Effect of Pilates Intervention on the Physical Conditioning of a Ballet Dancer: A Single Case Study.

Objective: The purpose of this case study was to report the effect of an 8-week Pilates intervention on a ballet dancer's strength, balance, and endurance.

Clinical Features: A healthy 24-year-old ballet dancer (50 kg, 1.66 meters, 12 years of practice and who had no previous experience with Pilates) presented for care.

The fibroblast activation protein alpha as a biomarker of pulmonary fibrosis.

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a rare, chronic, and progressive interstitial lung disease with an average survival of approximately 3 years. The evolution of IPF is unpredictable, with some patients presenting a relatively stable condition with limited progression over time, whereas others deteriorate rapidly. In addition to IPF, other interstitial lung diseases can lead to pulmonary fibrosis, and up to a third have a progressive phenotype with the same prognosis as IPF.

Bleomycin-induced chromosomal aberrations in Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human lymphoblastoid cells.

We have evaluated the induction of complete (i.e., without open ends) and incomplete (i.

RIPK1 is dispensable for cell death regulation in β-cells during hyperglycemia.

Objective: Receptor-interacting protein kinase 1 (RIPK1) orchestrates the decision between cell survival and cell death in response to tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and other cytokines. Whereas the scaffolding function of RIPK1 is crucial to prevent TNF-induced apoptosis and necroptosis, its kinase activity is required for necroptosis and partially for apoptosis. Although TNF is a proinflammatory cytokine associated with β-cell loss in diabetes, the mechanism by which TNF induces β-cell demise remains unclear.