Taking a bite

Taking a bite out of nutrition and arbovirus infection.

Nutrition is a key factor in host-pathogen defense. Malnutrition can increase both host susceptibility and severity of infection through a number of pathways, and infection itself can promote nutritional deterioration and further susceptibility. Nutritional status can also strongly influence response to vaccination or therapeutic pharmaceuticals. Arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) have a lon...

Statins in rheumatic heart disease: taking the bite out?

lthough infrequent in the developed world, rheumatic heart isease (RHD) remains a major health problem worldwide, nd with increasing immigration over the past decades, will ontinue to be encountered in most cardiology practices. The orld Health Organization has estimated that more than 15 illion people worldwide are affected, with a half million new ases of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) yearly (2...

Drugs taking bigger bite of health care pie.

Taking a bite: endocytosis in the maintenance of the slit diaphragm.

In the kidney, the slit diaphragm joins adjacent podocytes, forming an epithelial barrier that filters plasma into the urinary space, yet retains blood cells and proteins within the circulation. In this issue of the JCI, Soda et al. have identified clathrin-mediated endocytosis as a central mechanism by which the function and structural integrity of the slit diaphragm are maintained.

An Assessment of Linear Wrist Motion during the Taking of a Bite of Food

Motivated by the goal of building a device capable of detecting when a user takes a bite of food, we examine whether there is a correlation between linear wrist motion and bite detection. Such a device could be used to manage weight loss by tracking eating trends over time and providing real time feedback to the user regarding eating rate or total consumption. A comprehensive analysis of tracki...