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Wat volgt is een lijst van wetenschappelijke artikelen waaraan recent subsidie werd toegekend door de Universitaire Stichting. De artikelen zijn gesorteerd op jaar van uitgave en per titel.
Deboulpaep S. et al. (2026) The diagnostic accuracy of interferon-gamma release assay for TB infection in children under 5 years: a systematic review with meta-analysis. The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease Volume 30, Number 4, 27 March 2026, pp. 147-155(9).
Interferon-gamma release assays (IGRAs) have largely replaced the tuberculin skin test (TST) for diagnosing TB infection (TBI) in low-TB-burden countries, except in young children. This review assesses the diagnostic accuracy of IGRAs in children under 5 years old, using TST as a reference, for detecting TBI.
Wilfert K, Baeten S, Prinsen E, Maris T and Schoelynck J (2026) The impact of tidal regimes on the stress physiology of English oak (Quercus robur). Front. Plant Sci. 17:1810933. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2026.1810933
Introduction: Restored estuarine floodplains with an artificially controlled reduced tide (CRT) are dynamic areas created for flood protection whilst also providing habitats for estuarine wildlife. However, the reintroduction of the tide poses stressors, including salinity and waterlogged soils because of periodic flooding, on established vegetation such as English oak (Quercus robur). Therefore, newly opened CRT areas give the opportunity of studying the effects of flooding, salinity, and drainage, on hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) concentrations in plants, as a proxy for stress.
Rubio S, Somers V. & Fraussen J. (2026) The multifaceted role of B cells in traumatic spinal cord injury: Antibody-dependent and antibody-independent mechanisms. Neurobiology of Disease 127,107471.
A traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) is caused by an acute insult to the spinal cord that inflicts severe damage to the nerve tissue and leads to impaired motor, sensory, and autonomic functions. After the initial injury, a secondary injury phase occurs, which is characterized by an excessive inflammatory response mediated by resident and infiltrating peripheral immune cells that accumulate within the spinal cord lesion. Increasing evidence supports the involvement of B cells in this secondary injury phase post-SCI.
Caso N. and Toma S. (2026) The well-being toll of revealed involuntary immobility: a quantitative study. Globalization and Health (2026) 22:24
International migration is often driven by the desire to improve one’s well-being. For many, moving abroad represents a pathway to better economic opportunities, social conditions, or personal safety. Yet, not all individuals who aspire to migrate are able to do so. Involuntary immobility—a condition in which people wish to migrate but are constrained by external barriers such as legal restrictions, financial limitations, or lack of resources—may pose a significant challenge to subjective well-being.
Metsu C., Maes W.H., Ottoy S. & Van Meerbeek, K. (2026) theRmalUAV: An R package to clean and correct thermal UAV data for accurate land surface temperatures. Methods in Ecology and Evolution Vol. 17, Issue 2.
1. Thermal cameras on unoccupied aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly being used in environmental and ecological research, including hydrology, wildfire detection and prediction, urban heat studies, precision agriculture, ecosystem functioning, wildlife monitoring and microclimate studies.
Vilain L., Fauconnier M.L. & Genva M. (2026) Towards an integrated molecular understanding of plant hormones. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70238
From seed dormancy to pathogen attacks and senescence, many events in a plant's life are critically controlled by low-molecular-weight signaling molecules, called plant hormones. These master regulators include abscisic acid, auxins, brassinosteroids, cytokinins, ethylene, gibberellins, jasmonates, salicylates, and strigolactones. Years of research have unveiled multiple aspects of their biosynthesis, transport, signaling, functions, and interactions.
Irfan M., Cox A., Salaets H., Sabbe M., & Schoenmakers B. (2026) Understanding language barriers at the registration desk of an after-hours clinic: a qualitative observational study. BMJ Public Health.
Introduction Patients often seek after-hours medical care due to urgent concerns, convenience or limited access to their regular providers. In Belgium, such care is primarily delivered through general practitioner cooperatives (GPCs), where regional general practitioners collaborate and rotate shifts. Patients may present at GPCs either directly or after calling the national helpline (1733). While doctor–patient communication has been widely studied, interactions between patients and reception staff have received little attention.
DeSmet A. et al. Within-person associations of psychological factors with healthy or unhealthy diet in EMA studies in general adult populations: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-026-01949-2
Background (Un)healthy eating behaviours may vary by moment and psychological context. Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is well-suited to study within-person, momentary, and context-dependent behaviours and correlates, as it uses repeated sampling of real-time experiences. Insights in such within-person relations could inform ecological momentary interventions. A systematic review and meta-analysis of these insights in a healthy population is, however, currently lacking.
Phlypo I. et al. (2026) “We try our best”: a qualitative study of care staff’s perspectives on oral health care for persons with disabilities. BMC Oral Health 26:525
Background Persons with disabilities generally have poorer oral health than persons without disabilities, which negatively affects their quality of life. As caregivers play an important role, this study investigated how oral health care is organised and performed by care staff in residential care settings, and examined the barriers and enablers they experience.
Górczak K, Burzykowski, T & Claesen J 2025) A hierarchical negative-binomial model for analysis of correlated sequencing. Bioinformatics Advances, vol 5, issue1, vbaf126 https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf126
High-throughput techniques for biological and (bio)medical sciences often result in read counts used in downstream analysis. Nowadays, complex experimental designs in combination with these high-throughput methods are regularly applied and lead to correlated count-data measured from matched samples or taken from the same subject under multiple treatment conditions. Additionally, as is common with biological data, the variance is often larger than the mean, leading to over dispersed count data.
Latomme J. (2025) A scoping review and comprehensive needs assessment for developing an intergenerational cognitive and physical activity program for MCI patients and their adult children. Alzheimer's & Dementia 21, issue 10.
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a high-risk state for dementia, marked by cognitive decline with preserved daily functioning. Combined physical and cognitive activity (PA+CA) programs show promising benefits for MCI patients. Involving adult children through intergenerational approaches may enhance participation and impact, yet little is known about tailoring such programs to both generations’ needs.
Van Rossem D. et al. (2025) Assessing the link between cerebellar volume and cognitive function in Alzheimer’s disease: a pilot study. Scientific Reports 15:32943 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-12975-8.
The cerebellum, long recognized for its role in motor functions, has become increasingly acknowledged for its involvement in a broader spectrum of cognitive functions. Given the cerebellum’s strong neuronal connections with cerebral regions affected by neurodegenerative diseases, this study investigated the cerebellar contribution to cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). This study retrospectively analysed 127 individuals with subjective cognitive decline (SCD, n = 46), mild cognitive impairment due to AD (MCI, n = 24), and AD dementia (ADD, n = 57).
Poulain M. et al. (2025) At the Apothecary: Life in an International District in 15th-Century Bruges. Medieval Archaeology vol. 69 n° 1.
In 1996, A cesspit was uncovered in the backyard of Bruges’ Spanish nation house. The interdisciplinary study of this old rescue excavation sheds new light on life in the city’s international district between the late 14th and early 16th century. The refuse in the cesspit is what is left of several generations of traders, from a well-to-do apothecary, employing alchemical apparatus in the production of pigments, to Spanish traders documented at the site from the 1480s onwards.
Shiqiang Xu et al. (f2025) Bending the boundaries: the many facets of endophilin-As from membrane dynamics to disease. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 82:339 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00018-025-05856-w
The endophilin-A proteins (EndoAs) are Bin/Amphiphysin/Rvs (BAR) domain proteins with key roles in both clathrin-ediated (CME) and clathrin-independent endocytosis (CIE). Humans have three differentially expressed EndoAs, EndoA1, -A2, and -A3, encoded by the SH3GL2/1/3 genes, respectively. Their functions primarily arise from their N-terminal BAR domain, which senses and induces local membrane curvature, and C-terminal SH3 domain, which mediates interactions with various proline-rich domain-containing partners.
My K. Ha et al. (2025) Celluloepidemiology—A paradigm for quantifying infectious disease dynamics on a population level. Sci. Adv. 11, eadt2926.
To complement serology as a tool in public health interventions, we introduced the “celluloepidemiology” paradigm where we leveraged pathogen-specific T cell responses at a population level to advance our epidemiological understanding of infectious diseases, using SARS-CoV-2 as a model.
