Search Results - "Pereira, S M"
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Bilingualism is a long-term cognitively challenging experience that modulates metabolite concentrations in the healthy brain
Published in Scientific reports (29-03-2021)“…Cognitively demanding experiences, including complex skill acquisition and processing, have been shown to induce brain adaptations, at least at the macroscopic…”
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Is cardiorespiratory fitness associated with cognitive outcomes in mid-adulthood? Findings from the 1958 British birth cohort
Published in Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports (01-12-2023)“…Identifying causal factors to intervene on to delay age-related declines in cognitive function is urgently needed. We examined associations between…”
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Obesity in early adulthood and physical functioning in mid-life: Investigating the mediating role of c-reactive protein
Published in Brain, behavior, and immunity (01-05-2022)“…•Obesity at 33y resulted in more than twice the odds of poor physical functioning at 50y.•Causal mediation models assessed the role of c-reactive protein on…”
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Risk factors for complications after emergency surgery for paediatric appendicitis: a national prospective observational cohort study
Published in Anaesthesia (01-05-2024)“…Summary Appendicectomy is a common procedure in children with a low risk of mortality, however, complication rates and risk factors are largely unknown. This…”
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Antioxidant Activity of an Aqueous Leaf Extract from Uncaria tomentosa and Its Major Alkaloids Mitraphylline and Isomitraphylline in Caenorhabditis elegans
Published in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) (10-09-2019)“…(Rubiaceae) has a recognized therapeutic potential against various diseases associated with oxidative stress. The aim of this research was to evaluate the…”
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Associations between diabetes status and grip strength trajectory sub-groups in adulthood: findings from over 16 years of follow-up in the MRC National Survey of Health and Development
Published in BMC geriatrics (04-04-2023)“…Cross-sectional studies suggest a relationship between diabetes status and weaker grip strength (GS) in adulthood and limited evidence from longitudinal…”
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Early Disrupted Neurovascular Coupling and Changed Event Level Hemodynamic Response Function in Type 2 Diabetes: An fMRI Study
Published in Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism (01-10-2015)“…Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) patients develop vascular complications and have increased risk for neurophysiological impairment. Vascular pathophysiology may alter…”
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Rapid Adaptation of a Daphnia magna Population to Metal Stress Is Associated with Heterozygote Excess
Published in Environmental science & technology (04-08-2015)“…Although natural populations can harbor evolutionary potential to adapt genetically to chemical stress, it is often thought that natural selection leads to a…”
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Parental obesity and risk factors for cardiovascular disease among their offspring in mid-life: findings from the 1958 British Birth Cohort Study
Published in International Journal of Obesity (01-12-2013)“…Background: Few studies have investigated whether parental adiposity is associated with offspring cardiovascular health or the underlying pathways. Studying…”
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Early visual cortical structural changes in diabetic patients without diabetic retinopathy
Published in Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology (01-11-2017)“…Background It is known that diabetic patients have changes in cortical morphometry as compared to controls, but it remains to be clarified whether the visual…”
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Dimethoate affects cholinesterases in Folsomia candida and their locomotion — False negative results of an avoidance behaviour test
Published in The Science of the total environment (15-01-2013)“…The main mode of action of organophosphate insecticides is to inhibit acetylcholinesterase (AChE), which causes neuromuscular paralysis leading ultimately to…”
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The DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey Data Release 2
Published in The Astrophysical journal. Supplement series (01-08-2022)“…We present the second public data release (DR2) from the DECam Local Volume Exploration survey (DELVE). DELVE DR2 combines new DECam observations with archival…”
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Prevention of Low Back Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Published in JAMA internal medicine (01-02-2016)“…Existing guidelines and systematic reviews lack clear recommendations for prevention of low back pain (LBP). To investigate the effectiveness of interventions…”
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Pushing automated morphological classifications to their limits with the Dark Energy Survey
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-09-2021)“…ABSTRACT We present morphological classifications of ∼27 million galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Data Release 1 (DR1) using a supervised deep…”
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Factors associated with the increased bleeding in the postoperative period of cardiac surgery: A cohort study
Published in Journal of clinical nursing (01-03-2019)“…Aims and objectives To identify factors associated with the increased bleeding in patients during the postoperative period after cardiac surgery. Background…”
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Teacher's experiences in PBL: implications for practice
Published in European journal of engineering education (03-03-2016)“…Project-Based Learning (PBL) has been implemented in the first year of the Industrial Engineering and Management programme at the University of Minho,…”
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Genetic diversity and chemical variability of Lippia spp. (Verbenaceae)
Published in BMC research notes (12-10-2018)“…The genus Lippia comprises 150 species, most of which have interesting medicinal properties. Lippia sidoides (syn. L. origanoides) exhibits strong…”
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Synthesis and characterization of a metal complex containing naringin and Cu, and its antioxidant, antimicrobial, antiinflammatory and tumor cell cytotoxicity
Published in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) (09-07-2007)“…The antioxidant activity of flavonoids is believed to increase when they are coordinated with transition metal ions. However, the literature on this subject is…”
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An Atomic-Level Perspective of HMG-CoA-Reductase: The Target Enzyme to Treat Hypercholesterolemia
Published in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) (26-08-2020)“…This review provides an updated atomic-level perspective regarding the enzyme 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase (HMG-CoAR), linking the more…”
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The Dark Energy Survey Year 3 and eBOSS: constraining galaxy intrinsic alignments across luminosity and colour space
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (12-07-2023)“…ABSTRACT We present direct constraints on galaxy intrinsic alignments (IAs) using the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (DES Y3), the Extended Baryon Oscillation…”
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