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erately altered left ventricular ejection fraction (45%). There was no coronary occlusion seen at emergency coronarography. Contrast-enhanced CT of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis was performed (Figs 1, 2) together with cardiac MRI (Figs 3, 4).Objectives Our study investigates measurement, correlates, and functional associations of vision impairment (VI) in an aging population in rural South Africa. Methods 1582 participants aged 40-69 reported on near (NVI) and distance vision impairment (DVI) and completed objective vision tests. Logistic and linear regression were used to evaluate sociodemographic, health, and psychosocial correlates of VI and assess relationships between VI and cognitive and physical function. Results VI prevalence was considerably higher according to objective testing (56%) versus self-reports (18%). Older adults were especially likely to underreport impairment. Objective VI was associated with age, education, cardiometabolic disease, and female sex. Conversely, self-reported VI was associated with psychosocial factors. Objective NVI and both types of DVI were associated with worse visual cognition and slower gait speed, respectively. Discussion Self-reported and objective VI measures should not be used interchangeably in this context. Our findings highlight extensive burden of untreated VI in this region.Homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (hoFH) is a rare disorder caused primarily by pathological mutations in the low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR), which disrupts LDL-cholesterol (LDL-C) metabolism homeostasis. hoFH patients are at extremely high risk for cardiovascular disease and are resistant to standard therapies. LDLR knockout animals and in vitro cell models overexpressing different mutations have proved useful, but may not fully recapitulate human LDLR mutation biology. We and others have generated induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) from hoFH patient's fibroblasts and T cells and demonstrated their ability to recapitulate hoFH biology. In this study, we present the generation and characterization of a cohort of seven hoFH-iPSC lines derived from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) collected from four homozygous and three compound heterozygous patients. The hoFH-iPSC cohort demonstrated a wide range of LDLR expression and LDL-C internalization in response to rosuvastatin that correlated with the predicted pathogenicity of the mutation. We were able to confirm that hoFH-iPSC cohort were pluripotent by differentiation toward all three germ layers and specifically to hepatocyte-like cells (HLC), the cell with primary LDL-C metabolic regulatory control, by expression of hepatocyte markers. hoFH patient PBMC-derived iPSC recapitulate the LDLR dysfunction of their specific mutation. They were capable of differentiating to HLC and could be useful for early developmental studies, pharmacology/toxicology, and potentially autologous cell therapy.Bitter tastants are recently introduced as potential hunger-suppressive compounds, the so-called "Bitter pill." However, the literature about bitter administration lacks consistency in methods and findings. We want to test whether hunger ratings and hormone plasma levels are affected by 1) the site of administration intragastrically (IG) or intraduodenally (ID), 2) the bitter tastant itself, quinine hydrochloride (QHCl) or denatonium benzoate (DB), and 3) the timing of infusion. Therefore, 14 healthy, female volunteers participated in a randomized, placebo-controlled six-visit crossover study. After an overnight fast, DB (1 µmol/kg), QHCl (10 µmol/kg), or placebo were given IG or ID via a nasogastric feeding tube. Blood samples were taken 10 min before administration and every 10 min after administration for a period of 2 h. Hunger was rated at the same time points on a visual analogue scale. ID bitter administration did not affect hunger sensations, motilin, or acyl-ghrelin release compared with its placebo tion, the best bitter compound to use, and at what timing in respect to the meal. This paper is therefore a fundamental step to continue research toward the further development of the "bitter pill."Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a spectrum of disorders ranging from hepatic steatosis [excessive accumulation of triglycerides (TG)] to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, which can progress to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. The molecular pathogenesis of steatosis and progression to more severe NAFLD remains unclear. Obesity and aging, two principal risk factors for NAFLD, are associated with a hyperadrenergic state. β-Adrenergic responsiveness in liver increases in animal models of obesity and aging, and in both is linked to increased hepatic expression of β2-adrenergic receptors (β2-ARs). We previously showed that in aging rodents intracellular signaling from elevated hepatic levels of β2-ARs may contribute to liver steatosis. In this study we demonstrate that injection of formoterol, a highly selective β2-AR agonist, to mice acutely results in hepatic TG accumulation. Erlotinib nmr Further, we have sought to define the intrahepatic mechanisms underlying β2-AR mediated steatosis by investigating changes iand de novo lipogenesis, incomplete β-oxidation of fatty acids with accumulation of long-chain acylcarnitine intermediates, and reduced TG secretion. These findings may, for the first time, implicate a role for β2-AR responsive dysregulation of hepatic lipid metabolism in the pathogenetic processes underlying NAFLD in hyperadrenergic states such as obesity and aging.Recently, (as measured by advances in quantitative methodology) Borsboom (2008) has proposed network analysis as an alternative to the latent variable model as a method for understanding the potentially complex relationships among a system of variables. Over the past five to eight years, there has been a veritable explosion in methodology and its application in social, behavioral, and health sciences (citation). This current issue contains nine articles and three commentaries on new methodology, critiques, and the evaluation of current techniques surrounding psychometric network models. In this introduction, I provide a brief overview of these papers and some suggestions on potential ways in which to move the field forward.
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