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Immunology
Aparajita Saha, Jaclyn Escudero, Troy Layouni, Barbra Richardson, Sharon Hou, Nelly Mugo, Andrew Mujugira, Connie Celum, Jared M. Baeten, Jairam Lingappa, Grace C. John-Stewart, Sylvia M. LaCourse, Javeed A. Shah
Summary: This study found that immune activation changes during pregnancy and postpartum may contribute to increased risk for tuberculosis progression. Specifically, pregnant women with latent tuberculosis infection showed diminished M. tuberculosis-specific CD4(+) cytokine responses in the third trimester, while M. tuberculosis-specific CD8(+) cytokines and nonspecifically activated T-cells increased during late pregnancy.
JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
(2022)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Rachel O'Donnell, Jason C. K. Chan, Jeffrey L. Foster, Maryanne Garry
Summary: Considerable evidence shows that repetition of misinformation increases its influence, but little research has investigated the effect of source variability (i.e., having multiple witnesses) on misinformation influence. Two experiments were conducted, manipulating repetition and source variability separately. Results showed that repetition increased suggestibility, while source variability had no effect. A meta-analysis further supported these findings. Overall, participants' responses seem to be influenced more by retrieval fluency than source-specific information.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
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Biochemical Research Methods
Risa Karakida Kawaguchi, Ziqi Tang, Stephan Fischer, Chandana Rajesh, Rohit Tripathy, Peter K. Koo, Jesse Gillis
Summary: In this study, the use of redundant marker genes improves cell type annotation in sparse scATAC-seq data, and simple aggregation of these marker genes achieves comparable or better performance than machine-learning classifiers. This suggests the potential of marker genes for downstream applications.
BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS
(2023)
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Ecology
Raissa A. de Boer, Regina Vega-Trejo, Alexander Kotrschal, John L. Fitzpatrick
Summary: The meta-analysis of 139 studies on diploid animals reveals that they tend to mate without avoiding kin, with the degree of relatedness and prior experience affecting the behavior. Unbiased mating in terms of kinship appears to be common across animals. The findings challenge the widely held view of inbreeding avoidance as a given in experimental studies.
NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
(2021)
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Psychiatry
Lone D. Horlyck, Andreas E. Jespersen, John A. King, Henrik Ullum, Kamilla W. Miskowiak
Summary: The study findings suggest impaired hippocampal functioning in patients with remitted UD/BD, as they showed selective impairment in high-load allocentric spatial memory compared to egocentric memory.
JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH
(2022)
Review
Psychology
Jonas Everaert, Janna N. Vrijsen, Renee Martin-Willett, Livia van de Kraats, Jutta Joormann
Summary: This meta-analytic review provides evidence that individuals with current depressive symptoms exhibit a bias in how they remember emotional information, particularly when trying to remember positive information. Individuals who have recovered from depression may show a memory bias only when experiencing a negative mood or feeling stressed. Interventions for individuals currently suffering from depressive symptoms or those who have recovered but feel down or stressed may focus on improving difficulties in retrieving positive memories through repeated training.
PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Indraja E. Germanaite, Kestutis Zaleckis, Rimantas Butleris, Audrius Lopata
Summary: This article introduces a methodology for describing and detecting spatial economic, social, and environmental phenomena. It can be applied in urban planning and design. The methodology is based on the theory of Complex Spatial System, spatial configuration, and spatial capital. The experimental results show its effectiveness. It can be used in the future to solve problems in CSS.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Philipp Kuhnke, Marie C. Beaupain, Johannes Arola, Markus Kiefer, Gesa Hartwigsen
Summary: Conceptual knowledge is crucial for human cognition. This study used neuroimaging experiments to investigate how different modalities contribute to conceptual processing. The findings suggest that the processing of concepts consistently activates brain regions involved in the corresponding perceptual-motor experiences, and there are specific regions that are engaged in multiple modalities. These results provide support for a hierarchical neural architecture in the conceptual system.
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
(2023)
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Giuseppe Carrus, Lorenza Tiberio, Stefano Mastandrea, Parissa Chokrai, Immo Fritsche, Christian A. Kloeckner, Torsten Masson, Stepan Vesely, Angelo Panno
Summary: Understanding how psychological processes drive human energy choices is an urgent need for contemporary society, yet remains relatively under-investigated. This research finds significant positive associations between individual attitudes, intentions, values, awareness, and emotions with energy-saving behaviors. Interestingly, the attitude-behavior links are not statistically significant when actual behavior is considered as an outcome.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sarah K. Meier, Kimberly L. Ray, Juliana C. Mastan, Savannah R. Salvage, Donald A. Robin
Summary: Research on brain-based deception, which has been ongoing for two decades, has identified an interconnected network involving multiple brain regions through the analysis of 45 task-based fMRI studies. The findings suggest that the supramarginal gyrus plays a key role in the sociocognitive process of deception.
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Neurosciences
Mario Martinez-Saito, Elena Gorina
Summary: Research suggests that the brain has specialized mechanisms to compute learning signals under social uncertainty. Although most brain activations associated with learning error signals are shared between social and nonsocial conditions, there is evidence of functional segregation of error signals of exclusively social origin in limited regions of ventrolateral prefrontal cortex and insula.
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2022)
Article
Cell Biology
Masood Abu-Halima, Lea Simone Becker, Mohammad A. A. Al Smadi, Hashim Abdul-Khaliq, Markus Raeschle, Eckart Meese
Summary: This study found that genes and proteins related to sperm motility showed altered expression levels in men diagnosed with oligoasthenozoospermia, indicating their potential as diagnostic markers for male infertility.
Article
Neurosciences
Lycia D. de Voogd, Erno J. Hermans
Summary: The downregulation of the amygdala is a key aspect of successful emotion regulation, potentially involving activation of the executive control network and not limited to explicit emotion regulation. Any cognitively demanding task that activates the executive control network may lead to downregulation of the amygdala, with stronger deactivation associated with higher cognitive demand. This finding suggests that working memory tasks could potentially be used as an alternative emotion regulation strategy in clinical settings.
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Sebastian Michelmann, Uri Hasson, Kenneth A. Norman
Summary: When recalling memories, our brain accesses and searches through information-rich continuous episodes. This process is guided by high-level structure called event boundaries, which allows for faster memory scanning by skipping to the next boundary upon reaching a decision threshold.
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Cell Biology
Lifang Han, Gang Wang, Shaopu Zhou, Chenghao Situ, Zhiming He, Yuying Li, Yudan Qiu, Yu Huang, Aimin Xu, Michael Tim Yun Ong, Huating Wang, Jianfa Zhang, Zhenguo Wu
Summary: Muscle regeneration is defective under diabetic conditions, and the mechanisms involve the inhibition of cell cycle re-entry, mediated by elevated extracellular adenosine and AMP. The equilibrative adenosine transporters (ENTs)-adenosine kinase (ADK)-AMPK signaling axis plays a crucial role in this process. Inhibition of ADK and ENTs may have the potential to restore tissue stem cell regeneration in diabetic patients.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
D. Viggiano, D. P. Srivastava, L. Speranza, C. Perrone-Capano, G. C. Bellenchi, U. di Porzio, N. J. Buckley
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2015)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Luisa Speranza, Teresa Giuliano, Floriana Volpicelli, M. Egle De Stefano, Loredana Lombardi, Angela Chambery, Enza Lacivita, Marcello Leopoldo, Gian C. Bellenchi, Umberto di Porzio, Marianna Crispino, Carla Perrone-Capano
FRONTIERS IN BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2015)
Article
Genetics & Heredity
Vincenzo Guida, Filippo M. Cernilogar, Angela Filograna, Roberto De Gregorio, Hirotsugu Ishizu, Mikiko C. Siomi, Gunnar Schotta, Gian Carlo Bellenchi, Davide Andrenacci
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Luisa Speranza, Josephine Labus, Floriana Volpicelli, Daria Guseva, Enza Lacivita, Marcello Leopoldo, Gian Carlo Bellenchi, Umberto di Porzio, Monika Bijata, Carla Perrone-Capano, Evgeni Ponimaskin
JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY
(2017)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Davide Viggiano, Luisa Speranza, Marianna Crispino, Gian Carlo Bellenchi, Umberto di Porzio, Attilio Iemolo, Elvira De Leonibus, Floriana Volpicelli, Carla Perrone-Capano
BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH
(2018)
Article
Cell & Tissue Engineering
Roberto De Gregorio, Salvatore Pulcrano, Claudia De Sanctis, Floriana Volpicelli, Ezia Guatteo, Lars von Oerthel, Emanuele Claudio Latagliata, Roberta Esposito, Rosa Maria Piscitelli, Carla Perrone-Capano, Valerio Costa, Dario Greco, Stefano Puglisi-Allegra, Marten P. Smidt, Umberto di Porzio, Massimiliano Caiazzo, Nicola Biagio Mercuri, Meng Li, Gian Carlo Bellenchi
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Gian Carlo Bellenchi, Floriana Volpicelli, Valerio Piscopo, Carla Perrone-Capano, Umberto di Porzio
JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY
(2013)
Article
Neurosciences
L. Speranza, A. Chambery, M. Di Domenico, M. Crispino, V. Severino, F. Volpicelli, M. Leopoldo, G. C. Bellenchi, U. di Porzio, C. Perrone-Capano
Article
Neurosciences
Francesca Zoratto, Amanda L. Tringle, Giancarlo Bellenchi, Luisa Speranza, Domenica Travaglini, Umberto diPorzio, Carla Perrone-Capano, Giovanni Laviola, Jean-Luc Dreyer, Walter Adriani
NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
(2013)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Donatella Ponti, Gian Carlo Bellenchi, Rosa Puca, Daniela Bastianelli, Marella Maroder, Giuseppe Ragona, Pascal Roussel, Marc Thiry, Dan Mercola, Antonella Calogero
Article
Neurosciences
Floriana Volpicelli, L. Speranza, S. Pulcrano, R. De Gregorio, M. Crispino, C. De Sanctis, M. Leopoldo, E. Lacivita, U. di Porzio, G. C. Bellenchi, C. Perrone-Capano
MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY
(2019)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Davide Nardone, Angelo Ciaramella, Mariangela Cerreta, Salvatore Pulcrano, Gian C. Bellenchi, Linda Leone, Giuseppe Manco, Ferdinando Febbraio
Summary: SELDI-TOF mass spectrometry is used for protein analysis and biomarker screening, with SELYMATRA being a web application developed to automate identification processes and predict proteins in complex mixtures.
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY
(2022)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Nadia Giordano, Attilio Iemolo, Maria Mancini, Fabrizio Cacace, Maria De Risi, Emanuele Claudio Latagliata, Veronica Ghiglieri, Gian Carlo Bellenchi, Stefano Puglisi-Allegra, Paolo Calabresi, Barbara Picconi, Elvira De Leonibus
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Domenico Russo, Floriana Della Ragione, Riccardo Rizzo, Eiji Sugiyama, Francesco Scalabri, Kei Hori, Serena Capasso, Lucia Sticco, Salvatore Fioriniello, Roberto De Gregorio, Ilaria Granata, Mario R. Guarracino, Vittorio Maglione, Ludger Johannes, Gian Carlo Bellenchi, Mikio Hoshino, Mitsutoshi Setou, Maurizio D'Esposito, Alberto Luini, Giovanni D'Angelo