Genome-wide association and fine-mapping analyses identify novel candidate genes affecting serum cortisol levels using imputed whole-genome sequencing data in pigs by Tae-Hee Kim, Hyeon-ah Kim, Jae-Bong Lee, Dongwon Seo, Yuju Lee, Yong Jun Kang, Sang-Geum Kim, Sang-Hyun Han, Seung-Hwan Lee, Cedric Gondro, Hee-Bok Park, In-Cheol Cho

“…Secretion of cortisol, a neurophysiological change mediated by the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, is a central mechanism in the biological stress response. This hormone is closely related to pig robustness and health and can serve as an informative indicator of stress resistance and robustness in pigs. …”
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The impact of exercise self-efficacy on depression in firefighters: mediating effect of basic psychological needs and moderating effect of perceived social support by Wenjia Chen, Jiayi Yao, Guoqing Zhu, Zongyu Liu, Haozhe Wang, Dengshan Chu, Haitao Niu

“…BackgroundFirefighters are exposed to high-stress work environments and are prone to depression, which has a significant impact on their professional performance and quality of life. …”
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Epigenetic control of topoisomerase 1 activity presents a cancer vulnerability by Tae-Hee Lee, Colina X. Qiao, Vladislav Kuzin, Yuepeng Shi, Marina Farkas, Zhiyan Zhao, Vijayalalitha Ramanarayanan, Tongyu Wu, Tianyi Guan, Xianzhen Zhou, David Corujo, Marcus Buschbeck, Laura Baranello, Philipp Oberdoerffer

“…What protects genomic hot spots of topological stress from excessive TOP1cc accumulation remains unknown. …”
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Myosin cluster dynamics determines epithelial wound ring constriction by Alka Bhat, Rémi Berthoz, Simon Lo Vecchio, Coralie Spiegelhalter, Shigenobu Yonemura, Olivier Pertz, Daniel Riveline

“…Altogether myosin clusters dynamics is conserved between single and multi-cellular systems, and this suggests that they could be used as generic read-outs for mapping and predicting stress generation and shape changes in morphogenesis.…”
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Protective effects of Cordyceps militaris against hepatocyte apoptosis and liver fibrosis induced by high palmitic acid diet by Wan-Ting Tsai, Wan-Ting Tsai, Jiro Hasegawa Situmorang, Wei-Wen Kuo, Wei-Wen Kuo, Wei-Wen Kuo, Chia-Hua Kuo, Shinn-Zong Lin, Shinn-Zong Lin, Chih-Yang Huang, Chih-Yang Huang, Chih-Yang Huang, Chih-Yang Huang, Chih-Yang Huang, Tsung-Jung Ho, Tsung-Jung Ho, Tsung-Jung Ho, Tsung-Jung Ho

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Psychological well-being amongst students in a Malaysian medical college one year into the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study by Sylvia W. Kong, Sabrina Pei Y. Cheong, Jade L. Yong, Edmund Liang C. Ong

“…# Background The frequent disruption to the delivery of education and the switch to online learning amidst the COVID-19 pandemic affected students' mental health. …”
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Evaluation of the daily routines and health behaviors of primary school children and their parents: what has changed with a pandemic? by Derya Ceyhan, Betül Karagür Çakmak, Furkan Burkay Gürel

“…Results The study included the data of 2.466 children and their parents. The prevalence of stress was high in parents (63.7%) and their children (52.1%). …”
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Deep learning to assess erythritol in zebrafish development, circadian rhythm, and cardiovascular disease risk by Yehua Bao, Boyang Li, Chengtian Zhao, Xiaoting Man, Shuhui Zhang, Jiayi Zhang, Yiwei Du, Keju Gu, Xizeng Feng

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PTSD course and predictors in a 15 year longitudinal cohort following suspected serious injury by Jeanet F. Karchoud, Chris M. Hoeboer, Irina Karaban, Joanne Mouthaan, Marit Sijbrandij, Miranda Olff, Rens van de Schoot, Mirjam van Zuiden

“…Early post-trauma predictors had predictive value up to 12–15 years. This suggests that early risk identification of one-year PTSD and subsequent effective early interventions also hold long-term beneficial effects for PTSD outcome.…”
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Trapzyme as multimodal Janus nanoplatform for apoptosis-based immunotherapy of periodontitis by Wenjie Zhong, Xuan Liu, Yue Wang, Wenliang Yu, Sisi Chen, Yi Yang, Qingyue Xiao, Simin Yu, Xiang Gao, Jinlin Song

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Effect of Deficit Irrigation on Agronomic and Physiological Performance of Young Persimmon (<i>Diospyros kaki</i> Thunb.) Trees by Rossana Porras-Jorge, José Mariano Aguilar, Carlos Baixauli, Bernardo Pascual, Nuria Pascual-Seva

“…The trees respond to mild water stress reducing transpiration through stomatal closure. …”
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The Effects of Lipid Extracts from Microalgae <i>Chlorococcum amblystomatis</i> and <i>Nannochloropsis oceanica</i> on the Proteome of 3D-Cultured Fibroblasts Exposed to UVA Radiat... by Sinemyiz Atalay Ekiner, Agnieszka Gęgotek, Maria Rosário Domingues, Pedro Domingues, Elżbieta Skrzydlewska

“…<i>Nannochloropsis oceanica</i> and <i>Chlorococcum amblystomatis</i> exhibit significant potential for protecting skin cells from oxidative stress-induced metabolic dysfunctions, owing to their high bioactive lipid content. …”
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Soft Palate Modification Using a Collagen Crosslinking Reagent for Equine Dorsal Displacement of the Soft Palate and Other Upper Airway Breathing Disorders by Stephanie Hunt, Jonathan Kuo, Fabio A. Aristizabal, Matt Brown, Abhijit Patwardhan, Thomas Hedman

“…The pilot in vivo study showed a reduction of snoring loudness in all DDSP horses and elimination of DDSP in at least one of three horses. …”
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Drug-induced tolerant persisters in tumor: mechanism, vulnerability and perspective implication for clinical treatment by Shujie Liu, Anfeng Jiang, Faqing Tang, Minghao Duan, Bin Li

“…Additionally, we highlight synergistic interventions such as lifestyle modifications (e.g., exercise, stress reduction) to suppress pro-tumorigenic inflammation. …”
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The natural and eco-friendly role of Cassia angustifolia in reducing carbaryl toxicity at environmentally relevant concentration by Aleyna Bozkurt, Emine Yalçın, Kültiğin Çavuşoğlu

“…Exposure to 0.3 µg/L carbaryl resulted in a 41% reduction in germination, a 22% decrease in cell proliferation, and significant increases in DNA fragmentation, MN, CAs, and anatomical damage. …”
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Relationship between dietary antioxidants and hypertension with the role of genetic factors: a scoping review protocol by Tao Liu, Jianwei Zeng, Miao Huang, Ru Fu, Xiaogang Li, Weihong Jiang

“…Antihypertensive drugs cannot fully achieve both effective blood pressure reduction and sufficient protection of target organs. …”
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Effectiveness of adapted self-help plus (SH+) to reduce psychological distress among university students in Indonesia (APRESIASI): protocol of a randomized controlled trial by Dhini Andriani, Fredrick D. Purba, Anke B. Witteveen, Neily Zakiyah, Marit Sijbrandij

“…The primary outcome is the reduction in psychological distress assessed with the Patient Health Questionnaire Anxiety and Depression Scale (PHQ-ADS) at three-month follow-up. …”
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Analysis of epitopes and structural responses in egg allergen Gal d 1 using bioinformatic tools and molecular dynamics simulation by Tao Wang, Lili Zhang, Vijaya Raghavan, Yang Liu, Jin Wang

“…In this study, the B-cell linear epitopes of Gal d 1 were predicted by using different bioinformatic tools, based on the primary sequence properties of Gal d 1, and obtained 10 potential B-cell linear epitopes. …”
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Machine learning in psychiatric health records: A gold standard approach to trauma annotation by Eben Holderness, Bruce Atwood, Marc Verhagen, Ann K. Shinn, Philip Cawkwell, Hudson Cerruti, James Pustejovsky, Mei-Hua Hall

“…Additionally, machine learning models were developed to demonstrate practical viability of the gold standard corpus for machine learning applications, achieving a micro F1 score of 0.76 and 0.82 for spans and attributes respectively, indicative of their predictive reliability. This study established the first gold-standard dataset for the complex task of labelling traumatic features in psychiatric health records. …”
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EULER AND EXPONENTIAL ALGORITHM IN VISCOELASTIC ANALYSES OF LAMINATED GLASS by Jaroslav Schmidt, Alena Zemanová

“…The validation against experimental data is provided, and the model reduction is also discussed.…”
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