OBJECTIVES: Workplace bullying is a potent stressor that may increase sleep problems.Since physical fitness improves resilience to stress, it seems plausible that recreational physical activities may moderate the association between bullying and sleep.The study aimed to examine prospectively whether (i) bullying increases the risk of sleep problems
Diabetes-associated nociceptive hypersensitivity affects diabetic patients with hard-to-treat chronic pain.Because multiple tissues are affected by systemic alterations in insulin signaling, the functional locus of insulin signaling in diabetes-associated hypersensitivity remains obscure.Here, we used Drosophila nociception/nociceptive sensitizatio
ABSTRACT Tick infestations have been reported as one of the factors threatening the health of giant pandas, but studies of viral pathogens carried by ticks feeding on the blood of giant pandas are limited.To assess whether blood-sucking ticks of giant pandas can carry viral pathogens and if so, whether the viruses in ticks are associated Daisy Neck
Gitte S Jensen,1 Bijal Shah,2 Robert Holtz,3 Ashok Patel,4 Donald C Lo2 1NIS Labs, Klamath Falls, OR, 2Department of Neurobiology, Center for Drug Discovery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 3BioInnovation Laboratories, Inc., Lakewood, CO, 4Centre Manufacturing LLC, Eden Prairie, MN, USA Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate t