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Dietary nitrate and nitrite protect against doxorubicin‐induced cardiac fibrosis and oxidative protein damage in tumor‐bearing mice

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Chemotherapies such as doxorubicin can have toxic effects on healthy cardiovascular/heart tissue. Following up on a doxorubicin toxicity study in mice without tumors where nitrate water was cardioprotective (lessened toxicity), this study with tumor‐bearing mice undergoing doxorubicin treatment showed no negative effect of nitrate and nitrite on drug ...
Rama D. Yammani, Xiaofei Chen, Nildris Cruz‐Diaz, Xuewei Zhu, Swati Basu, Daniel B. Kim‐Shapiro, David R. Soto‐Pantoja, Leslie B. Poole   +7 more
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A study to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practices about blood donation among medical students of a medical college in North India

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2018
Introduction: Scarcity of blood and blood products is frequently encountered in health care institutions. Medical students can serve as an important pool of potential blood donors for the attached teaching hospitals.
Renu Chauhan, Rajesh Kumar, Supriya Thakur   +2 more
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A Study to Assess the Barriers And Facilitators of Blood Donation Among University Students Of South India

Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management, 2021
Introduction: Donated blood is very crucial and life-saving for those who require large volumes of blood in any medical emergency. Many blood donation camps are routinely organized to fill this void of demand and supply. In a university campus associated
Abhishek Chaturvedi, Anup Kumar, Bhaskar Tiwary, Pallabi Roy, Lochan Khullar, Anitha Guru, Piyusha Majumdar   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Blood donation and altruism: the mechanism of altruism (MOA) approach [PDF]

, 2016
Is blood donation a pure altruistic act? The answer to this question has profound implications for the type of interventions we can adopt and the way in which research is conducted into blood donor behaviour.
Andreoni, Aseno-Mensah, Basil, Basil, Batson, Bednall, Bednall, Bolt, Bshary, Chell, Chliaoutakis, Choi, Cialdini, Clary, Clary, Clavien, Conner, Cotte, Dunn, Ein-Gar, Evans, Fehr, Fehr, Ferguson, Ferguson, Ferguson, Ferguson, Ferguson, Ferguson, Ferguson, France, Godin, Guiddi, Harbaugh, Jenni, Keltner, Kogut, Kogut, Lacetera, Lacetera, Landry, Lemmens, Lyle, Mellstrom, Milinski, Nagal, Nuffield Council on Bioethics, Omoto, Piliavin, Reich, Renner, Sachdeva, Sass, Small, Small, Sober, Steele, Steinberg, Trafimow, Vastfjall, West, Wood, Zahavi, Zak   +63 more
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Diabetes‐induced vascular calcification is associated with low pyrophosphate and its oral supplementation prevents calcification in diabetic mice

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Induction of diabetes in three different mouse strains uniformly resulted in an increase in TNAP activity and a reduction in pyrophosphate (PPi) in the circulation. Inhibition of TNAP restored plasma PPi. Diabetes‐induced calcification in the media layer of the aorta was detected only in the Abcc6−/− strain, which is predisposed to ectopic ...
Krisztina Fülöp, Eszter Kozák, Natália Tőkési, Lilian Kocsis, Anikó Kelemen, Zsuzsanna Geszti, Adriána Kutás, Mariann Harangi, Ágnes Diószegi, Zsolt Rapi, József Balla, Olivier Le Saux, András Váradi, Viola Pomozi   +13 more
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Voluntary blood donation camp- A challenge during COVID-19 pandemic

Indian Journal of Pathology and Oncology, 2023
Voluntary blood donors are the mainstay of any blood donation camp, whether in a hospital or in a blood bank. Selection of such donors becomes an important element in any blood donation program. However, the spread of COVID-19 worldwide had a crippling impact on blood donations/ blood safety and had posed a huge challenge.
null Neetha Y, Pranjal Nath, Shashikala P Krishnamurthy, Kavita G Umapathy   +3 more
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Network Localization of Fatigue in Multiple Sclerosis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Fatigue is among the most common symptoms and one of the main factors determining the quality of life in multiple sclerosis (MS). However, the neurobiological mechanisms underlying fatigue are not fully understood. Here we studied lesion locations and their connections in individuals with MS, aiming to identify brain networks ...
Olli Likitalo, Jaakko Kungshamn, Albert Bellmunt‐Gil, Silvia Tommasin, Abhineet Ojha, Matias Viitala, Juho Aaltonen, Jyrki Lötjönen, Juha Koikkalainen, Pauli Ylikotila, Patrizia Pantano, Merja Soilu‐Hänninen, Juho Joutsa   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Voluntary and Non-Voluntary Blood Donations Employees at Sentosa Mother and Child Hospital Makassar

International Journal Papier Advance and Scientific Review, 2023
The goal of this study is to determine whether or not the staff of Sentosa Mother and Child Hospital in Makassar voluntarily donate blood. Sentosa Mother and Child Hospital in Makassar hosted this study. This study used a number of different research strategies. 53 participants make up the sample size for this study.
Jemmy Lao, Andi Niartiningsih
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Investigating the relationship between HIV testing and risk behaviour in Britain: National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles 2000.

, 2005
OBJECTIVES: To estimate the prevalence of, and identify factors associated with, HIV testing in Britain. DESIGN: A large, stratified probability sample survey of sexual attitudes and lifestyles.
Copas, Andrew J, Erens, Bob, Fenton, Kevin A, Johnson, Anne M, McGarrigle, Christine A, Mercer, Catherine H, Wellings, Kaye   +6 more
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Frailty Exacerbates Disability in Progressive Multiple Sclerosis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background To evaluate frailty in severe progressive multiple sclerosis (PMS) and to investigate the underlying mechanisms. Methods This prospective, cross‐sectional, multicenter study enrolled a late severe PMS group requiring skilled nursing (n = 53) and an age, sex, and disease duration‐matched control PMS group (n = 53).
Taylor R. Wicks, Anna Wolska, Diala Ghazal, Dejan Jakimovski, Bianca Weinstock‐Guttman, Alexander Burnham, Niels Bergsland, Michael G. Dwyer, Alan T. Remaley, Robert Zivadinov, Murali Ramanathan   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source