BACKGROUND Thesis defended on the 19th of December 2012 at the faculty of Medicine of the VU University Amsterdam. Promotors: Professor Fedde Scheele MD, PhD, (VUmc Amsterdam) and Professor Albert Scherpbier MD, PhD (University of Maastricht). Copromotors: Pim Teunissen, MD, PhD (University of Maastricht) and Carl Siegert MD, PhD (St. Lucas Andreas Hospital, Amsterdam).

1Krefting Research Center, Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden. 2Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands. 3Department of Respiratory Medicine, King’s College Hospital, London, UK. 4Department of Respiratory Medicine and Allergy, King’s College, London, UK. 5Department of Pneumolo...

Merima Čajlaković1, Alessandro Bizzarri1, Gijs H. Goossens2, Igor Knez3, Michael Suppan1, Ismar Ovčina3 and Volker Ribitsch1 1Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, MATERIALS Institute for Surface Technologies and Photonic, Sensorsystems, Graz, 2Department of Human Biology, NUTRIM School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, 3Departme...

Wendelien Merens, Linda Booij, Rob Markus, Frans G. Zitman, Willem Onkenhout and A.J. Willem Van der Does* Department of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands Department of Psychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands Department of Psychiatry, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands Department of Pediatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, ...

NUTRIM School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism, Maastricht University 15 Medical Center+, PO Box 616, 6200 MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands, phone: 16 +31 43 3881191, FAX: +31 43 3884134 17 e-mail: [email protected] 18 19 Author contributions 20 WHL, AMWJS, SEK, RCJL were responsible for conception and design of the 21 study. All authors participated substantially in da...

M. Estacion,* B. P. S Vohra,* S. Liu, J. Hoeijmakers, C. G. Faber, I. S. J. Merkies, G. Lauria, J. A. Black, and S. G. Waxman Department of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Center for Neuroscience and Regeneration Research, Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut; Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Maastricht,...

a Research Centre for the Prevention of Overweight Zwolle, Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, Vrije Universiteit and VU medical centre, Zwolle , b Department of Public Health, AMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam , c Pharmacokinetics & Human Studies, TNO, Zeist , d NUTRIM School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism, Department of Human Biology, Maastricht University Medical Cente...