… Conventional pyrolysis occurs under a slow heating rate (0.1–1 K/s) and residence time
is 45–550 s and massive pieces of wood. In the first stage of biomass decomposition which …

Biodiesel is gaining more and more importance as an attractive fuel due to the depleting fossil
fuel resources. Chemically biodiesel is monoalkyl esters of long chain fatty acids derived …

The mononuclear phagocyte system (MPS) has historically been categorized into monocytes,
dendritic cells and macrophages on the basis of functional and phenotypical characteristics…

The gut microbiota influences both local and systemic inflammation. Inflammation contributes
to development, progression, and treatment of cancer, but it remains unclear whether …

Aims/hypothesis Raised maternal plasma total homocysteine (tHcy) concentrations predict
small size at birth, which is a risk factor for type 2 diabetes mellitus. We studied the …

… Furthermore, treatment with oral vancomycin to prevent S. epidermidis from colonizing
the gut had no effect on this bacterium’s ability to rescue cutaneous IL-17A levels (fig. S3F). …

The developmental pathways that lead to the production of antigen-presenting dendritic
cells (DCs) are beginning to be understood. These are the last of the pathways of …

Are motor coordination deficits an underlying cardinal feature of Autism Spectrum Disorders
(ASD)? Database searches identified 83 ASD studies focused on motor coordination, arm …

… “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”, the age old quote by Hippocrates is
the ideology of today’s health conscious population. Eli Metchnikoff, the Russian Nobel prize …

The development of functionally specialized subtypes of dendritic cells (DCs) can be modeled
through the culture of bone marrow with the ligand for the cytokine receptor Flt3. Such …