(Poly)phenols and cardiovascular diseases: Looking in to move forward

Skin Microbiome: Looking Back to Move Forward

Trillions of bacteria, fungi, viruses, archaea, and small arthropods colonize the skin surface, collectively comprising the skin microbiome. Generations of researchers have classified these microbes as transient versus resident, beneficial versus pathogenic, and collaborators versus adversaries. Culturing and direct sequencing of microbial inhabitants identified distinct populations present at ...

Looking back as we move forward.

Two decades of sunfleck research: looking back to move forward.

The study of how plants make use of sunflecks, relatively short duration but high-intensity patches of light in the understory and shaded tree canopy, has been of interest for decades. The potential ecological significance of sunflecks was recognized early in the 20th century (Allee 1926, Evans 1956), and the first few studies attempting to quantify the contribution of sunflecks to carbon gain ...

Tea polyphenols in preventing cardiovascular diseases.

Epidemiological observations suggesting an inverse correlation between tea consumption and the incidence of cardiovascular diseases have been well established [1–4]. The review by Stangl et al. gives an overview of the effects of polyphenolic compounds in tea on the function of the cardiovascular system, especially on various signal transduction pathways in cardiovascular cells [5]. The underly...

Polyphenols and prevention of cardiovascular diseases.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Polyphenols are the most abundant dietary antioxidants and research on their role in the prevention of degenerative diseases has developed quickly over these last few years. This paper reviews the recent studies on the prevention of cardiovascular diseases by polyphenols, focusing on human studies. RECENT FINDINGS A large number of recent intervention studies have shown that...