The impacts of depression and anxiety on quality of life among patients with HIV/AIDS and their spouses: testing dyadic dynamics using the actor-partner interdependence model.

HIV/AIDS not only affects the patients, but also their entire family. This study aimed to assess the impacts of the patients' and their spouses' anxiety and depression on their quality of life (QoL) at the dyadic level. A total of 120 serodiscordant husband-wife dyads from the voluntary counselling and testing center in Shiraz, Iran, were involved in this study from February to June 2015.

A ground state of PPARγ activity and expression is required for appropriate neural differentiation of hESCs.

Background: Several evidences indicate stimulation of peroxisome proliferator activated receptor γ (PPARg), promotes neuronal differentiation. This study was conducted to testify the prominence of PPARγ during neural differentiation of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs).

Methods: PPARγ expression level was assessed during neural differentiation of hESCs.