Publications by authors named "Aileen Ritter"
Since their initial recognition, miRNAs have been the subject of rising scientific interest. Especially in recent years, miRNAs have been recognized to play an important role in the mediation of various diseases, and further, their potential as biomarkers was recognized. Rising attention has also been given to miRNA-21, which has proven to play an ambivalent role as a biomarker.
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- Recent studies suggest injury-specific extracellular vesicle (EV) "barcodes" may help diagnose organ injuries in polytrauma patients.
- The NTF research group aimed to establish a biobank for EVs, finding that different isolation methods affect EV quality and quantity.
- Among the tested methods, size exclusion chromatography (SEC) was the best for biobanking, with findings indicating that long-term frozen plasma samples are viable for EV retrieval, while storage conditions can impact EV properties.
Polytrauma is one of the leading mortality factors in younger patients, and in particular, the presence of cardiac damage correlates with a poor prognosis. Currently, troponin T is the gold standard, although troponin is limited as a biomarker. Therefore, there is a need for new biomarkers of cardiac damage early after trauma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe present study examined the effect of participants' music genre preference on the neural processes underlying evaluative and cognitive judgements of music using the event-related potential technique. To this aim, two participant groups differing in their preference for Latin American and Heavy Metal music performed a liking judgement and a genre classification task on a variety of excerpts of either music genre. A late positive potential (LPP) was elicited in all conditions between 600 and 900 ms after stimulus onset.
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