1,191 results match your criteria: "The University of Texas at Brownsville & Texas Southmost College[Affiliation]"
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
May 2023
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 8330077, Chile.
Gender inequality across the world has been associated with a higher risk to mental health problems and lower academic achievement in women compared to men. We also know that the brain is shaped by nurturing and adverse socio-environmental experiences. Therefore, unequal exposure to harsher conditions for women compared to men in gender-unequal countries might be reflected in differences in their brain structure, and this could be the neural mechanism partly explaining women's worse outcomes in gender-unequal countries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDiabetologia
July 2023
Programs in Metabolism and Medical & Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Sci Adv
April 2023
Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.
JMIR Infodemiology
February 2023
Department of Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences School of Public Health The University of Texas Health Science Center Houston, TX United States.
Background: Despite increasing awareness about and advances in addressing social media misinformation, the free flow of false COVID-19 information has continued, affecting individuals' preventive behaviors, including masking, testing, and vaccine uptake.
Objective: In this paper, we describe our multidisciplinary efforts with a specific focus on methods to (1) gather community needs, (2) develop interventions, and (3) conduct large-scale agile and rapid community assessments to examine and combat COVID-19 misinformation.
Methods: We used the Intervention Mapping framework to perform community needs assessment and develop theory-informed interventions.
Front Neuroinform
April 2023
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Introduction: Neuroimaging technology has experienced explosive growth and transformed the study of neural mechanisms across health and disease. However, given the diversity of sophisticated tools for handling neuroimaging data, the field faces challenges in method integration, particularly across multiple modalities and species. Specifically, researchers often have to rely on siloed approaches which limit reproducibility, with idiosyncratic data organization and limited software interoperability.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStress Health
December 2023
Department of Psychological Science, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, Texas, USA.
Sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) has been proposed as an innate trait associated with differences in the processing and reactivity to internal and external stimuli. To date, there has been limited research on the association between SPS and physical health and only one study examining mediators of this relationship. The aim of this study was to examine psychological stress as a mediator of the SPS-health relationship in a predominately Hispanic sample of 923 adult undergraduates attending university between 2018 and 2020.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNature
April 2023
Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
Mutations in a diverse set of driver genes increase the fitness of haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), leading to clonal haematopoiesis. These lesions are precursors for blood cancers, but the basis of their fitness advantage remains largely unknown, partly owing to a paucity of large cohorts in which the clonal expansion rate has been assessed by longitudinal sampling. Here, to circumvent this limitation, we developed a method to infer the expansion rate from data from a single time point.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Immunol
March 2023
Department of Pathology and Genomic Medicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Weill-Cornell Medicine, Houston, TX, United States.
Macrophages are the preeminent phagocytic cells which control multiple infections. Tuberculosis a leading cause of death in mankind and the causative organism (MTB) infects and persists in macrophages. Macrophages use reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS/RNS) and autophagy to kill and degrade microbes including MTB.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Neurol
March 2023
Department of Psychiatry, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.
Introduction: The cocktail-party problem refers to the difficulty listeners face when trying to attend to relevant sounds that are mixed with irrelevant ones. Previous studies have shown that solving these problems relies on perceptual as well as cognitive processes. Previously, we showed that speech-reception thresholds (SRTs) on a cocktail-party listening task were influenced by genetic factors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeurology
May 2023
From the Department of Biostatistics (Y.Z., X.L., A.P., A.S.B., C.L.), School of Public Health, Boston University, MA; Cardiovascular Health Research Unit (K.L.W., J.C.B.), Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle; Brigham and Women's Hospital (N.K., T.S.), Boston, MA; The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences (X.G., J.I.R.), Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (A.L.R., D.C.G.), Boston Children's Hospital, MA; Department of Psychiatry (A.L.R., D.C.G.), Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital, MA; Department of Epidemiology (W.Z., S.M.R., S.L.R.K., J.A.S.), School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; GeneSTAR Research Program (L.R.Y.), Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; School of Medicine (J.S.A.P.), Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia; Harvard Medical School (T.S.), Boston, MA; McKusick-Nathans Institute (D.E.A.), Department of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; Department of Epidemiology (T.R.A.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurology (A.S.B.), School of Medicine, Boston University, MA; Framingham Heart Study (A.S.B., D.L., S.S., V.R., C.L., C.L.S.), Framingham, MA; Department of Human Genetics and South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute (J. Blangero, J.E.C.), University of Texas Rio Grande, Brownsville; Human Genetics Center (E.B., J. Bressler), School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; Human Genome Sequencing Center (E.B.), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Department of Preventive Medicine (L.H.), Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL; Department of Internal Medicine (T.M.H.), Section on Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC; National Institute on Aging (L.J.L.), and Population Sciences Branch National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (D.L.), NIH, Bethesda, MD; Memory Impairment and Neurodegenerative Dementia (MIND) Center (T.H.M.), School of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson; Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics (I.M.N.), Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Center for Public Health Genomics (S.S.R.), University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville; Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases (S.S., C.L.S.), University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio; Institute of Gerontology & Department of Healthcare Sciences (W.T.), Wayne State University, Detroit, MI; Department of Neurosciences (K.A.G.) and Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer's Disease Center (H.M.G.), University of California, San Diego, La Jolla; Department of Medicine (V.R.), School of Medicine, and Department of Epidemiology, Boston University, MA; University of California, San Francisco (K.Y.); Department of Neurology (P.A.N.), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; Cardiovascular Health Research Unit (B.M.P.), Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Systems and Population Health, University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurology (C.S.D.), UC Davis, CA; Institute of Molecular Medicine (M.F.), McGovern Medical School; and Human Genetics Center (M.F.), School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; and Cardiovascular Health Research Unit and Department of Epidemiology (S.R.H.), and Departments of Family Medicine, Epidemiology, and Global Health (A.L.F.), University of Washington, Seattle.
Background We previously outlined the importance of considering acculturation within the context of older Latino adults' lived experience (ie, acculturation in context) to better capture contributors to cognitive aging. We now examine this conceptual framework as related to level of and change in cardiovascular health, and whether cardiovascular health modifies previously documented associations of acculturation in context with cognition. Methods and Results Acculturation in context data from 192 Latino participants without dementia at baseline (age ~70 years) were compiled into 3 separate composite scores: acculturation-related (nativity, language-, and social-based preferences), contextually related socioenvironmental (experiences of discrimination, social isolation, social networks), and familism-related (Latino-centric family ethos).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHigh Blood Press Cardiovasc Prev
March 2023
Department of Health and Human Performance, College of Health Professions, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, TX, USA.
Introduction: Type 2 diabetes (T2D), the fastest growing pandemic, is typically accompanied by vascular complications. A central hallmark of both T2D and vascular disease is insulin resistance which causes impaired glucose transport and vasoconstriction concomitantly. Those with cardiometabolic disease display greater variation in central hemodynamics and arterial elasticity, both potent predictors of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, which may be exacerbated by concomitant hyperglycemia and hyperinsulinemia during glucose testing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlzheimers Dement
March 2023
The African Dementia Consortium, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
Front Genet
February 2023
Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, United States.
Perfluoroalkyl and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are widely used in industrial and consumer products. Due to their environmental persistence and bioaccumulation, PFASs can be found in the blood of humans and wild animals all over the world. Various fluorinated alternatives such as GenX have been developed to replace the long-chain PFASs, but there is limited information about their potential toxicity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Alzheimers Dis
April 2023
Department of Neurology, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Background: Accurately identifying cognitive changes in Mexican American (MA) adults using the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) requires knowledge of population-based norms for the MMSE, a scale which has widespread use in research settings.
Objective: To describe the distribution of MMSE scores in a large cohort of MA adults, assess the impact of MMSE requirements on their clinical trial eligibility, and explore which factors are most strongly associated with their MMSE scores.
Methods: Visits between 2004-2021 in the Cameron County Hispanic Cohort were analyzed.
This paper revisits the causal links between financial development, coal consumption, and CO emissions in P.R. China over the 1977-2017 period to validate the development of its natural gas industry.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Alzheimers Dis
April 2023
Department of Health and Human Performance, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, TX, USA.
Background: Physical activity (PA) has emerged as a promising approach to delay Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, but the optimal intensity of PA to improve cognitive health remains unknown.
Objective: To evaluate the association between duration and intensity of PA and cognitive domains (executive function, processing speed, and memory) in aging Americans.
Methods: Linear regressions in hierarchical blocks for variable adjustment and the size of effect (η2) were analyzed by using the data of 2,377 adults (age = 69.
Sci Rep
February 2023
Department of Health and Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, One West University Blvd, Brownsville, TX, 78520, USA.
The United Nations projects that one in every six people will be over the age of 65 by the year 2050. With a rapidly aging population, the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) becomes a major concern. AD is a multifactorial disease that involves neurodegeneration in the brain with mild dementia and deficits in memory and other cognitive domains.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Toxicol Environ Health A
March 2023
School of Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, TX, USA.
The synergy between multiple compounds and other stressors, including heat, creates volatility and greater unpredictability than standard single-chemical toxicity testing, especially in the case of pesticides and metabolites which might contain several noxious ingredients resulting in adverse ecological effects. To address this, the aim of this study was to examine the dose- and time-dependent effects of low- and high-dose pesticide mixture (metalachlor, linuron, isoproturon, tebucanazole, aclonifen, atrazine, pendimethalin, azinphos-methyl) and heat stress co-exposure (22°C control/32°C treatment for 4-week) on free-swimming behaviors and cumulative actionless time (CAT) of goldfish. Behavioral analysis showed a dose- and time-dependent decrease in distance swam, as well as a subsequent increase in CAT.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEver larger Structural Variant (SV) catalogs highlighting the diversity within and between populations help researchers better understand the links between SVs and disease. The identification of SVs from DNA sequence data is non-trivial and requires a balance between comprehensiveness and precision. Here we present a catalog of 355,667 SVs (59.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Toxicol Environ Health A
February 2023
Investigación y Posgrado, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, CICATA-Altamira, Altamira, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
House geckos share living quarters with humans in the tropical and subtropical regions inhabited by these reptiles. Gecko behavior, biological traits, continuous exposure to suspended particulate matter 0 µm in diameter (PM) and dust, as well as status as exotic species, motivated the choice of these species to examine environmental exposure to ambient air pollutants, in particular metals, and subsequent accumulation in these organisms. One part of the study was conducted in Tamaulipas (Mexico) where is abundant in urban and industrial environments, the other part was conducted in Andalucia (Spain) where is found in similar environments.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Strength Cond Res
March 2023
Department of Health and Human Performance, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, Texas.
Karabulut, M, Bitting, M, and Bejar, J. Postexercise arterial compliance and hemodynamic responses to various durations and intensities of aerobic exercise. J Strength Cond Res 37(3): 589-596, 2023-The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of various aerobic training protocols using different intensities and durations on arterial compliance and hemodynamic responses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Infect Dis
May 2023
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health in Houston, Houston, Texas, USA.
Background: Breakthrough infections of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are well documented. The current study estimates breakthrough incidence across pandemic waves, and evaluates predictors of breakthrough and severe breakthrough infections (defined as those requiring hospitalization).
Methods: In total, 89 762 participants underwent longitudinal antibody surveillance.
JASA Express Lett
January 2023
School of Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, Texas 78520,
Acoustic propagation measurements were collected in a seagrass meadow in a shallow lagoon for periods of over 65 h in winter and 93 h in summer. A bottom-deployed sound source transmitted chirps (0.1-100 kHz) every 10 min that were received on a four-receiver horizontal hydrophone array.
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