In order to successfully interact with objects located within our environment, the brain must be capable of combining visual information with the appropriate felt limb position (i.e. proprioception) in order compute an ...

Autophagy is a critical survival mechanism facilitating protein turnover and pathogen defense in post-mitotic cells. More recently, mitophagy has been identified for the selective recognition and targeting of mitochondria ...

People can rapidly adapt their movements to a wide array of changes in our environment or the motor apparatus, although this ability can decline with age. Adaptation of movements, such as reaching with altered visual ...

Nuclear erythroid 2 p45-related factor 2 (Nrf2) is a master regulator of oxidative defence, by controlling the expression of a battery of antioxidant enzyme proteins during stressful stimuli. Although Nrf2 is widely ...

This study investigated the effects of the ketone body -hydroxybutyrate (HB) on glucose and fat metabolism in skeletal muscle cells. To accomplish this, L6 muscle cells were incubated with various HB concentrations (0.5, ...

Introduction: The study objective was to investigate the experience of individuals living with Type 2 diabetes (T2DM), some of who participated in a smartphone-based health coaching intervention, and, particularly, their ...

Up until recently, refugees and asylum-seekers, and even more so, the relationship between sport and settlement, has generally been written out of discussions surrounding sport for development (SFD). This study seeks to ...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the Edmonton Obesity Staging System (EOSS) approach as a tool for the identification of obesity-related health risk. Using 20 years of follow-up data from the Coronary Artery Risk ...

Background: Social support from within the culture of sport helps female athletes to develop confidence on and off the playing field. As female athletes become more involved in the culture of sport they further develop ...

Capillary sprouting is known to be guided by Dll4/Notch signaling in mouse retina, while maturation of the endothelium is regulated by Dll1 and Tie2. This study investigates the key molecules involved in endothelial sprouting ...