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Investigating the effects of antipsychotic drugs as a treatment for improving the activity of the unc-33 /Dpysl2 gene in C. elegans .

Miranda MC, Hyde J, Salazar K et al. · 2024 · microPublication biology

Prenatal stress is hypothesized to contribute to the development of schizophrenia. Lee and colleagues determined that prenatal stress in rats decreases levels of Dpysl2, which is found to be inactivated in schizophrenic patients. UNC-33 ,…

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Overuse-Induced Muscle Disorder: Establishing a Rat Model to Unravel the Role of Fibro-Adipogenic Progenitor Cells in Intramuscular Fibrosis.

Fusagawa H, Sato T, Naito A et al. · 2025 · Journal of orthopaedic research : official publication of the Orthopaedic Research Society

Overuse-induced muscle disorders (OIMD) frequently occur in athletes due to excessive and improper use under high physical demand, often leading to muscle pain and weakness. Limited studies have shown intramuscular fibrosis in OIMD, with…

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Trait emotion regulation similarity and well-being.

Eldesouky L, Gross JJ, English T · 2025 · Scientific reports

The ways people manage their emotions (emotion regulation; ER) have been found to affect their own well-being and the well-being of others. In the present research, we extended prior work by examining whether similarity between people's ER…

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Experimentally induced sleep restriction relates to less healthy eating behaviors in some adolescents: effects of age, sex, race, weight class, and socioeconomic status.

Hernandez C, Jensen CD, Duraccio KM · 2025 · Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society

Study objectives This secondary data analysis study was designed to evaluate demographic and socioeconomic characteristics that may increase the magnitude of the impact of experimentally induced shortened sleep on suboptimal eating…

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Impact of acute sleep restriction on cerebrovascular reactivity and neurovascular coupling in young men and women.

McDonald MJ, Marsh ML, Fears SD et al. · 2025 · Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985)

Chronic exposure to shortened sleep is associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease and dementia. Previous studies show insufficient (e.g., poor or fragmented) sleep impairs cerebrovascular reactivity to metabolic stress and…

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Effects of protein restriction on insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-1 in men with prostate cancer: results from a randomized clinical trial.

Cagigas ML, Fiorito G, Bertozzi B et al. · 2024 · Biomarker research

Background Insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-1 and its binding proteins are important in cancer growth, especially in prostate cancer. Observational studies suggest that protein restriction can lower IGF-1 levels. However, it is unclear…

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Long-Term Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Diet Quality Among Adults in the Province of Quebec: Longitudinal Analyses of the NutriQuébec Project

Lancup-Gauthier A, Brassard D, Côté M et al. · 2022 · Current developments in nutrition

Objectives While there is evidence that the early lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic may have had small positive impacts on several populations’ dietary habits, the longer term effects remain largely unknown. The aim of this study was to…

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Out-of-home care placement and mortality rate in early adulthood: identifying vulnerable subgroups in a nationwide cohort study.

Sørensen TT, Rod NH, Nguyen TL et al. · 2023 · European journal of epidemiology

Out-of-home care has been linked to excess mortality across the lifespan. We examined whether this association is modified by the age at first out-of-home care placement and the number of placements. In this population-based cohort study,…

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Directional deficits in reactive postural control during perturbations among groups of chronic ankle instability, ankle sprain coper, and healthy control.

Kim MJ, Kim S, Kim J et al. · 2025 · Scientific reports

Unanticipated postural control measures may better identify mechanisms of ankle sprains in real-life situations. The purpose of this study was to identify directional deficits in reactive postural control during unanticipated horizontal…

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Visual Perception and Fixation Patterns in an Individual with Ventral Simultanagnosia, Integrative Agnosia and Bilateral Visual Field Loss.

Williams I, Phillipou A, Storey E et al. · 2025 · Neurology international

Background/objectives As high-acuity vision is limited to a very small visual angle, examination of a scene requires multiple fixations. Simultanagnosia, a disorder wherein elements of a scene can be perceived correctly but cannot be…

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