• Combined effects of exposure to engineered silver nanoparticles and the water-soluble fraction of crude oil in the marine copepod Calanus finmarchicus 

      Farkas, Julia; Cappadona, V; Olsen, Anders Johny; Hansen, Bjørn Henrik; Posch, Wilfried; Ciesielski, Tomasz Maciej; Goodhead, Rhys; Wilflingseder, Doris; Blatzer, M; Altin, Dag; Moger, Julian; Booth, Andrew; Jenssen, Bjørn Munro (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      While it is likely that ENPs may occur together with other contaminants in nature, the combined effects of exposure to both ENPs and environmental contaminants are not studied sufficiently. In this study, we investigated ...
    • SARS-CoV-2 activates the TLR4/MyD88 pathway in human macrophages: A possible correlation with strong pro-inflammatory responses in severe COVID-19 

      Sahanic, Sabina; Hilbe, Richard; Dünser, Christina; Tymoszuk, Piotr; Löffler-Ragg, Judith; Rieder, Dietmar; Trajanoski, Zlatko; Krogsdam, Anne; Demetz, Egon; Yurchenko, Maria; Fischer, Christine; Schirmer, Michael; Theurl, Markus; Lener, Daniela; Hirsch, Jakob; Holfeld, Johannes; Gollmann-Tepeköylü, Can; Zinner, Carl P.; Tzankov, Alexandar; Zhang, Shen-Ying; Casanova, Jean-Laurent; Posch, Wilfried; Wilflingseder, Doris; Weiss, Guenter; Tancevski, Ivan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Background Toll-like receptors (TLRs) play a pivotal role in the immunologic response to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Exaggerated inflammatory response of innate immune cells, ...