J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci
January 2025
Objectives: The rise in gray divorce has catalyzed repartnering in later life. However, the antecedents of older adult repartnering remain poorly understood, particularly the potential role of adult children. A form of ambiguous loss, marital disruption often leads to family boundary ambiguity, thereby weakening family ties.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFungal spores are abundant in the environment and a major cause of asthma. Originally characterised as a type 2 inflammatory disease, allergic airway inflammation that underpins asthma can also involve type 17 inflammation, which can exacerbate disease causing failure of treatments tailored to inhibit type 2 factors. However, the mechanisms that determine the host response to fungi, which can trigger both type 2 and type 17 inflammation in allergic airway disease, remain unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBest current practice in the analysis of dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE)-MRI is to employ a voxel-by-voxel model selection from a hierarchy of nested models. This nested model selection (NMS) assumes that the observed time-trace of contrast-agent (CA) concentration within a voxel, corresponds to a singular physiologically nested model. However, admixtures of different models may exist within a voxel's CA time-trace.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The psychological impact of surviving an admission to an intensive care unit (ICU) with COVID-19 is uncertain. The objective of the study was to assess the prevalence of anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in ICU survivors treated for COVID-19 infection, and identify risk factors for psychological distress.
Methods: This observational study was conducted at 52 ICUs in the United Kingdom.
Aging Ment Health
December 2024
Objectives: Mounting evidence signals that cohabitation operates as an alternative to remarriage in later life. However, others have maintained that cohabitation is an incomplete institution marked by less favorable outcomes than remarriage. We appraise these two frameworks by examining the well-being of remarried and previously married cohabiting older adults.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFViral proteins with intrinsic disorder, such as the p26 movement protein from Pea enation mosaic virus 2 (PEMV2), can phase separate and form condensates that aid specific stages of virus replication. However, little is known about the impact of viral condensate formation on essential cellular processes, like translation. In this study, we performed mass spectrometry on affinity-purified p26 condensates and found an enrichment of RNA-binding proteins involved in translation and ribosome biogenesis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMine lands contaminted with heavy metals pose environmental risks, and thus reclamation is paramount for improving soil, plant, animal, and ecosystem health. A metal-contaminated alluvial mine tailing, devoid of vegetation, received 224 Mg ha of both lime and biosolids in 1998, and long-term reclamation success was quantified in 2019 with respect to soils, plants, and linkages to animals. Reclamation success was quantified using the Soil Management Assessment Framework (SMAF), in conjunction with bioavailable (0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGuided by the perspective that intimate relationship types represent a continuum of social attachment, we assessed how living apart together (LAT) relationships are related to psychological well-being in later life. Using data from the 2011 Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS), we assessed levels of depressive symptoms by comparing LAT respondents (2.5%) with never married (2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF: Despite advances in targeted therapies and immunotherapies, traditional treatments like microtubule stabilizers (paclitaxel, docetaxel), DNA-intercalating platinum drugs (cisplatin), and radiation therapy remain essential for managing locally advanced and metastatic lung cancer. Identifying novel molecular targets could enhance the efficacy of these treatments. : We hypothesize that BUB1 (Ser/Thr kinase) is overexpressed in lung cancers and its inhibition will sensitize lung cancers to chemoradiation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMechanical stress and fluid flow influence glioma cell phenotype in vitro, but measuring these quantities in vivo continues to be challenging. The purpose of this study was to predict these quantities in vivo, thus providing insight into glioma physiology and potential mechanical biomarkers that may improve glioma detection, diagnosis, and treatment. Image-based finite element models of human U251N orthotopic glioma in athymic rats were developed to predict structural stress and interstitial flow in and around each animal's tumor.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Best current practice in the analysis of dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE)-MRI is to employ a voxel-by-voxel model selection from a hierarchy of nested models. This nested model selection (NMS) assumes that the observed time-trace of contrast-agent (CA) concentration within a voxel, corresponds to a singular physiologically nested model. However, admixtures of different models may exist within a voxel's CA time-trace.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBUB1 is overexpressed in most human solid cancers, including breast cancer. Higher BUB1 levels are associated with a poor prognosis, especially in patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). Women with TNBC often develop resistance to chemotherapy and radiotherapy, which are still the mainstay of treatment for TNBC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a highly aggressive form of breast cancer subtype often treated with radiotherapy (RT). Due to its intrinsic heterogeneity and lack of effective targets, it is crucial to identify novel molecular targets that would increase RT efficacy. Here we demonstrate the role of BUB1 (cell cycle Ser/Thr kinase) in TNBC radioresistance and offer a novel strategy to improve TNBC treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report on a new radioprotector, UTS-1401, a small molecule that was synthesized (by one of us, JS) and evaluated here for its radioprotective effect against total-body irradiation (TBI). Female and male NIH Swiss mice were subjected to TBI at doses of 6.5, 7.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a highly aggressive form of breast cancer subtype often treated with radiotherapy (RT). Due to its intrinsic heterogeneity and lack of effective targets, it is crucial to identify novel molecular targets that would increase RT efficacy. Here we demonstrate the role of BUB1 (cell cycle Ser/Thr kinase) in TNBC radioresistance and offer a novel strategy to improve TNBC treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Lung cancer is a major public health concern, with high incidence and mortality. Despite advances in targeted therapy and immunotherapy, microtubule stabilizers (paclitaxel, docetaxel), DNA intercalating platinum drugs (cisplatin) and radiation therapy continue to play a critical role in the management of locally advanced and metastatic lung cancer. Novel molecular targets would provide opportunities for improving the efficacies of radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnderstanding the heterogeneity of women who engage in violence is critical to provide effective treatment and reduce the likelihood of recidivism. Existing typologies of women who engage in violence have been created using mixed methodological approaches; the field would benefit from replication using a quantitative clustering method-latent class analysis (LCA)-as it is arguably more objective than methods used to date. A LCA was conducted using archival data involving 3,773 justice-impacted women in Western Canada to identify unique subgroups of women who perpetrate violence.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Environ Res Public Health
February 2024
In 2022, the Virginia Chickahominy Indian Tribe partnered with Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center to investigate concerns about a potential cancer cluster near a local landfill. While investigating cancer clusters is complex due to long latency and multifactorial causes, the community's concerns about structural factors driving cancer risk warrant exploration. Thus, the Chickahominy T.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) may develop into elevated anxiety or depression symptoms, but few risk factors for this development are known. Objective recurrence risk estimation is possible in some cancers. Using theories of risk communication and phobias, we examined whether the proportionality of FCR to known objective recurrence risk influences the development of anxiety and depression symptoms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGlowacki offers many new directions for understanding and even eliminating the problem of war, especially creating positive interdependencies with members. We develop Glowacki's intriguing proposition that in-group dynamics provide a route to peace by describing a prosocial motivational system, the caregiving system, that aligns individual interests and eliminates the need to use coercion to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.
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