115 research outputs found
Oral Inflammations and Systemic Diseases
No full textThe book presents a collection of 10 articles published in a Special Issue entitled "Oral Inflammations and Systemic Diseases" in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067) in the section "Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics". The oral inflammations that are covered in this issue consist of dental caries, periodontitis, and gingivitis, with a preponderance of periodontitis. Periodontitis is clearly a bacterial disease; however, it is not an infectious disease in the classical sense because it results from complex interactions between the commensal microbiota, host susceptibility and environmental factors such as diet and smoking. The human mouth contains one of the most diverse microbiomes in the human body, comprising viruses, fungi, protozoa, archaea and bacteria. The peer-reviewed articles of the book consist of original and review papers focused on the question of how exposure of the mouth to specific oral microbiota impacts systemic diseases, such as neuroinflammation, atherosclerosis, diabetes, and arthritis
Coordinate expression of alkali and DTNB myosin light chains during transformation of rabbit fast muscle by chronic stimulation
No full textAbstractChronic nerve stimulation induces an almost complete exchange of the fast myosin light chains (LC) LC1f and LC2f to the slow light chains LC1s and LC2s. LC3f decreases only by 30%. The exchange of the DTNB LCs (LC2f to LC2s) precedes that of LC1f to LC1s. However, the equimolar ratio of total alkali to total DTNB LCs is maintained. This points to a hitherto unknown regulation that preserves this ratio independent of whether alkali and DTNB LCs are expressed in fast or slow isotypes
Acceleration of Fingerprint Minutiae Extraction Using a VLIW Processor
No full textDeze scriptie beschrijft het ontwerp van een embedded systeem dat de kenmerkende eigenschappen uit de afbeelding van een vingerafdruk haalt. Het betreft een hardware/software codesign, waarbij een VLIW-processor als accelerator is gebruikt.Computer EngineeringMicroelectronics & Computer EngineeringElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
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