Neuroprotective and neurotoxic properties of glial cells in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's
disease - Farfara - 2008 - Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine - Wiley Online Library …

Although Alzheimer's disease is considered to be a degenerative brain disease, it is clear
that the immune system has an important role in the disease process. As discussed in this …

Toll‐like receptors (TLRs) are known to be expressed by innate immune response cells and
to play a critical role in their activation against foreign pathogens. It was recently suggested …

Statistical thermodynamics aims at describing the macroscopic properties of systems that
consist of many individual entities (eg particles, molecules, atoms). Nevertheless, the …

The authors present a method for calculating the chemical potential of arbitrary chain
molecules in a computer simulation. The method is based on a generalization of Siepmann's …

We report a computer-simulation study of a system of ‘‘hard cut spheres,’’oblate particles
that are obtained by slicing off the top and bottom caps of a sphere at a distance L/2 from the …

One of the most remarkable phenomena exhibited by colloidal suspensions of monodisperse
rod-like particles is the spontaneous formation of smectic liquid crystals 1–5 . In these …

We present the results of Monte Carlo simulations on a system of hard ellipsoids of revolution
with length-to-breadth ratios a/b = 3, 2·75, 2, 1·25 and b/a = 3, 2·75, 2, 1·25. We identify …

Migration toward pathology is the first critical step in stem cell engagement during regeneration.
Neural stem cells (NSCs) migrate through the parenchyma along nonstereotypical …

We have mapped out the complete phase diagram of hard spherocylinders as a function of
the shape anisotropy L/D. Special computational techniques were required to locate phase …