Gut microbiota in the association between obesity and kidney function decline: a metagenomics-based study in a rat model by Akehu Alemasi, Lijiang Gu, Yilun Zhou

“…Hence, the objective of this study was to investigate the alterations in the gut microbiota composition that take place during obesity and their correlations with renal function utilizing a rat model.Methods For 20 weeks, 25 Sprague–Dawley rats were fed either a high-fat diet (HFD) or a normal-fat normal diet (ND). Physiological indices, peripheral plasma, kidney tissue, and colon contents were collected for comparison between groups. …”
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Ultrasonographic Measurement of Skin to Lumbar Epidural Space Depth in Pregnant Women Undergoing Elective Cesarean Section: An Observational Study by Sushila Lama Moktan, Milan Kumar Thapa, Ujma Shrestha, Prabin Subedi

“…However, this can be challenging in pregnant women due to physiological changes that affect the anatomy of the lumbar spine. …”
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Automatic Sleep Staging Method Using EEG Based on STFT and Residual Network by Ran Zhang, Rui Jiang, Haowei Hu, Ying Gao, Wei Xia, Boming Song

“…Sleep is a vital physiological process that affects both physical and mental health, with sleep disorders linked to various conditions such as mental illnesses and cardiovascular diseases. …”
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Human respiratory organoids sustained reproducible propagation of human rhinovirus C and elucidation of virus-host interaction by Cun Li, Yifei Yu, Zhixin Wan, Man Chun Chiu, Jingjing Huang, Shuxin Zhang, Xiaoxin Zhu, Qiaoshuai Lan, Yanlin Deng, Ying Zhou, Wei Xue, Ming Yue, Jian-Piao Cai, Cyril Chik-Yan Yip, Kenneth Kak-Yuen Wong, Xiaojuan Liu, Yang Yu, Lin Huang, Hin Chu, Jasper Fuk-Woo Chan, Hans Clevers, Kwok Yung Yuen, Jie Zhou

“…Collectively, we develop an organoid-based system to reproducibly propagate the poorly cultivable HRV-C, followed by a comprehensive characterization of HRV-C infection and innate immunity in physiologically active respiratory organoids. The organoid-based HRV-C infection model can be extended for developing antiviral strategies. …”
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Mechanism of Ferroptosis and Its Role in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Wenxin Sha, Fei Hu, Yang Xi, Yudong Chu, Shizhong Bu

“…Ferroptosis is ubiquitous in our body as it exists in both physiologic and pathogenic processes. It is involved in glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) impairment and arsenic-induced pancreatic damage in the pathogenesis of diabetes. …”
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Medical and social domains of ageing research in Singapore (2008–2018): a scoping review by Chen Hee Tam, Elaine Qiao Ying Ho, Sumali Subhashini Hewage, Shilpa Tyagi, Gerald Choon Huat Koh

“…In the medical domain, publications on Ophthalmology (22%) made up the largest proportion of the existing medical literature on ageing in Singapore, followed by Physical Functioning (17%), which involved physiological measurements of physical well-being, and Geriatrics (16%). …”
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Growth arrest lines and intra-epiphyseal silhouettes: a case series by Ian W Kennedy, Greg J Irwin, James S Huntley

“…Abstract Background Growth arrest lines can develop within the skeleton after physiological stress or trauma. They are usually evident on radiographs as transverse lines in the metaphyses and have been used in fields from palaeontology to orthopaedics. …”
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The use of industrial waste materials for alleviation of iron deficiency in sunflower and maize by Brigitta Tóth, Makoena Joyce Moloi

“…Purpose The aim of this study was to prove that the Fe-containing by-products (compost, sewage and lime sludge) have potential influence on the correction of Fe deficiency in sunflower and maize. Method The physiological parameters used were the dry matter (DM), the relative chlorophyll content, and the content of photosynthesis pigments (chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b and carotenoids). …”
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Goat Genomic Resources: The Search for Genes Associated with Its Economic Traits by A. M. A. M. Zonaed Siddiki, Gous Miah, Md. Sirazul Islam, Mahadia Kumkum, Meheadi Hasan Rumi, Abdul Baten, Mohammad Alamgir Hossain

“…Candidate genes influence the physiological pathway, metabolism, and expression of phenotypes. …”
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NOVEL MULTI-MODAL OBSTRUCTION MODULE FOR DIABETES MELLITUS CLASSIFICATION USING EXPLAINABLE MACHINE LEARNING by Reehana SHAIK, Ibrahim SIDDIQUE

“…Moreover, there are different types of DM depending on the physiological process, and the types include Type1 DM, Type2 DM and Gestational DM. …”
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From fitness trackers to medical devices: wearable technologies by Zhi Zhou

“…The multiple possibilities they offer have spread towards previously hard-to-imagine fields, like e-health or human physiological monitoring. An application has been developed for its usage in scenarios where data collection is applied to smart spaces, aiming at its usage in firefighting and sports. …”
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Non-invasive Physiotherapeutic Approaches in Biliary Dyskinesia by Elena Costescu, Gabriela Calin, Vlad Țîrlea, Mihaiela Camelia Țabrean

“…The application of a non-invasive physiotherapy treatment with interference current, aiming to stimulate the motility of the gallbladder walls, resulting in a physiological activity but also an increase in the pain threshold. …”
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Effectiveness of cognitive–behavioural therapy: a protocol for an overview of systematic reviews and meta-analyses by Sarah E Lamb, Shona Kirtley, Beth Fordham, Thavapriya Sugavanam, Sally Hopewell, Karla Hemming, Jeremy Howick, Roshan das Nair, Julia Hamer-Hunt

“…The outcomes of interest include: health-related quality of life, depression, anxiety, psychosis and physical/physiological outcomes prioritised in the individual reviews. …”
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Effect of grape seed extract on β -catenin gene expression and hyperglycemia in rats induced by streptozotocin by Elif Gulbahce-Mutlu, Emine Arslan, Hilal Arikoglu

“…The Wnt/β -catenin signaling pathway plays a role in in all physiological processes. Any defect in the pathway causes diabetes to develop. …”
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Local field potentials in a pre-motor region predict learned vocal sequences. by Daril E Brown, Jairo I Chavez, Derek H Nguyen, Adam Kadwory, Bradley Voytek, Ezequiel M Arneodo, Timothy Q Gentner, Vikash Gilja

“…Surprisingly, the time frequency structure of HVC LFP is qualitatively similar to well-established oscillations found in both human and non-human mammalian motor areas. This physiological similarity, despite distinct anatomical structures, may give insight into common computational principles for learning and/or generating complex motor-vocal behaviors.…”
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Modulatory Action by the Serotonergic System: Behavior and Neurophysiology in Drosophila melanogaster by Zana R. Majeed, Esraa Abdeljaber, Robin Soveland, Kristin Cornwell, Aubrey Bankemper, Felicitas Koch, Robin L. Cooper

“…Serotonin modulates various physiological processes and behaviors. This study investigates the role of 5-HT in locomotion and feeding behaviors as well as in modulation of sensory-motor circuits. …”
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Identification of Differentially Expressed lncRNAs in a CpG ODN-Activated Macrophage by Ying Zheng, Xi Luo, Zailong Qin, Zhiguang Zhou

“…Long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) is a novel class of noncoding RNA, whose length is more than 200 nt, but without protein-coding capacity. lncRNAs are involved in many physiological and pathological processes, including inflammatory responses. …”
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DHCT-GAN: Improving EEG Signal Quality with a Dual-Branch Hybrid CNN–Transformer Network by Yinan Cai, Zhao Meng, Dian Huang

“…However, EEG signals are often influenced by various physiological artifacts, which can significantly affect data analysis and diagnosis. …”
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Exploring the link between gut health, diet, and food allergy by Magdalena Klimczak, Barbara Rymarczyk, Radosław Gawlik

“…The gut microbiota refers to the complex ecosystem of microorganisms, including bacteria, archaea, viruses and fungi, that inhabit the human gastrointestinal tract and play a central role in human health, contributing to a range of physiological functions. Recent research has highlighted the potential role of gut dysbiosis in the development of food allergy, particularly in the context of genetic microbiome studies and metabolomics. …”
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Enhancing Soybean Yield Through Inoculation of Multifunctional Microbial Consortia by Murilo Francisco Travençoli Rossetim, Antonio Carlos Vargas Motta, Yanka Rocha Kondo, Barbara Elis Santos Ruthes, Mariangela Hungria, Joana Falcão Salles, Glaciela Kaschuk

“…In the field, plants were cultivated until physiological maturity. Soil and plant samples were collected at three growth stages: vegetative, reproductive, and maturation. …”
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