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On the difficulty of defining disease: A Darwinian perspective
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-03)
Most attempts to craft a definition of disease seem to have tackled two tasks simultaneously: 1) trying to create a series of inclusion and exclusion criteria that correspond to medical usage of the word disease and 2) ...
Activity Avoidance and Function in Persons with Chronic Back Pain
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-09)
This study examined the relative contribution of two aspects of pain-related fear to functional disability among 133 persons with chronic pain, predominantly chronic back pain: 1) beliefs that pain represents damage or ...
Concordance Between Rating of Perceived Exertion and Function in Persons with Chronic, Disabling Back Pain
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-06)
Rating of perceived exertion (RPE), or the Borg scale, has been shown to be positively associated with physiologic effort in individuals undergoing cardiovascular assessment. This study examined the correlations between ...
Selling Sanity Through Gender: The Psychodynamics of Psychotropic Advertising
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-06)
This paper provides a brief visual history of the ways women patients, and specifically women patients whose marital status is identified in conjunction with their “illness,” have been constructed as abnormal in the images ...
Distribution of co-activators CBP and p300 during mouse oocyte and embryo development
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2006-07)
cAMP response element binding protein (CREB)-binding protein (CBP) and p300 are two structurally related transcriptional co-activators that activate expression of many eukaryotic genes. Current dogma would suggest that ...
Aurora kinase-A regulates microtubule organizing center (MTOC) localization, chromosome dynamics, and histone-H3 phosphorylation in mouse oocytes
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2011-02)
Aurora kinases (AURKs) are conserved serine/threonine kinases, crucial in regulating cell cycle events. Mammalian oocytes express all three Aurk isoforms throughout meiosis, with AurkA being the predominant isoform. ...
Women using a web‐based digital health coaching programme for stress management: stress sources, symptoms and soping strategies
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2011-08)
Researchers have proposed and tested many theories to understand gender differences in stress experiences. However, little research has identified differences between subgroups of women in terms of stress sources, symptoms, ...
Thyroglobulin type-1 domain protease inhibitors exhibit specific expression in the cortical ooplasm of vitellogenic rainbow trout oocytes
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2004-10)
The synthesis, uptake, and processing of yolk proteins remain poorly described aspects of oviparous reproductive development. In this study, we report the identification and characterization of two protease inhibitors in ...
Introduction
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-06)
The Cortisol Awakening Response and Depressive Symptomatology: The Moderating Role of Sleep and Gender
(American Psychiatric AssociationWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2017-08)
The association between depression and the cortisol awakening response (CAR) has been widely examined, yet the results are mixed and factors responsible for such inconsistencies are poorly understood. The current study ...