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A Primate‐Specific lncRNA LINC01021 Contributes to Cellular and Organismal Aging via DAZAP1‐Dependent Destabilization of RBMX

Aging Cell, Volume 25, Issue 7, July 2026.
Primate‐specific lncRNA LINC01021 promotes aging by enhancing cellular senescence and accelerating aspects of organismal decline. Mechanistically, LINC01021 induces DAZAP1‐mediated destabilization of RBMX, activating the P53 pathway and establishing a primate‐specific regulatory axis in aging.
Yan Zhang, Li Hu, Xin Dong, Qinghua Zeng, Meiting Zi, Ayesha Nisar, Sawar Khan, Raoxian Bai, Chonghui Liu, Mingxia Ge, Shaoyan Pu, Gonghua Li, Yonghan He   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

The influence of socioeconomic factors on choice of infant male circumcision provider in rural Ghana; a community level population based study

BMC Pediatrics, 2017
Background The influence of socio-economic determinants on choice of infant male circumcision provider is not known in areas with high population coverage such as rural Africa. The overall aim of this study was to determine the key socio-economic factors
Thomas Gyan, Kimberley McAuley, Natalie Strobel, Sam Newton, Seth Owusu-Agyei, Karen Edmond   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Youth Traditional Male Circumcision (TMC) as a tool to fight HIV/AIDS in South Africa: Implications for Human Rights and Social Work Practice [PDF]

E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Traditional Male Circumcision (TMC) as a feasible tool to increase HIV/AIDS response needs to be validated and advocated to especially its adherents who, from time immemorial, hold to the fact that its goal has been to achieve some socio-cultural goal ...
Simon Murote Kang’ethe
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Male Circumcision [PDF]

, 2020
Daniel Sidler, Christopher Bode, Ashish P. Desai   +2 more
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Implications of male circumcision for women in Papua New Guinea: a transformational grounded theory study

BMC Women's Health, 2017
Background Male circumcision reduces the risk of female-to-male transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and is being explored for HIV prevention in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
Michelle Redman-MacLaren, Jane Mills, Rachael Tommbe, David MacLaren, Rick Speare, William J. H. McBride   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Is traditional male circumcision effective as an HIV prevention strategy? Evidence from Lesotho.

PLoS ONE, 2017
In many developing countries, male circumcision has been promoted as an effective HIV prevention strategy, and medical randomized controlled trials have indeed shown a causal link.
Elisa M Maffioli
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Circumcision: Perspective in a Nigerian teaching hospital

African Journal of Paediatric Surgery, 2013
Background: The practice and pattern of male infants circumcised is influenced by culture, religion and socio-economic classification. The debate about the benefits and risks of circumcision has made a hospital-based practice the most acceptable ...
L O Abdur-Rahman, A A Nasir, J O Adeniran   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Male circumcision: a scientific perspective [PDF]

Journal of Medical Ethics, 2004
The health benefits of male circumcision are wide ranging In this issue, John Hutson has reiterated the conventional Western medical view that “the surgical argument for circumcision of all neonatal males at present is very weak” and he criticises many of the circumcisions performed in later childhood, without anaesthesia, as “physically cruel and ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Exploring factors influencing integration of traditional and medical male circumcision methods at Ingquza Hill Local Municipality, Eastern Cape: A socio-ecological perspective

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2019
Background: Medical male circumcision (MMC) and traditional male circumcision (TMC) are reportedly having negative and positive outcomes in the Eastern Cape province.
Sandile Prusente, Nelisiwe Khuzwayo, Yandisa Sikweyiya   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Male circumcision for HIV prevention: a prospective study of complications in clinical and traditional settings in Bungoma, Kenya

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2008
OBJECTIVE: Male circumcision reduces the risk of HIV acquisition by approximately 60%. Male circumcision services are now being introduced in selected populations in sub-Saharan Africa and further interventions are being planned.
Robert C Bailey, Omar Egesah, Stephanie Rosenberg   +2 more
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