos, G.
A1  - Just, J.
A1  - Khaltaev, N.
A1  - Keil, T.
A1  - Klimek, L.
A1  - Kowalski, M. L.
A1  - Kull, I.
A1  - Kuna, P.
A1  - Kvedariene, V.
A1  - Laune, D.
A1  - Louis, R.
A1  - Magnan, A.
A1  - Malva, J.
A1  - Mathieu-Dupas, E.
A1  - Melén, E.
A1  - Menditto, E.
A1  - Morais-Almeida, M.
A1  - Mösges, R.
A1  - Mullol, J.
A1  - Murray, R.
A1  - Neffen, H.
A1  - O'Hehir, R.
A1  - Palkonen, S.
A1  - Papadopoulos, N. G.
A1  - Passalacqua, G.
A1  - Pépin, J. L.
A1  - Portejoie, F.
A1  - Price, D.
A1  - Pugin, B.
A1  - Raciborski, F.
A1  - Simons, F. E. R.
A1  - Sova, M.
A1  - Spranger, O.
A1  - Stellato, C.
A1  - Todo Bom, A.
A1  - Tomazic, P. V.
A1  - Triggiani, M.
A1  - Valero, A.
A1  - Valovirta, E.
A1  - VandenPlas, O.
A1  - Valiulis, A.
A1  - van Eerd, M.
A1  - Ventura, M. T.
A1  - Wickmann, M.
A1  - Young, I.
A1  - Zuberbier, T.
A1  - Zurkuhlen, A.
A1  - Senn, A.
T1  - CHRODIS criteria applied to the MASK (MACVIA-ARIA Sentinel NetworK) Good Practice in allergic rhinitis: a SUNFRAIL report
JF  - Clinical and Translational Allergy
N2  - A Good Practice is a practice that works well, produces good results, and is recommended as a model. MACVIA-ARIA Sentinel Network (MASK), the new Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) initiative, is an example of a Good Practice focusing on the implementation of multi-sectoral care pathways using emerging technologies with real life data in rhinitis and asthma multi-morbidity. The European Union Joint Action on Chronic Diseases and Promoting Healthy Ageing across the Life Cycle (JA-CHRODIS) has developed a checklist of 28 items for the evaluation of Good Practices. SUNFRAIL (Reference Sites Network for Prevention and Care of Frailty and Chronic Conditions in community dwelling persons of EU Countries), a European Union project, assessed whether MASK is in line with the 28 items of JA-CHRODIS. A short summary was proposed for each item and 18 experts, all members of ARIA and SUNFRAIL from 12 countries, assessed the 28 items using a Survey Monkey-based questionnaire. A visual analogue scale (VAS) from 0 (strongly disagree) to 100 (strongly agree) was used. Agreement equal or over 75% was observed for 14 items (50%). MASK is following the JA-CHRODIS recommendations for the evaluation of Good Practices.
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Rhinitis
KW  - Asthma
KW  - CHRODIS
KW  - ARIA
KW  - MASK
KW  - Sunfrail
KW  - Good Practices
Y1  - 2017
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-173527
VL  - 2017
IS  - 7
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Thorn, Simon
A1  - Chao, Anne
A1  - Georgiev, Konstadin B.
A1  - Müller, Jörg
A1  - Bässler, Claus
A1  - Campbell, John L.
A1  - Jorge, Castro
A1  - Chen, Yan-Han
A1  - Choi, Chang-Yong
A1  - Cobb, Tyler P.
A1  - Donato, Daniel C.
A1  - Durska, Ewa
A1  - Macdonald, Ellen
A1  - Feldhaar, Heike
A1  - Fontaine, Jospeh B.
A1  - Fornwalt, Paula J.
A1  - Hernández Hernández, Raquel María
A1  - Hutto, Richard L.
A1  - Koivula, Matti
A1  - Lee, Eun-Jae
A1  - Lindenmayer, David
A1  - Mikusinski, Grzegorz
A1  - Obrist, Martin K.
A1  - Perlík, Michal
A1  - Rost, Josep
A1  - Waldron, Kaysandra
A1  - Wermelinger, Beat
A1  - Weiß, Ingmar
A1  - Zmihorski, Michal
A1  - Leverkus, Alexandro B.
T1  - Estimating retention benchmarks for salvage logging to protect biodiversity
JF  - Nature Communications
N2  - Forests are increasingly affected by natural disturbances. Subsequent salvage logging, a widespread management practice conducted predominantly to recover economic capital, produces further disturbance and impacts biodiversity worldwide. Hence, naturally disturbed forests are among the most threatened habitats in the world, with consequences for their associated biodiversity. However, there are no evidence-based benchmarks for the proportion of area of naturally disturbed forests to be excluded from salvage logging to conserve biodiversity. We apply a mixed rarefaction/extrapolation approach to a global multi-taxa dataset from disturbed forests, including birds, plants, insects and fungi, to close this gap. We find that 757% (mean +/- SD) of a naturally disturbed area of a forest needs to be left unlogged to maintain 90% richness of its unique species, whereas retaining 50% of a naturally disturbed forest unlogged maintains 73 +/- 12% of its unique species richness. These values do not change with the time elapsed since disturbance but vary considerably among taxonomic groups. Salvage logging has become a common practice to gain economic returns from naturally disturbed forests, but it could have considerable negative effects on biodiversity. Here the authors use a recently developed statistical method to estimate that ca. 75% of the naturally disturbed forest should be left unlogged to maintain 90% of the species unique to the area.
KW  - natural disturbance
KW  - bird communities
KW  - forest
KW  - management
KW  - beetle
KW  - conservation
KW  - windthrow
KW  - diversity
KW  - impact
KW  - fire
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-230512
VL  - 11
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Georgiev, Kostadin B.
A1  - Chao, Anne
A1  - Castro, Jorge
A1  - Chen, Yan‐Han
A1  - Choi, Chang‐Yong
A1  - Fontaine, Joseph B.
A1  - Hutto, Richard L.
A1  - Lee, Eun‐Jae
A1  - Müller, Jörg
A1  - Rost, Josep
A1  - Żmihorski, Michal
A1  - Thorn, Simon
T1  - Salvage logging changes the taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional successional trajectories of forest bird communities
JF  - Journal of Applied Ecology
N2  - Salvage logging following natural disturbances may alter the natural successional trajectories of biological communities by affecting the occurrences of species, functional groups and evolutionary lineages. However, few studies have examined whether dissimilarities between bird communities of salvaged and unsalvaged forests are more pronounced for rare species, functional groups and evolutionary lineages than for their more common counterparts.

We compiled data on breeding bird assemblages from nine study areas in North America, Europe and Asia, covering a 17‐year period following wildfire or windstorm disturbances and subsequent salvage logging. We tested whether dissimilarities based on non‐shared species, functional groups and evolutionary lineages (a) decreased or increased over time and (b) the responses of rare, common and dominant species varied, by using a unified statistical framework based on Hill numbers and null models.

We found that dissimilarities between bird communities caused by salvage logging persisted over time for rare, common and dominant species, evolutionary lineages and for rare functional groups. Dissimilarities of common and dominant functional groups increased 14 years post disturbance.

Salvage logging led to significantly larger dissimilarities than expected by chance. Functional dissimilarities between salvaged and unsalvaged sites were lower compared to taxonomic and phylogenetic dissimilarities. In general, dissimilarities were highest for rare, followed by common and dominant species.

Synthesis and applications. Our research demonstrates that salvage logging did not decrease dissimilarities of bird communities over time and taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic dissimilarities persisted for over a decade. We recommend resource managers and decision makers to reserve portions of disturbed forest to enable unmanaged post‐disturbance succession of bird communities, particularly to conserve rare species found in unsalvaged disturbed forests.
KW  - biodiversity
KW  - breeding season
KW  - forest management
KW  - harvesting
KW  - Hill numbers
KW  - natural disturbance
KW  - successional trajectory
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-214887
VL  - 57
IS  - 6
SP  - 1103
EP  - 1112
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schrewe, L.
A1  - Lill, C. M.
A1  - Liu, T.
A1  - Salmen, A.
A1  - Gerdes, L. A.
A1  - Guillot-Noel, L.
A1  - Akkad, D. A.
A1  - Blaschke, P.
A1  - Graetz, C.
A1  - Hoffjan, S.
A1  - Kroner, A.
A1  - Demir, S.
A1  - Böhme, A.
A1  - Rieckmann, P.
A1  - El Ali, A.
A1  - Hagemann, N.
A1  - Hermann, D. M.
A1  - Cournu-Rebeix, I.
A1  - Zipp, F.
A1  - Kümpfel, T.
A1  - Buttmann, M.
A1  - Zettl, U. K.
A1  - Fontaine, B.
A1  - Bertram, L.
A1  - Gold, R.
A1  - Chan, A.
T1  - Investigation of sex-specific effects of apolipoprotein E on severity of EAE and MS
JF  - Journal of Neuroinflammation
N2  - Background: Despite pleiotropic immunomodulatory effects of apolipoprotein E (apoE) in vitro, its effects on the clinical course of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) and multiple sclerosis (MS) are still controversial. As sex hormones modify immunomodulatory apoE functions, they may explain contentious findings. This study aimed to investigate sex-specific effects of apoE on disease course of EAE and MS. 
Methods: MOG\(_{35-55}\) induced EAE in female and male apoE-deficient mice was assessed clinically and histopathologically. apoE expression was investigated by qPCR. The association of the MS severity score (MSSS) and APOE rs429358 and rs7412 was assessed across 3237 MS patients using linear regression analyses. 
Results: EAE disease course was slightly attenuated in male apoE-deficient (apoE\(^{-/-}\)) mice compared to wildtype mice (cumulative median score: apoE\(^{-/-}\) = 2 [IQR 0.0-4.5]; wildtype = 4 [IQR 1.0-5.0]; n = 10 each group, p = 0.0002). In contrast, EAE was more severe in female apoE\(^{-/-}\) mice compared to wildtype mice (cumulative median score: apoE\(^{-/-}\) = 3 [IQR 2.0-4.5]; wildtype = 3 [IQR 0.0-4.0]; n = 10, p = 0.003). In wildtype animals, apoE expression during the chronic EAE phase was increased in both females and males (in comparison to naive animals; p < 0.001). However, in MS, we did not observe a significant association between MSSS and rs429358 or rs7412, neither in the overall analyses nor upon stratification for sex. 
Conclusions: apoE exerts moderate sex-specific effects on EAE severity. However, the results in the apoE knock-out model are not comparable to effects of polymorphic variants in the human APOE gene, thus pinpointing the challenge of translating findings from the EAE model to the human disease.
KW  - immune
KW  - apoE
KW  - gender
KW  - inflammation
KW  - association studies in genetics
KW  - apoe
KW  - CNS disease
KW  - system
KW  - multiple sclerosis
KW  - MSSS
KW  - experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis
KW  - disease severity
KW  - cognitive function
KW  - Alzheimer disease
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-136252
VL  - 12
IS  - 234
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kole, Goutam Kumar
A1  - Merz, Julia
A1  - Amar, Anissa
A1  - Fontaine, Bruno
A1  - Boucekkine, Abdou
A1  - Nitsch, Jörn
A1  - Lorenzen, Sabine
A1  - Friedrich, Alexandra
A1  - Krummenacher, Ivo
A1  - Košćak, Marta
A1  - Braunschweig, Holger
A1  - Piantanida, Ivo
A1  - Halet, Jean-François
A1  - Müller-Buschbaum, Klaus
A1  - Marder, Todd B.
T1  - 2- and 2,7-substituted para-N-methylpyridinium pyrenes: syntheses, molecular and electronic structures, photophysical, electrochemical, and spectroelectrochemical properties and binding to double-stranded (ds) DNA
JF  - Chemistry - A European Journal
N2  - Two N-methylpyridinium compounds and analogous N-protonated salts of 2- and 2,7-substituted 4-pyridyl-pyrene compounds were synthesised and their crystal structures, photophysical properties both in solution and in the solid state, electrochemical and spectroelectrochemical properties were studied. Upon methylation or protonation, the emission maxima are significantly bathochromically shifted compared to the neutral compounds, although the absorption maxima remain almost unchanged. As a result, the cationic compounds show very large apparent Stokes shifts of up to 7200 cm\(^{-1}\). The N-methylpyridinium compounds have a single reduction at ca. −1.5 V vs. Fc/Fc\(^+\) in MeCN. While the reduction process was reversible for the 2,7-disubstituted compound, it was irreversible for the mono-substituted one. Experimental findings are complemented by DFT and TD-DFT calculations. Furthermore, the N-methylpyridinium compounds show strong interactions with calf thymus (ct)-DNA, presumably by intercalation, which paves the way for further applications of these multi-functional compounds as potential DNA-bioactive agents.
KW  - inorganic chemistry
KW  - viologens
KW  - chromophores
KW  - luminescent
KW  - pyrenes
KW  - pyridinium
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-256642
VL  - 27
IS  - 8
ER  -