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Johnson KV, Steenbergen L · 2025 · Npj mental health research
The burgeoning field of the microbiome-gut-brain axis has inspired research into how the gut microbiome can affect human emotion. Probiotics offer ways to investigate microbial-based interventions but results have been mixed, with more…
View details →Nimkulrat SD, Wagner MR, Waters BJ et al. · 2025 · Scientific reports
RNA binding proteins (RBPs) are increasingly being recognized as important regulators of pancreatic β cells' identity and function. We identified the poly-A binding RBP, CPEB1, as a potential new regulator linked to β cell failure in…
View details →Ó Dúinín E, Steopan JK, Kessler K et al. · 2025 · Scientific reports
We investigated the effects of cognitive training with transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) applied to the intraparietal sulcus (IPS) or dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) on improving a multidirectional number line estimation…
View details →Cesanelli L, Venckunas T, Minderis P et al. · 2026 · Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland)
Background/Objectives : This study aimed to evaluate the effects of short-term broccoli powder supplementation on metabolically demanding exercise performance, muscle power, and blood lactate recovery. It also investigated broccoli…
View details →Turton S, Hawkins PCT, Muller-Pollard C et al. · 2025 · Psychopharmacology
Rationale It is hypothesised that modulation of striatal dopaminergic signalling plays a key role in the rewarding effects of opioids. The monetary incentive delay (MID) task is a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) paradigm used…
View details →Farhat MR, Jacobson KR · 2024 · Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Active case finding leveraging new molecular diagnostics and chest X-rays with automated interpretation algorithms is increasingly being developed for high-risk populations to drive down tuberculosis incidence. We consider why such an…
View details →Yokoyama M, Kaida R, Miyamoto K et al. · 2024 · Plant biotechnology (Tokyo, Japan)
α-Ketol octadecadienoic acid (KODA), an oxylipin, is generated from linolenic acid by 9-specific lipoxygenase, while jasmonic acid is ultimately synthesized from the same linolenic acid by 13-specific lipoxygenase. KODA has a unique action…
View details →Queiroz MG, Tobar KDL, Damazo AS et al. · 2026 · International journal of environmental research and public health
This randomized crossover study aimed to evaluate the effect of a single session of aerobic exercise on 24 h ambulatory blood pressure (BP) and heart rate variability (HRV) in young adults with a family history of hypertension, FHH +…
View details →Winter AL, Peter M, Thunell E et al. · 2026 · Neural plasticity
Absence of sensory input is associated with alterations in brain morphology; mainly in or near cerebral regions normally devoted to processing of the missing sense. However, multiple recent studies demonstrate that the only consistent…
View details →Chen P, Lv J · 2024 · Nephrology (Carlton, Vic.)
This mini-review explores glucocorticoids, mycophenolate mofetil (MMF), and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in IgA nephropathy (IgAN). It discusses conflicting findings from pivotal trials like TESTING and STOP-IgAN regarding glucocorticoid…
View details →Alam KA, Martí-Solans J, Schall D et al. · 2026 · ACS chemical neuroscience
Voltage-gated potassium channel KCNQ1 (Kv7.1) plays a critical role in electrical excitability in the heart, gut, and brain. Together with the auxiliary subunit KCNE1, KCNQ1 generates a slow delayed rectifier current ( I Ks ) that is…
View details →Wilkes S, Kalfsvel L, van Rosse F et al. · 2026 · European journal of hospital pharmacy : science and practice
Objectives Specialised hospital pharmacists, integrated in medical teams on the ward, can improve medication safety. When a specialised hospital pharmacist is temporarily not available, the pharmaceutical care will be conducted by a…
View details →Uysal Yeler G, Sivaslıoğlu A, Gülsün T et al. · 2025 · International journal of molecular sciences
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ (PPARγ) plays a crucial role in the differentiation and maturation of preadipocytes. PPARγ promotes adipogenesis by inducing the expression of fatty acid-binding protein 4 (FABP4). Uncoupling…
View details →Crucitta S, Cinacchi P, Bargagna I et al. · 2026 · Therapeutic advances in drug safety
Background CDK4/6 inhibitors abemaciclib, palbociclib, and ribociclib have rapidly become an established oral treatment for patients with ER+, HER2- locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer. The use of the oral route offers convenience…
View details →Shah V, Pankratz VS, Cardona M et al. · 2024
Background Given the existence of firmly entrenched and rapidly increasing health disparities, novel approaches are needed to improve the health of socioeconomically disadvantaged groups, including American Indian communities. In a prior…
View details →van Oosterwijk JG, Richer L, Beimfohr-Griffing LK et al. · 2026 · Parasites & vectors
Background The lack of effective and affordable new environmental tick control products is one of the major challenges to the existing control strategies against the blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis), the vector of Lyme disease…
View details →Pfeifer P, Mathys B, Alan EM et al. · 2025 · Psychiatry and clinical psychopharmacology
Background Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) is an important tool to personalize psychopharmacotherapy, thereby optimizing its effectiveness and tolerability. Despite consensus on medications, indications, and implementation of TDM,…
View details →Goff PS, Budd P, Logan DW et al. · 2025 · Pigment cell & melanoma research
We have identified a chemically induced mouse mutation which increases the eumelanic hair pigmentation. We identify a coding mutation, A3533G, resulting in an amino acid substitution Y1133C, in the Gnas gene encoding the G α s subunit of…
View details →Tseng M, Middleton SJ, Farah A et al. · 2025 · Pain reports
Introduction Hyperexcitability, particularly of DRG neurons, is a key driver of persistent pain states including neuropathic pain. Contactin-associated protein-like 2 (CASPR2) is transmembrane protein known to interact and regulate the…
View details →Poljo A, Reichl JJ, Bürgi S et al. · 2025 · Obesity surgery
Background Obesity, a chronic disease with serious associated medical problems, remains a global health challenge. While metabolic bariatric surgery (MBS) is the most effective treatment for weight loss, GLP-1 receptor agonists (RAs) are…
View details →Falvey A, Palandira SP, Chavan SS et al. · 2024 · Brain, behavior, and immunity
Background The vagus nerve plays an important role in neuroimmune interactions and in the regulation of inflammation. A major source of efferent vagus nerve fibers that contribute to the regulation of inflammation is the brainstem dorsal…
View details →Ragamin A, Schappin R, Pasmans SGMA et al. · 2023 · Skin health and disease
National prescription data for therapeutic clothing in atopic dermatitis was analysed to investigate the role of therapeutic clothing in atopic dermatitis. Therapeutic clothing is most frequently prescribed by dermatologists in a hospital…
View details →Merlo JK, da Silva AV, Casonatto J et al. · 2024 · Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland)
Objective To investigate the effects of combining a Pilates program with photobiomodulation therapy (PBMT) in patients with chronic nonspecific low back pain (CNLBP). Methods Thirty-eight adults with CNLBP were randomly assigned to two…
View details →Stroemel-Scheder C, Lautenbacher S · 2023 · The journal of pain
Recent research suggests that recovery sleep (RS) has the potential to restore pain sensitivity and modulation after hyperalgesia due to preceding sleep deprivation. However, it has not yet been systematically examined whether the…
View details →Moretti L, Richelmi L, Cosentini D et al. · 2024 · Breast (Edinburgh, Scotland)
The efficacy of adjuvant denosumab in combination with hormonotherapy in breast cancer patients was investigated in two randomized trials, ABCSG-18 and D-Care, but the results were mixed with respect to the impact of this drug on…
View details →Góis KS, Braga M, Souza VH et al. · 2026 · Einstein (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Objective This study aimed to analyze the possible association between rs2814778, rs12075 ( ACKR1 gene), and rs4073 ( CXCL8 gene) single nucleotide variants and COVID-19 severity. Methods This cross-sectional study included 319 COVID-19…
View details →Hosier H, Lipkind HS, Rasheed H et al. · 2023 · Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979)
Background Preeclampsia is a leading cause of maternal morbidity, and dyslipidemia has been associated with preeclampsia in observational studies. We use Mendelian randomization analyses to estimate the association between lipid levels,…
View details →Richardson KE, Suo C, Albertella L et al. · 2025 · JAMA psychiatry
Importance Cannabis is the most commonly used illicit drug, with 10% to 30% of regular users developing cannabis use disorder (CUD), a condition linked to altered hippocampal integrity. Evidence suggests high-intensity interval training…
View details →da Silva NIS, de Araújo TLAC, Firmino SS et al. · 2026 · Tropical animal health and production
This study aimed to evaluate the effects of supplementing high-concentrate diets for sheep with green propolis extract (PRO) from Mimosa tenuiflora or with salinomycin (SAL) on feed intake, apparent digestibility, nitrogen balance, and…
View details →Luzuriaga AL, Madrigal-González J, de la Cruz M et al. · 2026 · Ecology
The relationship between taxonomic and phylogenetic diversities remains underexplored. Our goal was to determine whether a causal link exists between species richness and phylogenetic diversity and to determine the direction of this…
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