• Assessment of Parkinson's disease risk loci in Greece 

      Kara, E.; Xiromerisiou, G.; Spanaki, C.; Bozi, M.; Koutsis, G.; Panas, M.; Dardiotis, E.; Ralli, S.; Bras, J.; Letson, C.; Edsall, C.; Pliner, H.; Arepalli, S.; Kalinderi, K.; Fidani, L.; Bostantjopoulou, S.; Keller, M. F.; Wood, N. W.; Hardy, J.; Houlden, H.; Stefanis, L.; Plaitakis, A.; Hernandez, D.; Hadjigeorgiou, G. M.; Nalls, M. A.; Singleton, A. B. (2014)
      Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been shown to be a powerful approach to identify risk loci for neurodegenerative diseases. Recent GWAS in Parkinson's disease (PD) have been successful in identifying numerous ...
    • Diagnostic and clinical significance of Crohn's disease-specific anti-MZGP2 pancreatic antibodies by a novel ELISA 

      Pavlidis, P.; Shums, Z.; Koutsoumpas, A. L.; Milo, J.; Papp, M.; Umemura, T.; Lakatos, P. L.; Smyk, D. S.; Bogdanos, D. P.; Forbes, A.; Norman, G. L. (2015)
      Background: We developed a new IgA and IgG anti-MZGP2 antibody ELISAs based on recombinant isoform-4 of human zymogen granule protein-2 (GP2), which is the major autoantigen of Crohn's disease (CrD)-specific pancreatic ...
    • Genome-wide association studies: hypothesis-"free" or "engaged"? 

      Kitsios, G. D.; Zintzaras, E. (2009)
      The advent of the first wave of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) provided a new conceptual framework in the search for variants underlying common disorders: a massive scan of the genome, free from underlying assumptions ...
    • Histopathological and immunohistochemical features of natural goat scrapie 

      Sofianidis, G.; Psychas, V.; Billinis, C.; Spyrou, V.; Argyroudis, S.; Papaioannou, N.; Vlemmas, I. (2006)
      Histopathological and immunohistochemical examinations were performed on the brain and spinal cord of 37 goats from two Greek herds in which scrapie had been reported. Of the 37 animals, 18 were from a herd consisting only ...
    • Molecular epidemiology and evolutionary dynamics of Echovirus 3 serotype 

      Kyriakopoulou, Z.; Bletsa, M.; Tsakogiannis, D.; Dimitriou, T. G.; Amoutzias, G. D.; Gartzonika, C.; Levidiotou-Stefanou, S.; Markoulatos, P. (2015)
      Echovirus 3 (E3) serotype has been related with several neurologic diseases, although it constitutes one of the rarely isolated serotypes, with no report of epidemics in Europe. The aim of the present study was to provide ...
    • Spinosad resistance development in wild olive fruit fly Bactrocera oleae (Diptera: Tephritidae) populations in California 

      Kakani, E. G.; Zygouridis, N. E.; Tsoumani, K. T.; Seraphides, N.; Zalom, F. G.; Mathiopoulos, K. D. (2010)
      BACKGROUND: Among target pests of the insecticide spinosad is the olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae (Rossi) (Diptera:Tephritidae). In Cyprus, spinosad has been sporadically used since its registration in 2002, whereas in ...