S OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE HELLENIC PROTEOMICS SOCIETY From Discovery to Application Kolimbari, Chania, Crete, Greece

BACKGROUND Oxidative stress may accelerate ageing and increase the risk of chronic diseases, such as coronary heart disease (CHD). We assessed differences in oxidative stress, and iron and antioxidant status between elderly men living in Mediterranean southern Europe (Crete, Greece) and northern Europe (Zutphen, The Netherlands). DESIGN A cross-sectional study using data from two cohorts of t...

The classical biological control program for exotic saltcedars (various Tamarix species and hybrids) has involved the assessment of different populations of the leaf beetle Diorhabda elongata (Brullé) s.l. that are promising for release in areas of North America that are located south of 37 degrees N latitude. We report here the overwintering survival, phenology, and voltinism of four D. elonga...

Pascale M. Ohnsorg, Lucia Rohrer, Damir Perisa, Andreas Kateifides, Angeliki Chroni, Dimitris Kardassis, Vassilis I. Zannis, and Arnold von Eckardstein From the Institute of Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland; Competence Center for Systems Physiology and Metabolic Diseases, ETH and University of Zurich, Switzerland; Center for Integrative Human Physiology, University...

About 80% of Rendu-Osler–Weber (ROW) patients carry mutations in endoglin (ENG) or activin receptor-like kinase1 (ACVRL1; ALK1) genes. In order to investigate the molecular mechanisms that govern the pathogenic effect of the mutations in ACVRL1, we have collected and analyzed the mutational effect of over 80 different predominant mutations, as well as their location, on the 3D molecular structu...

Gaseous (DMS, MSA, SO2, H2SO4 and DMSO) and particulate (sulfate and methanesulfonate) sulfur species over the northeastern coast of Crete H. Bardouki, H. Berresheim, M. Vrekoussis, J. Sciare, G. Kouvarakis, K. Oikonomou, J. Schneider, and N. Mihalopoulos Environmental Chemical Processes Laboratory (ECPL), Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, P.O Box 1470, 71409 Heraklion Greece Deutsc...

Microwave activation of electrochemical processes: High temperature phenol and triclosan electro-oxidation at carbon and diamond electrodes Mohamed A. Ghanem a,1, Richard G. Compton b, Barry A. Coles b, Elefteria Psillakis c, M. Anbu Kulandainathan d, Frank Marken a,∗ a Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK b Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford Universi...