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Melanopsin and Cone Photoreceptor Inputs to the Afferent Pupil Light Response

Andrew J. Zele, Andrew J. Zele, Prakash Adhikari, Prakash Adhikari et al. • Frontiers in Neurology (2019)

Background: Retinal photoreceptors provide the main stage in the mammalian eye for regulating the retinal illumination through changes in pupil diameter, with a small population of melanopsin-expressing intrinsically photosensitive retinal ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2019.00529

Design and Optimization of Trastuzumab-Functionalized Nanolipid Carriers for Targeted Capecitabine Delivery: Anti-Cancer Effectiveness Evaluation in MCF-7 and SKBR3 Cells

Das S, Satapathy BS, Pattnaik G, Pattanaik S et al. • International Journal of Nanomedicine (2025)

Shubhashree Das,1 Bhabani Sankar Satapathy,2 Gurudutta Pattnaik,1 Sovan Pattanaik,3 Yahya Alhamhoom,4 Mohamed Rahamathulla,4 Mohammed Muqtader Ahmed,5 Ismail Pasha6 1Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Centuri...

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Cross-national validation of the MHQoL: psychometric evaluation and open-source tools for assessing mental health quality of life

Beatriz Olaya, Christina Maria van der Feltz-Cornelis, Leona Hakkaart-van Roijen, Frederick W Thielen et al. • BMJ Open (2026)

Objectives To validate the cross-national psychometric properties of the Mental Health Quality of Life questionnaire (MHQoL) and to develop an open-source toolbox for its scoring, transformation and presentation.Design Secondary analysis of...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-108598

Semaphorin 3A causes immune suppression by inducing cytoskeletal paralysis in tumour-specific CD8+ T cells

Mike B. Barnkob, Yale S. Michaels, Violaine André, Philip S. Macklin et al. • Nature Communications (2024)

Abstract Semaphorin-3A (SEMA3A) functions as a chemorepulsive signal during development and can affect T cells by altering their filamentous actin (F-actin) cytoskeleton. The exact extent of these effects on tumour-specific T cells are not ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47424-z

Preferences for and drivers of adult vaccination clinic site selection: A cross-sectional study in 30 provinces in China

Yuxi Liu, Yanlin Cao, Yugang Li, Siyuan Liu et al. • Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics (2025)

Focusing on vaccines available to adults and not in the immunization schedule, this study investigates the preferences and factors influencing adults in selecting vaccination clinic locations. It aims to provide strategic insights for boost...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1080/21645515.2024.2442104

Influence of Different Disinfectants on Surface Hardness of Heat-Polymerized Acrylic Resins utilized for Orthodontic Appliance

Wael Abdul Alrazzaq Alwaeli, Mohammed Abdul Sattar Alsegar • Journal of Techniques (2021)

Heat-polymerized resins are common substances utilized for construction of removable dental prostheses (i.e. Orthodontic appliances). Such materials should have appropriate physical properties. The use of disinfectant solutions might influe...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.51173/jt.v3i1.286

A living archive of JEDI curriculum reform in graduate STEMM education

Shinyi Hsieh, Geremy D. Lowe, D'Anne S. Duncan, D'Anne S. Duncan • Frontiers in Education (2026)

Educational reform has become an important response to intersecting sociopolitical pressures, not only in the broader field of education but also in graduate education in science, technology, engineering, math, and medicine (STEMM), where s...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2026.1856079

Inspiratory pressure waveform influences time to failure, respiratory muscle fatigue, and metabolism during resistive breathing

Mathias Krogh Poulsen, Stephen E. Rees, John Hansen, Andrew J. T. Stevenson et al. • Physiological Reports (2023)

Abstract Increased ventilatory work beyond working capacity of the respiratory muscles can induce fatigue, resulting in limited respiratory muscle endurance (Tlim). Previous resistive breathing investigations all applied square wave inspira...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.14814/phy2.15668

Compounds of Marine Origin with Possible Applications as Healing Agents

Nektaria-Ioanna Karma, Fotini Mellou, Panagoula Pavlou, Angeliki Siamidi et al. • Marine Drugs (2024)

It is well established that marine organisms consist of a great variety of active compounds that appear exclusively in the marine environment while having the ability to be vastly reproduced, irrespective of the existing conditions. As a re...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/md23010005

The worlds of disability and health technologies

Gerard Michael Goggin, Surona J. Visagie • Routledge eBooks (2024)

In this chapter, we discuss the dynamic area of technology in global health. Disability figures prominently, however, it is often framed in ways that leave people with disability excluded or positioned at the margins. This negative approach...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003228059-43

Health Technology for Women

Satish Khurana • Journal of Womens Health Issues and Care (2021)

In today’s medical field technology plays a big role when it comes to patient care. Technology is huge when it comes to giving the patient the best type of quality care when they are in the hospital. In the old days people would just write ...

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Emerging New Era of Mobile Health Technologies

Young‐Taek Park • Healthcare Informatics Research (2016)

medical records [6].Patients are also able to reduce their direct and indirect healthcare costs through reduction of the need for healthcare clinic visits or hospitalization [7,8].Regarding mHealth, there is an international conference, "mH...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc DOI: https://doi.org/10.4258/hir.2016.22.4.253 PMC: 5116535

Innovative polymer-based electrochemical platform for detecting ESAT-6 in human blood for pulmonary tuberculosis diagnosis

Xiu-An Ye, Shu-Hong Lin, Liang-Yu Chen, Jie-Ren Li et al. • Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research (2025)

Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), necessitates early diagnosis for effective patient care. Despite advancements in TB diagnostics, there remains an urgent need to discover innovative non-sputum-based m...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.sbsr.2025.100816

Tangible User Interface for Social Interactions for the Elderly: A Review of Literature

Way Kiat Bong, Weiqin Chen, Astrid Bergland • Advances in Human-Computer Interaction (2018)

The global population is ageing rapidly. The ageing population faces not only the risk of health-related problems but also the challenge of social isolation and loneliness. While mainstream technology is designed to improve daily life, elde...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1155/2018/7249378

Antimicrobial compound from Trichoderma harzianum, an endophytic fungus associated with ginger (Zingiber officinale)

Harwoko Harwoko, Jungho Lee, Georgios Daletos, Michael Feldbrügge et al. • JKKI (Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan Indonesia) (2021)

Background: Genus Trichoderma of fungal kingdom are largely used as biological control agents due to broad-spectrum activity against plant pathogens. Objective: This study aimed to investigate Trichoderma harzianum, an endophytic fungus obt...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.20885/JKKI.Vol12.Iss2.art8

Altered Red Blood Cell Fatty Acid and Serum Adipokine Profiles in Subjects with Obesity

Asier Léniz, Alfredo Fernández-Quintela, Sara Arranz, Kevin Portune et al. • Biomedicines (2023)

Background: Adipokines, as well as the fatty acid profile of red blood cell (RBC) membranes, are known to play important roles in the development and progression of metabolic complications induced by obesity. Thus, the objective of this stu...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines11123320

Health technology in perspective

Tae‐Il Kim • Journal of Periodontal & Implant Science (2015)

The ongoing development of information and communication technology (ICT) is taking the healthcare industry to the next level. It allows an independent healthcare system by which anyone can easily obtain tne real-time measurement of individ...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc DOI: https://doi.org/10.5051/jpis.2015.45.1.1 PMC: 4341201

HEALTH TECHNOLOGY REASSESSMENT: THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE

Gail MacKean, Tom Noseworthy, Adam G. Elshaug, Laura E. Leggett et al. • International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (2013)

BACKGROUND: Health technology reassessment (HTR) is "a structured, evidence-based assessment of the clinical, social, ethical, and economic effects of a technology currently used in the healthcare system, to inform optimal use of that techn...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc-sa DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266462313000494 PMC: 3846380

Are Key Principles for improved health technology assessment supported and used by health technology assessment organizations?

The International Working Group for HTA Advancement, Peter J. Neumann, Michael Drummond, Bengt Jönsson et al. • International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (2010)

Previously, our group-the International Working Group for HTA Advancement-proposed a set of fifteen Key Principles that could be applied to health technology assessment (HTA) programs in different jurisdictions and across a range of organiz...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266462309990833