The life cycle of coagulation factor VIII in view of its structure and function

PJ Lenting, JA Van Mourik… - Blood, The Journal of the …, 1998 - ashpublications.org
THE PAST TWO DECADES have brought remarkable progress in our understanding of the
molecular basis of hemophilia A. This disease, which has already been documented as a …

Molecular pathogenesis of the obligate intracellular bacterium Coxiella burnetii

EJ Van Schaik, C Chen, K Mertens… - Nature Reviews …, 2013 - nature.com
The agent of Q fever, Coxiella burnetii, is an obligate intracellular bacterium that causes
acute and chronic infections. The study of C. burnetii pathogenesis has benefited from two …

Bile acid signaling pathways from the enterohepatic circulation to the central nervous system

KL Mertens, A Kalsbeek, MR Soeters… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Bile acids are best known as detergents involved in the digestion of lipids. In addition, new
data in the last decade have shown that bile acids also function as gut hormones capable of …

[HTML][HTML] Attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life-years caused by infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the EU and the European Economic Area in 2015 …

A Cassini, LD Högberg, D Plachouras… - The Lancet infectious …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background Infections due to antibiotic-resistant bacteria are threatening modern health
care. However, estimating their incidence, complications, and attributable mortality is …

A circuit mechanism for differentiating positive and negative associations

P Namburi, A Beyeler, S Yorozu, GG Calhoon… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
The ability to differentiate stimuli predicting positive or negative outcomes is critical for
survival, and perturbations of emotional processing underlie many psychiatric disease states. …

Association of idiopathic venous thromboembolism with single point-mutation at Arg506 of factor V

J Voorberg, J Roelse, K Mertens, JA van Mourik… - The Lancet, 1994 - Elsevier
Abnormal coagulation factor V may underlie the thrombotic events associated with resistance
to activated protein C (APC). We analysed 27 consecutive patients with documented …

The dynamic effects of personal and corporate income tax changes in the United States

K Mertens, MO Ravn - American economic review, 2013 - aeaweb.org
This paper estimates the dynamic effects of changes in taxes in the United States. We
distinguish between changes in personal and corporate income taxes and develop a new …

The association between circulating antibodies against domain I of beta2‐glycoprotein I and thrombosis: an international multicenter study

B De Laat, V Pengo, I Pabinger, J Musial… - … of thrombosis and …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Background: Diagnosis of the antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is difficult as a result of limited
specificity of existing assays for detecting clinically relevant antiphospholipid antibodies. …

[HTML][HTML] Sulfation of Tyr1680 of human blood coagulation factor VIII is essential for the interaction of factor VIII with von Willebrand factor.

A Leyte, HB Van Schijndel, C Niehrs… - Journal of Biological …, 1991 - Elsevier
The acidic region of the Factor VIII light chain was studied with regard to structural requirements
for the formation of a functional von Willebrand factor (vWF)-binding site. Factor VIII …

[PDF][PDF] Work from home after the COVID-19 outbreak

A Bick, A Blandin, K Mertens - 2020 - dallasfed.org
Based on rich novel survey data on almost 5,000 working age adults, we document that
35.2 percent of the workforce worked entirely from home in May 2020, up from 8.2 percent in …