Sleep Habits of Early School-Aged Children with Type 1 Diabetes and Their Parents: Family Characteristics and Diabetes Management.

Study Objectives: School-aged children with type 1 diabetes (T1D) and their parents are at risk for sleep disturbances, yet few studies have used objective measures to assess sleep characteristics in young children with T1D.

Methods: Forty children (ages 5-9) with T1D and their parents wore actigraph watches and completed sleep diaries for 7 nights. Parents also completed questionnaires about demographic information, diabetes distress, fear of hypoglycemia, and family routines.

A cellular expression map of epidermal and subepidermal cell layer-enriched transcription factor genes integrated with the regulatory network in Arabidopsis shoot apical meristem.

Transcriptional control of gene expression is an exquisitely regulated process in both animals and plants. Transcription factors (TFs) and the regulatory networks that drive the expression of TF genes in epidermal and subepidermal cell layers in Arabidopsis are unexplored. Here, we identified 65 TF genes enriched in the epidermal and subepidermal cell layers of the shoot apical meristem (SAM).

Pilot Trial of a Sleep-Promoting Intervention for Children With Type 1 Diabetes.

Objective: To assess the feasibility and acceptability of an educational sleep-promoting intervention (Sleep Coach Jr.) for school-aged children (ages 5-9) with type 1 diabetes (T1D) and their parents.

Methods: Parents and children (N = 39 dyads, mean child age = 8 years, 64% girls,) were randomized to either the Sleep Coach Jr.

ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL5 Negatively Regulates to Increase Survival during UV-B Stress.

Understanding how the distinct cell types of the shoot apical meristem (SAM) withstand ultraviolet radiation (UVR) stress can improve cultivation of plants in high-UVR environments. Here, we show that UV-B irradiation selectively kills epidermal and niche cells in the shoot apex. Plants harboring a mutation in () are tolerant to UV-B.

Serial Stimulated Jitter Analysis In Juvenile Myasthenia Gravis.

Introduction: Clinical and electrophysiological studies to measures disease activity in juvenile myasthenia gravis (JMG) are limited.

Methods: Retrospective review of the clinical profile, Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America (MGFA) scores, serial stimulated jitter analysis (Stim-JA) of the orbicularis oculi muscle, grip strength, and spirometry of patients with JMG who were followed in a multidisciplinary clinic was performed.

Results: Thirteen patients with JMG (9 females) with mean age of 13.

Genome wide gene expression analyses of Arabidopsis shoot stem cell niche cell populations.

The shoot apical meristem (SAM) of higher plants harbors stem cells at their tips. In the SAM, stem cell niches maintain the pluripotent nature of these cell types in the central zone (CZ) and allow them to enter in to differentiation pathways either in the peripheral zone (PZ) or rib meristem (RM). Apart from functional zones, SAM is also subdivided in to distinct cell layers termed as; L1 / epidermal, L2 / subepidermal and L3 / corpus cell layer.

Antagonistic effect of fluorescent pseudomonads against Macrophomina phaseolina that causes charcoal rot of groundnut.

Maximum colony growth inhibition was observed due to Pseudomonas PS2 (74%) as compared to PS1 (71%) on trypticase soy agar (TSM) plates after 5 days of incubation. Light and scanning electron microscopic examination showed hyphal coiling, vacuolation, coagulation and granulation of cytoplasm resulting in lysis of hyphae of M. phaseolina by pseudomonads.