Publications by authors named "S Mennen"
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- Hypoxia is increasingly recognized as a key factor that helps brain cells adapt to low oxygen levels and reduced metabolism, leading to what the authors call "functional hypoxia."
- The study investigates the effects of combined mild inspiratory and functional hypoxia during motor-cognitive training in a group of 20 participants, including healthy individuals and those with depression or autism spectrum disorder.
- Initial findings suggest that this training under low oxygen conditions is well-tolerated and may improve well-being, cognitive performance, physical fitness, and affect immune cell responses, warranting further research with a controlled trial to better assess the benefits.
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- The text presents an overview of innovative synthetic methods developed in Process Research and Development over the past decade, focusing on successful programs and case studies.
- It highlights challenges in creating robust chemical processes for large-scale molecule production, with an emphasis on advancing chemistry techniques like fragment design and asymmetric synthesis.
- The ultimate goal emphasized is to showcase how these innovative approaches aid in the discovery and timely delivery of new medicines to patients, despite increasing complexity in molecule development.
A common strategy for preparing tryptophan-derived epidithiodioxopiperazine (ETP) natural products containing a hydroxyl substituent adjacent to a quaternary carbon stereocenter is reported. This strategy is exemplified by enantioselective total syntheses of four heptacyclic ETP natural products--gliocladine C (6), leptosin D (7), T988C (8), and bionectin A (9)--starting with the di-(tert-butoxycarbonyl) derivative 17 of the trioxopiperazine natural product gliocladin C, which is readily available by enantioselective chemical synthesis. In addition, total syntheses of the enantiomer of gliocladine C (ent-6) and gliocladin A (11), the di(methylthio) congener of bionectin A, are reported.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEstablishing a cell line from Atlantic cod as a novel tool for in vitro studies.
Fish Shellfish Immunol
January 2013
The present work describes the generation of a cell line from newly hatched Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) larvae (ACL cells). Primary cultures were initiated by explant outgrowth from partially minced tissues and subcultured cells were exposed to UV radiation. After a substantial period of growth lag, cells started to proliferate and different growth conditions were tested to establish the cell line.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn order to study the variety of infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) strains involved in outbreaks of infectious pancreatic necrosis (IPN) in Atlantic salmon fish farms, samples were collected from 19 different outbreaks of IPN in the northern part of Norway. The main objective of this study was to examine whether IPNV isolates of different virulence were involved in the outbreaks and could explain the variable IPN protection observed in vaccinated post-smolts in the field. Both the molecular basis of virulence of all field isolates and virulence expressed by mortality after bath challenge of unvaccinated post-smolts with eight of the isolates were studied.
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