Erratum to: Gemiste lessen, gemiste kansen

Fears lessen for human BSE

Alarm bells rang eight years ago with the evidence that mad cow disease could pass from cows to humans via the food chain. But new research suggests that the disease, although still a problem in a number of countries, will have a limited effect on the human population.

Erratum to: Armentum: a hybrid direct search optimization methodology

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Docosahexaenoic Acid Helps to Lessen Extinction Memory in Rats.

Abstract: Memory extinction is referred to as a learning process in which a conditioned response (CR) progressively reduces over time as an animal learns to uncouple a response from a stimulus. Extinction occurs when the rat is placed into a context without shock after training. Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, C22:6, n-3) is implicated in memory formation in mammalian brains. In a two-way active shu...

Peri-surgical statins lessen acute kidney injury.

Hepatic hydroxymethyl glutaryl–CoA reductase inhibitors, known as statins, are among the most commonly prescribed drugs in the world. Scientists studying microorganism host defense first identified statins in the 1970s. They were eventually shown in large randomized trials, such as the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study and the West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study, to confer substant...