Mini review
About 150 human rhinovirus serotypes are responsible for more than 50 % of recurrent upper respiratory infections. Despite having similar 3D structures, some bind members of the low-density lipoprotein recepto...
Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics 2016 3:21
Published on: 1 June 2016
Mini review
MicroRNA are emerging as powerful regulators of cell differentiation and tissue and organ development. Several microRNA have been described to play a role in branching morphogenesis, a key step in early lung d...
Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics 2016 3:19
Published on: 23 May 2016
MINI REVIEW
Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), the chronic lung disease of prematurity, remains a major healthcare burden. Despite great progresses in perinatal medicine over the past decades, no cure for BPD has been foun...
Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics 2016 3:18
Published on: 3 May 2016
Mini review
Alveologenesis is the last stage in lung development and is essential for building the gas-exchanging units called alveoli. Despite intensive lung research, the intricate crosstalk between mesenchymal and epit...
Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics 2016 3:17
Published on: 21 April 2016
Review
Asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and cystic fibrosis (CF) are all chronic pulmonary diseases, albeit with different etiologies, that are characterized by airflow limitation, chronic inflam...
Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics 2016 3:16
Published on: 20 April 2016
Mini review
After birth, adequate lung function is necessary for the successful adaptation of a preterm baby. Both prenatal and postnatal insults and therapeutic interventions have an immediate effect on lung function and...
Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics 2016 3:15
Published on: 13 April 2016
Mini review
The maintenance of oxygen homeostasis in human tissues is mediated by several cellular adaptations in response to low-oxygen stress, called hypoxia. A decrease in tissue oxygen levels is initially counteracted...
Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics 2016 3:14
Published on: 22 March 2016
Mini review
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a lethal monogenic disease caused by mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene that entails the (diagnostic) increase in sweat electrolyte concent...
Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics 2016 3:13
Published on: 14 March 2016
Mini review
Bacterial and fungal infections are hallmarks of cystic fibrosis (CF) lung disease. In the era of long-term inhaled antibiotics and increasing CF patient survival, new “emerging” pathogens are detected in CF a...
Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics 2016 3:12
Published on: 23 February 2016
Mini review
Bacterial infection often leads to cellular damage, primarily marked by loss of cellular integrity and cell death. However, in recent years, it is being increasingly recognized that, in individual cells, there...
Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics 2016 3:9
Published on: 16 February 2016
Mini review
Celiac disease (CD) is a frequent inflammatory intestinal disease, with a genetic background, caused by gliadin-containing food. Some gliadin peptides are not digested by intestinal proteases and can have diff...
Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics 2016 3:8
Published on: 16 February 2016
Mini review
Incomplete intestinal absorption of fructose might lead to abdominal complaints such as pain, flatulence and diarrhoea. Whether defect fructose transporters such as GLUT5 or GLUT2 are involved in the pathogene...
Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics 2016 3:10
Published on: 16 February 2016
Mini review
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) affects a large number of children throughout the world. The symptom expression of IBS is heterogeneous, and several factors which may be interrelated within the IBS biopsychosoc...
Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics 2016 3:11
Published on: 16 February 2016
Mini review
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common condition with a complex and largely unknown etiology. There is no cure, and treatment options are mainly directed to the amelioration of symptoms. IBS causes reduced...
Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics 2016 3:7
Published on: 12 February 2016
Mini review
Perinatal complications in both term- and preterm-born infants are a leading cause of neonatal morbidities and mortality. Infants face different challenges in the neonatal intensive care unit with long-term mo...
Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics 2016 3:6
Published on: 11 February 2016
Mini review
Primary sucrase-isomaltase deficiency, originally thought to be a homozygous recessive disorder, has been found to have numerous genetic variants that alone or in combination (compound heterozygosity) express ...
Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics 2016 3:5
Published on: 8 February 2016
Mini review
Starch requires six enzymes for digestion to free glucose: two amylases (salivary and pancreatic) and four mucosal maltase activities; sucrase-isomaltase and maltase-glucoamylase. All are deficient in suckling...
Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics 2016 3:4
Published on: 1 February 2016
Mini review
Microvillus inclusion disease (MVID) is characterised by onset of intractable life-threatening watery diarrhoea during infancy. Transmission electron microscopy demonstrates shortening or absence of apical mic...
Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics 2016 3:3
Published on: 29 January 2016
Mini review
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic relapsing inflammatory disease of the intestine. IBD is a multifactorial disorder, and IBD-associated genes are critical in innate immune response, inflammatory re...
Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics 2016 3:1
Published on: 26 January 2016
Mini review
Osmotic diarrhea and abdominal pain in humans are oftentimes associated with carbohydrate malabsorption in the small intestine due to loss of function of microvillar disaccharidases. Disaccharidases are crucia...
Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics 2016 3:2
Published on: 26 January 2016
Mini review
Atopic dermatitis constitutes a most burdensome chronic inflammatory skin disease. Standard treatment is cumbersome and often targets its main symptom, pruritus, only insufficiently.
Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics 2015 2:16
Published on: 21 December 2015
Minireview
Despite continuous improvements in treating clinical symptoms and the identification of single compounds that effectively rescue some rare mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (...
Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics 2015 2:15
Published on: 14 December 2015
Minireview
Childhood arterial ischemic stroke (CAIS) is increasingly recognized as an important cause of significant long-term morbidity in the pediatric population. Post stroke movement disorders, above all hemi-dystoni...
Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics 2015 2:14
Published on: 11 December 2015
Review
Asthma is a clinically heterogeneous disorder, whose onset and progression results from a complex interplay between genetic susceptibility, allergens, and viral triggers. Sphingolipids and altered sphingolipid...
Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics 2015 2:13
Published on: 4 December 2015
Minireview
Intestinal monocytes/macrophages sustain the intestinal immune homeostasis and might be an attractive therapeutic target for the management of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Granulocyte macrophage colony-s...
Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics 2015 2:12
Published on: 1 December 2015
