Integrating molecular genetics analyses into clinical research.

abstract：:Bidirectional communication between the immune system and the brain and the implications of this communication are emerging concepts in pain research. Although representing a small portion of the disc degeneration syndromes, lumbar herniated discs can cause significant symptoms that may persist even after surgical int...

journal_title：Biological research for nursing

authors： Starkweather A,Witek-Janusek L,Mathews HL

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The objectives of this study were to determine the change in gene expression between two time points following stroke and to identify biomarkers of stroke recovery through gene expression profiling and pathway analysis. METHODS:Peripheral blood was collected from 34 ischemic stroke patients (confirmed by ma...

journal_title：Biological research for nursing

authors： Barr TL,VanGilder R,Rellick S,Brooks SD,Doll DN,Lucke-Wold AN,Chen D,Denvir J,Warach S,Singleton A,Matarin M

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Eating disorders are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. The etiology and maintenance of eating-disorder symptoms are not well understood. Evidence suggests that there may be gustatory alterations in patients with eating disorders. OBJECTIVE:This article systematically reviews research assessing...

journal_title：Biological research for nursing

authors： Chao AM,Roy A,Franks AT,Joseph PV

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this pilot study was to investigate selected stress, immune, and growth consequences of maternal separation and separation with supplemental stroking in neonatal BALB/c infant mice and their dams. Three groups of 5 litters each (7 pups per litter) were studied. Control litters were undisturbed. Separate...

journal_title：Biological research for nursing

authors： Groër MW,Hill J,Wilkinson JE,Stuart A

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of vascular dementia continues to increase with no cure. Thus, it is important identify the aggravating factors of vascular dementia to delay disease progression in patients. Obesity is a well-known risk factor for vascular dementia and causes mild cognitive impairment. In the present study, we evaluate...

journal_title：Biological research for nursing

authors： Kim Y,Kim YJ

更新日期：2020-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokines are small signaling proteins released from a variety of cells that influence virtually every aspect of growth and development and every host response to infection, injury, and inflammation. Because of their widespread and potent effects across the life span, cytokines without a doubt influence nursing resear...

journal_title：Biological research for nursing

authors： Corwin EJ

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Leptin and adiponectin, two adipokines involved in glucose and lipid metabolism, have been linked to regulation of growth in early infancy, energy balance, and metabolic disorders in childhood. The aim of this study was to determine if concentrations of leptin and adiponectin could be measured reliably in in...

journal_title：Biological research for nursing

authors： Linares AM,Rayens MK,Moylan JS,Miller CS

更新日期：2020-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Proinflammatory activity has been suggested as one of the psychophysiological mechanisms responsible for the health risks associated with stress and mood disorders. There have been limited studies evaluating central immune and hypothalamic- pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis responses to experimental stress in heal...

journal_title：Biological research for nursing

authors： Fitzgerald L

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to maintain balance is often taken for granted, yet it is the foundation for mobility and overall functional independence throughout the life span. The purpose of this article is to define balance, review the components of balance, and describe common instruments used to measure balance. Clinical screening...

journal_title：Biological research for nursing

authors： Yim-Chiplis PK,Talbot LA

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abdominal pain is an important symptom in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), but patients report typical pain intensities ranging from mild to very severe. In a sample of women, the authors sought to determine whether measures of systemic autonomic activity are related to self-reported pain intensity and the occurrence o...

journal_title：Biological research for nursing

authors： Burr RL,Heitkemper M,Jarrett M,Cain KC

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drug addiction is a multifactorial disorder. Researchers have posited that an individual's inherited behavioral propensity or temperament contributes to the disorder by shaping a personality strongly linked with the risk of drug abuse. Further, they hypothesize that the polymorphism of dopamine D2 receptor i...

journal_title：Biological research for nursing

authors： Teh LK,Izuddin AF,M H FH,Zakaria ZA,Salleh MZ

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paclitaxel (PAC) treatment is associated with persistent, debilitating neuropathic pain that affects the hands and feet. Female sex and biological stress responsivity are risk factors for persistent pain, but it is unclear whether these important biologically based factors confer risk for PAC-induced neuropathic pain....

journal_title：Biological research for nursing

authors： Kozachik SL,Page GG

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Larger veins are associated with a higher rate of success of peripheral intravenous cannulation. Although patient position affects venodilation during central venous cannulation, the association between patient position and vein size for peripheral intravenous cannulation remains unclear. PURPOSE:We examine...

journal_title：Biological research for nursing

authors： Yamagami Y,Inoue T

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to compare physiological and psychological reactions among Taiwanese women with different degrees of severity of nausea and vomiting (NV) during pregnancy. Based on their scores on the Index of Nausea, Vomiting, and Retching (INVR), 59 pregnant women ≥ 18 years of age, with single gestati...

journal_title：Biological research for nursing

authors： Chou FH,Chan TF,Chin CC,Chen YL,Shen CJ,Kuo SH

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:African American (AA) women are nearly twice as likely as non-Hispanic White (NHW) women to develop atherosclerosis associated with cardiovascular disease. Compelling evidence demonstrates that stress-related biomarkers, such as heat shock protein-70 (HSP70), are associated with increased atherosclerosis risk. Yet lit...

journal_title：Biological research for nursing

authors： Saban KL,Hoppensteadt D,Bryant FB,DeVon HA

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delirium is a serious complication of acute illness. Little is known, however, regarding the neurobiology of delirium, largely due to challenges in studying the complex inpatient population. Neuroimaging is one noninvasive method that can be used to study structural and functional brain abnormalities associated with d...

journal_title：Biological research for nursing

authors： Kalvas LB,Monroe TB

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to longitudinally describe changes in heart rate variability (HRV) from 28 to 34 weeks postmenstrual age (PMA). A convenience sample of 31 low-risk preterm infants participated. HRV was quantified using a spectral analysis of heart periods and recorded during seven weekly test sessions fr...

journal_title：Biological research for nursing

authors： Krueger C,van Oostrom JH,Shuster J

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preterm birth (PTB; spontaneous delivery prior to 37 weeks gestation) affects one out of eight infants born in the United States and is the most common cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality. Although the pathogenesis of PTB is multifactorial, a growing body of literature supports the hypothesis that one cause of P...

journal_title：Biological research for nursing

authors： Lyon D,Cheng CY,Howland L,Rattican D,Jallo N,Pickler R,Brown L,McGrath J

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article explores ethical concerns and emerging dilemmas associated with the proliferation of information resulting from the extraordinary advances in molecular genetics. It provides an overview of the ethical and legal challenges associated with predictive testing for inherited disease currently being addressed i...

journal_title：Biological research for nursing

authors： Carter MA

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scientists and clinicians frequently use immunological methods (IMs) to investigate complex biological phenomena. Commonly used IMs include immunocytochemistry (IC), enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) and flow cytometry. Each of these methodologies exploits a common principle in IMs -the binding of an antibody...

journal_title：Biological research for nursing

authors： Morrison HW,Downs CA

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep disturbance is a common and disturbing symptom in military personnel, with many individuals progressing to the development of insomnia, which is characterized by increased arousals, wakefulness after sleep onset, and distorted sleep architecture. The molecular mechanisms underlying insomnia remain elusive, limit...

journal_title：Biological research for nursing

authors： Gill JM,Lee H,Baxter T,Reddy SY,Barr T,Kim HS,Wang D,Mysliwiec V

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-management programs that include cognitive behavioral strategies have been shown to improve gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms, psychological distress, and quality of life (QoL) in persons with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). However, less is known about the physiological impact of such a change. As part of a randomi...

journal_title：Biological research for nursing

authors： Deechakawan W,Cain KC,Jarrett ME,Burr RL,Heitkemper MM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The purpose of this paper is to review the techniques and implications of laser capture microdissection (LCM) to isolate tissue and DNA of interest using breast biopsy tissue as an example. BACKGROUND:Tissues are a heterogeneous mix of different cell types, and molecular alterations are often specific to a single ...

journal_title：Biological research for nursing

authors： Zanni KL,Chan GK

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRs) are epigenetic regulators of messenger RNAs' (mRNA) expression of polypeptides. As such, miRs represent an intriguing mechanism by which gene-environment interactions are hypothesized to occur on the level of epigenetic control over gene expression. In addition to promising findings from in vitro stud...

journal_title：Biological research for nursing

authors： Flowers E,Froelicher ES,Aouizerat BE

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depression and inflammation are concomitantly elevated in patients with lung cancer and may have collective survival implications. However, the longitudinal relationship between depression and inflammation in patients with metastatic lung cancer is not fully appreciated. We hypothesized that longitudinal cha...

journal_title：Biological research for nursing

authors： McFarland DC,Miller AH,Nelson C

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To explore whether newborns born via Cesarean section have a weaker intraoral vacuum compared with those born vaginally and to determine whether a weaker intraoral vacuum is related to a delayed onset of lactation. METHODS:For this prospective cohort study, 71 mother-infant dyads were enrolled and divided i...

journal_title：Biological research for nursing

authors： Zhang F,Xia H,Li X,Qin L,Gu H,Xu X,Shen M

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our program of research focuses on thermal and circulatory stability in extremely premature infants. In prior studies, we found that infants have long periods of time in which foot temperature (FT) is higher than central temperature. We thus wanted to determine whether blood flow in the foot is increased whe...

journal_title：Biological research for nursing

authors： Knobel-Dail RB,Tanaka DT,Holditch-Davis D,White J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and its prevalence is 2 times higher in women than in men. There is, however, a lack of data on sex-specific pathophysiology of this disorder. The purpose of this systematic review is to identify the biological sex differences found in major depressive disorder ...

journal_title：Biological research for nursing

authors： Labaka A,Goñi-Balentziaga O,Lebeña A,Pérez-Tejada J

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatigue is the most frequently reported symptom by cancer patients. Many of these patients perceive fatigue as the most distressing symptom associated with their illness because it imposes limitations on their physical activity level. Skeletal muscle wasting, which occurs as part of cancer cachexia, is one of the mech...

journal_title：Biological research for nursing

authors： al-Majid S,McCarthy DO

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The theoretical constructs of allostasis and allostatic load (AL) have contributed to our understanding of how constantly changing social and environmental factors impact physiological functioning and shape health and aging disparities, particularly along socioeconomic, gendered, racial, and ethnic lines. AL represent...

journal_title：Biological research for nursing

authors： Beckie TM

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00