Multicomponent rehabilitation to improve independence and functioning in elderly patients with common age-associated diseases: a scoping review by Omar Baritello, Hanna Stein, Heinz Völler, Annett Salzwedel, Theo Taxis, Machteld Luizink-Dogan

“…This review mapped the evidence on MR in elderly patients following hospitalisation for age-related conditions regarding functioning-related outcomes.Design Scoping review.Data sources PubMed, Cochrane Library, International Clinical Trials Registry Platform and ClinicalTrials.gov (searched through 24 June 2024).Eligibility criteria We included randomised controlled trials (RCT) and controlled cohort studies (CCS) comparing centre-based MR with usual care (medical care excluding exercise training) in patients ≥75 years, hospitalised for age-related cardiac, neurological, oncological and orthopaedic diseases. …”
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A gene‐centered C. elegans protein–DNA interaction network provides a framework for functional predictions by Juan I Fuxman Bass, Carles Pons, Lucie Kozlowski, John S Reece‐Hoyes, Shaleen Shrestha, Amy D Holdorf, Akihiro Mori, Chad L Myers, Albertha JM Walhout

“…Although great progress has been made in mapping PDIs using chromatin immunoprecipitation, these studies have only characterized ~10% of TFs in any metazoan species. …”
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Analytical and numerical evaluation of the relationship between elongation calibration function and cyber standard tensile tests for ductile materials by N.Y. Kim, N.H. Kim, M.K. Razali, H.M. Lee, M.S. Joun

“…A novel analytical elongation calibration function is presented and numerically validated. This function simply maps an experimental tensile test to the analytical tensile test of the specimen with arbitrary GLPD.…”
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Analysis of The Wife of Bath’s Tale from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales through the Lense of Propp’s Narrative Function by Marko Lim Aratea

“…The purpose of the investigation is to explain the structural elements of the tale using Propp's 31 narrative functions applied to folk stories. In mapping these functions onto the tale, the research underlines how Chaucer follows conventional patterns of storytelling but innovates in crucial areas, mainly when it comes to gender roles and moral redemption. …”
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Coffee Silverskin as a Potential Ingredient for Functional Foods: Recent Advances and a Case Study with Chocolate Cake by Adriana S. Franca, Emiliana P. Basílio, Laís M. Resende, Camila A. Fante, Leandro S. Oliveira

“…Therefore, this study aimed to provide an overview of the latest research on CS as a potential ingredient for functional foods and to evaluate the effect of adding different amounts of CS on the functional and sensory attributes of chocolate cakes. …”
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Resting-State Network Transitions in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: Insights From MEG-Based Dynamic Functional Connectivity by M. V. Suhas, Sanjib Sinha, Karunakar Kotegar, M. Ravindranadh Chowdary, K. Raghavendra, Ajay Asranna, L. G. Viswanathan, N. Mariyappa, H. Anitha

“…This study explores dynamic functional connectivity (dFC) patterns in TLE patients compared to Healthy Controls (HC) using resting-state Magnetoencephalography (MEG) data. dFC, which captures the temporal variability of brain networks, was analyzed across eight frequency bands (delta, theta, alpha, beta, low gamma, mid gamma, high gamma, and broadband) in 21 TLE patients and 21 HC. …”
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Using Postbiotics from Functional Foods for Managing Colorectal Cancer: Mechanisms, Sources, Therapeutic Potential, and Clinical Perspectives by Teresa D’Amore, Cinzia Zolfanelli, Vincenzo Lauciello, Alessio Di Ciancia, Alessio Vagliasindi, Slim Smaoui, Theodoros Varzakas

“…This systematic review investigates the therapeutic potential of postbiotics derived from functional foods in the context of colorectal cancer (CRC), a leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. …”
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Cognitive Dysfunction in Patients Treated with Androgen Deprivation Therapy: A Multimodality Functional Imaging Study to Evaluate Neuroinflammation by Azeem Saleem, Syed Imran Ali Shah, Stephen A. Mangar, Christopher Coello, Matthew B. Wall, Gaia Rizzo, Terry Jones, Patricia M. Price

“…Neuroinflammation was evaluated using positron emission tomography (PET) with the translocator protein (TSPO) radioligand [11C]-PBR28. [11C]-PBR28 uptake in various brain regions was quantified as standardized uptake value (SUVR, normalized to cerebellum) and related to blood oxygen level-dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging (BOLD-fMRI) choice-reaction time task (CRT) activation maps. …”
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Understanding on the association between informal caregiver characteristics and cognitive function of adults with cancer: a scoping review protocol by Yesol Yang, Sharron Rushton, Amanda Woodward, Cristina Hendrix

“…Therefore, the body of literature related to the association between caregiver characteristics and cognitive function of adults with cancer needs to be fully mapped with assessment for knowledge gaps.Methods and analysis Methods for this scoping review was informed by the framework proposed by Arksey and O’Malley. …”
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Structure-function analysis of CNGA3-associated achromatopsia patient variants complements clinical genomics in pathogenicity determination by Ditte K. Rasmussen, Young Joo Sun, Joel A. Franco, Aarushi Kumar, Jennifer T. Vu, Alexander G. Bassuk, Vinit B. Mahajan

“…Here, we present clinical features of a novel CNGA3 variant in an achromatopsia patient and demonstrate its pathogenicity by a three-dimensional (3D) proteoform-based structure-function analysis. We first identified six proteotypic groups using 47 pathogenic missense variants with distinctive functional consequences by mapping their spatial proximity in a 3D protein structure. …”
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Functional characterization of DPP4 and FcRn as receptor and coreceptor for classical human astroviruses in Caco-2 cells. by Catalina Aguilera-Flores, María Del Pilar Valencia-Morales, Tomás López, Joaquín Moreno-Contreras, Adam Lentz, Marco A Espinoza, Rebecca M DuBois, Susana López, Carlos F Arias

“…These amino acid residues are part of the epitope footprint of neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (Nt-MAbs) to HAstV previously mapped by X-ray crystallography. Further experiments using virus infectivity and attachment assays, along with Nt-MAbs targeting HAstV-1, suggest that the binding sites for FcRn and DPP4 are spatially proximal on the viral spike, defining a functional domain for cell infection. …”
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Evaluation of higher cognitive functions following posterior quadrant disconnection in the non-dominant hemisphere: a Case Report by Noeru Kawase, Shunsuke Nakae, Masanobu Kumon, Motoharu Hayakawa, Chiaki Shinzato, Yuriko Sato, Takehiro Uda, Takumi Mitsuhashi, Masaki Fukunaga, Shigeo Ohba, Yuichi Hirose

“…In this case, the patient with drug-resistant epilepsy underwent preoperative evaluation using stereo electroencephalography (SEEG) to identify seizure onset zones and functional mapping related to visuospatial cognition. …”
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Patterns of Functional Diversity, Species Diversity, and Endemicity Driven by Elevation and Topographic Complexity in a Mediterranean Mountain Refuge by Candan Aykurt, Kürşad Özkan, Mertcan Gülben, Özdemir Şentürk, Emirhan Berberoğlu, Semra Türkan, Zeynep Öz, Ramazan Süleyman Göktürk, Hasan Akgül, Sinem Günaydın, Muhammet Murat Görgöz

“…The relationship of functional and species diversity with environmental parameters was also modeled and mapped within this study conducted with approximately 5550 records of 1017 plant taxa from 136 study plots. …”
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Response of Soil Microbial Diversity, Community Structure, and Functional Potential to Primary Forest Conversion in Northwestern Hunan Province by XIAO Huacui, SHENG Hao, SU Guohui, ZHOU Ping

“…[Objective] To explore the impact of primary forest conversion on soil microbial community diversity, structure and functions, in order to provide a theoretical reference for soil health preservation. …”
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A Multisource Dynamic Fusion Network for Urban Functional Zone Identification on Remote Sensing, POI, and Building Footprint by Hangfeng Qiao, Huiping Jiang, Gang Yang, Faming Jing, Weiwei Sun, Chenyang Lu, Xiangchao Meng

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Impact of hyperglycaemia on cellular microenvironment and function of endometrium and uterine tube: scoping review focused on infertility in diabetic women by Peter Jackuliak, Martin Jankovský, Magdaléna Kovářová, Jaroslav Voller, Claudia Feitscherová, Ivan Varga

“…We also hypothesize how DM may affect the function of immune cells in uterine tube and uterus, including changes in the number and types of cells of innate and acquired immunity, disrupting immunological barrier in uterine tube, alterations in formation of neutrophil extracellular traps or polarization of macrophages.DiscussionWe discuss evidence for clinical practice in terms of glycaemic control, lifestyle modifications, and medical interventions. …”
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White-Matter fiber tract and resting-state functional connectivity abnormalities in young children with autism spectrum disorder by Jia Wang, Natasha Y.S. Kawata, Xuan Cao, Jie Zhang, Takashi X. Fujisawa, Xinyi Zhang, Lili Fan, Wei Xia, Lijie Wu, Akemi Tomoda

“…Although abnormal brain development has been shown to exist in children with ASD, the link between structural brain abnormalities and resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) disruptions in children with ASD remains understudied. …”
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Lung function may recover after coal mine fire smoke exposure: a longitudinal cohort study by David Brown, Tyler Lane, Michael J Abramson, Bruce R Thompson, Caroline X Gao, Jillian Ikin, Brigitte Borg, Nicolette R Holt, Catherine L Smith, Annie Makar, Thomas McCrabb, Mikayla Thomas, Kris Nilsen

“…For post-bronchodilator reactance and area under the curve, a negative impact of PM2.5 in round 1 showed signs of recovery in round 2 (both p<0.001).Conclusion In this novel study evaluating long-term respiratory outcomes after medium-duration high concentration PM2.5 exposure, the attenuated associations between exposure and respiratory function may indicate some recovery in lung function. …”
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Changing grizzly bear space use and functional connectivity in response to human disturbance in the southern Canadian Rocky Mountains by Eric C. Palm, Clayton D. Apps, Tal Avgar, Melanie Dickie, Bruce N. McLellan, Joseph M. Northrup, Michael A. Sawaya, Julie W. Turner, Jesse Whittington, Erin L. Landguth, Katherine A. Zeller, Clayton T. Lamb

“…We used integrated step‐selection functions (iSSF) to model movement and habitat selection for 109 GPS‐collared grizzly bears across an 85,000 km2 multi‐use landscape in southeastern British Columbia and southwestern Alberta. …”
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The innexin 7 gap junction protein contributes to synchronized activity in the Drosophila antennal lobe and regulates olfactory function by Nicolás Fuenzalida-Uribe, Nicolás Fuenzalida-Uribe, Sergio Hidalgo, Sergio Hidalgo, Bryon Silva, Bryon Silva, Saurin Gandhi, David Vo, Parham Zamani, Todd C. Holmes, Sercan Sayin, Ilona C. Grunwald Kadow, Dafni Hadjieconomou, Diane K. O’Dowd, Jorge M. Campusano

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