Phoebe Um

TL;DR: Empirical evidence most strongly supports a positive association between zinc deficiency and the risk of depression and an inverse relationship between zinc supplementation and depressive symptoms and potential mechanisms of action involve the HPA axis, glutamate homeostasis and inflammatory pathways.

TL;DR: Future research is required to tease out the exact pathways of action to explain the associations between each environmental factor and sleep, to inform possible therapies to negate the detrimental effects, and to increase efforts in decreasing exposure to these harmful environmental factors to improve health.

TL;DR: It is reported that the leucine-rich domain (LRD) of neurofibromin inhibits invasion of human glioblastoma cells without affecting their proliferation and provides evidence of a previously unrecognized function of NF1-LRD in glioma biology.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors examined the association between low-level environmental lead and mercury exposure and resting heart rate in community adolescents and found that combined high BLL and BML were associated with low RHR in community adolescent boys.

TL;DR: In this article, the association between serum selenium concentrations and anxiety disorders and symptoms in children was examined using data from 831 children participating in the China Jintan Child Cohort Study.