Publications by authors named "Katharina Schroeder"

Background: Multifocal choroiditis with panuveitis is a rare disease. The educational merit of this case presentation results from the good documentation and the impressive ocular fundus pictures.

Case Presentation: We illustrate the 3-year course of disease in a 22-year-old myopic white woman with multifocal choroiditis with panuveitis and secondary choroidal neovascularization.

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Here we describe an outbreak of European brown hare syndrome (EBHS) in a captive hare population. The EBHS outbreak occurred in March 2009, at the beginning of the breeding season. Overall mortality was 53% out of an original population of 61 animals.

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Advanced cell culture systems such as organotypic cultures or stem cell expansion often involve cocultivation of two or more different cell types. A typical situation is the use of a feeder cell line that supports survival, growth or controls the differentiation status of primary cells. Unequal proliferation capacities result in unbalanced cell growth, such as the undesired expansion of immortalized cells at the expense of the primary cells.

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Interferon (IFN) regulatory factor-1 (IRF-1) was isolated by virtue of its affinity to specific DNA sequences in the IFN-beta promoter that mediate virus responsiveness. IRF-1 was the first factor identified of the IRF family and was most extensively characterized at the molecular level. Also, its physiologic role in host defense against pathogens, tumor prevention, and development of the immune system was investigated in detail.

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