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  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,095 Views
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Assessment of Contemporary Antarctic GIA Models Using High-Precision GPS Time Series

  • Wenhao Li,
  • Fei Li,
  • C.K. Shum,
  • Chanfang Shu,
  • Feng Ming,
  • Shengkai Zhang,
  • Qingchuan Zhang and
  • Wei Chen

22 February 2022

Past redistributions of the Earth’s mass resulting from the Earth’s viscoelastic response to the cycle of deglaciation and glaciation reflect the process known as glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA). GPS data are effective at constraining...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modelling Geodetic Time Series and Applications for Earth Science and Environmental Monitoring)
  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,844 Views
37 Pages

The investigation of submerged speleothems for sea level studies has made significant contributions to the understanding of the global and regional sea level variations during the Middle and Late Quaternary. This has especially been the case for the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Changing Quaternary Environment in the Mediterranean)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,611 Views
13 Pages

14 September 2023

The Lambousa fishtank, an archaeological structure entirely carved in bedrock, can be easily recognized and measured in the plan on Google Earth (GE). We surveyed in situ this excellent archaeological marker in 2016 through direct measurements using...

(This article belongs to the Section Sedimentology, Stratigraphy and Palaeontology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,449 Views
23 Pages

Numerical Simulation of the Flood and Inundation Caused by Typhoon Noru Downstream from the Vu Gia-Thu Bon River Basin

  • Tran Hong Thai,
  • Doan Quang Tri,
  • Nguyen Xuan Anh,
  • Vo Van Hoa,
  • Hiep Van Nguyen,
  • Nguyen Van Nhat,
  • Quach Thi Thanh Tuyet,
  • Ha T. T. Pham,
  • Pham Hoai Chung and
  • Tran Duy Thuc
  • + 1 author

18 May 2023

Typhoon Noru (2022) was a historic storm that caused significant damage to the central region of Vietnam. Typhoon Noru has caused strong winds and torrential rainfall in Da Nang, Quang Nam, and Quang Ngai. Quang Nam Province saw many trees and power...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Research in Sustainable Environmental Management: From the View of Human Ecology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,599 Views
19 Pages

30 May 2023

The Mother Goddess Worship’s (MGW) private shrine—Điện thờ Mẫu tư gia—has been a prominent worshipping place of a Vietnamese folk religion; however, it is rarely documented in scholarship in both Vietname...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
6,690 Views
17 Pages

Projections of Future Climate Change in the Vu Gia Thu Bon River Basin, Vietnam by Using Statistical DownScaling Model (SDSM)

  • Dang Nguyen Dong Phuong,
  • Trung Q. Duong,
  • Nguyen Duy Liem,
  • Vo Ngoc Quynh Tram,
  • Dang Kien Cuong and
  • Nguyen Kim Loi

9 March 2020

Future projections of anthropogenic climate change play a pivotal role in devising viable countermeasures to address climate-related risks. This study strove to construct future daily rainfall and maximum and minimum temperature scenarios in Vu Gia T...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,073 Views
23 Pages

A Framework Using Applied Process Analysis Methods to Assess Water Security in the Vu Gia–Thu Bon River Basin, Vietnam

  • Nguyen Mai Dang,
  • Le Ngoc Vien,
  • Ahad Hasan Tanim,
  • Alexandre S. Gagnon and
  • Duong Tran Anh

5 July 2024

The Vu Gia–Thu Bon (VG–TB) river basin is facing numerous challenges to water security, particularly in light of the increasing impacts of climate change. These challenges, including salinity intrusion, shifts in rainfall patterns, and re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,415 Views
20 Pages

GIA-YOLO: A Target Detection Method for Nectarine Picking Robots in Facility Orchards

  • Longlong Ren,
  • Yuqiang Li,
  • Yonghui Du,
  • Ang Gao,
  • Wei Ma,
  • Yuepeng Song and
  • Xingchang Han

11 August 2025

The complex and variable environment of facility orchards poses significant challenges for intelligent robotic operations. To address issues such as nectarine fruit occlusion by branches and leaves, complex backgrounds, and the demand for high real-t...

(This article belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,216 Views
12 Pages

Mechanically Robust and Flexible GO/PI Hybrid Aerogels as Highly Efficient Oil Absorbents

  • Li Zhang,
  • Yuting Wang,
  • Ruidong Wang,
  • Penggang Yin and
  • Juntao Wu

13 November 2022

Herein, mechanically robust and flexible graphene oxide/polyimide (GO/PI) hybrid aerogels (GIAs) were fabricated by a facile method, in which the mixed suspensions of the water-soluble polyimide precursor and graphene oxide (GO) sheets were freeze-dr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Polymeric Materials for Extreme Environments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,154 Views
23 Pages

17 March 2019

Many recent mass balance estimates using the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and satellite altimetry (including two kinds of sensors of radar and laser) show that the ice mass of the Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) is in overall decline. Ho...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,758 Views
14 Pages

Molecular Profiles of Antimalarial Drug Resistance in Plasmodium Species from Asymptomatic Malaria Carriers in Gia Lai Province, Vietnam

  • Hương Giang Lê,
  • Tuấn Cường Võ,
  • Jung-Mi Kang,
  • Chau Van Khanh,
  • Nguyen Thi Minh Trinh,
  • Nguyen Thi Lien Hanh,
  • Minkyoung Cho,
  • Huynh Hong Quang and
  • Byoung-Kuk Na

Asymptomatic malaria infection is a major concern in the fight against malaria, as it can act as a significant reservoir for its silent spread or transmission. Therefore, surveillance to detect asymptomatic subjects, particularly in regions with high...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on Mosquito-Borne Pathogens)
  • Article
  • Open Access
688 Views
25 Pages

Bat-Associated Parvoviruses: High Genetic Diversity and Novel Viruses in Gia Lai and Dong Nai Provinces, Vietnam

  • Vasilina K. Lapshina,
  • Alina A. Gorbacheva,
  • Polina A. Nikolaeva,
  • Diana A. Grigoryan,
  • Ivan F. Stetsenko,
  • Mo T. Luong,
  • Truong V. Tran,
  • Alexander P. Yuzefovich,
  • Ilia O. Prikhodko and
  • Veronika I. Skvortsova
  • + 4 authors

6 August 2026

Bats are recognized as key reservoirs for diverse viruses, including members of the Parvoviridae family. Vietnam hosts an exceptionally wide variety of bat species, yet the diversity of parvoviruses in these populations remains largely unexplored. Th...

(This article belongs to the Section Animal Viruses)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,431 Views
22 Pages

11 July 2019

Adverse changes of the landscape resulting from diverse human activities have consequently caused quality decline and functional degradation of the natural landscape, endangering the natural habitats of various species. Meanwhile, technical advanceme...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovations in Planning for Urban Climate Adaptation, Resilience, and Transformation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,935 Views
19 Pages

New Evidence of MIS 3 Relative Sea Level Changes from the Messina Strait, Calabria (Italy)

  • Fabrizio Antonioli,
  • Lucio Calcagnile,
  • Luigi Ferranti,
  • Giuseppe Mastronuzzi,
  • Carmelo Monaco,
  • Paolo Orrù,
  • Gianluca Quarta,
  • Fabrizio Pepe,
  • Giovanni Scardino and
  • Marco Taviani
  • + 2 authors

26 September 2021

Investigation of sea-level positions during the highly-dynamic Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS 3: 29–61 kyrs BP) proves difficult because: (i) in stable and subsiding areas, coeval coastal sediments are currently submerged at depths of few to several ten...

(This article belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,123 Views
16 Pages

26 September 2018

This study presents a method to investigate meteorological drought characteristics using multiple climate models for multiple timescales under two representative concentration pathway (RCP) scenarios, RCP4.5 and RCP8.5, during 2021–2050. The me...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate Variability and Change in the 21th Century)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,846 Views
15 Pages

8 July 2025

Gender-independent, intersex, non-binary, and transgender (GIaNT) youth have puberty health and sex education needs that are different from cisgender youth. Unfortunately, this population has historically been excluded from curricula pertaining to th...

(This article belongs to the Section Sexual and Reproductive Health, Sexual Medicine, and Psychosocial Remediation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,980 Views
20 Pages

High-Throughput Root Network System Analysis for Low Phosphorus Tolerance in Maize at Seedling Stage

  • Md. Shalim Uddin,
  • Md. Golam Azam,
  • Masum Billah,
  • Shamim Ara Bagum,
  • Priya Lal Biswas,
  • Abul Bashar Mohammad Khaldun,
  • Neelima Hossain,
  • Ahmed Gaber,
  • Yusuf S. Althobaiti and
  • Akbar Hossain
  • + 1 author

3 November 2021

The root system is the important organ of a plant, helping to anchor the plant and take up nutrients from the soil. The purpose of this investigation was to determine the magnitude of the root network system (RNS) through phenotypic variability in a...

(This article belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
86 Citations
10,921 Views
24 Pages

18 May 2018

Characterization of droughts using satellite-based data and indices in a steep, highly dynamic tropical catchment, like Vu Gia Thu Bon, which is the most important basin in central Vietnam, has remained a challenge for many years. This study examined...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Remote Sensing and GIS in Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,697 Views
16 Pages

In future years, extreme weather events are expected to frequently increase due to climate change, especially in the combination of climate change and events of El Niño–Southern Oscillation. This pays special attention to the constructio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climatic Change Impact on Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
9,050 Views
16 Pages

Development of a Spatial Decision Support System for Real-Time Flood Early Warning in the Vu Gia-Thu Bon River Basin, Quang Nam Province, Vietnam

  • Hong T. Nguyen,
  • Trung Q. Duong,
  • Liem D. Nguyen,
  • Tram Q.N. Vo,
  • Nhat T. Tran,
  • Phuong D.N. Dang,
  • Long D. Nguyen,
  • Cuong K. Dang and
  • Loi K. Nguyen

17 March 2020

Vu Gia-Thu Bon (VGTB) river basin is an area where flash flood and heavy flood events occur frequently, negatively impacting the local community and socio-economic development of Quang Nam Province. In recent years, structural and non–structura...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
676 Views
14 Pages

22 April 2026

Puberty health and sex education (PHSE) curricula are not comprehensive or inclusive towards gender-independent, intersex, non-binary, or transgender (GIaNT) youth. A majority of this population seeks this information in online settings. Over the pas...

(This article belongs to the Section Youth Health and Wellbeing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,286 Views
15 Pages

Flowering is a pivotal event in the life cycle of plants. miR172 has been widely confirmed to play critical roles in flowering time control by regulating its target gene expression in Arabidopsis. However, the role of its counterpart in soybean remai...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gene–Environment Interactions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,811 Views
18 Pages

9 April 2020

In addition to studies of sea level change and mantle rheology, reliable Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) models are necessary as a background model to correct the widely used Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) monthly gravity solution...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
105 Citations
25,711 Views
15 Pages

The Study on Extraction Process and Analysis of Components in Essential Oils of Black Pepper (Piper nigrum L.) Seeds Harvested in Gia Lai Province, Vietnam

  • Thien Hien Tran,
  • Le Ke Ha,
  • Duy Chinh Nguyen,
  • Tan Phat Dao,
  • Le Thi Hong Nhan,
  • Dai Hai Nguyen,
  • Trinh Duy Nguyen,
  • Dai-Viet N. Vo,
  • Quoc Toan Tran and
  • Long Giang Bach

22 January 2019

Black pepper (Piper nigrum L.) is a tropical crop with extensive medicinal potential in ethnomedicine and nutraceutical applications. The essential oil of black pepper finds wide applications in inhabitation of respiratory infections and soothing of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Green Separation and Extraction Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
9,064 Views
20 Pages

Comparative Analysis of P2P Architectures for Energy Trading and Sharing

  • Olamide Jogunola,
  • Augustine Ikpehai,
  • Kelvin Anoh,
  • Bamidele Adebisi,
  • Mohammad Hammoudeh,
  • Haris Gacanin and
  • Georgina Harris

29 December 2017

Rising awareness and emergence of smart technologies have inspired new thinking in energy system management. Whilst integration of distributed energy resources in micro-grids (MGs) has become the technique of choice for consumers to generate their en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,500 Views
23 Pages

The aim of this study was to estimate the noise properties, velocities, and their uncertainties from a time-series of selected (~9 years long) Estonian continuously operating Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) stations. Two software packages b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,058 Views
17 Pages

7 December 2023

The permanent digitization of management processes entails, among other things, a need for the automation of the process of making certain business decisions. The aim of the article is to review and evaluate low-code/no-code platforms used, for insta...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,196 Views
35 Pages

1 November 2024

In the next decade, the amount of network traffic is estimated to reach Zettabytes. The future International Mobile Telecommunications-2030 (IMT-2030) standard of mobile networks, known as 6G, introduces an important paradigm shift in the context of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,079 Views
18 Pages

A Geoinformation-Based Approach for Mapping Coastal Vulnerability in Sweden

  • Eleni Achmakidou,
  • George P. Petropoulos,
  • Anna Karkani,
  • Niki Evelpidou,
  • Spyridon E. Detsikas and
  • Georgios Nektarios Tselos

21 October 2025

Coastal areas in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions are getting increasingly vulnerable to climate change, particularly due to sea-level rise and changing wave dynamics. This study assesses the coastal vulnerability of Sweden using the Coastal Vulnerabili...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Long-Term Coastal Evolution and Morphodynamics: Ecosystem Protection and Coastal Safety)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,654 Views
26 Pages

15 October 2025

Green innovation (GI) plays a pivotal role in advancing sustainable transformation. To implement the concept of green development, China is vigorously advancing green innovation adoption (GIA). Although prior research has largely focused on the manuf...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Development of Construction Engineering—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
257 Views
31 Pages

1 October 2026

Amid the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) technology and growing environmental pressures, this study empirically examines the impact of AI adoption intensity on green innovation ambidexterity (GIA), drawing on organizational ambidext...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Systems Engineering)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,492 Views
23 Pages

5 September 2019

Along with density and mass variations of the oceans driven by global warming, Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) in response to the last deglaciation still contributes significantly to present-day sea-level change. Indeed, in order to reveal the imp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Past, Present and Future Trends in Sea Level Change)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,644 Views
13 Pages

Specific Increase in Joint Neutrophil Extracellular Traps and Its Relation to Interleukin 6 in Autoimmune Arthritis

  • Ayako Ohyama,
  • Atsumu Osada,
  • Hoshimi Kawaguchi,
  • Izumi Kurata,
  • Taihei Nishiyama,
  • Tamaki Iwai,
  • Akihito Ishigami,
  • Yuya Kondo,
  • Hiroto Tsuboi and
  • Isao Matsumoto
  • + 1 author

Neutrophils and their extracellular traps have been shown to play an important role in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but the detailed mechanisms in joints are still unclear, and their regulation remains to be solved. Here, we explore...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Pathogenesis of Rheumatoid Arthritis—Breakthroughs in Molecular Mechanisms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,716 Views
23 Pages

Determining Factors on Green Innovation Adoption: An Empirical Study in Brazilian Agribusiness Firms

  • Alexandre Rodrigues da Silva,
  • Claudia Brito Silva Cirani,
  • Fernando Antonio Ribeiro Serra,
  • Angélica Pigola,
  • Priscila Rezende da Costa,
  • Isabel Cristina Scafuto,
  • Roberto Lima Ruas and
  • Marcos Rogério Mazieri

6 April 2023

Green innovation has become one of the mainstream concepts to address environmental issues. However, research on green innovation, especially at the firm level, is still evolving. Building upon the natural resource-based view (NRBV) and resource-base...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Building Design, Technological Innovation and Green Project Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,409 Views
25 Pages

16 October 2025

Green industry, as an emerging industry, plays an important role in improving regional economic and environmental performance and promoting green sustainable development. This study calculates carbon productivity using panel data from 30 Chinese prov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,597 Views
17 Pages

22 May 2019

We describe a comprehensive analysis of the 469 European Global Positioning System (GPS) vertical position time series. The assumptions we present should be employed to perform the post-glacial rebound (PGR)-oriented comparison. We prove that the pro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High-precision GNSS: Methods, Open Problems and Geoscience Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,256 Views
19 Pages

23 April 2020

Aeroponics is considered as a potential method for the culture of herbal plants due to the high growth rate, quantity and quality enhancement of secondary metabolites, and substantial environmental progress associated with this method. The aim of thi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Plant Tissue Culture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,623 Views
14 Pages

Purified Gymnemic Acids from Gymnema inodorum Tea Inhibit 3T3-L1 Cell Differentiation into Adipocytes

  • Papawee Saiki,
  • Yasuhiro Kawano,
  • Takayuki Ogi,
  • Prapaipat Klungsupya,
  • Thanchanok Muangman,
  • Wimonsri Phantanaprates,
  • Papitchaya Kongchinda,
  • Nantaporn Pinnak and
  • Koyomi Miyazaki

17 September 2020

Gymnema inodorum (GI) is an indigenous medicinal plant and functional food in Thailand that has recently helped to reduce plasma glucose levels in healthy humans. It is renowned for the medicinal properties of gymnemic acid and its ability to suppres...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nutraceuticals and Human Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,415 Views
17 Pages

19 August 2023

This study aims at exploring earthworm protein hydrolysate and its peptide fractions as a potential hypoglycemic agent by inhibiting α-amylase and α-glucosidase. Firstly, the best hydrolysis conditions to gain the hydrolysates with the hi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Current Trends in Food and Food Byproducts Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,366 Views
11 Pages

Objective Evaluation of the Somatogravic Illusion from Flight Data of an Airplane Accident

  • Eric L. Groen,
  • Torin K. Clark,
  • Mark M. J. Houben,
  • Jelte E. Bos and
  • Randall J. Mumaw

14 December 2022

(1) Background: It is difficult for accident investigators to objectively determine whether spatial disorientation may have contributed to a fatal airplane accident. In this paper, we evaluate three methods to reconstruct the possible occurrence of t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Aviation Safety—Accident Investigation, Analysis and Prevention)
  • Article
  • Open Access
88 Citations
12,349 Views
22 Pages

30 January 2023

Due to the growing worries of communities and governments about the depletion of natural resources and environmental contamination, green innovation (GI) is currently receiving much attention on a global scale. This study intends to investigate how G...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,946 Views
15 Pages

Calculating Distortions of Short DNA Duplexes with Base Pairing Between an Oxidatively Damaged Guanine and a Guanine

  • Masayo Suzuki,
  • Katsuhito Kino,
  • Masayuki Morikawa,
  • Takanobu Kobayashi and
  • Hiroshi Miyazawa

28 July 2014

DNA is constantly being oxidized, and oxidized DNA is prone to mutation; moreover, guanine is highly sensitive to several oxidative stressors. Several oxidatively damaged forms of guanine—including 2,2,4-triamino-5(2H)-oxazolone (Oz), iminoallantoin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue ECSOC-17)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,170 Views
11 Pages

HLA-F Allele-Specific Peptide Restriction Represents an Exceptional Proteomic Footprint

  • Gia-Gia T. Hò,
  • Funmilola J. Heinen,
  • Rainer Blasczyk,
  • Andreas Pich and
  • Christina Bade-Doeding

8 November 2019

Peptide-dependent engagement between human leucocyte antigens class I (HLA-I) molecules and their cognate receptors has been extensively analyzed. HLA-F belongs to the non-classical HLA-Ib molecules with marginal polymorphic nature and tissue restric...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Immunology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,307 Views
10 Pages

The Loss of HLA-F/KIR3DS1 Ligation Is Mediated by Hemoglobin Peptides

  • Gia-Gia T. Hò,
  • Wiebke Hiemisch,
  • Andreas Pich,
  • Georg M. N. Behrens,
  • Rainer Blasczyk and
  • Christina Bade-Doeding

28 October 2020

The human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-Ib molecule, HLA-F, is known as a CD4+ T-cell protein and mediator of HIV progression. While HLA-Ia molecules do not have the chance to select and present viral peptides for immune recognition due to protein downregu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Peptides for Health Benefits 2020)
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
5,324 Views
17 Pages

NKG2A/CD94 Is a New Immune Receptor for HLA-G and Distinguishes Amino Acid Differences in the HLA-G Heavy Chain

  • Gia-Gia T. Hò,
  • Alexander A. Celik,
  • Trevor Huyton,
  • Wiebke Hiemisch,
  • Rainer Blasczyk,
  • Gwendolin S. Simper and
  • Christina Bade-Doeding

Natural killer (NK) cell therapies are a tool to antagonize a dysfunctional immune system. NK cells recognize malignant cells, traffic to a tumor location, and infiltrate the solid tumor. The immune checkpoint molecule human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-G...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Immunology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
54 Citations
10,103 Views
26 Pages

Battle between Host Immune Cellular Responses and HCMV Immune Evasion

  • Trishna Manandhar,
  • Gia-Gia T. Hò,
  • Wiebke C. Pump,
  • Rainer Blasczyk and
  • Christina Bade-Doeding

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is ubiquitously prevalent. HCMV infection is typically asymptomatic and controlled by the immune system in healthy individuals, yet HCMV can be severely pathogenic for the fetus during pregnancy and in immunocompromised p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Host-Cytomegalovirus Interactions: Pro- and Antiviral Key Factors Affecting CMV Infection Outcome or Therapeutic Approaches 2.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,291 Views
19 Pages

2 November 2023

The issues of energy scarcity and environmental harm have become major priorities for both business and human progress. Hence, it is important and useful to focus on renewable energy research and efficient utilization of distributed energy sources (D...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,358 Views
22 Pages

The Mechanistic Differences in HLA-Associated Carbamazepine Hypersensitivity

  • Gwendolin S. Simper,
  • Lareen S. Gräser,
  • Alexander A. Celik,
  • Joachim Kuhn,
  • Heike Kunze-Schumacher,
  • Gia-Gia T. Hò,
  • Rainer Blasczyk,
  • Andreas Pich and
  • Christina Bade-Doeding

Drug hypersensitivity reactions that resemble acute immune reactions are linked to certain human leucocyte antigen (HLA) alleles. Severe and life-threatening Stevens Johnson Syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis following treatment with the antiepi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,667 Views
15 Pages

Between Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses: NKG2A, NKG2C, and CD8+ T Cell Recognition of HLA-E Restricted Self-Peptides Acquired in the Absence of HLA-Ia

  • Wiebke C. Pump,
  • Thomas Kraemer,
  • Trevor Huyton,
  • Gia-Gia T. Hò,
  • Rainer Blasczyk and
  • Christina Bade-Doeding

On healthy cells the non-classical HLA class Ib molecule HLA-E displays the cognate ligand for the NK cell receptor NKG2A/CD94 when bound to HLA class I signal peptide sequences. In a pathogenic situation when HLA class I is absent, HLA-E is bound to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Host-Cytomegalovirus Interactions: Pro- and Antiviral Key Factors Affecting CMV Infection Outcome or Therapeutic Approaches)

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