Evidence library
Bibliographic records and reader-friendly guides to sources cited by the journal.
Journal article · 2009
Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility
What holds a muscle's repeating contractile units together as they pull? At their boundaries sit Z-discs, intricate protein assemblies that anchor actin filaments from neighbouring units. Their architecture varies with muscle type. In the vertebrate muscles…
Journal article · 2018
Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools
Journal article · 2023
Acta Fisiátrica
Does adding heat or cold make hamstring stretching more effective for knee movement? Across eight studies involving 260 healthy young adults, stretching programs improved knee-extension range, but adding thermal treatment did not show a clear advantage…
Journal article · 2020
Nutrition and Health
Understanding thirst means asking both why you reach for a drink and why you stop. Water shortage can start the desire to drink, but the experience also reflects signals from the brain and body, together with…
Book chapter · 2000
Feingold KR, Adler RA, Ahmed SF, et al., editors
Journal article · 2014
Physiol Rev
Thyroid hormone helps set energy use, but its metabolic effects reach beyond how quickly calories are burned. Signals in the brain and individual tissues influence heat production, appetite, cholesterol handling, and blood glucose. This paper brings…
Journal article · 2024
Healthcare
Journal article · 2021
Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies
Heating a tissue is not a single, uniform effect. Shortwave diathermy, a treatment that uses electromagnetic energy to produce heat, can raise skin and muscle temperatures differently depending on how it is applied. Eleven studies involving…
Journal article · 2019
Journal of Experimental Medicine
What a vitamin does inside a cell depends on more than how much reaches it. Folate carries small chemical units needed for tasks such as making DNA, the genetic material copied when cells divide. Its usefulness…
Journal article · 2020
Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology
Journal article · 2017
Sports Medicine
Can training records and fatigue measurements warn when an athlete is becoming vulnerable to injury or illness? Researchers examined 68 studies that monitored sporting populations over time. Periods of intensified or accumulated training often coincided with…
Journal article · 2016
Sports Medicine
A workout total can hide how demanding the individual sets were. In a worked example, the authors compare the same hypothetical lifter doing 3 sets of 10 bench-press repetitions with 10 sets of 3 at the…
Journal article · 2022
Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology
Getting better at lifting does not automatically mean getting better at every athletic task. The authors examine how training matches the ability being developed, focusing largely on free-weight exercise and athletic performance. They argue that heavier,…
Journal article · 2025
Life Metabolism
How does a vitamin in food reach the cells that need it? The journey involves more than passing through the gut. Vitamins depend on transport proteins, binding partners and routes into particular cell compartments. Different vitamins…
Journal article · 2023
The New England journal of medicine
Journal article · 2024
World Journal of Gastroenterology
An enzyme that normally helps digest protein becomes a different problem when it turns on inside the pancreas. The question is whether trypsin activation starts pancreatitis, inflammation of the pancreas, or accompanies a broader failure inside…
Journal article · 1996
Biol Chem
Understanding what an enzyme does takes more than identifying the pocket where it meets its target. Trypsin and chymotrypsin are protein-cutting enzymes with similar overall shapes but different preferences for where they cut. Replacing trypsin's target-binding…
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Journal article · 2024
MMWR Recomm Rep
Contraception works better as care when people can choose a suitable method and obtain help using it. This 2024 guidance addresses starting contraception, managing side effects, and avoiding unnecessary barriers. Its recommendations combine systematic evidence reviews…
Journal article · 2019
Cell Metabolism
Can the kinds of foods available change how much people eat without anyone telling them to restrict calories? Twenty adults lived in a research unit for four weeks, spending two weeks on each of two menus…
Journal article · 2019
Public health nutrition
