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Physiol Rep 2021 Mar;9(5):e14788

Department of Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.

Anorexia nervosa (AN) has a lifetime prevalence of up to 4% and a high mortality rate (~5-10%), yet little is known regarding the etiology of this disease. In an attempt to fill the gaps in knowledge, activity-based anorexia (ABA) in rodents has been a widely used model as it mimics several key features of AN including severely restricted food intake and excessive exercise. Using this model, a role for the hypothalamic proopiomelanocortin (POMC) system has been implicated in the development of ABA as Pomc mRNA is elevated in female rats undergoing the ABA paradigm. Read More

Appl Radiat Isot 2021 Feb 21;168:109424. Epub 2020 Oct 21.

Nuclear Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80204, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia.

Flares are used in the oil industry and other industries to dispose of waste gasses by burning. Damaged or blocked flares can lead to incomplete combustion and the release of contaminating gasses into the atmosphere. In this study, the neutron back-diffusion technique was used to measure the scale inside a flare stack. Read More

ACS Infect Dis 2021 Mar 3. Epub 2021 Mar 3.

School of Chemistry, Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.

Bacterial biofilms are a major threat to human health, causing persistent infections that lead to millions of fatalities worldwide every year. Biofilms also cause billions of dollars of damage annually by interfering with industrial processes. Recently, cationic pillararenes were found to be potent inhibitors of biofilm formation in Gram-positive bacteria. Read More

J Innov Card Rhythm Manag 2021 Feb 15;12(2):4395-4408. Epub 2021 Feb 15.

Knight Cardiovascular Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA.

This study sought to determine factors associated with cardiac memory (CM) in patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs). Patients with structural heart disease [n = 20; mean age: 72.6 ± 11. Read More

Surg Neurol Int 2021 10;12:49. Epub 2021 Feb 10.

Department of Neurosurgery, Niigata University, Brain Research Institute, Niigata, Japan.

Background: Perianeurysmal edema (PAE) has been suggested as an indicator of potential aneurysm rupture; however, the hemodynamic features of these aneurysms are still unknown. A computational fluid dynamic (CFD) analysis was performed to evaluate the hemodynamic features of a very rare case of a ruptured middle cerebral artery (MCA) aneurysm with PAE.

Case Description: A 65-year-old woman presented with disturbed consciousness. Read More