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Amindarolzarbi A, Satcowitz K, Khalil A et al. · 2025 · Nuclear medicine communications
Objective The appropriate clinical management of indeterminate small renal masses can be improved based on accurate risk stratification. This study aimed to investigate the impact of renal function on the uptake of technetium-99m ( 99m…
View details →Brizuela M, Bony AR, Garcia-Caraballo S et al. · 2026 · Experimental physiology
Chronic visceral pain is a key symptom of irritable bowel syndrome. Modulation of voltage-gated calcium and potassium channels by G protein-coupled receptors plays a key role in dampening nociceptive transmission. Both baclofen and the…
View details →Lemper M, Luetjens CM, Fuchs A et al. · 2025 · Reproductive toxicology (Elmsford, N.Y.)
To further understand the safety profile of zilucoplan, reproductive toxicology studies in non-human primates (NHPs) were performed, including a male fertility study and a combined embryo-foetal development (EFD) and enhanced pre- and…
View details →Alshuweishi Y, Binzomah Alghamdi F, Patrick K et al. · 2025 · Cells
AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is activated by reduced cellular energy charge and mimics the action of insulin in muscle by stimulating increased trafficking of GLUT4 to the plasma membrane. In contrast, we have previously reported…
View details →Almutairi NM, Hayes J, Hampson KM et al. · 2025 · Vision research
Individuals with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) exhibit significant accommodative abnormalities. Accommodation microfluctuation (MFs) plays an important role in the accommodation steady-state control. This study was set to investigate…
View details →Kim AR, Jamka J, Jackson WF et al. · 2026 · Cells
Anticontractile factors secreted by perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT) play an important role in regulating vascular tone. This process is driven by the neurotransmitter norepinephrine (NE), but recent data show that adrenergic innervation…
View details →Mockett BG, Davies JWT, Mills ZB et al. · 2024 · Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Group I metabotropic glutamate receptors (Gp1-mGluRs) exert a host of effects on cellular functions, including enhancement of protein synthesis and the associated facilitation of long-term potentiation (LTP) and induction of long-term…
View details →Fu SJ, Cheng KM, Hsiao CT et al. · 2024 · Cell communication and signaling : CCS
Loss-of-function mutations in the human gene encoding the neuron-specific Ca 2+ channel Ca V 2.1 are linked to the neurological disease episodic ataxia type 2 (EA2), as well as neurodevelopmental disorders such as developmental delay and…
View details →Videtta G, Sasia C, Quadrino S et al. · 2026 · Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
Activation of microglia and resulting neuroinflammation are central processes that significantly contribute to neurodegenerative disease progression. Treatments capable of attenuating neuroinflammation are therefore an urgent medical need.…
View details →Nguyen AP, Hadi DL, Todd DA et al. · 2026 · Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Cinnamon (Cinnamomum spp.) is used as a culinary spice and dietary supplement. A major constituent, cinnamaldehyde, was previously shown to inactivate cytochrome P450 (CYP) 2A6 in vitro. A mechanistic static model predicted an ~5-fold…
View details →Burman MA, Zuke JT · 2026 · PloS one
Early life pain and stress have lasting consequences on nervous system development that can interact with later stress or trauma to create a susceptibility to fear, anxiety, depression and chronic pain among other psychological disorders.…
View details →Kim TE, Bae JW, Hong S et al. · 2025 · The Korean journal of physiology & pharmacology : official journal of the Korean Physiological Society and the Korean Society of Pharmacology
Donepezil, an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor, is widely used for managing the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease (AD), yet its clinical response varies widely among individuals. This study aims to investigate the influence of CYP2D6 genetic…
View details →Hu Q, Zhong W, Hu R · 2026 · Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing
Research on income inequality and obesity shows inconsistent results. This study tests if this relationship depends on a country's existing inequality level. We analyzed individual-level data (N = 22 938) from the 2011 and 2021…
View details →Abkur T, Boogers A, Grippe T et al. · 2025 · Movement disorders clinical practice
Background The coexistence of tics with Parkinson's disease (PD) is rare, as they often emerge at different ages, follow different trajectories and involve contrasting pathophysiological mechanisms related to dopamine availability and…
View details →Leproult I, Lemaire B, Portrat S · 2024 · Memory & cognition
Elaboration has emerged as a potential maintenance mechanism involved in the substantial contribution of long-term memory (LTM) to working memory (WM) performance. The objective of the current study was to determine whether elaborative…
View details →Lee KE, Nishi M, Kim J et al. · 2024 · Frontiers in endocrinology
Rationale MG53's known function in facilitating tissue repair and anti-inflammation has broad applications to regenerative medicine. There is controversy regarding MG53's role in the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Objective This…
View details →Krakowian D, Lach M, Żemła P et al. · 2025 · Cytotechnology
The HeLa 9903 cell line is used in the in vitro endocrine disruption assay (OECD 455). After treatment with an estrogen receptor agonist, the luminescence of these cells increases. However, some autoactivation of this test system may…
View details →Nannoni E, Martelli G, Militerno G et al. · 2024 · Animal Feed Science and Technology.
The experiment aimed to obtain information on the water requirements, drinking behavior and drinking motivation of liquid-fed pigs and was conducted during the hot season. Eighty castrated male pigs (initial body weight: 36 kg) fed a…
View details →Schumacher JD, van Holstein M, Zhou P et al. · 2025 · The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Converging evidence suggests that orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) subregions subserve distinct roles in decision-making across a variety of tasks. Cost/benefit decisions can require an organism to choose between options based on information…
View details →Wolff M, Winnberg I, Tronvik E et al. · 2024 · Cureus
Background A significant proportion of people with migraine do not achieve sufficient relief of their acute migraine symptoms with the currently available medications. A previous study showed that intranasal evaporative cooling reduced…
View details →Laso-García F, Díaz-Gamero N, Gallego-Ruiz R et al. · 2025 · International journal of molecular sciences
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have emerged as potential therapeutic agents for neurological disorders. Their molecular cargo may reflect the clinical status of the donor and has been identified as a biomarker for the cellular damage and…
View details →Kant N, Garssen SH, Vernooij CA et al. · 2024 · Internal and emergency medicine
In Acute Admission Wards, vital signs are commonly measured only intermittently. This may result in failure to detect early signs of patient deterioration and impede timely identification of patient stability, ultimately leading to…
View details →Bronshtein O, Konson A, Kuniavsky M et al. · 2025 · Quality management in health care
Background and objectives Early in the global COVID-19 pandemic, a concern was raised that potentially high volumes of COVID-19 inpatients in general hospitals might compromise the hospitals' capabilities to maintain high-quality care for…
View details →Renko K, Thomas R, Hawks M et al. · 2026 · Frontiers in toxicology
Thyroid hormone (TH) availability is particularly critical for early brain development. TH transport across the blood-brain barrier is facilitated through two main transmembrane transporters: monocarboxylate transporter 8 (MCT8) and…
View details →Lavigna G, Grasso A, Pasini C et al. · 2025 · PloS one
There is no cure for Marinesco-Sjögren syndrome (MSS), a genetic multisystem disease linked to loss-of-function mutations in the SIL1 gene, encoding a BiP co-chaperone. Previously, we showed that the PERK kinase inhibitor GSK2606414 delays…
View details →Myhre MG, Azeem A, Barrett M · 2024 · New Zealand veterinary journal
Case history Medical records from 2009 to 2021 from a private equine referral hospital in Rochester, NH, USA were analysed for cases that underwent general anaesthesia for low-field MRI of the distal limb. These were used to determine…
View details →Carney C, Jenkins L, Jewell C et al. · 2025 · microPublication biology
Several lines of evidence suggest a potential link between stemness and vitamin B12, which contributes to S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) generation and hence methylation-dependent epigenetic control. Here we found that the vitamin B12…
View details →Kattler KR, Watkins HV, Perretta KN et al. · 2024 · Biol Invasions.
Organisms that settle and grow on other organisms (i.e., epibionts) are often costly to their hosts in terms of locomotion, growth, and/or reproduction. Such costs can potentially result in biotic resistance against invasion when native…
View details →Cerpelloni F, Collignon O, Op de Beeck H · 2026 · Psychonomic bulletin & review
Most written systems share basic shape features with natural objects such as line junctions, a commonality thought to be at the basis of fluent reading. Studies that compared reading acquisition for different scripts used line-based…
View details →Rivest D, Martin-Guay MO · 2024 · Nutrient cycling in agroecosystems.
Well-designed temperate tree-based intercropping (TBI) systems can enhance soil nutrient cycling compared to conventional agricultural systems. To improve the TBI designs and their subsequent wide-scale adoption, greater understanding is…
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