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Human-Animal InteractionsBackground: Cancer survivors face unique challenges in caring for their pets during treatment and recovery, as they attempt to balance their own personal health needs with their pets’ care and well-being.
Jennifer Currin-McCulloch +3 more
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Allostatic Load Index Effectively Measures Chronic Stress Status in Zoo-Housed Giraffes
Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens, 2023 For giraffes, few standardized methods exist for quantifying chronic stress. Allostatic load index is quantified from a panel of multi-system stress biomarkers to estimate cumulative stress.
Haley N. Beer +3 more
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Language as a stressor in aphasia [PDF]
Aphasiology, 2011 BACKGROUND: Persons with aphasia often report feeling anxious when using language while communicating. While many patients, caregivers, clinicians and researchers would agree that language may be a stressor for persons with aphasia, systematic empirical studies of stress and/or anxiety in aphasia remain scarce.
Dalia, Cahana-Amitay +6 more
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The human gut microbiome across the life course
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Despite significant individual variation and continuous change throughout life, the human gut microbiome follows some life stage‐specific trends. This article provides a brief overview of how gut microbiome composition shifts across different phases of life. Created in BioRender. Özkurt, E. (2026) https://BioRender.com/8q4nrnc.
Alise J. Ponsero +4 more
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Occupational therapy and stress-related exhaustion – a scoping review
Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2023 Background Sick leave due to long-term stress is increasing in Finland and other Western countries. Occupational therapists might contribute to the prevention of and/or recovery from stress-related exhaustion.
Lillie-Marie Hogan +2 more
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Are we really studying resilience in sport? A critical review of adopted methodologies
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Psychological resilience has gained considerable attention in sport. Nevertheless, the construct often remains poorly understood and multiple conceptual and methodological issues pervade the literature.
Jolan Kegelaers, Jolan Kegelaers
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Degradation mechanism of the von Willebrand factor A2 domain by nattokinase
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Nattokinase, a natto‐derived protease, exhibits potent antithrombotic effects. This study demonstrates that nattokinase directly cleaves the von Willebrand factor (vWF) A2 domain in vitro. Unlike the native regulator ADAMTS13, nattokinase degrades folded vWF independently of shear stress.
Ryuichi Hyakumoto +3 more
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The association between COVID-19 related stressors and mental health in refugees living in Australia
European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2021 Background: Refugees may be particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health due to their traumatic pasts and the challenges of the postmigration environment.
Belinda J. Liddell +8 more
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STRESSORS IN TEACHER’S WORK [PDF]
Visuomenės sveikata, 2019 Teachers are among the professions which face the highest level of work-related stress. High level of stress has a negative impact on the teacher’s physical and emotional health, leads to exhaustion, burnout, dissatisfaction with work, and high turnover rates.
Navickienė, Lijana +3 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.We present robust protocols for the preparation of supported lipid bilayers (SLBs) incorporating either Salmonella smooth LPS or outer membrane vesicles (OMVs). We use a combination of quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM‐D) and fluorescence microscopy to both characterize the SLBs of various compositions and to probe their interactions ...
Hudson P. Pace +6 more
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