Stress, encompassing psychological, physical, and physiological challenges, is an important factor affecting an individual's well-being and potentially leading to psychiatric, neurodegenerative, immune, and metabo...
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Stress, encompassing psychological, physical, and physiological challenges, is an important factor affecting an individual's well-being and potentially leading to psychiatric, neurodegenerative, immune, and metabolic disorders. However, not everyone exposed to stress develops these conditions, highlighting the concept of resilience. Resilience is a dynamic process categorized into four dimensions: pre-existing resilience capacity, ongoing resilience processes, post-stress resilience outcomes, and recovery from psychopathologies. These dimensions involve genomic, cellular, and systemic interactions influenced by genetic factors, early life experiences, adult life experiences in addition to community/environmental factors, and health behaviors. The biological response to stress encompasses endocrine, autonomic, immunological, and behavioral components, modulated by stressor characteristics and individual traits. Due to the limitations in studying stress and resilience in humans, translational models using rodents and cell cultures are essential. Rodent models include acute, chronic, and traumatic stress paradigms, aiding the study of stress-related behavioral and molecular outcomes. Additionally, early life stress models, such as prenatal stress and maternal separation, provide insights into developmental impacts. In this review, first, rodent models for lifelong stress exposure will be summarized considering their validity, advantages, and limitations. Subsequently, an overview of models designed to enhance resilience capacity and process in rodents, and later the behavioral models employed to study the outcomes of resilience will be given. Lastly, the focus will be shifted to cell culture and iPSCs models. Finally, future considerations focused on improving translational models used to study stress and resilience will be discussed. It is aimed to provide an overview of designs for translational stress and resilience models to access more effective translational biom
Understanding the dynamical behavior of complex systems from their underlying network architectures is a long-standing question in complexity theory. Therefore, many metrics have been devised to extract network featur...
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia, presenting a significant unmet medical need worldwide. The pathogenesis of AD involves various pathophysiological events, including the accumulation of am...
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia, presenting a significant unmet medical need worldwide. The pathogenesis of AD involves various pathophysiological events, including the accumulation of amyloid and tau, neuro-inflammation, and neuronal injury. Clinical trials focusing on new drugs for AD were documented in 2020, but subsequent developments have emerged since then. Notably, the US-FDA has approved Aducanumab and Lecanemab, both antibodies targeting amyloid, marking the end of a nearly two-decade period without new AD drugs. In this comprehensive report, we review all trials listed in ***, elucidating their underlying mechanisms and study designs. Ongoing clinical trials are investigating numerous promising new drugs for AD. The main trends in these trials involve pathophysiology-based, disease-modifying therapies and the recruitment of participants in earlier stages of the disease. These trends underscore the significance of conducting fundamental research on pathophysiology, prevention, and intervention prior to the occurrence of brain damage caused by AD.
Even presenting risk of falls or mobility difficulties, many seniors prefer to live independently as long as possible. Thus, there is a need for solutions to enable independent living safely and to strengthen family s...
Even presenting risk of falls or mobility difficulties, many seniors prefer to live independently as long as possible. Thus, there is a need for solutions to enable independent living safely and to strengthen family support. Among them are the collection devices that assist in monitoring and quality of life of seniors. This paper aims to conduct a survey of devices developed to capture signal monitoring and mobility aid for the elderly. The devices were grouped into a main category (sensors) followed by secondary categories in relation to the type of use of the sensors (aid device with sensors, robotics and smart homes). Data were analyzed descriptively, listing the products with the types of use. The study raised a total of 22 products. It is observed that most of the feedback systems is to use sensor systems alone, without being used in sets with other technologies like assistive devices or robotics. Most of the technologies has been developed for detecting falls, and fewer tasks are transfer and mobility in the community. We emphasize the importance of unity of catchment systems signals with assistive technologies, in addition to monitoring the elderly provide direct aid in performing the task performed.
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