Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Against Team Physicians in the National Football League Increased Between 1971 and 2020 But Remain Low Overall

Purpose: To examine malpractice lawsuits filed by National Football League (NFL) players against team physicians to understand the factors involved with medical liability in the context of professional football.Methods: A comprehensive review of publicly available legal databases, court records, and news archives was conducted in August 2023 to ide

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Optogenetic manipulation of cyclic guanosine monophosphate to probe phosphodiesterase activities in megakaryocytes

Cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) signalling plays a fundamental role in many cell types, including platelets.cGMP has been implicated in platelet formation, but mechanistic detail about its spatio-temporal regulation in megakaryocytes (MKs) is lacking.Optogenetics bird food is a technique which allows spatio-temporal manipulation of molecular

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Insight into durum wheat Lpx-B1: a small gene family coding for the lipoxygenase responsible for carotenoid bleaching in mature grains

Abstract Background The yellow colour of pasta products is one of the main criteria used by consumers to assess pasta quality.This character is due to the presence of carotenoid pigments in semolina.During pasta processing, oxidative degradation of carotenoid pigments occurs mainly due to lipoxygenase (LOX).In durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.), tw

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