• Comparison of dietary and plasma phospholipid fatty acids between normal weight and overweight black South Africans according to metabolic health: the PURE study 

  Ojwang, A.A.; Smuts, C.M.; Zec, M.; Wentzel-Viljoen, E.; Kruger, I.M.; Kruger, H.S. (Elsevier, 2019)

  Background Information regarding circulating fatty acids (FA) in association with metabolic health in black Africans is scarce, while the usefulness of circulating FAs as biomarkers of dietary fat intake and predictors ...
• The psychopharmacology of obsessive-compulsive disorder: a preclinical roadmap 

  Szechtman, Henry; Harvey, Brian H.; Woody, Erik Z.; Hoffman, Kurt Leroy (ASPET, 2020)

  This review evaluates current knowledge about obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), with the goal of providing a roadmap for future directions in research on the psychopharmacology of the disorder. It first addresses issues ...
• Dopaminergic and serotonergic modulation of social reward appraisal in zebrafish (Danio rerio) under circumstances of motivational conflict: towards a screening test for anti-compulsive drug action 

  Van Staden, C.; De Brouwer, G.; Botha, T.L.; Brand, S.J.; Wolmarans, D. (Elsevier, 2020)

  Cognitive flexibility, shown to be impaired in patients presenting with compulsions, is dependent on balanced dopaminergic and serotonergic interaction. Towards the development of a zebrafish (Danio rerio) screening test ...
• Characterization of personal solar ultraviolet radiation exposure using detrended fluctuation analysis 

  Blesić, Susana M.; Ramotsehoa, M. Cynthia; Du Preez, D. Jean; Stratimirović, Djordje I.; Ajtić, Jelena V. (Elsevier, 2020)

  Studies of personal solar ultraviolet radiation (pUVR) exposure are important to identify populations at-risk of excess and insufficient exposure given the negative and positive health impacts, respectively, of time spent ...
• Retinal vessel caliber and caliber responses in true normotensive black and white adults: the African-PREDICT study 

  Smith, Wayne; Lammertyn, Leandi; Ramoshaba, Nthai E.; Huisman, Hugo W.; Schutte, Aletta E. (Elsevier, 2020)

  Purpose Globally, a detrimental shift in cardiovascular disease risk factors and a higher mortality level are reported in some black populations. The retinal microvasculature provides early insight into the pathogenesis ...

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