Insight Into Behavior Displayed During Deception

Mitophagy: New Insight into the Cardiovascular Aging  

What motivates gambling behavior? Insight into dopamine's role

It is commonly believed that monetary gain is the cause of gambling behavior in humans. Mesolimbic dopamine (DA), the chief neuromediator of incentive motivation, is indeed released to a larger extent in pathological gamblers (PG) than in healthy controls (HC) during gambling episodes (Linnet et al., 2011; Joutsa et al., 2012), as in other forms of compulsive and addictive behavior. However, re...

Small-scale flame dynamics provide limited insight into wildfire behavior.

New Insight into the Relation between Adiponectin and Diabetes

Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases. Insulin resistance is defined as a state that needs more insulin to get the biological effects achieved by a lower amount of insulin in the normal state. Several molecules which are secreted through adipocytes have been involved in insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Adiponectin as a 244 amino acid protein is exclusively expressed...

Insight into the mechanism of mitochondrial DAMP release during sepsis

Recent studies have shown that mitochondria derived damage associated molecular pattern molecules (mtDAMP) are increased in the blood circulation of patients suffering from severe injuries and sepsis. DAMP’s (including mitochondrial DNA and proteins) are considered to be pro-inflammatory and one of the important mediators of ongoing systemic inflammation during sepsis. The mechanism of mtDAMP r...