Glutathione (GSH) is an abundant thiol-containing tripeptide that functions in redox homeostasis, protein folding, and iron metabolism. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, GSH depletion leads to increased sensitivity to oxidants and other toxic compounds, disruption of Fe-S cluster biogenesis, and eventually cell death. GSH pools are supplied by intracellular biosynthesis and GSH import from the extracellular environment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: The topographic organization of category-selective responses in human ventral occipitotemporal cortex (VOTC) and its relationship to regions subserving language functions is remarkably uniform across individuals. This arrangement is thought to result from the clustering of neurons responding to similar inputs, constrained by intrinsic architecture and tuned by experience. We examined the malleability of this organization in individuals with unilateral resection of VOTC during childhood for the management of drug-resistant epilepsy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEvidence-based insertion and maintenance bundles are effective in reducing the incidence of central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) in intensive care unit (ICU) settings. We studied the adoption and compliance of CLABSI prevention bundle programs and CLABSI rates in ICUs in a large network of acute care hospitals across Canada.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFReduced orthostatic tolerance is common following periods of bed rest that are associated with illness or surgery, putting individuals at higher risk for syncope and falls following hospitalization. Following menopause, mechanisms of female cardiovascular regulation change, which may be associated with sex-specific responses to orthostatic stress following bed rest. The purpose of our experiment was to investigate sex differences between healthy post-menopausal women and similar age men (age: 55-65 years) for their orthostatic tolerance and cerebrovascular responses to standing following bed rest.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGW and Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) methods are used to calculate energies of excited states of organic molecules in the Quest-3 database [Loos et al., J. Chem.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClinical placements are a critical component in any pre-registration student nurse's skill development and play an influential role in career specialisation upon registration. However, students are reporting to feel anxious and under prepared attending clinical placements, especially within mental health settings. Such a concern was highlighted in the Australian Government's Productivity Commission into Mental Health (2020).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Metabolic imbalances and pathological stress often contribute to increased mortality. Sestrin2 (Sesn2) is a stress-inducible protein crucial in maintaining cardiac energy and metabolic homeostasis under pathological conditions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Physical therapy (PT) is recommended as a primary treatment for low back pain (LBP), a common and impactful musculoskeletal condition after limb loss. The purpose of this brief report is to report the duration and cost of PT care, and subsequent escalation of care events, for LBP in service members with and without limb loss.
Materials And Methods: This was a retrospective cohort, descriptive study.
Mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression and psychosis represent a global health challenge. Stigma surrounding mental health continues to hinder help-seeking behaviours for people with mental illness and as this study demonstrates, nursing students as well. However, if student nurses are reluctant to seek help for mental health issues, how can others be expected to do so? This reluctance poses challenges in mental health nursing, impacting both care provision and nursing education.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: This study examined the influence of a pregnancy and postnatal multicomponent lifestyle intervention for women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and overweight/obesity from 6 weeks to 12 months postnatal. The primary outcome was weight at 12 months. Secondary outcomes included change in body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC) and fasting plasma glucose (FPG).
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November 2024
Aim: To explore men's health status and lifestyle risk profile and understand how they engage with preventive health care.
Design: A cross-sectional survey within a sequential mixed-methods project.
Methods: Four hundred thirty-one adult males, working or volunteering for the New South Wales Rural Fire Service (NSW RFS) completed the survey between September and November 2022.
Understanding the interplay of interaction and disorder in quantum transport poses long-standing scientific challenges for theory and experiment. While highly controlled ultracold atomic platforms combining atomic interactions with spatially disordered lattices have led to remarkable advances, the extension of such controlled studies to phenomena in high-dimensional disordered systems, such as the three-dimensional Anderson metal-insulator transition has been limited. Kicked quantum gases provide an alternate experimental platform that captures the Anderson model in momentum space and features dynamical localization as the analog of Anderson localization.
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September 2024
Accurate prediction of electron removal and addition energies is essential for reproducing neutral excitation spectra in molecules using Bethe-Salpeter equation methods. A Hartree-Fock starting point for /BSE calculations, combined with a random phase approximation (RPA) polarizability in the screened interaction, , is well-known to overestimate neutral excitation energies. Using a Hartree-Fock starting point, we apply several different approximations for to molecules in the Quest-3 database [Loos et al.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study describes the neurodevelopmental outcome of children with urea cycle disorders (UCD) and organic acidemias (OA) preliver transplant (LT), 1-year, and 3-years post-LT. We performed a retrospective chart review of children with OA or UCD transplanted between January 2014 and December 2021. Standardized motor and cognitive assessment scores were collected from children who had ≥1 motor/cognitive assessment at any timepoint.
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September 2024
Background: A one-time gait speed measurement predicts mortality risk. A framework for updating a clinician's mortality risk perception with new information from each clinic visit is needed. We used joint modeling of longitudinal and survival data for dynamic prediction of mortality risk.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Angiogenesis plays a significant role in the development of tumor progression and inflammatory diseases. The role of IL-28A in angiogenesis and its precise regulatory mechanisms remain rarely elucidated.
Objectives: We report the novel regulatory role of IL-28A in physiological angiogenesis.
What Is Known On The Subject: Pre-registration nursing students report high rates of stigma, leading to low help-seeking attitudes when seeking help for mental health issues. Traditional mental health clinical placements can improve stigma related to attitudes and social distance for pre-registration nursing students.
What The Paper Adds To Existing Knowledge: There are nil recorded clinical placement interventions that have decreased self-stigma for pre-registration nursing students, with this study highlighting a clinical placement model that is effective in significantly decreasing self-stigma.
An integrative review methodology was employed, following PRISMA guidelines and Whittemore and Knafi's method for integrative review. Thus, the review synthesised the findings of empirical literature published between 2005 and 2023 drawn from four databases: CINAHL, MEDLINE, PsycINFO and Scopus. From the seven studies that met the inclusion criteria, a number of themes emerged: (a) relief of carer burden; (b) benefits for individuals with Mental Illness (MI); (c) barriers to accessing respite care; and (d) inappropriate services model for respite care for individuals with MI.
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