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Relationship between Maternal Mood Disorders and Dietary Intake of 3-Year-Olds
Maternal depression affects parenting and children’s early development, but its effect on dietary intake is unknown. While husbands’ involvement in parenting and having friends to talk to may reduce childcare stress, this has not been thoroughly studied.
Minatsu Kobayashi +5 more
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Microbial lysate upregulates host oxytocin [PDF]
Neuropeptide hormone oxytocin has roles in social bonding, energy metabolism, and wound healing contributing to good physical, mental and social health. It was previously shown that feeding of a human commensal microbe Lactobacillus reuteri (L.
Alm, Eric J. +13 more
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Metabolism and the Evolution of Social Behavior [PDF]
How does metabolism influence social behavior? This fundamental question at the interface of molecular biology and social evolution is hard to address with experiments in animals, and therefore, we turned to a simple microbial system: swarming in the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Boyle, Kerry +6 more
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Metabolic division of labor in social insects
Social insects are known for reproductive and behavioral division of labor, but little attention has been paid to metabolic forms of division of labor. Metabolic division of labor is the partitioning of complementary metabolic tasks between individuals within the colony, and it is widespread in social insects.
Matteo Negroni, Adria LeBoeuf
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Conceptualizing, Observing, and Influencing Social-Ecological Transitions
This article creates a meeting ground between two distinct and fairly elaborate research traditions dealing with social "transitions": the Dutch societal transitions management approach, and the Viennese sociometabolic transitions approach.
Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Jan Rotmans
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The analysis of energy efficiency of agroecosystems from a sociometabolic perspective is a useful way to assess the sustainability of farm systems. In this paper we examine the transition of a Mediterranean agroecosystem from an organic farm system in ...
Lucía Díez +7 more
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The point here is to contextualize the problem of ecological debt, to demonstrate that it appears within the framework of a world system characterized by an international division of labour.
Boris Schmitt
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Prevalence of thyroid dysfunction among Iranian older adults: a cross-sectional study
There is limited data on the prevalence of thyroid dysfunction in the older population. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of thyroid dysfunction among a sample of Iranian older adults.
Maryam Mirahmad +15 more
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Neuroimaging Evidence of Major Morpho-Anatomical and Functional Abnormalities in the BTBR T+TF/J Mouse Model of Autism [PDF]
BTBR T+tf/J (BTBR) mice display prominent behavioural deficits analogous to the defining symptoms of autism, a feature that has prompted a widespread use of the model in preclinical autism research.
A Gozzi +78 more
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Enhanced Characterization of Drug Metabolism and the Influence of the Intestinal Microbiome: A Pharmacokinetic, Microbiome, and Untargeted Metabolomics Study. [PDF]
Determining factors that contribute to interindividual and intra-individual variability in pharmacokinetics (PKs) and drug metabolism is essential for the optimal use of drugs in humans.
Alhaja, Maher +8 more
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