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The article therefore proposes that in Japan, relationships, especially those that include a strong perceived sense of being needed, are the foundation for meaning in life, but that such a strong need to be needed is also a manifestation of the fear of loneliness and social rejection.Background Stroke survivors have poor long-term quality of life (QoL), especially in the dimensions of mobility and daily activities.Objectives We aimed to investigate how clinical variables influence QoL during subacute stroke rehabilitation.Methods We assessed the evolution of the health-related QoL (HRQoL), the balance skills, the sensory-motor functions, and the ability in the activity of daily living in 25 hospitalized patients (60.6 ± 11.14 years old; 32% female) during a period of 2 months of stroke rehabilitation. We used the Stroke-Specific Quality of Life scale (SSQoL) to assess the HRQoL; the Berg Balance Scale to assess gait and balance functions; the Fugl-Meyer Assessment scale for sensory-motor functions of upper (UE) and lower limb (LE); and the Barthel Index for activity of daily living. All data have been investigated with the repeated-measures analysis of variance before and after normalization. Multiple Regression Analysis (MRA) has been performed on the normalized data and between the normalized data and the demographic characteristics (Gender; Age; Lesion side).Results A significant improvement was found in all the assessed scales during the time of observation. MRA shows a positive regression between HRQoL and the motor recovery of LE and between HRQoL and the balance skills in 60 days from the stroke (MR = 0.88; respectively p = 0.004 and p = 0.02).Conclusions Our result shows that LE motor recovery impacts the QoL more than motor recovery of UE after 60 days of neurorehabilitation. This finding is strengthened by a positive regression between balance skills and QoL.OBJECTIVES The goal of the study was to determine whether reactive oxygen species (ROS) mediates cytomegalovirus (CMV)-induced labyrinthitis. STUDY DESIGN Murine model of CMV infection. SETTING University of Utah laboratory. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Nrf2 knockout mice were inoculated with murine CMV. Auditory brainstem response (ABR) and distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) were then performed on these and uninfected controls. BALB/c mice were inoculated with murine CMV to determine whether a marker for ROS production, dihydroethidium (DHE), is expressed 7 days after inoculation. Finally, 2 antioxidants-D-methionine and ACE-Mg (vitamins A, C, and E with magnesium)-were administered 1 hour before and after infection in inoculated mice for 14 days. Temporal bones were harvested at postnatal day 10 for DHE detection. ABR and DPOAE testing was done at postnatal day 30. Scanning electron microscopy was also performed at postnatal day 30 to evaluate outer hair cell integrity. RESULTS Nrf2-infected mice had worse hearing than uninfected mice (P less then .001). A statistically significant increase in DHE fluorescence was detected in BALB/c-infected mice as compared with uninfected mice 7 days after inoculation. D-methionine- and ACE-Mg-treated mice demonstrated an attenuation of the DHE fluorescence and a significant improvement in ABR and DPOAE thresholds when compared with untreated infected controls (P less then .0001). Scanning electron microscopy demonstrated less outer hair cell loss in the treated versus untreated infected controls. CONCLUSION These results demonstrate for the first time that excessive ROS mediates CMV-induced hearing loss in a mouse model.Our study compared the results of two methods of analysis of postural sway during human quiet standing, the rambling-trembling (Rm-Tr) decomposition and the analysis of the point of intersection of the ground reaction forces (zIP analysis). Young, healthy subjects were required to stand naturally and with an increased level of leg/trunk muscle co-activation under visual feedback on the magnitude of a combined index of muscle activation (muscle mode). E6446 price The main findings included the shift of zIP toward higher frequencies and strong correlations between Tr and zIP when the subjects stood with increased muscle co-activation. We interpret the results within the idea of whole-body control with a set of primitives associated with referent coordinates in the joint configuration space.Parkinson's disease (PD) is considered to be the second most common progressive neurodegenerative brain disorder after Alzheimer's disease, which is caused by misfolding and aggregation of Alpha-synuclein (α-synuclein). It is characterized by distinct aggregated fibrillary form of α-synuclein known as the Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites. The most promising approach to combat PD is to prevent the misfolding and subsequent aggregation of α-synuclein. Recently, Oleuropein aglycone (OleA) has been reported to stabilize the monomeric structure of α-synuclein, subsequently favoring the growth of nontoxic aggregates. Therefore, understanding the conformational dynamics of α-synuclein monomer in the presence of OleA is significant. Here, we have investigated the effect of OleA on the conformational dynamics and the aggregation propensity of α-synuclein using molecular dynamics simulation. From molecular dynamics trajectory analysis, we noticed that when OleA is bound to α-synuclein, the intramolecular distance between non-amyloid-β component domain and C-terminal domain of α-synuclein was increased, whereas long-range hydrophobic interactions between the two region were reduced. Oleuropein aglycone was found to interact with the N-terminal domain of α-synuclein, making this region unavailable for interaction with membranes and lipids for the formation of cellular toxic aggregates. From the binding-free energy analysis, we found binding affinity between α-synuclein and OleA to be indeed high (ΔGbind = -12.56 kcal mol-1 from MM-PBSA and ΔGbind = -27.41 kcal mol-1from MM-GBSA). Our findings in this study thus substantiate the effect of OleA on the structure and stabilization of α-synuclein monomer that subsequently favors the growth of stable and nontoxic aggregates.Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.