Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Marufa Sultana, Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Nurnabi Sheikh et al.
In Bangladesh, the burden of diarrheal diseases is significant among children <5 years old. The objective of this study is to capture the prevalence of and health care-seeking behavior for childhood diarrheal diseases (CDDs) and to identify the factors associated with CDDs at a population level in B...
Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Marufa Sultana, Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Nausad Ali et al.
BACKGROUND: Diarrheal diseases are a major threat to human health and still represent a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Although the burden of the diarrheal diseases is much lower in developed countries, it is a significant public health problem in low and middle-income countries...
Judith L. Nerad, Jeffrey K. Griffiths, W M Jos, van der Meer et al.
The ability of an individual to mount defense responses to infection depend in part on the capacity to produce cytokines such as interleukin 1 (IL-1) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF). The specialized equipment, labor intensity, and sterile practice required for the standard in vitro evaluation of cyt...
Kenneth R. Feingold, Carl Grünfeld
Products of gram negative bacteria (LPS), gram positive bacteria (lipoteichoic acid), fungi (zymosan), and viruses (RNA) are recognized by toll receptors on macrophages and other cells and thereby induce marked changes in lipid and lipoprotein metabolism (1Khovidhunkit W. Kim M S Memon R A Shigenaga...
Konrad Siegfried, Carola Endes, Abul Fateh Md. Khaled Bhuiyan, Anke Kuppardt et al.
A test kit based on living, lyophilized bacterial bioreporters emitting bioluminescence as a response to arsenite and arsenate was applied during a field campaign in six villages across Bangladesh. Bioreporter field measurements of arsenic in groundwater from tube wells were in satisfying agreement ...
Donny van der Meer, Mari L. Uchimoto, Graham Williams
Micro-RNAs (miRNAs) can be specifically expressed in forensically relevant body fluids such as blood or saliva. The aim of the study was to develop a simultaneous extraction and analysis protocol that allows for the acquisition of a DNA profile and the identity of the body fluid using a single proce...
Anne Jan van der Meer, Sacha Zeerleder, Dana C. Blok, Liesbeth M. Kager et al.
Tuberculosis is a devastating infectious disease causing many deaths worldwide. Recent investigations have implicated neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) in the host response to tuberculosis. The aim of the current study was to obtain evidence for NETs release in the circulation during human tuber...
B. Petrus̆evski, Saroj Sharma, W. G. van der Meer, F. Kruis et al.
UNESCO-IHE has been developing an arsenic removal family filter with a capacity of 100 L/day based on arsenic adsorption onto iron oxide coated sand, a by-product of iron removal plants. The longer term and field conditions performance of the third generation of eleven family filters prototypes were...
Lorenzo Subissi, James R. Otieno, Nathalie Worp, Homa Attar Cohen et al.
Annemarie Stiekema, Md. Atiqul Islam, Edith J. Liemburg, Stynke Castelein et al.
Background The longitudinal course of the negative symptoms subdomains social amotivation (SA) and expressive deficits (ED) remains largely unknown. We investigated i) the longitudinal course of SA and ED subdomain scores, ii) whether subgroups based on the course of SA and ED subdomain scores could...
Uwe Marx, Sonja Beken, Zaozao Chen, Eva‐Maria Dehne et al.
The regular t4 workshops on biology-inspired microphysiological systems (MPS) have become a reliable benchmark for assessing fundamental scientific, industrial, and regulatory trends in the MPS field. The 2023 workshop participants concluded that MPS technology as used in academia has matured signif...
Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Marufa Sultana, Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Robert Van Der Meer et al.
Diarrhea is one of the world's leading killers of children, and globally, rotavirus is the most common cause of severe diarrhea among under 5 children. In Bangladesh, rotavirus kills nearly 6,000 under 5 children in each year. To reduce the burden of childhood rotavirus diseases, universal rotavirus...
M. Salauddin, A. Broere, Jentsje W. van der Meer, H.J. Verhagen et al.
Single layer concrete armor systems are being widely used nowadays in the design of rubble mound breakwaters. Recently, a new concrete armor unit has been developed and applied as single layer armor system in the repair works of one damaged breakwater at Al Fujeirah, UAE. It has a symmetrical shape,...
S.C. Borges Freitas, Doris van Halem, Mohammad Moshiur Rahman, J.Q.J.C. Verberk et al.
Hand-pump subsurface arsenic removal (SAR) has been investigated in rural Bangladesh with different groundwater conditions and intermittent operation modes. Multiple injection-abstraction cycles were performed after injection of 1 m3 of aerated water. From these experiments it can be concluded that ...
Carlos F. Gaymer, Daniel Wagner, Rocío Álvarez-Varas, Ben Boteler et al.