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Context-Dependent Effects of Microbial Inoculation on Sagebrush Seedlings During Drought Stress Open

Jacob A. Heil, Mathew Geisler, Margot A. Skinner, Chadwick DeFehr, Adedotun A. Arogundade , et al. · 2025

The leaf microbiome interacts with its plant host and can have critical positive and negative effects on plant health. However, the interactions between leaf microbiomes and host plants remain understudied, particularly in reference to con…

Context-dependent effects of microbial inoculation on sagebrush seedlings during drought stress Open

Jacob Heil, Mathew Geisler, Margot A. Skinner, Chadwick DeFehr, Adedotun A. Arogundade , et al. · 2025

Summary The leaf microbiome interacts with its plant host and can have critical positive and negative effects on plant health. However, the interactions between leaf microbiomes and host plants remain understudied, particularly in referenc…

Issue Information Open

Gao Qiang, Karen Grimmer, Gail M. Jensen, Gill Arbane, Lotte Janssens , et al. · 2024

No abstract is available for this article.

Establishing a Future Graduate Model in a Rural Setting: Assimilating Competency Based Education and Supervised Experiential Learning into an Accelerated Degree Program Open

Elianna Paninos, Margot A. Skinner, Adrian Holliday, Grace E. Shearrer, Rachael Budowle , et al. · 2023

An investigation of the experiences of physiotherapists during the Aotearoa New Zealand COVID-19 pandemic 2020 Open

Pei Han Goh, Jennifer Mepham, Bridgitte Eastwood, Margot A. Skinner · 2022

Mental distress associated with the COVID-19 pandemic is recognised among frontline health professionals. Experiences of physiotherapists in New Zealand during the initial outbreak in early 2020 were explored in an online survey made avail…

International collaboration to improve physiotherapists’ training, Viet Nam Open

Didier Demey, Sidy Dièye, Véronique Feipel, Liz Holey, Jonathon Kruger , et al. · 2022

Curricula for entry-level physiotherapy programmes should be competency-based, be actively managed by national educators and meet international standards while being responsive to local priorities. To strengthen the rehabilitation workforc…

Exercise and motivational text messaging to support physical activity behaviour change in a population with obstructive sleep apnoea: a feasibility study Open

Sarah Rhodes, Debra L. Waters, Ben Brockway, Margot A. Skinner · 2022

Introduction Patients with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) commonly present in primary care. Increasing physical activity reduces symptoms and severity of OSA. Low motivation is a barrier to physical activity in adults with OSA. Aim To inve…

Why COVID-19 strengthens the case to scale up assault on non-communicable diseases: role of health professionals including physical therapists in mitigating pandemic waves Open

Elizabeth Dean, Margot A. Skinner, Homer Peng-Ming Yu, Alice Jones, Rik Gosselink , et al. · 2021

As SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, spread globally, the most severely affected sub-populations were the elderly and those with multi-morbidity largely related to non-communicable diseases (NCDs), e.g., heart disease, hypert…

Physical activity behaviour and barriers to activity in adults at high risk of obstructive sleep apnoea Open

Sarah Rhodes, Debra L. Waters, Ben Brockway, Margot A. Skinner · 2020

INTRODUCTION Physical inactivity is a risk factor for disease severity among people with obstructive sleep apnoea. AIM To determine physical activity levels in patients at risk of obstructive sleep apnoea and explore their perceptions abou…

Wellness foods based on the health benefits of fruit: Gold kiwifruit for immune support and reducing symptoms of colds and influenza Open

Margot A. Skinner · 2020

Fruits are excellent health foods and ingredients for functional foods. Plant & Food Research is developing new fresh and processed foods to promote gut health and immunity and protect from oxidative stress. The research involves testing u…

Translating COVID-19 Evidence to Maximize Physical Therapists’ Impact and Public Health Response Open

Elizabeth Dean, Alice Jones, Homer Peng-Ming Yu, Rik Gosselink, Margot A. Skinner · 2020

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has sounded alarm bells throughout global health systems. As of late May, 2020, over 100,000 COVID-19–related deaths were reported in the United States, which is the highest number of any country. This a…

Effectiveness of a 12-week physical exercise programme on blood pressure in adults with true resistant hypertension and high risk of obstructive sleep apnoea: a study protocol for a pre-post test non randomised clinical trial Open

Suranga Dassanayake, Gerard Wilkins, Gisela Sole, Margot A. Skinner · 2020

Background: Resistant hypertension, a special phenotype of hypertension, is associated with increased cardiovascular risk. Exercise and physical activity are recommended as non-pharmacological interventions to manage blood…

Health Competency Standards in Physical Therapist Practice Open

Elizabeth Dean, Margot A. Skinner, Hellen Myezwa, V. R. P. M'kumbuzi, Karien Mostert , et al. · 2019

Although the physical therapist profession is the leading established, largely nonpharmacological health profession in the world and is committed to health promotion and noncommunicable disease (NCD) prevention, these have yet to be design…

Consumption of antimicrobial manuka honey does not significantly perturb the microbiota in the hind gut of mice Open

Douglas Rosendale, Christine A. Butts, Cloe Erika De Guzman, I. S. Maddox, Sheridan Martell , et al. · 2016

The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that consuming manuka honey, which contains antimicrobial methylglyoxal, may affect the gut microbiota. We undertook a mouse feeding study to investigate whether dietary manuka honey supplem…

Peer Review #1 of "Consumption of antimicrobial manuka honey does not significantly perturb the microbiota in the hind gut of mice (v0.1)" Open

Douglas Rosendale, Christine A. Butts, Cloe-Erika De Guzman, I. S. Maddox, Sheridan Martell , et al. · 2016

The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that consuming manuka honey, which contains antimicrobial methylglyoxal, may affect the gut microbiota.We undertook a mouse feeding study to investigate whether dietary manuka honey suppleme…

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