Publications by authors named "Fernandez-Botran G"

Our study is guided by Beck's cognitive stress-vulnerability model of depression. We examined the associations between perceived everyday discrimination (PED) and TNF-⍺, an inflammatory biomarker associated with risk for severe illness, through the negative cognitive triad (NCT; negative thoughts about the self, world, and future) and depressive symptoms in adolescents. We utilized a sample of 99 adolescents (36.

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  • The study investigated how stress levels in informal cancer caregivers and their negative attribution style (NAS) impact depressive symptoms and cortisol levels.
  • It included 60 caregivers from a bone marrow unit and caregiver organizations, revealing that caregiver stress significantly predicted depressive symptoms and cortisol levels only when combined with NAS.
  • The findings suggest that understanding NAS could enhance support interventions for caregivers dealing with chronic stress, pending further validation of the results.
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  • The study explored how informal cancer caregiving and repetitive negative thinking (RNT) influence depressive symptoms and cortisol levels among caregivers and noncaregivers.* -
  • It involved 60 cancer caregivers and 46 noncaregivers who filled out questionnaires and provided saliva samples, revealing that caregiving and RNT both correlate with depressive symptoms, while RNT affects cortisol levels.* -
  • The findings suggest that nurses should offer support and interventions for caregivers dealing with RNT to help reduce depressive symptoms and manage stress.*
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A marital status of divorced or separated, as opposed to married, predicts increased risk of health problems, but not for all persons. Focusing on one established health risk that has been linked with divorce--poor subjective sleep quality--the present cross-sectional study examined whether a history of physical intimate partner victimization (IPV) helps identify divorced women at potentially greater risk of health problems. Community midlife women with divorce histories, all of whom were free of current IPV, reported on their past month sleep quality and lifetime IPV.

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Understanding the long-term effects and possible toxicity of nanoceria, a widely utilized commercial metal oxide, is of particular importance as it is poised for development as a therapeutic agent based on its autocatalytic redox behavior. We show here evidence of acute and subacute adverse hepatic responses, after a single infusion of an aqueous dispersion of 85 mg/kg, 30 nm nanoceria into Sprague Dawley rats. Light and electron microscopic evidence of avid uptake of nanoceria by Kupffer cells was detected as early as 1 hr after infusion.

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Effective antirejection therapy with minimal systemic morbidity is required if limb transplantation is to become a clinical reality. We investigated whether i.a.

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