Objectives: Over the past decade, there has been a markedly growing interest in issues involving work-related stress in Europe. In Italy, according to Eurofound, research has demonstrated high levels of stress in the banking ...

This study evaluated the effectiveness of an intervention, based on positive psychology and social skills, on life satisfaction, job satisfaction and organizational climate in a sample of 27 workers from a public organization ...

Temporoparietal-prefrontal working memory networks are proposed as fundamental in the evolutionary origin of the language regions. Having a primordial capacity to name objects or situations, primitive hominids may have ...

Hypoxia is a common challenge to the fetus, promoting a physiological defence to redistribute blood flow towards the brain and away from peripheral circulations. During acute hypoxia, reactive oxygen species (ROS) interact ...

Cutaneous xanthomas reflect lipid deposition on the skin and may be the only early manifestation of a childhood-onset dyslipidemia. Characteristics and distribution of the xanthomas signalize the underlying pathology, ...

Mutations in superoxide dismutase-1 (SOD1) cause familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (fALS). Recent evidence implicates adaptive responses to endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress in the disease process via a pathway known ...

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is now the dominant form of heart failure and one for which no efficacious therapies exist. Obesity and lipid mishandling greatly contribute to HFpEF. However, molecular ...

Xestospongin B, a macrocyclic bis-1-oxaquinolizidine alkaloid extracted from the marine sponge Xestospongia exigua, was highly purified and tested for its ability to block inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3)-induced Ca2+ ...

Objective: The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of Y chromosome microdeletions in infertile Chilean men. Material and methods: A group of 102 infertile men with azoospermia or severe oligozoospermia were ...