Genomic breeding programs have been paramount in improving the rates of genetic
progress of productive efficiency traits in livestock. Such improvement has been …

Water is imperative for nutrition and health, economic productivity, and political stability; it
also holds cultural and symbolic meanings and functions. Household water insecurity is an …

Small everyday gestures such as a tap on the shoulder can affect the way humans feel and
act. Touch can have a calming effect and alter the way stress is handled, thereby promoting …

Unhealthy diet, lack of exercise, psychosocial stress, and insufficient sleep are increasingly
prevalent modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Accumulating evidence …

Stress threatens the homeostasis and mobilizes a plethora of adaptive physiological and
behavioral changes via the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and the sympathetic …

In seeking to understand mental health and disease, it is fundamental to identify the
biological substrates that draw together the experiences and physiological processes that …

It is well known that only a small proportion of the human genome code for proteins; the rest
belong to the family of RNAs that do not code for protein and are known as non-coding …

The hypothalamo–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis plays a key role in the neuroendocrine
response to stress and in maintaining physiological homoeostasis. However, stress that is …

Although chronic stress is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) onset,
the underlying mechanisms driving such pathophysiological complications remain relatively …

Abstract Purpose of Review This review focuses on recent advances in our understanding of
the interactions between psychological stress, the immune system, and periodontitis …