Sweet Dreams for LXR

Gene therapy for hypercholesterolemia: sweet dreams and flying machines.

Sweet Dreams and Nightmares: Security in the Internet of Things

Wireless embedded devices are predominant in the Internet of Things: Objects tagged with Radio Frequency IDentification and Near Field Communication technology, smartphones, and other embedded tokens interact from device to device and thereby often process information that is security or privacy relevant for humans. For protecting sensitive data and preventing attacks, many embedded devices emp...

Sweet Dreams: How Sleep and Sleep Disturbances Affect Glycemic Control in People With Diabetes: Preface

©2016 by the American Diabetes Association. Readers may use this article as long as the work is properly cited, the use is educational and not for profit, and the work is not altered. See http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 for details. Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,...

Dreams

surprise to both the medical profession and the laity to hear that the subject of dreams is still imperfectly understood. Ancient philosophers endeavoured to attach ?to dreams a prophetic meaning, and even to-day, among the superstitious and ignorant, dreams form a basis for prophecy, necromancy, and the like. There 'is no question about the influence of dreams on modern life and thought. There...

Liver X Receptor (LXR)- Regulation in LXR -Deficient Mice: Implications for Therapeutic Targeting

The nuclear receptors liver X receptor (LXR) LXR and LXR are differentially expressed ligand-activated transcription factors that induce genes controlling cholesterol homeostasis and lipogenesis. Synthetic ligands for both receptor subtypes activate ATP binding cassette transporter A1 (ABCA1)-mediated cholesterol metabolism, increase reverse cholesterol transport, and provide atheroprotection i...