Deltaplan defence line completed

Primary care - first line of defence.

the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to be a public health emergency of international concern (WHO 2014b). This step helps to raise global awareness and mobilize resources to support outbreak management, reflecting the seriousness of the situation in affected countries and the strong need for an internationally coordinated response. At the time of the declaration, there were 961 deaths and 1,779 c...

Completed Issue 2016-1

Tear lipocalin and the eye's front line of defence.

Complex mechanisms are involved in mucosal defence at the air/epithelium interface. There are apparently two lines of protection. The first, which we are interested in here, prevents colonisation by micro-organisms on and through the epithelium. It is a non-inflammatory process, mainly mediated by (i) well known defence factors such as lysozyme and lactoferrin, (ii) specific secretory immunoglo...

Mission completed

I have great news for our readers, authors, reviewers and co-editors. We have finally succeeded in being included to PUBMED Central. This means that all articles published starting with the first issue of Dermatology Practical & Conceptual will appear in full in the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature also known as PubMed C...

Activation of Completed, Uncompleted, and Partially Completed Intentions

The intention-superiority effect is the finding that response latencies are faster for items related to an uncompleted intention as compared with materials that have no associated intentionality. T. Goschke and J. Kuhl (1993) used recognition latency for simple action scripts to document this effect. We used a lexical-decision task to replicate that shorter latencies were associated with uncomp...