The inactivation of programmed cell death has profound effects not only on the development
but also on the overall integrity of multicellular organisms. Beside developmental …

The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) brought
with it rapid development of both molecular and serologic assays for identification of COVID-…

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is so far the largest infectious disease catastrophe of the 21st …

Brevinin‐2R is a novel non‐hemolytic defensin that was isolated from the skin of the frog
Rana ridibunda. It exhibits preferential cytotoxicity towards malignant cells, including Jurkat (T‐…

The liver is continuously exposed to a large antigenic load that includes pathogens, toxins,
tumor cells and dietary antigens. Amongst the hepatitis viruses, only hepatitis B virus (HBV) …

A complex of two S100 EF-hand calcium-binding proteins S100A8/A9 induces apoptosis in
various cells, especially tumor cells. Using several cell lines, we have shown that S100A8/A9-…

Since its emergence in December 2019, it took only a couple of months for an outbreak of
the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to be declared a pandemic by the World …

Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF) is a cytokine that induces caspase-dependent (apoptotic)
and caspase-independent (necrosis-like) cell death in different cells. We used the murine …

There have been several reports of thrombosis and thrombocytopenia after vaccination with
the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (Oxford–Astra-Zeneca) and Ad26. COV2. S vaccine (…

This study was undertaken to evaluate the UF-1000i™ (UF) flow cytometer to count urine
constituents including bacteria. The objective was to screen urine samples and determine what …