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Advancing Maternal Health with Long‐Acting Therapeutics: Priorities, Efficacy and Safety Considerations, and Emerging Technologies

Clinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.
Maternal health remains a critical global concern, particularly in underserved populations and in low‐ and middle‐income countries where access to safe and effective therapeutics is limited. Despite the use of medications by most women during pregnancy, the exclusion of pregnant and lactating women from clinical trials has resulted in significant data ...
Rachel K. Scott, Sharon Nachman, Ethel D. Weld, Rachel Daley, Shakir Atoyebi, Robert Bies, Catriona Waitt, Adeniyi Olagunju   +7 more
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Salivary Oxytocin Has Nonlinear Relationships with Trust and Reciprocity

Games, 2023
Oxytocin has been proposed to regulate human trust. Previous experiments supported this claim by demonstrating that exogenous and endogenous oxytocin is associated with trust (how much trust people place in strangers) and reciprocity (how much people ...
Sakura Arai, Motoki Watabe, Kei Kanari, Qiulu Shou, Frank Krueger, Haruto Takagishi   +5 more
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Prenatal betamethasone–postnatal N‐methyl‐D‐aspartic acid model of spasms: Update on mechanisms and treatments

Epilepsia Open, EarlyView.
Abstract Infantile epilepsy spasms syndrome (IESS), formerly known as infantile spasms or West Syndrome, is a severe epilepsy syndrome affecting about 3 in 10,000 newborns in the United States. Characterized by clusters of epileptic spasms, interictal hypsarrhythmia, and developmental delays, IESS has diverse causes, including structural‐metabolic ...
Kayla Vieira, Antonia Schonwald, Chian‐Ru Chern, Kamya Shah, Jana Velíšková, Libor Velíšek   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of oxytocin level, glucose metabolism components and cutoff values for oxytocin and anti-mullerian hormone in infertile PCOS women

Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2018
Objective: Comparing oxytocin level and some other parameters between infertile women with or without polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), to evaluate the correlation between oxytocin with anti-mullerian hormone (AMH), Body Mass Index (BMI) and insulin ...
Bahia Namavar Jahromi, Mohammad Hossein Dabbaghmanesh, Pardis Bakhshaie, Mohammad Ebrahim Parsanezhad, Zahra Anvar, Mahshid Alborzi, Afsoon Zarei, Mina Bakhshaei   +7 more
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Dietary and biomarker‐guided strategies as supportive measures in the fragile X syndrome

Food Biomacromolecules, EarlyView.
Abstract The fragile X syndrome (FXS) is an inherited neurodevelopmental disorder that primarily affects males, often resulting in an IQ below 55, while about two‐thirds of females also experience intellectual disability. Physical features may include an elongated face, prominent ears, finger joint laxity, and enlarged testes in males.
Jailan E. El Halawani, Reem R. AlOlaby
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Oxytocin in pregnancy and the postpartum: relations to labor and its management

Frontiers in Public Health, 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine variations in endogenous oxytocin levels in pregnancy and postpartum state. We also explored the associations between delivery variables and oxytocin levels.
Marie ePrevost, Phyllis eZelkowitz, Togas eTulandi, Barbara eHayton, Nancy eFeeley, C. Sue eCarter, Lawrence eJoseph, Hossein ePournajafi-Nazarloo, Erin eYong Ping, Haim eAbenhaim, Ian eGold   +10 more
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Does induction or augmentation of labor increase the risk of postpartum hemorrhage in pregnant women with anemia? A multicenter prospective cohort study in India

International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, Volume 169, Issue 1, Page 299-309, April 2025.
Abstract Objective To investigate whether induction/augmentation of labor in pregnant women with anemia increases the risk of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) and whether this risk varied by indications for labor induction/augmentation and by anemia severity in pregnancy.
Tuck Seng Cheng, Farzana Zahir, Carolin Solomi V, Ashok Verma, Sereesha Rao, Saswati Sanyal Choudhury, Gitanjali Deka, Pranabika Mahanta, Swapna Kakoty, Robin Medhi, Shakuntala Chhabra, Anjali Rani, Amrit Bora, Indrani Roy, Bina Minz, Omesh Kumar Bharti, Rupanjali Deka, Charles Opondo, David Churchill, Marian Knight, Jennifer J. Kurinczuk, Manisha Nair   +21 more
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Maternal morbidity following a trial of labor after cesarean birth: A scoping review of operative vaginal birth compared with cesarean birth in the second stage of labor

International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Increased use of operative vaginal birth (OVB; forceps and vacuum) has been proposed as a strategy to avoid cesarean birth (CB) among individuals who elect a trial of labour after CB (TOLAC). The relative maternal safety of OVB and CB in individuals with a TOLAC is poorly understood. Objective To summarize the available evidence and
Irina I. Oltean, Vanessa Hébert, Giulia M. Muraca   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Oxytocin alleviates liver fibrosis via hepatic macrophages

JHEP Reports
Background & Aims: Previous studies demonstrated oxytocin treatment effectiveness in reducing mortality and reversing liver fibrosis in mice. However, the underlying mechanism remains obscure, given the absence of oxytocin receptor expression in ...
Xiangyu Zhai, Hao Zhang, Zhijia Xia, Mingkun Liu, Gang Du, Zhengchen Jiang, Huaxin Zhou, Dan Luo, Dandan Dou, Jingxin Li, Wei Wang, Xiaosong Li, Bin Jin   +12 more
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Duration and mode of delivery: Does maternal sleep matter?

International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Poor sleep quality in late pregnancy has been identified as a risk factor for operative deliveries. In this study, we investigated the associations between maternal sleep throughout pregnancy and its impact on both the duration and mode of delivery.
Hilla Parttimaa, E. Juulia Paavonen, Laura Perasto, Hasse Karlsson, Linnea Karlsson, Päivi Polo‐Kantola   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source