Karsten Fleck, Camilla La Torre, Nabeel Aslam, Susanne Hoffmann-Eifert, Ulrich Böttger, and Stephan Menzel Institute of Materials in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology II, RWTH Aachen University, 52074 Aachen, Germany Peter Grünberg Institute 7, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425 Jülich, Germany (Received 27 July 2016; revised manuscript received 14 October 2016; published 27 D...

Daniel Bausch has been assisting with patient care during the current Ebola virus disease outbreak in western Africa and - as part of a WHO-led international collaboration - is exploring the possible use of experimental therapies and vaccines. He tells Fiona Fleck why this outbreak is different.

l ast year, 2011, marked the 50th anniversary of the death of Ludwik Fleck, a physician, microbiologist [1] and a passionate philosopher of medicine [Figure 1]. Fleck suffered many of the humiliations that the 20th century inflicted upon the Jews of Eastern Europe [2]. He experienced racial persecution during World War II and in the years preceding it. He survived that long period of brutal ant...

Introduction: Lead toxicity induces retinal cell apoptosis. Vitamin C and garlic may decrease lead-induced apoptosis. This study was undertaken to investigate vitamin C and garlic protective effects on lead-induced apoptosis in eye retina. Methods: Pregnant Wistar rats (n = 72) were divided randomly into 9 groups: (L) treated rats with lead acetate in drinking water and (L+AA) with leaded water...

AIM/BACKGROUND Alport syndrome is an X linked disease that results in renal failure, deafness, and ocular abnormalities including a dot and fleck retinopathy and anterior lenticonus. The ultrastructural appearance of the glomerular basement membrane in thin basement membrane disease (TBMD) resembles that seen in some patients with Alport syndrome, and in some cases this disease is inherited too...

Previous evidence has shown that the number of L and M cones in retina varies significantly between subjects. However, it is not clear how the variation of L/M ratio changes the behavioral performance of the subject. A model of transformation of data from retina to visual cortex for evaluation of various L/M cones ratios is presented. While L/M cone ratios close to 1 brings the best performance...