Almohammadi, Ameen Alqarni, Afrah Alraddadi, Rana Alzahrani, Fatmah
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Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education
Patients education about chemotherapy and its side effects is important. The health-related distress among the patients can be decreased by promoting self-care behaviors. A cross-sectional study was conducted at the King Abdul-Aziz University Hospital with 90 patients from the hospital's oncology department in Jeddah during the period between Decem...
Toli, Elisavet A. Chavas, Christos Denoël, Mathieu Bounas, Anastasios Sotiropoulos, Konstantinos
Aquatic invaders often cause severe declines of native amphibian populations, either through competition, predation and/or alterations of the habitat. Such situation has raised additional concerns for the persistence of endemic species exhibiting rare and alternative phenotypes. Here, we experimentally assessed the impact of the invasive mosquitofi...
Wing, Rena R Becofsky, Katie Wing, Edward J McCaffery, Jeanne Boudreau, Matthew Evans, E Whitney Unick, Jessica
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AIDS and behavior
We recently reported that a 12-week internet weight loss program produced greater weight losses than education control in overweight/obese people living with HIV (PLWH) (4.4 kg vs 1.0 kg; p
Ghaffari, Mohtasham Mehrabi, Yadollah Rakhshanderou, Sakineh Safari-Moradabadi, Ali Jafarian, Seyyede Zenab
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundFood safety manual was developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to train professionals to reduce the burden of foodborne diseases as a global strategy. The present pioneering research aimed to explore the effectiveness of an intervention based on the manual of five keys to safer food by WHO in enhancing the knowledge, attitude and...
Atchison, C Bowman, L Eaton, J Imai, N Redd, R Pristera, P Vrinten, C Ward, H
On Monday 16th March 2020 the UK government announced new actions to control COVID-19. These recommendations directly affected the entire UK population, and included the following: stop non-essential contact with others; stop all unnecessary travel; start working from home where possible; avoid pubs, clubs, theatres and other such social venues; an...
Zhang, Jing Yu, ZhenYang
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Environmental Sciences Europe
BackgroundPoly-brominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and heavy metals are persistent pollutants in Yangtze River basin, China and also around the globe. In the exposure reality, they may have sequential exposures and long-term outcomes. Yet, the effects combining these two aspects remained largely unexplored. At present, the effects of 2,2′,4,4′-tetra...
Takumi, Toru Tamada, Kota Hatanaka, Fumiyuki Nakai, Nobuhiro Bolton, Patrick F
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Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder. Several genetic causes of ASD have been identified and this has enabled researchers to construct mouse models. Mouse behavioral tests reveal impaired social interaction and communication, as well as increased repetitive behavior and behavioral inflexibility in these mice, which corres...
Sun, Yao Guo, Yongqing Feng, Xuejian Jia, Meng Ai, Ning Dong, Yue Zheng, Yayuan Fu, Lu Yu, Bin Zhang, Haihong
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Journal of Neuroinflammation
BackgroundTau hyper-phosphorylation has been considered a major contributor to neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related tauopathies, and has gained prominence in therapeutic development for AD. To elucidate the pathogenic mechanisms underlying AD and evaluate therapeutic approaches targeting tau, numerous transgenic mouse models th...
García-Serrano, Alba Tomé-Carneiro, Joao Carmen Crespo, M Visitación Calvo, M Pereda-Pérez, Inmaculada Baliyan, Shishir Burgos-Ramos, Emma Montero, Olimpio Dávalos, Alberto Venero, César
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Prostaglandins, leukotrienes, and essential fatty acids
Cognitive decline is one of the hallmarks of aging and can vary from mild cognitive impairment to dementia to Alzheimer's disease. In addition to some lifestyle interventions, there is room for the use of nutraceuticals/functional foods as pharma-nutritional tools to lessen the burden of cognitive decline before it worsens. We previously reported t...
Renzetti, Tommaso Calabrese, Costanza Pietrafusa, Nicola Pannacci, Ilaria Rainò, Raffaella Giuffrida, Andrea Specchio, Nicola Vigevano, Federico
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Epilepsy & behavior : E&B
The objective of this study was to educate the school staff for a correct management of epileptic seizures in order to increase the safety of young people at school and promoting the administration of rescue drugs and in order to improve care and reduce improper calls to the health emergency number. This project started in January 2016, and it is s...
