First released in 2010, the Rivet library forms an important repository for analysis code,
facilitating comparisons between measurements of the final state in particle collisions and …

Chemosensory cells in the mucosal surface of the respiratory tract (“brush cells”) use the
canonical taste transduction cascade to detect potentially hazardous content and trigger local …

Central cholinergic systems are involved in a plethora of brain functions and are severely
and selectively damaged in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and …

Experimental and clinical studies give evidence for breakdown of membrane phospholipids
during neurodegeneration. In the present study, we measured the levels of …

Boswellia serrata resin dry extract is among the few herbal remedies designated with an
orphan drug status for the treatment of peritumoral brain edema. In addition, boswellic acids (…

Mucociliary clearance through coordinated ciliary beating is a major innate defense removing
pathogens from the lower airways, but the pathogen sensing and downstream signaling …

Introduction: Microdialysis is an important in vivo sampling technique, useful in assaying
extracellular tissue fluid. The technique has preclinical and clinical applications and is widely …

IL-1β is a potent proinflammatory cytokine of the innate immune system that is involved in host
defense against infection. However, increased production of IL-1β plays a pathogenic role …

Ten years after the isoforms of mammalian phospholipase D (PLD), PLD1 and 2, were
cloned, their roles in the brain remain speculative but several lines of evidence now implicate …

In the central nervous system, choline is an essential precursor of choline-containing
phospholipids in neurons and glial cells and of acetylcholine in cholinergic neurons. In order to …