39 search results for “vitamin a” in the Public website
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Visualization of Vitamin A Metabolism
Vitamin A or retinol is essential in embryonic development, the visual cycle and the immune system.
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Visualization of Vitamin A Metabolism
PhD Defence
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Vitamin D deficiency prevalent among 19th century women in Dutch Beemster area
Dr. Barbara Veselka recently published an article on Vitamin D deficiency in 19th century skeletal remains in the International Journal of Paleopathology.
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D-lightful Sunshine Disrupted
This study stresses the importance of investigating vitamin D deficiency in every community to better understand the deteriorating effect that sociocultural practices may have had on health.
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New Perspectives on Past Vitamin D Deficiency
Lecture
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Researched to the bone
Symposium on the extraordinary excavations at Middenbeemster
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Chemical tools to study lipid signaling
Synthesis and application of chemical biology tools to study immunomodulatory signaling lipids.
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Vitamin D Relationships And Genes Of a Chinese population in the Netherlands
PhD Defence
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RESTORING T-CELL HOMEOSTASIS BY IN VIVO MANIPULATION OF DENDRITIC CELLS
The loss of T-cell homeostasis and tolerance towards self-antigens is the underlying cause of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases like atherosclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis or type I diabetes. Traditionally, the treatment of these diseases consisted on systemic immune suppression, which can entail…
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D-lightful Sunshine Disrupted: Vitamin D deficiency as a method for the reconstruction of changes in sociocultural practices due to industrialisation
PhD Defence
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How the ‘English disease’ turned out to be not so very English after all
A vitamin D deficiency is often associated with smoggy English industrial cities during the Industrial Revolution, but research carried out on skeletons now suggests that the ‘English disease’ was also prevalent in rural areas of the Netherlands. Doctoral defence on 29 January.
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Healthy food, healthy world
What does it mean to eat healthily and responsibly? This question is gaining a new urgency now that in many countries undernourishment is being overtaken by diseases of affluence, such as obesity, and we are also becoming more aware of the environmental impact of our eating habits. It’s time to take…
- Wageningen University
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Well-Being Days FGGA: Feeling Hungry
well-being
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A small ode to 412 dead
In 2011 Leiden University came into possession of the skeletons from a graveyard in Middenbeemster. But what could be done with all these bones and skulls? Well, the answer is: more than you might think. Since the excavation, it has been raining interesting scientific discoveries at the Faculty of Archaeology.…
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Two Bio-Pharmaceutical Scientists win KNMP Student Award
Two former Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences students win the KNMP Student Award this year. Esmée de Zwaan for her research into new therapeutic strategies, Sanne Bakker for a study of bleeding risk associated with the use of antidepressant SSRI. Pharmacy organization KNMP awarded the annual prize on 8 October…
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Den style pitching competition took place at PLNT in Leiden.
On Wednesday the 31st of October, a Dragon’s Den style pitching competition took place at PLNT in Leiden. Seven teams pitched their business ideas to a panel of potential investors, consisting of experts in the field of entrepreneurial finance (such as a representative from Symbid, one of the first…
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Light-activatable metallodrugs and metal-functionalized liposomes
Metal-containing molecules combine geometrical features and a reactivity that are inherently different from that of organic molecules. My research focuses on light-activatable metal-based anticancer drugs and metal-functionalized liposomes. Light is a very selective way to activate photosensitive drugs…
- Interdisciplinary Activity Grants
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Vegetarian, healthy and sustainable: Pure catering
In some university restaurants and cafés, you can already order them and, come January, you can enjoy them everywhere: the Pure products. Sustainable, healthy and/or vegetarian. The beautiful lime green, also the colour of the plates and bowls, is the vibrant symbol of these products. And Pure is even…
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Wearing clogs may have caused foot problems
Research by bioarchaeologists from Leiden and Canada has shown that 19th-century Dutch farmers regularly had bone defects. These may have been caused by wearing clogs. Publication in the International Journal of Paleopathology.
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Cost-effective catalyst converts CO2 into natural gas
A discovery made in Leiden helps not only to make natural gas from CO2 but also to store renewable energy. Research by Professor Marc Koper and PhD student Jing Shen shows how this process can be implemented in a cost-effective and controllable way. Nature Communications, 2 september 2015.
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Dick Stufkens Prize 2017 awarded to chemist Sven Askes
The Dick Stufkens Prize 2017 for the best PhD thesis of the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (HRSMC) is awarded to Dr Sven Askes. In his thesis
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Rotted Meat, Scurvy, and Late Pleistocene Foodways in Northern Latitudes
Faculty Lecture
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A. Boot
ICT Shared Service Centre
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A Al Farabi
Faculty of Humanities
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A Jonker-de Roode
Faculteit Geneeskunde
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A Arfiansyah
Faculty of Humanities
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A Gorter
Faculteit Geneeskunde
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A Mouret-Vein
Faculteit Geneeskunde
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A Langeveld
Faculteit Geneeskunde
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A Breuls
Expertisecentrum SOZ
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Well-being Week
Festival
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Cees A. Swenne
Faculteit Geneeskunde
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A. Gregori Gregori
Science
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Well-Being Days FGGA: Feeling good on the inside
Well-being
- Well-being Days 2019
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Augustinus Lycklama A Nijeholt
Faculteit Geneeskunde
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Maaike Lycklama à Nijeholt
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid