65 results match your criteria: "University of GroningenGroningen[Affiliation]"
Front Microbiol
October 2016
Department of Microbial Ecology, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen Groningen, Netherlands.
The soil bacterium strain BS001 can interact with varying soil fungi, using mechanisms that range from the utilization of carbon/energy sources such as glycerol to the ability to reach novel territories in soil via co-migration with growing fungal mycelia. Here, we investigate the intrinsic properties of the BS001 interaction with the basidiomycetous soil fungus sp. strain Karsten.
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November 2016
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Groningen Groningen, Netherlands.
[This corrects the article on p. 305 in vol. 10, PMID: 27445674.
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October 2016
Top Institute Food and NutritionWageningen, Netherlands; Department of Molecular Genetics, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of GroningenGroningen, Netherlands.
Sporulation is a highly sophisticated developmental process adopted by most Bacilli as a survival strategy to withstand extreme conditions that normally do not support microbial growth. A complicated regulatory cascade, divided into various stages and taking place in two different compartments of the cell, involves a number of primary and secondary regulator proteins that drive gene expression directed toward the formation and maturation of an endospore. Such regulator proteins are highly conserved among various spore formers.
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September 2016
Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen Groningen, Netherlands.
(.coli) O157 that do not produce Shiga toxin and do not possess flagellar antigen H7 are of diverse H serotypes. In this study, the antibiotic resistance properties, genotype of a set of virulence associated genes and the phylogenetic background of O157:non-H7 groups were compared.
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September 2016
Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento Rovereto, Italy.
Demographic and clinical predictors of aphasia recovery have been identified in the literature. However, little attention has been devoted to identifying and distinguishing predictors of improvement for different outcomes, e.g.
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September 2016
Department of Molecular Genetics, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen Groningen, Netherlands.
Here, we analyze the transcriptomic response of D39 to N-acetylgalactosamine (NAGa). Transcriptome comparison of D39 grown in NAGaM17 (0.5% NAGa + M17) to that grown in GM17 (0.
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September 2016
Yale UniversityNew Haven, Connecticut, USA
The complexity of the clinical management of neuroendocrine neoplasia (NEN) is exacerbated by limitations in imaging modalities and a paucity of clinically useful biomarkers. Limitations in currently available imaging modalities reflect difficulties in measuring an intrinsically indolent disease, resolution inadequacies and inter-/intra-facility device variability and that RECIST (Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors) criteria are not optimal for NEN. Limitations of currently used biomarkers are that they are secretory biomarkers (chromogranin A, serotonin, neuron-specific enolase and pancreastatin); monoanalyte measurements; and lack sensitivity, specificity and predictive capacity.
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August 2016
Centre of Sport and Exercise Science, School of Biological Sciences, University of Essex Colchester, UK.
Introduction: To achieve personal goals in exercise task completion, exercisers have to regulate, distribute, and manage their effort. In endurance sports, it has become very commonplace for athletes to consult task-related feedback on external devices to do so. The aim of the present study was to explore the importance of the presence of this information by examining the influence of the absence of commonly available task-related feedback on effort distribution and performance in experienced endurance athletes.
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August 2016
School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham Nottingham, UK.
The precision-cut lung slice (PCLS) is a powerful tool for studying airway reactivity, but biomechanical measurements to date have largely focused on changes in airway caliber. Here we describe an image processing tool that reveals the associated spatio-temporal changes in airway and parenchymal strains. Displacements of sub-regions within the PCLS are tracked in phase-contrast movies acquired after addition of contractile and relaxing drugs.
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August 2016
Laboratory for Experimental Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen Groningen, Netherlands.
Our world is filled with texture. For the human visual system, this is an important source of information for assessing environmental and material properties. Indeed-and presumably for this reason-the human visual system has regions dedicated to processing textures.
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July 2016
Department of Psychology, National Research University Higher School of Economics Moscow, Russia.
Top-down processing is a mechanism in which memory, context and expectation are used to perceive stimuli. For this study we investigated how emotion content, induced by music mood, influences perception of happy and sad emoticons. Using single pulse TMS we stimulated right occipital face area (rOFA), primary visual cortex (V1) and vertex while subjects performed a face-detection task and listened to happy and sad music.
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April 2016
Department of Otorhinolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, University of GroningenGroningen, Netherlands; Graduate School of Medical Sciences, School of Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of GroningenGroningen, Netherlands.
Understanding speech is effortless in ideal situations, and although adverse conditions, such as caused by hearing impairment, often render it an effortful task, they do not necessarily suspend speech comprehension. A prime example of this is speech perception by cochlear implant users, whose hearing prostheses transmit speech as a significantly degraded signal. It is yet unknown how mechanisms of speech processing deal with such degraded signals, and whether they are affected by effortful processing of speech.
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February 2016
Center for Mind/Brain Sciences and Center for Neurocognitive Rehabilitation, University of Trento Rovereto, Italy.
Background: Aphasia therapy focusing on abstract properties of language promotes both item-specific effects and generalization to untreated materials. Neuromodulation with transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) has been shown to enhance item-specific improvement, but its potential to enhance generalization has not been systematically investigated. Here, we test the efficacy of ACTION (a linguistically motivated protocol) and tDCS in producing item-specific and generalized improvement in aphasia.
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February 2016
Department of Molecular Neurobiology, University of Groningen Groningen, Netherlands.
Introduction: With time-place learning (TPL), animals link an event with the spatial location and the time of day (TOD). The what-where-when TPL components make the task putatively episodic-like in nature. Animals use an internal sense of time to master TPL, which is circadian system based.
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January 2016
Laboratory for Experimental Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of GroningenGroningen, Netherlands; NeuroImaging Center, Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Groningen, University of GroningenGroningen, Netherlands.
Several studies suggest different functional roles for the medial and the lateral sections of the ventral visual cortex in object recognition. Texture and surface information is processed in medial sections, while shape information is processed in lateral sections. This begs the question whether and how these functionally specialized sections interact with each other and with early visual cortex to facilitate object recognition.
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