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Public Health Expenditure and Maternal Mortality Rate in Sub-Saharan African Countries

Studia Universitatis Vasile Goldis Arad, Seria Stiinte Economice
The study looked at public health spending and maternal mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The specific objectives were to: investigate the impact of public health expenditure on maternal mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa; determine whether there is a ...
Eze Afamefuna A., Usman Philip F., Ukwueze Ezebuilo R.   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Aminoribosylated Analogues of Muraymycin Nucleoside Antibiotics

Molecules, 2018
Nucleoside antibiotics are uridine-derived natural products that inhibit the bacterial membrane protein MraY. MraY is a key enzyme in the membrane-associated intracellular stages of peptidoglycan biosynthesis and therefore considered to be a promising ...
Daniel Wiegmann, Stefan Koppermann, Christian Ducho   +2 more
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Age-related variation in thyroid function – a narrative review highlighting important implications for research and clinical practice

Thyroid Research, 2023
Background Thyroid hormones are key determinants of health and well-being. Normal thyroid function is defined according to the standard 95% confidence interval of the disease-free population.
Peter N. Taylor, Andrew Lansdown, Justyna Witczak, Rahim Khan, Aled Rees, Colin M. Dayan, Onyebuchi Okosieme   +6 more
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New Reports on the Portuguese Endemic Species, Santolina impressa: Secretory Structures, Essential Oil Composition and Antiviral Activity

Plants, 2023
Santolina impressa is an aromatic Asteraceae species endemic to Portugal, traditionally used for its anti-inflammatory properties. The aim of this study was to characterize S.
Ana Margarida Rodrigues, Ana Rita Mendes, Maria Filomena Caeiro, Ana Cristina Figueiredo, Lia Ascensão   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comment on the X(3915) nonstandard hadron candidate

, 2019
I review the experimental evidence for the $X(3915)$, the candidate nonstandard meson associated with $\omega J\psi$ resonance-like peaks in $B\rightarrow K\omega J\psi$ and $\gamma\gamma\rightarrow\omega J\psi$ near $M(\omega J\psi)=3920$~MeV, and ...
Olsen, Stephen Lars
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Association of C2, a derivative of the radial artery pressure waveform, with new onset of type 2 diabetes mellitus: the MESA study. [PDF]

, 2019
BackgroundAlthough microvascular dysfunction is known to result from diabetes, it might also lead to diabetes. Lower values of C2, a derivative of the radial artery pressure waveform, indicate microvascular dysfunction and predict hypertension and ...
Allison, Matthew A, Duprez, Daniel A, Forbang, Nkete I, Jacobs, David R, Peralta, Carmen A, Shea, Steven   +5 more
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Deciphering transcriptional plasticity in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma reveals alterations in sensory neuron innervation

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Pancreatic sensory neurons innervating healthy and PDAC tissue were retrogradely labeled and profiled by single‐cell RNA sequencing. Tumor‐associated innervation showed a dominant neurofilament‐positive subtype, altered mitochondrial gene signatures, and reduced non‐peptidergic neurons.
Elena Genova, Michele Montrone, Uday Rangaswamy, Francesco Diversi, Irene Schiavo, Denise Ferrarini, Roberta Di Florio, Irene Longo, Michele Coscia, Nicola Zamboni, Giorgia Demontis, Lisa Veghini, Vincenzo Corbo, Remo Sanges, Paul Heppenstall   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Influence of physiological changes in endogenous estrogen on circulating PCSK9 and LDL cholesterol

Journal of Lipid Research, 2015
Pharmacologically increased estrogen levels have been shown to lower hepatic and plasma proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) levels in animals and humans.
Moumita Ghosh, Cecilia Gälman, Mats Rudling, Bo Angelin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Quantum size effects on the perpendicular upper critical field in ultra-thin lead films

, 2005
We report the thickness-dependent (in terms of atomic layers) oscillation behavior of the perpendicular upper critical field $H_{c2\perp}$ in the ultra-thin lead films at the reduced temperature ($t=T/T_c$).
Jin-Feng Jia, M. Tinkham, M. V. Sadovskii, P. G. de Gennes, Qi-Kun Xue, R. D. Parks, X. C. Xie, Xin-Yu Bao, Y. Bruynseraede, Yan-Feng Zhang, Yu. F. Komnik, Yu. F. Komnik, Yupeng Wang, Zhong-Xian Zhao   +13 more
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Brucellosis and chlamydiosis seroprevalence in goats at livestock–wildlife interface areas of Zimbabwe [PDF]

, 2019
In Zimbabwe, there have been no chlamydiosis and limited brucellosis studies in goats. This study was conducted to determine the seroprevalence and risk factors of the two diseases in goats at three different livestock–wildlife interface areas: porous ...
Bhandi, Solomon, Bonfini, Barbara, De Garine-Wichatitsky, Michel, Matope, Gift, Murondoti, Absolom, Ndengu, Masimba, Pfukenyi, Davies Mubika, Scacchia, Massimo, Tivapasi, Musavengana   +8 more
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