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Postpartum psychosis and the association with sociodemographic and obstetric factors
(2009-01-30)
Objective: To examine the association between postpartum psychosis and the
sociodemographic factors age, education, marital status and year of
delivery (study 1). To examine the association between neighbourhood
socioeconomic ...
Misoprostol as a family planning drug : use in pregnant and non-pregnant women
(2014-10-28)
Background: Availability of comprehensive family planning services is fundamental in improving and ensuring women’s right to life and health. An estimated 222 million women have an unmet need for contraception, and 43.8 ...
Quantitative MRI biomarkers of neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis
(2022-02-28)
Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative disease that targets myelin in the brain and spinal cord. The corpus callosum connects the cerebral hemispheres and is composed of ...
Oxysterol receptors LXRs and coregulators in cholesterol metabolism and inflammatory transrepression pathways
(2011-06-08)
The LXRs are important sensors and regulators of cholesterol homeostasis in several metabolic tissues including liver, intestine and macrophages. They regulate target genes involved in cholesterol-, lipid- and carbohydrat ...
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia : pre-and postnatal treatment effects on cognition, behavior and brain resting-state functional connectivity
(2022-04-14)
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), an autosomal recessive disorder affecting adrenal steroid synthesis, is linked to impaired adrenal synthesis of cortisol and aldosterone. The increased production of androgen precursors ...