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A Systematic Review of the Psychosocial Impact of Endometriosis before and after Treatment
While endometriosis is a common gynecologic disease associated with infertility, the psychosocial impact of endometriosis has not been evaluated against various quality of life (QoL) instruments and compared w...
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Open AccessThe Influence of Employment Quality on Employee Health Complaints: A Parallel Mediation Model
Employment quality is a social determinant of employee health. However, little is known about the psychological mechanisms underlying this relationship. In this study, we investigated whether work engagement a...
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Open AccessCorrection to: linking teacher‑student relationship quality and student group performance: a mediation model
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Bacillus coagulans GBI-30, 6086 (BC30) improves lactose digestion in rats exposed to a high-lactose meal
Bacillus coagulans GBI-30, 6086 (BC30) was previously shown to improve nutrient digestibility and amino acid absorption from milk protein in vitro. However, the effect of supplementation with this probiotic on la...
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Open AccessPerceived overqualification and work engagement: the moderating role of organizational size
Testing two competing hypotheses based on different theories (i.e., the theory of career mobility and social exchange theory), this study examines whether organizational size enhances or buffers the negative r...
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Open AccessLinking teacher-student relationship quality and student group performance: A mediation model
We tested a mediation model of the influence of teacher-student relationship quality on student group performance in a higher-education context where a group-oriented learning approach is implemented. Specific...
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Open AccessGenetic polymorphisms in TLR3, IL10 and CD209 influence the risk of BK polyomavirus infection after kidney transplantation
Genetic determinants of BK polyomavirus infection after kidney transplantation remain poorly investigated. We assessed the potential impact of 13 different single nucleotide polymorphisms within genes mainly i...
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Immune profiling of breast milk from mothers with treated celiac disease
The protective effect of breastfeeding on celiac disease (CD) onset is controversial. We studied a wide range of milk components in milk produced by celiac mothers following long-term gluten-free diet (GFD) in...
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Peer-Led Sexual Health Education: Multiple Perspectives on Benefits for Peer Health Educators
Peer-led education programming is a frequently used strategy for implementing adolescent sexual and reproductive health education. Research on effectiveness has demonstrated mixed outcomes for adolescent parti...
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Impact of Holder pasteurization on immunological properties of human breast milk over the first year of lactation
The timing of milk donations to human milk banks ranges from a few days to more than 1 year after delivery, and the Holder method is used for pasteurization. We evaluated the effect of temporal variation and t...
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Operational immune tolerance towards transplanted allogeneic pancreatic islets in mice and a non-human primate
Patients with autoimmune type 1 diabetes transplanted with pancreatic islets to their liver experience significant improvement in quality of life through better control of blood sugar and enhanced awareness of...
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Open AccessDehydration triggers ecdysone-mediated recognition-protein priming and elevated anti-bacterial immune responses in Drosophila Malpighian tubule renal cells
Drosophila is a powerful model for the study of factors modulating innate immunity. This study examines the effect of water-loss dehydration on innate immune responsiveness in the Drosophila renal system (Malpigh...
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Polysaccharide Nanocomposites Reinforced with Graphene Oxide and Keratin-grafted Graphene Oxide
Nanocomposites of polysaccharide matrices, chitosan-starch and carboxymethyl cellulose-starch reinforced with graphene oxide and graphene grafted with keratin were developed. Composites films had been prepared...
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Trypanosoma cruzi: experimental parasitism in the central nervous system of albino mice
Trypanosoma cruzi causes a pan-infection, Chagas disease, in American mammals through fecal transmission by triatomine insects, resulting in an acute phase parasitemia with intracellularity mainl...
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Age-related deregulation of naive T cell homeostasis in elderly humans
Immunosenescence is characterized by phenotypic and functional changes of effector memory T cells. In spite of the well-described senescent defects of these experienced T cells, immune responses to new pathoge...
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SENIORCHANNEL An Interactive Digital Television Channel for Promoting Entertainment and Social Interaction amongst Elderly People
SeniorChannel is a project funded under call 2 of Ambient Assisted Living Program AAL, whose objective is the development of an Interactive Internet Protocol Television Channel (SENIORCHANNEL) that will not on...
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The Impact of Underemployment on Individual and Team Performance
The issue of underemployment is one of increasing concern for countries across the globe. For example, in the USA estimates have put the number of underemployed as high as 20.3%, while in Europe the number of ...
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Thymopoiesis in elderly human is associated with systemic inflammatory status
Immunosenescence studies of age-related immune system damage focused on clinical lymphopenic situations or androgenic blockade have revealed new insights about adult human immune reconstitution. However, as fa...
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Effects of protoscoleces and AgB from Echinococcus granulosus on human neutrophils: possible implications on the parasite’s immune evasion mechanisms
The factors affecting the innate susceptibility to Echinococcus granulosus infections are largely unknown. We assessed the interaction of healthy human neutrophils with protoscoleces (PSC) and antigen B (AgB) of
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Thymic Function-Related Markers Within the Thymus and Peripheral Blood: Are They Comparable?
The thymus involutes with age and its functionality has traditionally been assumed to be limited early in life. However, some studies have demonstrated that thymic function persists in adults. In humans, since...
