The question of whether increased levels of circulating glucocorticoids might exert detrimental effects on the central nervous system has been discussed controversially (for a review, see Joels, 2001): recent investigations, which examined the human hippocampus in both the clinical condition of major ...
Since no systematic differences could be observed between BI and GI isolates in terms of protein expression in vitro, we asked the question of whether some of these strains would display different virulence profiles upon infection of human cells. For this purpose, we compared their infectious ...