• 25(OH)D Status of Elite Athletes with Spinal Cord Injury Relative to Lifestyle Factors 

  Pritchett, Kelly; Pritchett, Robert; Ogan, Dana; Bishop, Phil; Broad, Elizabeth; LaCroix, Melissa (MDPI, 2016)

  Background: Due to the potential negative impact of low Vitamin D status on performance-related factors and the higher risk of low Vitamin D status in Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) population, research is warranted to determine ...
• Pioglitazone Improved Insulin Sensitivity and First Phase Insulin Secretion Among Obese and Lean People with Diabetes: A Multicenter Clamp Study 

  Qian, Xin; Wang, Hui; Yang, Gangyi; Gao, Zhengnan; Luo, Yong; Dong, Aimei; Zhang, Fang; Xu, Mingtong; Liu, Shiping; Yang, Xin; Chen, Yanyan; Li, Guangwei (Springer, 2018)

  Introduction: To investigate the effects of pioglitazone (PIO) on insulin resistance and first phase insulin secretion among obese and lean Chinese people with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Methods: Sixty-eight drug-naive ...
• Validation of Sensor-Based Food Intake Detection by Multicamera Video Observation in an Unconstrained Environment 

  Farooq, Muhammad; Doulah, Abul; Parton, Jason; McCrory, Megan A.; Higgins, Janine A.; Sazonov, Edward (MDPI, 2019)

  Video observations have been widely used for providing ground truth for wearable systems for monitoring food intake in controlled laboratory conditions; however, video observation requires participants be confined to a ...
• Habituation and individual variation in the endocrine stress response in the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata) 

  Houslay, T. M.; Earley, R. L.; Young, A. J.; Wilson, A. J. (Elsevier, 2019)

  The vertebrate stress response enables individuals to react to and cope with environmental challenges. A crucial aspect of the stress response is the elevation of circulating glucocorticoids. However, continued activation ...
• Practical Hydration Solutions for Sports 

  Belval, Luke N.; Hosokawa, Yuri; Casa, Douglas J.; Adams, William M.; Armstrong, Lawrence E.; Baker, Lindsay B.; Burke, Louise; Cheuvront, Samuel; Chiampas, George; Gonzalez-Alonso, Jose; Huggins, Robert A.; Kavouras, Stavros A.; Lee, Elaine C.; McDermott, Brendon P.; Miller, Kevin; Schlader, Zachary; Sims, Stacy; Stearns, Rebecca L.; Troyanos, Chris; Wingo, Jonathan (MDPI, 2019)

  Personalized hydration strategies play a key role in optimizing the performance and safety of athletes during sporting activities. Clinicians should be aware of the many physiological, behavioral, logistical and psychological ...
• Dietary Relationship with 24 h Urinary Iodine Concentrations of Young Adults in the Mountain West Region of the United States 

  Gostas, Demetre E.; Larson-Meyer, D. Enette; Yoder, Hillary A.; Huffman, Ainsley E.; Johnson, Evan C. (MDPI, 2020)

  Background: Iodine deficiency is not seen as a public health concern in the US. However certain subpopulations may be vulnerable due to inadequate dietary sources. The purpose of the present study was to determine the ...
• Development and Validation of an Objective, Passive Dietary Assessment Method for Estimating Food and Nutrient Intake in Households in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Study Protocol 

  Jobarteh, Modou L.; McCrory, Megan A.; Lo, Benny; Sun, Mingui; Sazonov, Edward; Anderson, Alex K.; Jia, Wenyan; Maitland, Kathryn; Qiu, Jianing; Steiner-Asiedu, Matilda; Higgins, Janine A.; Baranowski, Tom; Olupot-Olupot, Peter; Frost, Gary (Oxford University Press, 2020)

  Malnutrition is a major concern in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), but the full extent of nutritional deficiencies remains unknown largely due to lack of accurate assessment methods. This study seeks to develop ...
• Reproducibility of Dietary Intake Measurement From Diet Diaries, Photographic Food Records, and a Novel Sensor Method 

  Fontana, Juan M.; Pan, Zhaoxing; Sazonov, Edward S.; McCrory, Megan A.; Graham Thomas, J.; McGrane, Kelli S.; Marden, Tyson; Higgins, Janine A. (Frontiers, 2020)

  Objective:No data currently exist on the reproducibility of photographic food records compared to diet diaries, two commonly used methods to measure dietary intake. Our aim was to examine the reproducibility of diet diaries, ...
• Defensive Venoms: Is Pain Sufficient for Predator Deterrence? 

  Niermann, Crystal N.; Tate, Travis G.; Suto, Amber L.; Barajas, Rolando; White, Hope A.; Guswiler, Olivia D.; Secor, Stephen M.; Rowe, Ashlee H.; Rowe, Matthew P. (MDPI, 2020)

  Pain, though unpleasant, is adaptive in calling an animal's attention to potential tissue damage. A long list of animals representing diverse taxa possess venom-mediated, pain-inducing bites or stings that work by co-opting ...
• Urinary markers of hydration during 3-day water restriction and graded rehydration 

  Johnson, Evan C.; Huffman, Ainsley E.; Yoder, Hillary; Dolci, Alberto; Perrier, Erica T.; Larson-Meyer, D. Enette; Armstrong, Lawrence E. (Springer, 2020)

  Purpose This investigation had three purposes: (a) to evaluate changes in hydration biomarkers in response to a graded rehydration intervention (GRHI) following 3 days of water restriction (WR), (b) assess within-day ...
• CEO letters: Hospitality corporate narratives during the COVID-19 pandemic 

  Im, Jinyoung; Kim, Haemi; Miao, Li (Elsevier, 2021)

  For hospitality organizations, the need for compelling corporate narratives is particularly acute in dealing with the COVID-19 crisis due to the scope and severity of its threat to employees, customers, the general public, ...
• Walking cadence (steps/min) and intensity in 41 to 60-year-old adults: the CADENCE-adults study 

  Tudor-Locke, Catrine; Ducharme, Scott W.; Aguiar, Elroy J.; Schuna, John M., Jr.; Barreira, Tiago V.; Moore, Christopher C.; Chase, Colleen J.; Gould, Zachary R.; Amalbert-Birriel, Marcos A.; Mora-Gonzalez, Jose; Chipkin, Stuart R.; Staudenmayer, John (BMC, 2020)

  Background In younger adults (i.e., those < 40 years of age) a walking cadence of 100 steps/min is a consistently supported threshold indicative of absolutely-defined moderate intensity ambulation (i.e., >= 3 metabolic ...
• A catalog of validity indices for step counting wearable technologies during treadmill walking: the CADENCE-Kids study 

  Gould, Zachary R.; Mora-Gonzalez, Jose; Aguiar, Elroy J.; Schuna, John M., Jr.; Barreira, Tiago, V; Moore, Christopher C.; Staudenmayer, John; Tudor-Locke, Catrine (BMC, 2021)

  Background: Wearable technologies play an important role in measuring physical activity (PA) and promoting health. Standardized validation indices (i.e., accuracy, bias, and precision) compare performance of step counting ...
• Walking cadence (steps/min) and intensity in 61-85-year-old adults: the CADENCE-Adults study 

  Tudor-Locke, Catrine; Mora-Gonzalez, Jose; Ducharme, Scott W.; Aguiar, Elroy J.; Schuna, John M., Jr.; Barreira, Tiago, V; Moore, Christopher C.; Chase, Colleen J.; Gould, Zachary R.; Amalbert-Birriel, Marcos A.; Chipkin, Stuart R.; Staudenmayer, John (BMC, 2021)

  Background: Heuristic (i.e., evidence-based, rounded) cadences of >= 100 and >= 130 steps/min have consistently corresponded with absolutely-defined moderate (3 metabolic equivalents [METs]) and vigorous (6 METs) physical ...
• Lycopene supplementation of maternal and weanling high-fat diets influences adipose tissue development and metabolic outcomes of Sprague-Dawley offspring 

  Senkus, Katelyn E.; Zhang, Yanqi; Wang, Hui; Tan, Libo; Crowe-White, Kristi M. (Cambridge University Press, 2021)

  Dietary patterns high in fat contribute to the onset of cardiometabolic disease through the accrual of adipose tissue (AT). Lycopene, a carotenoid shown to exert multiple health benefits, may disrupt these metabolic ...
• Micronutrients for potential therapeutic use against COVID-19; a review 

  Giovane, Richard A.; Di Giovanni-Kinsley, Stephanie; Keeton, Emily (Elsevier, 2021)

  Background: SARS CoV-2 has caused a pandemic that has challenged both clinicians and researchers in finding an effective treatment option. Currently there only exists a two series vaccine that has a high efficacy in ...
• Inhibitory Effect of Ascorbic Acid on in vitro Enzymatic Digestion of Raw and Cooked Starches 

  Guo, Jiayue; Gutierrez, Alyssa; Tan, Libo; Kong, Lingyan (Frontiers, 2021)

  Ascorbic acid, also known as vitamin C, was previously reported to inhibit the activity of pancreatic alpha-amylase, the primary digestive enzyme for starch. A major implication of such inhibition is a slowed rate of starch ...
• Fitness Costs of Maternal Ornaments and Prenatal Corticosterone Manifest as Reduced Offspring Survival and Sexual Ornament Expression 

  Assis, Braulio A.; Avery, Julian D.; Earley, Ryan L.; Langkilde, Tracy (Frontiers, 2022)

  Colorful traits (i.e., ornaments) that signal quality have well-established relationships with individual condition and physiology. Furthermore, ornaments expressed in females may have indirect fitness effects in offspring ...
• Neuroprotective effects of ATPase inhibitory factor 1 preventing mitochondrial dysfunction in Parkinson's disease 

  Chung, InHyeok; Park, Han-A; Kang, Jun; Kim, Heyyoung; Hah, Su Min; Lee, Juhee; Kim, Hyeon Soo; Choi, Won-Seok; Chung, Ji Hyung; Shin, Min-Jeong (Nature Portfolio, 2022)

  Mitochondrial dysfunction is a key element in the progression of Parkinson's disease (PD). The inefficient operation of the electron transport chain (ETC) impairs energy production and enhances the generation of oxidative ...
• Evaluation of a Type 2 diabetes risk reduction online program for women with recent gestational diabetes: a randomised trial 

  Taylor, Rachael; Rollo, Megan E.; Baldwin, Jennifer N.; Hutchesson, Melinda; Aguiar, Elroy J.; Wynne, Katie; Young, Ashley; Callister, Robin; Collins, Clare E. (BMC, 2022)

  Background: To evaluate the preliminary efficacy, feasibility and acceptability of the 3-month Body Balance Beyond (BBB) online program among Australian women with overweight/obesity and recent gestational diabetes mellitus. ...

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