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Impact of early initiation versus national standard of care of antiretroviral therapy in Swaziland's public sector health system : study protocol for a stepped-wedge randomized trial [PDF]

, 2017
Background: There is robust clinical evidence to support offering early access to antiretroviral treatment (ART) to all HIV-positive individuals, irrespective of disease stage, to both improve patient health outcomes and reduce HIV incidence. However, as
Barnighausen, Till, Delva, Wim, Fleming, Yvette, Khumalo, Gavin, Lejeune, Charlotte L, Mazibuko, Sikhathele, Mlambo, Charmaine Khudzie, Okello, Velephi, Reis, Ria, Spiegelman, Donna, Walsh, Fiona J, Zwane, Mandisa   +11 more
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Implementation of Drug‐Induced Rhabdomyolysis and Acute Kidney Injury in Microphysiological System

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A modular Muscle–Kidney proximal tubule‐on‐a‐chip integrates 3D skeletal muscle and renal proximal tubule tissues to model drug‐induced rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney injury. The coculture system enables dynamic tissue interaction, functional contraction monitoring, and quantification of nephrotoxicity, revealing drug side effect‐induced metabolic ...
Jaesang Kim, Zhuo Feng Lee, Gi‐Dong Sim, Sejoong Kim, Jessie S. Jeon   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

RNA Virus Evolution via a Quasispecies-Based Model Reveals a Drug Target with a High Barrier to Resistance

Viruses, 2017
The rapid occurrence of therapy-resistant mutant strains provides a challenge for anti-viral therapy. An ideal drug target would be a highly conserved molecular feature in the viral life cycle, such as the packaging signals in the genomes of RNA viruses ...
Richard J. Bingham, Eric C. Dykeman, Reidun Twarock   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Era of direct acting anti-viral agents for the treatment of hepatitis C. [PDF]

, 2018
Hepatitis C infection is universal and the most common indication of liver transplantation in the United States. The period of less effective interferon therapy with intolerable side effects has gone.
Ahmed, Monjur
core   +1 more source

At‐Home Early Diagnosis of Mastitis: Calibration‐Free Analysis of Sodium to Potassium Ratio in Breast Milk

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
MAMAWEL is introduced as the first calibration‐free potentiometric sensor for at‐home mastitis diagnosis. By measuring the sodium‐to‐potassium ratio in breast milk, the device reliably differentiates between healthy and mastitis‐affected samples with less than 10% error.
Ali Soleimani, Farbod Amirghasemi, Melissa Banks, Abdulrahman Al‐Shami, Sina Khazaee Nejad, Abdalrhman Sheer, Clare Dominique Sanchez, Haozheng Ma, Daniel Vargas Ramos, Maral P.S. Mousavi   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Massively Parallel Profiling of HIV-1 Resistance to the Fusion Inhibitor Enfuvirtide

Viruses, 2019
Identifying drug resistance mutations is important for the clinical use of antivirals and can help define both a drug’s mechanism of action and the mechanistic basis of resistance. Resistance mutations are often identified one-at-a-time by studying
Adam S. Dingens, Dana Arenz, Julie Overbaugh, Jesse D. Bloom   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Microbicides development programme: engaging the community in the standard of care debate in a vaginal microbicide trial in Mwanza, Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2009
BACKGROUND: HIV prevention research in resource-limited countries is associated with a variety of ethical dilemmas. Key amongst these is the question of what constitutes an appropriate standard of health care (SoC) for participants in HIV prevention ...
Changalucha, John, Hayes, Richard J, Kazimoto, Johari, Lees, Shelley, Masanja, Joseph, McCormack, Sheena, Moffat, Claire, Nikolau, Lawi, Shagi, Charles, Shapiro, Katherine, Soteli, Selephina, Vallely, Andrew   +11 more
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Expanding Chemical Space of Nucleic Acid Nanoparticles for Tunable Antiviral‐Like Immunomodulatory Responses and Potent Adjuvant Activity

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
We introduce a nucleic acid nanoparticle (NANP) platform designed to be rrecognized by the human innate immune system in a regulated manner. By changing chemical composition while maintaining constant architectural parameters, we identify key determinants of immunorecognition enabling the rational design of NANPs with tunable immune activation profiles
Martin Panigaj, Hannah S. Newton, Jian Wang, Laxmi Pandey, Yelixza I. Avilla, Phong Nguyen, Morgan Chandler, Justin Halman, Yasmine Radwan, Stephanie Smith, Elijah Edmondson, Simone Difilippantonio, Chelsea Sanders, Bao Tran, Yongmei Zhao, Shaojun Xie, Edward Cedrone, Barry W. Neun, Meni Wanunu, Nikolay V. Dokholyan, Marina A. Dobrovolskaia, Kirill A. Afonin   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modeling viral infectious diseases and development of antiviral therapies using human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived systems [PDF]

, 2015
The recent biotechnology breakthrough of cell reprogramming and generation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which has revolutionized the approaches to study the mechanisms of human diseases and to test new drugs, can be exploited to generate ...
Barzon, Luisa, Berto, Alessandro, Desole, Giovanna, Pacenti, Monia, Palu', Giorgio, Sinigaglia, Alessandro, Trevisan, Marta   +6 more
core   +2 more sources

Tailoring the Properties of Functional Materials With N‐Oxides

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The properties of materials bearing N‐oxide groups are often dominated by the polar N+─O− bond. It provides hydrophilicity, selective ion‐binding, electric conductivity, or antifouling properties. Many of the underlying mechanisms have only recently been discovered, and the interest in N‐oxide materials is rapidly growing.
Timo Friedrich, Michelle Kobus, Shirin Mesgarha, Erica Moretto, Laurens Grosche, Wolfgang Maison   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source