Projects
The role of androgens in chronic kidney desease: a missing link in the calcification paradox? KU Leuven
Androgens play an important role in the development and maintenance of the male reproductive system, the so-called classical target. However, they also have pleiotropic effects on other organs like bone and kidney. Although it is well established that androgen action is essential for normal bone mass accrual and maintenance in men, the contribution of specific AR effects either directly or indirectly mediated by the kidney is not fully ...
Clearing up the Chicxulub Vapor Cloud: Petrographic and geochemical analysis of uniquely preserved impact ejecta and their role in the end-Cretaceous mass extinction Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Serine auxotrophy: a novel metabolic vulnerability of platinum resistant ovarian cancers? KU Leuven
Ovarian cancer is the eight most common type of cancer in women and accounts for the second highest number of gynecological cancers associated deaths in the developed world. While for many cancer types the overall survival increased over the last years, this is unfortunately not true for ovarian cancer, showing a stagnation over the last decades. For over 40 years standard of care consists out of platinum-based chemotherapy, with or without ...
Experimental investigation of asymmetric fission in proton-rich nuclei around Z=82. KU Leuven
Although fission is known since the 1930’s, a truly microscopic description is still lacking. Several isotopes on the nuclear chart have been found to undergo a special process of fission, namely beta-delayed fission (βDF). This process can give us unique insights in the microscopic behavior of fission as it enables the study of fission at very low excitation energies and in regions of the nuclear chart with an unusual N/Zratio compared to ...
Depth dependent study of exchange bias in Fe-FeO films. KU Leuven
Search for a tensor component in the weak interaction Hamiltonian KU Leuven
The topic of this thesis is the precision measurement of the beta-asymmetry parameter A</>. It was measuredin the decay ...
GP00809N DARBY Iain. KU Leuven
Enhanced phosphate availability in weathered soils by rotations with legumes: a mechanistic analysis of P-fluxes in soils as measured by the DGT (Diffusive Gradient in Thin films) technique. KU Leuven
Phosphorus (P), next to nitrogen, is the most important limiting factor for crop production in many tropical and subtropical soils. Besides low total and/or available P contents, these soils are often highly P-fixing due totheir high aluminium and iron oxide concentration (Norman et al. 1995; Sanchez et ...