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Integrative multi-omics and machine learning identify CHRNA1 putative circadian-immune hub in COPD
by Lan Zhang, Zhifei Li, Tiansheng Xia, Tingting Yang, Jia Fu, Yan Lu, Jiayi Xu, Kaiyu Han
Background Circadian rhythm disruption is increasingly recognized as a contributor to chronic inflammatory disorders; however, its specific significance and...
Author: Lan Zhang
Posted: July 31, 2026, 2:00 pm
Sex and the clock: Exploring sex differences in chronotype and circadian behavior among healthy older adults
by Natalie S. Pandher, Leslie Yack, Esther Li, Quentin Coppola, Kaitlin B. Cassaletto, Lea T. Grinberg, Thomas C. Neylan, Joel H. Kramer, Christine M. Walsh
This study aimed to compare subjective and objective circadian measures with a focus on s...
Author: Natalie S. Pandher
Posted: July 16, 2026, 2:00 pm
Pachymic acid alleviates circadian rhythm disorders in high-fat diet-induced obesity mice via the sphingolipid pathway
by Hong Yang, Yingxiu Mei, Jilan Chen, Jiawei Chen, Jiushuang Zhu, Lu Zhang, Yanju Gong, Gan Luo, Weijun Ding
Background Obesity caused by a high-fat diet (HFD) is known to disrupt metabolic homeostasis and circadian rhythms. Pachymic acid (PA), a...
Author: Hong Yang
Posted: July 1, 2026, 2:00 pm
Facilitating the measurement and treatment of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD) and understanding caregiver burden using wearable devices in Rural Taiwan—Protocol for a dyadic feasibility pilot study
by Ta-Wei Guu, Wan-Jing Li, Shih-Hsiung Lee, Chih-Shan Hsu, Chia-Ni Chou, Leon Lack, Wei-Fen Ma
Introduction Alzheimer’s disease (AD) prevalence rises with societal ageing. In clinical care, behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD)...
Author: Ta-Wei Guu
Posted: May 18, 2026, 2:00 pm
Smartphone-based accurate pothole depth estimation using monocular RGB and LiDAR-guided deep learning
by Waqar Rauf Butt, Muhammad Farooq, Sohail Jabbar, Muhammad Munwar Iqbal, Umar Raza, Alaa E. S. Ahmed
The maintenance of the road infrastructure is vital to ensure public safety and the efficiency of transportation, but the unpredictable and wid...
Author: Waqar Rauf Butt
Posted: May 8, 2026, 2:00 pm
Caffeine ingestion improves morning neuromuscular performance to evening levels in healthy females
by Akshay Singh, Stuart J. Hesketh
Purpose To investigate whether caffeine ingestion offsets the circadian-related decline in morning neuromuscular performance in females. Methods Thirteen healthy females completed three experimental trials: i) ev...
Author: Akshay Singh
Posted: May 7, 2026, 2:00 pm
Day–night variation and age-related differences in gadolinium-based contrast media enhancement in the brain: A T1 mapping study
by Dongjun Lee, Yangsean Choi, Eunseon Jeong, Yoonho Nam, Sungyang Jo, Sun Ju Chung, Ho-Sung Kim
The glymphatic system clears metabolic waste from the brain and can be probed using contrast-enhanced MRI. We investigated whether early-phase gadoli...
Author: Dongjun Lee
Posted: April 9, 2026, 2:00 pm
Subject-specific modeling of response to physical stress via hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal and sympathoadrenal axes
by Helen A. Harris, David M. Chan, Laura Ellwein Fix, Benjamin D. Nicholson, Edmund O. Acevedo
The two main pathways for hormonal stress response are the hypothalamic-pituitary- adrenal (HPA) axis and the sympathoadrenal (SA) axis. The HPA axis p...
Author: Helen A. Harris
Posted: March 24, 2026, 2:00 pm
