The transition towards more sustainable packaging calls for improving our ability to predict, control, and inhibit microbial growth. Despite the importance of modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) in food preservation, the exact relations between MAP gases (CO, O, N) and microbial behavior are still poorly understood. Addressing this major knowledge gap requires a specific infrastructure to gain precise control over the gas composition during storage time.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) is a common and debilitating symptom in both forms of myotonic dystrophy (DM), significantly impacting patients' quality of life. The review focuses on the purpose of examining the current understanding of EDS in these conditions, the difficulty in correctly accessing it, the recent findings related to its etiology and prevalence, and a summary of potential therapeutic implications.
Methods: We conducted a comprehensive search through PubMed, selecting studies that provided significant insights into the mechanisms, prevalence, and management of EDS in DM1 and DM2.
Motivationally significant events like oddball stimuli elicit both a characteristic event-related potential (ERPs) known as P300 and a set of autonomic responses including a phasic pupil dilation. Although co-occurring, P300 and pupil-dilation responses to oddball events have been repeatedly found to be uncorrelated, suggesting separate origins. We re-examined their relationship in the context of a three-stimulus version of the auditory oddball task, independently manipulating the frequency (rare vs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Restless Legs Syndrome is a sleep-related sensorimotor disorder with a higher prevalence in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients than in the general population. Our aim was to determine the prevalence of RLS in a group of relapsing-remittent multiple sclerosis (RRMS) patients, and to investigate whether RLS is associated with MS-related disability, sleep quality, mood disorders and fatigue.
Methods: In this retrospective, mono-centric, observational study, 92 RRMS patients were recruited (median age 46.