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Novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Its impact on patients with comorbidities is clearly related to fatality cases, and diabetes has been linked to one of the most important causes of severity and mortality in SARS-CoV-2 infected patients. Substantial research progress has been made on COVID-19 therapeutics; however, effective treatments remain unsatisfactory. This unmet clinical need is robustly associated with the complexity of pathophysiological mechanisms described for COVID-19. Several key lung pathophysiological mechanisms promoted by SARS-CoV-2 have driven the response in normoglycemic and hyperglycemic subjects. There is sufficient evidence that glucose metabolism pathways in the lung are closely tied to bacterial proliferation, inflammation, oxidative stress, and pro-thrombotic responses, which lead to severe clinical outcomes. It is also likely that SARS-CoV-2 proliferation is affected by glucose metabolism of type I and type II cells. This review summarizes the current understanding of pathophysiology of SARS-CoV-2 in the lung of diabetic patients and highlights the changes in clinical outcomes of COVID-19 in normoglycemic and hyperglycemic conditions.In endotherms, growth, reproduction, and survival are highly depended on energy metabolism. Maintenance of constant body temperature can be challenging for endotherms under continuously changing environmental conditions, such as low or high ambient temperatures or limited food. Thus, many birds may drop body temperature below normothermic values during the night, known as rest-phase hypothermia, presumably to decrease energy metabolism. Under the assumption of the positive link between aerobic metabolism and reactive oxygen species, it is reasonable to suggest that low body temperature, a proxy of energy metabolism, will affect oxidative stress of the birds. Aging may considerably affect behavior, performance and physiology in birds and still requires further investigation to understand age-specific changes along the lifespan of the organism. Until today, age-specific rest-phase hypothermic responses and their effect on oxidant-antioxidant status have never been investigated. We exposed 25 zebra finches (Taenpothesis on how aging may lead to an accumulation of oxidative damage; the impaired physiological capacity to thermoregulate with advancing age does increase the risk of oxidative stress under challenging conditions. When energy is limited, the risk to encounter oxidative stress is increasing via a compensation to defend normothermic body temperatures.Background This study examines the effects of sports drinks ingestion during high-intensity exercise for carbohydrate oxidation rate (CHO-O) among athletes. Methods PubMed, Embase, and the Cochrane library were searched for available papers published up to November 2019. The primary outcome is the carbohydrate oxidation rate (CHO-O), and the secondary outcome is the fat oxidation rate (Fat-O). Statistical heterogeneity among the included studies was evaluated using Cochran's Q test and the I2 index. The random-effects model was used for all analyses, regardless of the I2 index. Results Five studies are included, with a total of 58 participants (range, 8-14/study). All five studies are randomized crossover trials. Compared to the control beverages, sports drinks have no impact on the CHO-O of athletes [weighted mean difference (WMD) = 0.29; 95% CI, -0.06 to 0.65, P = 0.106; I2 = 97.4%, P less then 0.001] and on the Fat-O of athletes (WMD = -0.074; 95% CI, -0.19 to 0.06, P = 0.297; I2 = 97.5%, P less then 0.001). Carbohydrate-electrolyte solutions increase CHO-O (WMD = 0.47; 95% CI, 0.08-0.87, P = 0.020; I2 = 97.8%, P less then 0.001) but not Fat-O (WMD = -0.14; 95% CI, -0.31 to 0.03, P = 0.103; I2 = 98.2%, P less then 0.001). Caffeine has a borderline effect on Fat-O (WMD = 0.05; 95% CI, 0.00-0.10, P = 0.050). Conclusions Compared with the control beverages, sports drinks show no significant improvement in CHO-O and Fat-O in athletes. Carbohydrate-electrolyte solutions increase CHO-O in athletes but not Fat-O.Over the years, various studies have been dedicated to the mathematical modeling of gas transport and exchange in the lungs. Indeed, the access to the distal region of the lungs with direct measurements is limited and, therefore, models are valuable tools to interpret clinical data and to give more insights into the phenomena taking place in the deepest part of the lungs. In this work, a new computational model of the transport and exchange of a gas species in the human lungs is proposed. It includes (i) a method to generate a lung geometry characterized by an asymmetric branching pattern, based on the values of several parameters that have to be given by the model user, and a method to possibly alter this geometry to mimic lung diseases, (ii) the calculation of the gas flow distribution in this geometry during inspiration or expiration (taking into account the increased resistance to the flow in airways where the flow is non-established), (iii) the evaluation of the exchange fluxes of the gaseous species of interest between the tissues composing the lungs and the lumen, and (iv) the computation of the concentration profile of the exchanged species in the lumen of the tracheobronchial tree. Even if the model is developed in a general framework, a particular attention is given to nitric oxide, as it is not only a gas species of clinical interest, but also a gas species that is both produced in the walls of the airways and consumed within the alveolar region of the lungs. First, the model is presented. Then, several features of the model, applied to lung geometry, gas flow and NO exchange and transport, are discussed, compared to existing works and notably used to give new insights into experimental data available in the literature, regarding diseases, such as asthma, cystic fibrosis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.We previously constructed a perspiration ratemeter for the measurement of palmar sweating in human subjects. https://www.selleckchem.com/products/lxs-196.html Although galvanic skin response (GSR) has been used to evaluate emotional responses in human subjects, little is known about the relationships between the phasic and baseline components in GSR and active palmar sweating. From the aforementioned, we aimed to investigate the relationships in human subjects with handgrip exercise and eyes closing or opening. Fifteen healthy volunteers (mean age 26.9 ± 8.7 years) participated in the present experiments. We investigated the effects of maximal handgrip exercise, eyes closing or opening, and self-awareness of drowsy on the GSR, active palmar sweating, R-R interval in electrocardiograph (ECG), and percentage of α wave in EEG. The faster phasic component in GSR completely agreed with the starting point of active palmar sweating. Handgrip exercise induced significantly faster spike in GSR, active palmar sweating, and decrease in R-R interval in ECG. Eyes closing produced significant decreases in baseline GSR and active palmar sweating in all human subjects.