NOCTURNAL HEART RATE AND CARDIAC REPOLARIZATION IN LOWLANDERS WITH CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE AT HIGH ALTITUDE: DATA FROM A RANDOMIZED, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED TRIAL OF NOCTURNAL OXYGEN THERAPY

Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is associated with cardiovascular disease.We investigated whether sleeping at altitude increases nocturnal heart rate (HR) and other markers of cardiovascular risk or arrhythmias in lowlanders with COPD and whether this can be prevented by nocturnal oxygen therapy (NOT).Methods: Twenty-four C

Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) may develop after either lung or haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), with similarities in histopathological features and clinical manifestations.However, there are differences in the contributory factors and clinical trajectories between the two conditions.BOS after HSCT occurs due to systemic gr

BackgroundTo provide participants with a more real and immersive intervening experience, virtual reality (VR) and/or augmented reality (AR) technologies have been integrated into some bystander intervention training programs and studies measuring bystander behaviors.ObjectiveWe focused on whether VR or AR can be used as a tool to enhance training b

Abstract Plastids are morphologically and functionally diverse organelles that are dependent on nuclear-encoded, plastid-targeted proteins for all biochemical and regulatory Towel functions.However, how plastid proteomes vary temporally, spatially, and taxonomically has been historically difficult to analyze at a genome-wide scale using experimenta