Do Not Overcharge the System or It Will Explode!

Do not overcharge the system or it will explode!: how mitochondrial uncoupling protein 2 maintains endothelial function.

T he electrochemical gradient over the inner mitochon-drial membrane is the driving force for cellular ATP production. For this, electrons, which are derived from suc-cinate and NADH, are passed along the mitochondrial electron transfer chain, and the resulting energy is used to pump protons. The transport of the positively charged protons into the mitochondrial inner membrane space builds up a...

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Prioritizing policy interventions to improve diets? Will it work, can it happen, will it do harm?

Policies from non-health sectors have considerable impacts on the food environment and in turn on population nutrition. Health impact assessment (HIA) methods have been developed to identify the potential health effects of non-health policies; however, they are underused both within and outside the health sector. HIA and other assessment methods and tools can be used more extensively in health ...

Housework: Who Did, Does or Will Do It, and How Much Does It Matter?

“Is Anyone Doing the Housework?” (Bianchi et al. 2000) was motivated, like much of the research on housework, by a desire to better understand gender inequality and social change in the work and family arena in the United States. During the 1990s, Arlie Hochschild’s (1989) influential book, The Second Shift, provided the dominant assessment of the gender division of labor in the home (Konigsber...

To do it or not to do it? How communally motivated people navigate sexual interdependence dilemmas.

The current research investigates how people make sexual decisions when romantic partners' sexual desires conflict, situations we refer to as sexual interdependence dilemmas. Across an experimental study, a retrospective recall study, and a 21-day daily experience study, we found that people who were motivated to meet their partner's sexual needs--those high in sexual communal strength--were mo...