New Thematic Series

A new Thematic Series: genetics of human lipid diseases.

Cardiac myofibroblasts: cells out of balance. A new thematic series

We are pleased to introduce a new thematic series dealing with cardiac fibrosis and its association with cardiovascular diseases. A wide variety of cardiovascular diseases are associated with cardiac fibrosis, which is now widely recognized to be not a secondary, but rather a primary contributor to cardiac dysfunction. The purpose of the current series of papers and reviews is to provide the re...

Thematic series – Low back pain

Low back pain is the world’s most disabling condition, involving all populations and crossing all boundaries [1, 2]. Such pain leads to tremendous socioeconomic and healthcare consequences. In the United States alone, the direct and indirect costs associated with low back pain surpass 90 billion USD per year, with similar adjusted rates in different countries [3]. Low back pain is the second co...

Thematic series on supramolecular chemistry

As the above citation from a paper by Julius Rebek and his coworkers indicates, supramolecular chemistry at its beginning gave new impetus to physical organic chemistry, which at that time had got trapped in ever more detailed kinetic studies. Early on, the nature of non-covalent interactions was of great interest. The first synthetic host-guest complexes were studied with respect to their comp...

Editorial to the thematic series 'Invertebrate Circuitry'

As a member of the Editorial Board who works in the field of invertebrate neuroscience, I feel very privileged by being able to introduce here the first thematic series of Neural Systems & Circuits [1]. Befitting the evolutionary history of neuronal circuits in the animal kingdom, this first thematic series will be entitled ‘Invertebrate Circuitry’. However, it is not only the evolutionary ‘sen...