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Developing swiss paraplegic research: Building a research institution from the comprehensive perspective

Stucki, Gerold ; Reinhardt, Jan D. ; Cieza, Alarcos ; Brach, Mirjam ; Celio, Marco R. ; Joggi, Daniel ; Villiger, Beat ; Zäch, Guido A. ; Krieg, Walter

In: Disability & Rehabilitation, 2008, vol. 30, no. 14, p. 1063 - 1078

Purpose. To illustrate the conceptualization and development of a research institution from the comprehensive perspective based on the integrative model of functioning provided by the World Health Organization's (WHO) International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). The newly founded research institution Swiss Paraplegic Research which focuses on the comprehensive study...

Laparoscopic training on Thiel human cadavers: A model to teach advanced laparoscopic procedures

Frésard, Isabelle ; Häfliger, André ; Bergmann, Mathias ; Krähenbühl, Lukas

In: Surgical Endoscopy, 2008, vol. 22, no. 4, p. 901-906

Background: Nowadays, the laparoscopic approach represents the gold standard for a wide range of various basic and advanced procedures. To reduce the learning curve in advanced laparoscopic surgery, the search for new teaching tools is of utmost importance. Our experiences with a new teaching tool to train advanced laparoscopic procedures are reported. Methods: Hands-on training courses in...

Effects of early second language acquisition on the cortical language network in multilinguals : evidence from fMRI

Wattendorf, Elise ; Rager, Günter (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2006.

Research on language acquisition has shown that language development depends on language experience during early childhood. Early acquisition of one as opposed to two languages should therefore influence the development of language capabilities. Various psycholinguistic studies have provided support for this idea. The impact of early second language acquisition on the establishment of the...

Hematopoietic regulation by catecholamines

Togni, Mauro ; Dreyer, Jean-Luc (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2000 ; no 1284.

The tip60 HAT-complex is recruited to chromatin by the transcription factors E2F and Myc

Taubert, Stefan ; Conzelmann, Andreas (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2003 ; no 1409.

The oncogenic transcription factors E2F and Myc bind to specific DNA sequences at distinct times during the G1 phase of the mammalian cell cycle, and regulate transcription of a plethora of target genes. E2F and Myc associate with TRRAP, a subunit of distinct macromolecular complexes that contain the histone acetyltransferases (HATs) Gcn5/PCAF or Tip60. During the course of my thesis I...

Interaction of Per and Cry genes in the mammalian circadian clock

Oster, Henrik ; Albrecht, Urs (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2002 ; Nr. 1396.

To cope with the daily changes in their environment, in organisms, from cyanobacteria to humans, endogenous clocks have evolved that anticipate these changes and synchronize physiology and behavior accordingly. In mammals, the central circadian pacemaker is located in the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) of the hypothalamus. From there subordinated cellular clocks in the peripheral organs are...

Substrate cycling between de novo lipogenesis and lipid oxidation: a thermogenic mechanism against skeletal muscle lipotoxicity and glucolipotoxicity

Dulloo, Abdul G. ; Gubler, Marcel ; Montani, Jean-Pierre ; Seydoux, Josiane ; Solinas, Giovanni

In: International Journal of Obesity, 2004, vol. 28 (Suppl. 4), p. S29-S37

Life is a combustion, but how the major fuel substrates that sustain human life compete and interact with each other for combustion has been at the epicenter of research into the pathogenesis of insulin resistance ever since Randle proposed a 'glucose-fatty acid cycle' in 1963. Since then, several features of a mutual interaction that is characterized by both reciprocality and dependency between...

Functional analysis of the yeast "Saccharomyces cerevisiae" Gpi8 protein and characterization of the purified GPI-transamidase complex

Fraering, Patrick ; Conzelmann, Andreas (Dir.) ; van der Goot, Françoise Gisou (Codir.) ; Puoti, Alessandro (Codir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2001 ; no 1354.

Many glycoproteins of lower and higher eucaryotes are attached to the plasma membrane by means of a glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI). GPI anchoring of proteins is essential for the growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae . S.cerevisiae contains about 70 open reading frames predicting GPI proteins and many of these have been found to be cell wall glycoproteins. The precursors of GPI anchored proteins...

Understanding apoptosis involved in the development and treatment of malignancies

Genini, Davide ; Rusconi, Sandro (Dir.) ; Martinou, Jean-Claude (Codir.) ; Leoni, Lorenzo (Codir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2000 ; nr. 1321.

Apoptosis is a key event occurring in living organisms. In order to maintain tissue homeostasis, a comparable number of cells have to die to compensate for the cells produced by mitosis. However in many diseases this mechanism is altered. Once a malignancy is established, the conventional approach is to treat cells with drugs able to induce apoptosis. Although the execution of apoptosis is a...

Tenascin-R and perineuronal nets of extracellular matrix

Haunsø, Anders Kristian ; Menoud, Pierre-Alain (Dir.) ; Celio, Marco (Codir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2000 ; no 1307.

Tenascin-R (TN-R) is a glycosylated brain extracellular matrix protein (BECM; Zamze et al., 1999) restricted to the central nervous system (Pesheva et al., 1989; Rathjen et al., 1991; Weber et al., 1999). A special feature of TN-R, and some of its known ligands, is their accumulation around certain sub-populations of neurones, forming perineuronal nets of extracellular matrix (PNEMs; Wintergerst...