The role of driver sleepiness in car crashes: a review of the epidemiological evidence

2009 ◽  
pp. 187-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennie L. Connor
2001 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennie Connor ◽  
Gary Whitlock ◽  
Robyn Norton ◽  
Rod Jackson

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shioko Saito ◽  
Yoshito Iwade ◽  
Eisuke Tokuoka ◽  
Tomohiro Nishio ◽  
Yoshimitsu Otomo ◽  
...  

Pathogens ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Hernández ◽  
David Abad ◽  
José María Eiros ◽  
David Rodríguez-Lázaro

Little information on the SARS-CoV-2 virus in animals is available to date. Whereas no one husbandry animal case has been reported to date, which would have significant implications in food safety, companion animals play a role in COVID-19 epidemiology that opens up new questions. There is evidence that SARS-CoV-2 can infect felines, dogs and minks, and there is evidence of human-to-animal infection. Likewise, the S protein nucleotide sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus isolated in domestic animals and humans is identical, and the replication of the SARS-CoV-2 in cats is efficient. Besides, the epidemiological evidence for this current pandemic indicates that the spillover to humans was associated with close contact between man and exotic animals, very probably in Chinese wet markets, thus there is a growing general consensus that the exotic animal markets, should be strictly regulated. The examination of these findings and the particular role of animals in COVID-19 should be carefully analyzed in order to establish preparation and containment measures. Animal management and epidemiological surveillance must be also considered for COVID-19 control, and it can open up new questions regarding COVID-19 epidemiology and the role that animals play in it.


Nutrients ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Papandreou ◽  
Margret Moré ◽  
Aouatef Bellamine

Trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) is generated in a microbial-mammalian co-metabolic pathway mainly from the digestion of meat-containing food and dietary quaternary amines such as phosphatidylcholine, choline, betaine, or L-carnitine. Fish intake provides a direct significant source of TMAO. Human observational studies previously reported a positive relationship between plasma TMAO concentrations and cardiometabolic diseases. Discrepancies and inconsistencies of recent investigations and previous studies questioned the role of TMAO in these diseases. Several animal studies reported neutral or even beneficial effects of TMAO or its precursors in cardiovascular disease model systems, supporting the clinically proven beneficial effects of its precursor, L-carnitine, or a sea-food rich diet (naturally containing TMAO) on cardiometabolic health. In this review, we summarize recent preclinical and epidemiological evidence on the effects of TMAO, in order to shed some light on the role of TMAO in cardiometabolic diseases, particularly as related to the microbiome.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara de Lucia ◽  
Tytus Murphy ◽  
Claire J. Steves ◽  
Richard J. B. Dobson ◽  
Petroula Proitsi ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. S92
Author(s):  
S. Eucker ◽  
K. Mutter ◽  
D. Bose ◽  
E. Wu ◽  
M. Sochor

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Tu Tu Aung ◽  
Sreenivasa R. Chandana ◽  
Karl J. D’Silva ◽  
Nikolay V. Dimitrov

The biological role of vitamin D outside of calcium homeostasis is still under evaluation. The ability of vitamin D to inhibit cell proliferation and induce differentiation makes it a potential modifier of neoplastic transformation. Vitamin D affects the cell cycle, apoptosis, hormone receptors, angiogenesis, and hypoxia, all of which are related to the breast cancer growth, progression and metastasis. A large percentage of the industrial-world population is deficient in vitamin D. Epidemiological evidence suggests that vitamin D deficiency increases the risk of breast cancer. Vitamin D may have synergistic, additive, or antagonistic effects when combined with other therapeutic agents against breast cancer. Vitamin D appears to depress aromatase inhibitor by acting through cytochrome P 450. This evidence along with pre-clinical and clinical studies, justify the inclusion of vitamin D in future clinical trials related to breast cancer in order to determine its efficacy as a part of the breast cancer therapeutic armament.


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Temko ◽  
Ian PM Tomlinson ◽  
Simone Severini ◽  
Benjamin Schuster-Böckler ◽  
Trevor A Graham

ABSTRACTEpidemiological evidence has long associated environmental mutagens with increased cancer risk. However, links between specific mutation-causing processes and the acquisition of individual driver mutations have remained obscure. Here we have used public cancer sequencing data to infer the independent effects of mutation and selection on driver mutation complement. First, we detect associations between a range of mutational processes, including those linked to smoking, ageing, APOBEC and DNA mismatch repair (MMR) and the presence of key driver mutations across cancer types. Second, we quantify differential selection between well-known alternative driver mutations, including differences in selection between distinct mutant residues in the same gene. These results show that while mutational processes play a large role in determining which driver mutations are present in a cancer, the role of selection frequently dominates.


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