• Chronic l-menthol-induced browning of white adipose tissue hypothesis: A putative therapeutic regime for combating obesity and improving metabolic health 

      Sakellariou P., Valente A., Carrillo A.E., Metsios G.S., Nadolnik L., Jamurtas A.Z., Koutedakis Y., Boguszewski C., Andrade C.M.B., Svensson P.-A., Kawashita N.H., Flouris A.D. (2016)
      Introduction: Obesity constitutes a serious global health concern reaching pandemic prevalence rates. The existence of functional brown adipose tissue (BAT) in adult humans has provoked intense research interest in the ...
    • Coronaviruses and their relationship with multiple sclerosis: is the prevalence of multiple sclerosis going to increase after the Covid-19 pandemia? 

      Lima M., Aloizou A.-M., Siokas V., Bakirtzis C., Liampas I., Tsouris Z., Bogdanos D.P., Baloyannis S.J., Dardiotis E. (2022)
      The purpose of this review is to examine whether there is a possible (etiological/triggering) relationship between infection with various Coronaviruses, including Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-related Coronavirus-2 ...
    • Differences in Mental Health and Bullying Victimization Experiences between Youth of Different Sexualities: A Bayesian Perspective 

      Vleioras G., Andreou E., Papadopoulos O. (2022)
      Researchers have extensively investigated the differences in mental health and bullying victimization experiences of adolescents of different sexualities. Prior research has typically sought differences between heterosexual ...
    • Effects of executive attention on sentence processing in aphasia 

      Peristeri E., Tsimpli I.M., Dardiotis E., Tsapkini K. (2020)
      Background: In the recent years there has been increasing interest in the effects of attentional control on syntactic comprehension, as measured in garden path sentence resolution. Persons with aphasia (PWA) experience ...
    • Hypoxia-induced collagen crosslinking as a mechanism for enhancing mechanical properties of engineered articular cartilage 

      Makris, E. A.; Hu, J. C.; Athanasiou, K. A. (2013)
      Objective: The focus of tissue engineering of neocartilage has traditionally been on enhancing extracellular matrix and thus biomechanical properties. Emphasis has been placed on the enhancement of collagen type and quantity, ...
    • A large genome-wide association study of age-related macular degeneration highlights contributions of rare and common variants 

      Fritsche L.G., Igl W., Bailey J.N.C., Grassmann F., Sengupta S., Bragg-Gresham J.L., Burdon K.P., Hebbring S.J., Wen C., Gorski M., Kim I.K., Cho D., Zack D., Souied E., Scholl H.P.N., Bala E., ELee K., Hunter D.J., Sardell R.J., Mitchell P., Merriam J.E., Cipriani V., Hoffman J.D., Schick T., Lechanteur Y.T.E., Guymer R.H., Johnson M.P., Jiang Y., Stanton C.M., Buitendijk G.H.S., Zhan X., Kwong A.M., Boleda A., Brooks M., Gieser L., Ratnapriya R., Branham K.E., Foerster J.R., Heckenlively J.R., Othman M.I., Vote B.J., Liang H.H., Souzeau E., McAllister I.L., Isaacs T., Hall J., Lake S., Mackey D.A., Constable I.J., Craig J.E., Kitchner T.E., Yang Z., Su Z., Luo H., Chen D., Ouyang H., Flagg K., Lin D., Mao G., Ferreyra H., Stark K., Von Strachwitz C.N., Wolf A., Brandl C., Rudolph G., Olden M., Morrison M.A., Morgan D.J., Schu M., Ahn J., Silvestri G., Tsironi E.E., Park K.H., Farrer L.A., Orlin A., Brucker A., Li M., Curcio C.A., Mohand-Sa'd S., Sahel J.-A., Audo I., Benchaboune M., Cree A.J., Rennie C.A., Goverdhan S.V., Grunin M., Hagbi-Levi S., Campochiaro P., Katsanis N., Holz F.G., Blond F., Blanché H., Deleuze J.-F., Igo R.P., Jr., Truitt B., Peachey N.S., Meuer S.M., Myers C.E., Moore E.L., Klein R., Hauser M.A., Postel E.A., Courtenay M.D., Schwartz S.G., Kovach J.L., Scott W.K., Liew G., Tan A.G., Gopinath B., Merriam J.C., Smith R.T., Khan J.C., Shahid H., Moore A.T., McGrath J.A., Laux R., Brantley M.A., Jr., Agarwal A., Ersoy L., Caramoy A., Langmann T., Saksens N.T.M., Jong E.K., Hoyng C.B., Cain M.S., Richardson A.J., Martin T.M., Blangero J., Weeks D.E., Dhillon B., Van Duijn C.M., Doheny K.F., Romm J., Klaver C.C.W., Hayward C., Gorin M.B., Klein M.L., Baird P.N., Den Hollander A.I., Fauser S., WYates J.R., Allikmets R., Wang J.J., Schaumberg D.A., Klein B.E.K., Hagstrom S.A., Chowers I., Lotery A.J., Léveillard T., Zhang K., Brilliant M.H., Hewitt A.W., Swaroop A., Chew E.Y., Pericak-Vance M.A., DeAngelis M., Stambolian D., Haines J.L., Iyengar S.K., Weber B.H.F., Abecasis G.R., Heid I.M. (2016)
      Advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in the elderly, with limited therapeutic options. Here we report on a study of >12 million variants, including 163,714 directly genotyped, ...
    • Left-handedness in asthmatic children 

      Krommydas, G.; Gourgoulianis, K. I.; Andreou, G.; Molyvdas, P. A. (2003)
      Left-handedness has been associated with asthma and allergic disorders. The Geschwind-Behan-Galaburda (GBG) hypothesis could explain this association. In view of previous findings, we investigated the distribution of ...
    • Nocturnal change of circulating intercellular adhesion molecule 1 levels in children with snoring 

      Kaditis, A. G.; Alexopoulos, E. I.; Kalampouka, E.; Hatzi, F.; Karadonta, I.; Kyropoulos, T.; Kaditis, D. G.; Gourgoulianis, K.; Syrogiannopoulos, G. A. (2007)
      Hypoxia promotes adherence of leukocytes to endothelial cells by inducing expression of adhesion molecules like intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM-1). Increased serum levels of circulating ICAM-1 (cICAM-1) have been ...
    • Prediction of long-term outcomes by arterial stiffness and pressure wave reflections in patients with acute stroke: the Athens Stroke Registry 

      Samara S., Vemmou A., Kyrkou A., Papamichael C., Korompoki E., Ntaios G., Manios E., Stamatelopoulos K., Protogerou A.D., Vemmos K. (2022)
      Background and purpose: Stroke patients' management might be improved by addressing the role of aortic stiffness (carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity: cfPWV) and pressure wave reflections (PWRs, augmentation index: AIx) ...