Publications by authors named "S K Schlachter"
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- * This study will evaluate the program's effectiveness by comparing a control group receiving standard treatment to an intervention group receiving additional supports over 12 months, involving 500 participants from job centers in Southern Germany.
- * Outcomes will measure not only the participants' employment status but also improvements in mental health, social integration, and overall well-being, with analyses conducted through statistical methods to determine the efficacy of the interventions.
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- - The major spirochetal pathogens are hard to diagnose and currently lack vaccines, making reinfection possible since they don't provide general protective immunity.
- - These pathogens have unique characteristics that allow them to evade the immune system and cause systemic infections, complicating how they affect the host compared to other bacteria.
- - The article reviews the research on spirochetal diseases, pointing out progress and knowledge gaps, to encourage further studies aimed at developing better diagnostics and vaccines.
The prohibition of processed animal proteins (PAPs) has been relaxed gradually since 2007. The official control method for PAPs in feedingstuff, a combination of light microscopy (LM) followed by PCR, is no longer sufficient. Thus, a targeted LC-MS/MS method was developed, which enables a tissue-specific distinction between egg and dairy products, gelatine, and PAPs derived from blood or muscle tissue of the species ruminants, pigs, poultry, and fish.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe impact of dermatological diseases goes beyond symptoms and often includes psychosocial burden. Self-stigmatization plays a key role in this relationship and was compared in patients with psoriasis and atopic dermatitis to evaluate the validity of cross-disease stigmatization models. In total, 101 patients per indication were included in this cross-sectional study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDuchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a lethal muscle disease caused by absence of the protein dystrophin, which acts as a structural link between the basal lamina and contractile machinery to stabilize muscle membranes in response to mechanical stress. In DMD, mechanical stress leads to exaggerated membrane injury and fiber breakdown, with fast fibers being the most susceptible to damage. A major contributor to this injury is muscle contraction, controlled by the motor protein myosin.
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