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Supporting Contraceptive Decision-Making in the Intermediated Pharmacy Setting in Kenya [PDF]

Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in sub-Saharan Africa face unique barriers to contraceptive access and lack AGYW-centered contraceptive decision-support resources. To empower AGYW to make informed choices and improve reproductive health outcomes, we developed a tablet-based application to provide contraceptive education and decision-making ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Biodegradable hollow fibres for the controlled release of hormones [PDF]

, 1987
Poly(l-lactide), (PLLA), hollow fibres were prepared using a dry-wet phase inversion spinning process. The effect of several spinning parameters (i.e. bore medium flow rate, spinning dope extrusion rate, fibre take-up rate, and spinning height) on the ...
Albers, J.H.M., Eenink, M.J.D., Feijen, J., Greidanus, P.J., Olijslager, J., Rieke, J.C.   +5 more
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Potent Cross‐neutralizing Antibodies Reveal Vulnerabilities of Henipavirus Fusion Glycoprotein

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Hendra and Nipah viruses (HNVs) pose significant threats to global health. This work reports potent cross‐neutralizing antibodies targeting the fusion glycoprotein (F) and reveals shared features of these antibodies and vulnerabilities of F, thereby guiding the rational design of countermeasures against HNVs and similar pathogens.
Yi Ren, Pengfei Fan, Xinghai Zhang, Ting Fang, Zhengshan Chen, Yanfeng Yao, Xiangyang Chi, Guanying Zhang, Xiaofan Zhao, Bingjie Sun, Fangxu Li, Zixuan Liu, Zhenwei Song, Baoyue Zhang, Cheng Peng, Entao Li, Yilong Yang, Jianmin Li, Sandra Chiu, Changming Yu   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Zinc excretion in young women on low zinc intakes and oral contraceptive agents.

Journal of NutriLife, 1977
Zinc excretion under conditions of negligible zinc intake (0.17 mg/day) was measured in women taking a combination oral contraceptive agent (+OCA) and in women with normal menstrual cycles (-OCA).
Frances M. Hess, Janet C. King, Sheldon Margen   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Immune Microenvironment: New Therapeutic Implications in Organ Fibrosis

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This review summarizes recent advances in understanding the immune microenvironment's role in fibrosis, focusing on phenotypic/functional alterations of immune cells and their dynamic interactions with other cellular constituents within tissues. The authors further explore therapeutic opportunities and challenges in targeting immune microenvironment ...
Xiangqi Chen, Chuan Wu, Fei Tang, Jingyue Zhou, Li Mo, Yanping Li, Jinhan He   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trypstatin as a Novel TMPRSS2 Inhibitor with Broad‐Spectrum Efficacy against Corona and Influenza Viruses

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Trypstatin, a 61‐amino acid Kunitz‐type protease inhibitor derived from human Bikunin, potently inhibits TMPRSS2 and related proteases. It blocks spike‐ and hemagglutinin‐mediated entry of multiple respiratory viruses in vitro reduces SARS‐CoV‐2 replication in human airway cultures, and lowers viral load and symptoms in infected hamsters, demonstrating
Jan Lawrenz, Lukas Wettstein, Armando Rodríguez Alfonso, Rayhane Nchioua, Pascal von Maltitz, Dan Pascal Jean Albers, Fabian Zech, Julie Vandeput, Lieve Naesens, Giorgio Fois, Veronika Neubauer, Nico Preising, Emilia Schmierer, Yasser Almeida‐Hernandez, Moritz Petersen, Ludger Ständker, Sebastian Wiese, Peter Braubach, Manfred Frick, Eberhard Barth, Daniel Sauter, Frank Kirchhoff, Elsa Sanchez‐Garcia, Annelies Stevaert, Jan Münch   +24 more
wiley   +1 more source

Triptonide is a reversible non-hormonal male contraceptive agent in mice and non-human primates [PDF]

, 2021
Zongliang Chang, Weibing Qin, Huili Zheng, Kathleen M. Schegg, Lu Han, Xiaohua Liu, Yue Wang, Zhuqing Wang, Hayden McSwiggin, Hongying Peng, Shuiqiao Yuan, Jiabao Wu, Yongxia Wang, Shenghui Zhu, Yanjia Jiang, Hua Nie, Yuan Tang, Yu Zhou, Michael J. M. Hitchcock, Yunge Tang, Wei Yan   +20 more
openalex   +1 more source

Family Planning Market in India [PDF]

, 2017
This literature review captures existing knowledge across a range of products and players in India's family planning market. The product scope covers condoms, oral contraceptive pills, injectable contraceptives, intra-uterine devices, and male and female
Laura Amaya, Rishi Agarwal, Vignesh Shankar   +2 more
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Optimal duration of antimicrobial prophylaxis in patients undergoing distal pancreatectomy: A multicenter cohort study

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
Prolonged administration of antimicrobial prophylaxis might not be effective to prevent surgical site infections after distal pancreatectomy compared to intraoperative or up to 24‐h administration. Abstract Background Antimicrobial prophylaxis is routinely administered in patients undergoing distal pancreatectomy, with cephalosporins being the most ...
Kenjiro Okada, Kenichiro Uemura, Sohei Satoi, Tsutomu Fujii, Manabu Kawai, So Yamaki, Toru Watanabe, Hideki Motobayashi, Shinya Takahashi   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global estimation of unintended pregnancy and abortion using a Bayesian hierarchical random walk model [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
Unintended pregnancy and abortion estimates are needed to inform and motivate investment in global health programmes and policies. Variability in the availability and reliability of data poses challenges for producing estimates. We developed a Bayesian model that simultaneously estimates incidence of unintended pregnancy and abortion for 195 countries ...
arxiv