Publications by authors named "Verena Bolini"
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- Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting arteries and is a key cause of heart attacks and strokes, with its development influenced by age and specific inflammatory cytokines.
- This study focused on the role of macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) in Apoe mice to understand its influence on atherosclerosis across various stages of aging and high-fat diets.
- Results indicated that Mif deficiency reduced atherosclerosis in younger mice but was less effective in older subjects, suggesting that aging and diet duration impact MIF's role in atherosclerosis progression differently.
How a nervous system assembles and coordinates a suite of elementary behavioral steps into a complex behavior is not well understood. While often presented as a stereotyped sequence of events, even extensively studied behaviors such as fly courtship are rarely a strict repetition of the same steps in a predetermined sequence in time. We are focusing on oviposition, the act of laying an egg, in flies of the genus to describe the elementary behavioral steps or microbehaviors that a single female fly undertakes prior to and during egg laying.
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