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    • The Association of Multimorbidity With Whole Health Activities Among Adults in the United States: Evidence From the NHIS and BRFSS 

      Neba, Rolake A.; Warner, Mayela; Manning, Sydney E.; Wiener, R. Constance; Sambamoorthi, Usha; 0000-0002-7348-6369 (Neba, Rolake A.); 0000-0001-8311-1360 (Sambamoorthi, Usha) (Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine & Health, 2023-05-08)
      BACKGROUND: Whole health is a holistic approach encompassing integrative medicine, emotional, and spiritual health and is critical to improving health outcomes among individuals with multimorbidity. OBJECTIVE: To examine ...

    • Collagen Crosslinking for Keratoconus: Cellular Signaling Mechanisms 

      Karamichos, Dimitrios; Nicholas, Sarah E.; Khan, Asher; Riaz, Kamran M.; 0000-0002-8761-3824 (Karamichos, Dimitrios) (MDPI, 2023-05-16)
      Collagen crosslinking (CXL) is a widely used treatment to halt the progression of keratoconus (KC). Unfortunately, a significant number of patients with progressive KC will not qualify for CXL, including those with corneas ...

    • Centralizing prescreening data collection to inform data-driven approaches to clinical trial recruitment 

      Kirn, Dylan R.; Grill, Joshua D.; Aisen, Paul; Ernstrom, Karin; Gale, Seth; Heidebrink, Judith; Jicha, Gregory; Jimenez-Maggiora, Gustavo; Johnson, Leigh A.; Peskind, Elaine; McCann, Kelly; Shaffer, Elizabeth; Sultzer, David; Wang, Shunran; Sperling, Reisa; Raman, Rema; 0000-0001-7769-8417 (Johnson, Leigh A.) (BioMed Central Ltd., 2023-05-03)
      BACKGROUND: Recruiting to multi-site trials is challenging, particularly when striving to ensure the randomized sample is demographically representative of the larger disease-suffering population. While previous studies ...

    • Association of multimorbidity with the use of health information technology 

      Manning, Sydney E.; Wang, Hao; Dwibedi, Nilanjana; Shen, Chan; Wiener, R. Constance; Findley, Patricia A.; Mitra, Sophie; Sambamoorthi, Usha; 0000-0001-8311-1360 (Sambamoorthi, Usha) (Sage Publications, 2023-05-01)
      OBJECTIVE: To examine the association of multimorbidity with health information technology use among adults in the USA. METHODS: We used cross-sectional study design and data from the Health Information National Trends ...

    • A Celebration of the Extraordinary Life of Late Professor Tatiana V. Serebrovskaya (Kyiv, Ukraine) in Advancing Hypoxia Science and Medicine 

      Swenson, Erik R.; Mallet, Robert T.; Xi, Lei; Manukhina, Eugenia; Downey, Fred; Burtscher, Johannes; Ehrenreich, Hannelore; Burtscher, Martin; 0000-0001-7388-9419 (Mallet, Robert T.) (Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., 2022-08-03)

    • Demographic and Psychosocial Correlates of COVID-19 Vaccination Status among a Statewide Sample in Texas 

      Luningham, Justin M.; Akpan, Idara N.; Taskin, Tanjila; Alkhatib, Sarah; Vishwanatha, Jamboor K.; Thompson, Erika L.; 0000-0002-5037-9149 (Luningham, Justin); 0000-0002-0266-6020 (Vishwanatha, Jamboor K.); 0000-0002-7115-0001 (Thompson, Erika L.) (MDPI, 2023-04-28)
      The COVID-19 pandemic has been a global public health concern since early 2020 and has required local and state-level responses in the United States. There were several Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved vaccines ...

    • A Tutorial on Cognitive Diagnosis Modeling for Characterizing Mental Health Symptom Profiles Using Existing Item Responses 

      Tan, Zhengqi; de la Torre, Jimmy; Ma, Wenchao; Huh, David; Larimer, Mary E.; Mun, Eun-Young; 0000-0002-1820-615X (Mun, Eun-Young) (Springer Nature, 2022-02-04)
      In research applications, mental health problems such as alcohol-related problems and depression are commonly assessed and evaluated using scale scores or latent trait scores derived from factor analysis or item response ...

    • Unravelling the Impact of Cyclic Mechanical Stretch in Keratoconus-A Transcriptomic Profiling Study 

      Akoto, Theresa; Cai, Jingwen; Nicholas, Sarah; McCord, Hayden; Estes, Amy J.; Xu, Hongyan; Karamichos, Dimitrios; Liu, Yutao; 0000-0002-8761-3824 (Karamichos, Dimitrios) (MDPI, 2023-04-28)
      Biomechanical and molecular stresses may contribute to the pathogenesis of keratoconus (KC). We aimed to profile the transcriptomic changes in healthy primary human corneal (HCF) and KC-derived cells (HKC) combined with ...

    • The Baby Bites Text Messaging Project with randomized controlled trial: texting to improve infant feeding practices 

      Davis, Kathleen E.; Klingenberg, Adyson; Massey-Stokes, Marilyn; Habiba, Nusrath; Gautam, Rupali; Warren, Cynthia; Yeatts, Paul; 0000-0001-8379-9652 (Habiba, Nusrath) (AME Publishing Company, 2023-04-24)
      BACKGROUND: Rapid weight gain and overweight in infancy are associated with childhood obesity. Thus, effective, accessible interventions to promote healthy infant feeding practices to prevent early obesity are essential. ...

    • Irvin M. Korr Collection 

      Korr, Irvin M. (University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, Gibson D. Lewis Library, 2023-05-03)
      This collection contains personal and professional records created by Irvin M. Korr, 1908-2000, with bulk dates of 1933-1995. Collection materials include published articles, a journal, yearbook, book, exit interview, ...

    • Renal-Protective Roles of Lipoic Acid in Kidney Disease 

      Kamt, Sulin F.; Liu, Jiankang; Yan, Liang-Jun; 0000-0002-5815-5430 (Yan, Liang-Jun) (MDPI, 2023-04-14)
      The kidney is a crucial organ that eliminates metabolic waste and reabsorbs nutritious elements. It also participates in the regulation of blood pressure, maintenance of electrolyte balance and blood pH homeostasis, as ...

    • Past-Year Blunt Smoking among Youth: Differences by LGBT and Non-LGBT Identity 

      Yockey, R. Andrew; Barnett, Tracey E.; 0000-0002-2140-2418 (Yockey, R. Andrew); 0000-0002-2932-1540 (Barnett, Tracey E.) (MDPI, 2023-04-14)
      Blunt use (co-use of tobacco and marijuana) is a growing phenomenon among youth and disproportionately affects minority populations. LGBT+ populations are significantly more likely to use marijuana and tobacco, but this ...

    • Increase in body mass index during the COVID-19 pandemic among people who smoke: An analysis of multi-site electronic health records 

      Wiener, R. Constance; Waters, Christopher; Morgan, Emily; Findley, Patricia A.; Shen, Chan; Wang, Hao; Sambamoorthi, Usha; 0000-0001-8311-1360 (Sambamoorthi, Usha) (PLOS, 2023-04-12)
      The effects of the COVID-19 period among people who smoke (compared by sex) are largely unknown. The purpose of this study was to compare body mass index (BMI) increase among men and women who smoked during the pandemic. ...

    • Salivary Exosomes in Health and Disease: Future Prospects in the Eye 

      Liu, Angela; Hefley, Brenna; Escandon, Paulina; Nicholas, Sarah E.; Karamichos, Dimitrios; 0000-0002-8761-3824 (Karamichos, Dimitrios) (MDPI, 2023-04-14)
      Exosomes are a group of vesicles that package and transport DNA, RNA, proteins, and lipids to recipient cells. They can be derived from blood, saliva, urine, and/or other biological tissues. Their impact on several diseases, ...

    • Long-term intermittent fasting improves neurological function by promoting angiogenesis after cerebral ischemia via growth differentiation factor 11 signaling activation 

      Liu, Zhao; Liu, Mengjie; Jia, Gongwei; Li, Jiani; Niu, Lingchuan; Zhang, Huiji; Qi, Yunwen; Sun, Houchao; Yan, Liang-Jun; Ma, Jingxi; 0000-0002-5815-5430 (Yan, Liang-Jun) (PLOS, 2023-03-31)
      Intermittent fasting (IF), an alternative to caloric restriction, is a form of time restricted eating. IF conditioning has been suggested to have neuroprotective effects and potential long-term brain health benefits. But ...

    • Effect of 2018 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Guideline Change on Statin Prescription for People Living with HIV 

      Pan, Meng; Agovi, Afiba Manza-A.; Anikpo, Ifedioranma O.; Fasanmi, Esther O.; Thompson, Erika L.; Reeves, Jaquetta M.; Thompson, Caitlin T.; Johnson, Marc E.; Golub, Vitaly; Ojha, Rohit P.; 0000-0002-7115-0001 (Thompson, Erika L.) (Elsevier B.V., 2023-03-28)
      The American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) guidelines were updated in 2018 to explicitly recommend statin use for primary cardiovascular disease prevention among people living with HIV (PLWH), ...

    • Novel role of HIV-1 Nef in regulating the ubiquitination of cellular proteins 

      Ghaly, Maria; Proulx, Jessica; Borgmann, Kathleen; Park, In-Woo; 0000-0003-0897-390X (Borgmann, Kathleen) (Frontiers Media S.A., 2023-03-28)
      Our recent data established that HIV-1 Nef is pivotal in determining the fate of cellular proteins by modulating ubiquitination. However, it is unknown which proteins are ubiquitinated in the presence of Nef, a question ...

    • Sex and strain differences in renal hemodynamics in mice 

      Tao, Yu; Young-Stubbs, Cassandra M.; Yazdizadeh Shotorbani, Parisa; Su, Dong-Ming; Mathis, Keisa W.; Ma, Rong; 0000-0002-5896-9178 (Ma, Rong); 0000-0002-3326-4753 (Su, Dong-Ming) (Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2023-03-23)
      The present study was to examine sex and strain differences in glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and renal blood flow (RBF) in C57BL6, 129/Sv, and C57BLKS/J mice, three commonly used mouse strains in renal research. GFR was ...

    • Competitive Displacement Restores the Hyperpolarized (15)N NMR Signal in Blood Plasma 

      Suh, Eul H.; Kovacs, Zoltan; 0000-0002-3919-678X (Suh, Eul H.) (American Chemical Society, 2023-03-28)
      Hyperpolarized (HP) NMR can improve the sensitivity of conventional NMR experiments by several orders of magnitude, thereby making it feasible to detect the signal of low sensitivity nuclei such as (13)C and (15)N nuclei ...

    • Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-alpha (PPARalpha) regulates wound healing and mitochondrial metabolism in the cornea 

      Liang, Wentao; Huang, Li; Whelchel, Amy E.; Yuan, Tian; Ma, Xiang; Cheng, Rui; Takahashi, Yusuke; Karamichos, Dimitrios; Ma, Jian-Xing; 0000-0002-8761-3824 (Karamichos, Dimitrios) (National Academy of Science, 2023-03-22)
      Diabetes can result in impaired corneal wound healing. Mitochondrial dysfunction plays an important role in diabetic complications. However, the regulation of mitochondria function in the diabetic cornea and its impacts ...