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Erlangen

[ er-lahng-uhn ]

noun

  1. a city in Bavaria, S Germany.


Erlangen

/ ˈɛrlaŋən /

noun

  1. a town in central Germany, in Bavaria: university (1743). Pop: 102 449 (2003 est)
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A team of researchers from Charité -- Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Uniklinikum Erlangen and Ulm University have now explored the molecular mechanism of action in greater detail.

"With a persistent inflammatory stimulus, the drop-off in itaconate production is an issue because there is then no immune 'brake' even though the immune system is still running on all cylinders, eventually contributing to chronic inflammation," explains Dr. Jean-Philippe Auger, a scientist at the Department of Medicine 3 -- Rheumatology and Immunology at Uniklinikum Erlangen and the first author of the study.

"Aging neurons are an important risk factor for neurodegenerative illnesses such as Alzheimer's," says Prof. Dr. Tomohisa Toda, Professor of Neural Epigenomics at FAU and at the Max Planck Center for Physics and Medicine in Erlangen.

But the differences they documented “may contribute to a less pleasant body odor of teenagers,” said Diana Owsienko, who conducted the study as part of her doctoral research at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg in Germany.

For a time, he kept his prize at Ferris Barracks in Erlangen, the former German military base just north of the city that housed American occupation forces after the war.

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