Publicaties
Temporal Variation in Insect-eating by Chimpanzees and Gorillas in Southeast Cameroon Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde Koninklijke Maatschappij voor Dierkunde van Antwerpen
I studied insect-foraging strategies of great apes and aimed to define niche differentiation in their insect diet. I investigated seasonality in fruit-, foliage-, insect-, and meat-eating by great apes in southeast Cameroon via indirect methods and measured activity and nest densities of insect prey. I used a multinomial logistic regression to analyze the data. Gorilla and chimpanzee insect-, ant-, and termite-eating does not correlate with ...
Assessment of fetal cardiac function before and after therapy for twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome Vrije Universiteit Brussel KU Leuven
OBJECTIVE: We sought to assess fetal cardiac function in monochorionic twins before and after therapy for twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) and compare it with control subjects.
STUDY DESIGN: We conducted prospective longitudinal assessment of fetal cardiac function in cases undergoing curative fetal therapy for TTTS (n = 39) until 4 weeks postoperatively and in uncomplicated monochorionic twins (n = 23). Fetal cardiac function ...
Immune dysfunction in patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders Vrije Universiteit Brussel KU Leuven
There is increasing evidence for involvement of the immune system in functional gastrointestinal disorder (FGID), including onset after acute gastrointestinal infections, genotypes resulting in altered cytokine expression and abnormal presence of immune cells. Our aim was to assess cellular and humoral immune responses in (i) FGIDs, compared to healthy subjects and (ii) acute vs unspecified onset FGIDs. Lymphocytic [interleukin (IL)-5, IL-10, ...
Inter-laboratory comparison of a yeast bioassay for the determination of estrogenic activity in biological samples Universiteit Gent
Nanobody-aided structure determination of the EpsI:EpsJ pseudopilin heterodimer from Vibrio vulnificus Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Arginine vasopressin receptor gene-based single-nucleotide polymorphism analysis in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Vrije Universiteit Brussel Universiteit Gent Universiteit Antwerpen KU Leuven
Audiometric shape and presbycusis Vrije Universiteit Brussel KU Leuven Universiteit Antwerpen Universiteit Gent
The aim of this study was to describe the prevalence of specific audiogram configurations in a healthy, otologically screened population between 55 and 65 years old. The audiograms of 1147 subjects (549 males and 598 females between 55 and 65 years old) were collected through population registries and classified according to the configuration of hearing loss. Gender and noise/solvent-exposure effects on the prevalence of the different ...
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Recurrent reciprocal deletions and duplications of 16p13.11 Vrije Universiteit Brussel KU Leuven
BACKGROUND: Genomic disorders are often caused by non-allelic homologous recombination between segmental duplications. Chromosome 16 is especially rich in a chromosome-specific low copy repeat, termed LCR16.
METHODS AND RESULTS: A bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) array comparative genome hybridisation (CGH) screen of 1027 patients with mental retardation and/or multiple congenital anomalies (MR/MCA) was performed. The BAC array CGH ...