Publications by authors named "S F Schluter"
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- Denitrification is an essential process in soil nitrogen cycling that primarily occurs in microbial hotspots around particulate organic matter (POM), affecting greenhouse gas emissions like dinitrogen and nitrous oxide.
- To accurately predict these emissions, it's crucial to quantify the distribution of POM, as it influences local oxygen balance and microbial activity in soils.
- Findings indicate that both proximal and distal POM contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, with distal POM significantly driving denitrification rates, particularly in grasslands, highlighting the intricate relationship between soil structure, organic carbon supply, and microbial activity.
The lipopolyplex, a multicomponent nonviral gene carrier, generally demonstrates superior colloidal stability, reduced cytotoxicity, and high transfection efficiency. In this study, a new concept, photochemical reaction-induced transfection, using photosensitizer (PS)-loaded lipopolyplexes was applied, which led to enhanced transfection and cytotoxic effects by photoexcitation of the photosensitizer. Hypericin, a hydrophobic photosensitizer, was encapsulated in the lipid bilayer of liposomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSpider silk is a tough and versatile biological material combining high tensile strength and extensibility through nanocomposite structure and its nonlinear elastic behaviour. Notably, spiders rarely use single silk fibres in isolation, but instead process them into more complex composites, such as silk fibre bundles, sheets and anchorages, involving a combination of spinneret, leg and body movements. While the material properties of single silk fibres have been extensively studied, the mechanical properties of silk composites and meta-structures are poorly understood and exhibit a hereto largely untapped potential for the bio-inspired design of novel fabrics with outstanding mechanical properties.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe 2017 EULAR/ACR classification criteria for adult/juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) were established using a data-driven approach by an international group of myositis experts to allow classification of IIM and its major subtypes. Since their publication, the performance of the criteria has been tested in multiple cohorts worldwide and significant limitations have been identified. Moreover, the understanding and classification of IIM have evolved since 2017.
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