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Quality of prenatal care questionnaire: instrument development and testing. [PDF]

, 2014
Background Utilization indices exist to measure quantity of prenatal care, but currently there is no published instrument to assess quality of prenatal care. The purpose of this study was to develop and test a new instrument, the Quality of Prenatal Care
Kingston, D. A., Akhtar-Danesh, N., Bradford, A., Helewa, M. E., Hutton, E. K., Heaman, M. I., Janssen, P. A., Young, D.C., Tough, S., Sword, W.A.   +9 more
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NICE: A Two‐Step Non‐Invasive Framework for Embryo cfDNA Read Enrichment and Quality Assessment

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The non‐invasive NICE framework, built on an ensemble stacking machine learning model, prioritizes embryos by analyzing cell‐free DNA from spent culture medium. By integrating multimodal signals, including genomic and epigenetic profiles, this automated approach standardizes morphological assessment without human bias, paving the way for more precise ...
Xueya Zhou, Shu Ding, Zhenyi Zhang, Qiaoling Shangguan, Jie Qiao, Peijie Zhou, Yidong Chen   +6 more
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TH/TRs–COL11A2 Axis Mediates Loss of a Differentiated Astrocyte State in Hypogyrified Brains

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Using a gyrencephalic congenital hypothyroidism pig model, this study reveals cerebral atrophy and cortical hypogyrification. Single‐cell sequencing identifies astrocytes as major TH‐responsive cells, with the COL11A2‐enriched Astro‐2 state nearly absent.
Ying Zhang, Xiao Wang, Hongyan Ma, Pengcheng Lyu, Shuangjie Tian, Ruojun Zong, Jiani Chen, Gang Ren, Yongjiang Yang, Zichen Yang, Guosong Qin, Naishi Li, Yanfang Wang, Jianwei Jiao, Jianguo Zhao   +14 more
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Women's and care providers' perspectives of quality prenatal care: a qualitative descriptive study

, 2012
Background: Much attention has been given to the adequacy of prenatal care use in promoting healthy outcomes for women and their infants. Adequacy of use takes into account the timing of initiation of prenatal care and the number of visits.
Akhtar-Danesh, N., Kingston, D., Heaman, M.I., Sword, W., Brooks, S., Tough, S., Young, D., Janssen, P.A., Helewa, M.E., Hutton, E.   +9 more
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Expanding Genetic Code to Generate Human Brain Organoids with Both Vasculature and Microglia‐Like Cells

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Using genetic code expansion, we engineered vascularized human cerebral organoids (vhCOs) with microglia‐like cells and blood‐brain barrier features. vhCOs recapitulate neurovascular interactions, regional identities, and neuronal subtypes resembling the fetal brain.
Haishuang Lin, Yaqing Wang, Hu Du, Yuxin Qin, Haoyu Zhang, Peng Wang, Lin Wei, Jianhua Qin   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Barriers, motivators and facilitators related to prenatal care utilization among inner-city women in Winnipeg, Canada: a case–control study [PDF]

, 2014
Background: The reasons why women do not obtain prenatal care even when it is available and accessible are complex. Despite Canada’s universally funded health care system, use of prenatal care varies widely across neighborhoods in Winnipeg, Manitoba ...
Heaman, Maureen I., Sword, Wendy, Moffatt, Michael, Tjaden, Lynda, Helewa, Michael E., Gregory, Patricia, Cook, Catherine, Morris, Heather, Elliott, Lawrence   +8 more
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Drug Repurposing for Treating NCOR‐Related Intellectual Disability

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
An autism‐associated NCOR1 heterozygous mutation upregulates NRGs and activates NRG backward signaling in hypothalamic GABAergic neurons in mouse models, leading to Gabra2 downregulation and cognitive deficits, which can be therapeutically targeted by repurposing FDA‐approved drugs.
Yan Kong, Wenjun Zhou, Yuxiang Sun, Zihan Huang, Zhiyue Liu, Udhaya Kumar. S, Chenyan Li, Yi Lu, Chengchuang Song, Veronica C. Ciliberto, Makenna Mack, Lana E. Kim, Zhaoyong Hu, Fang Luo, Aihua Cao, Zheng Sun   +15 more
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Prenatal detection and molecular cytogenetic characterization of Xp deletion and Xq duplication: a case report and literature review

BMC Medical Genomics
Background Copy number variation (CNV) of X chromosome can lead to a variety of neonatal abnormalities, especially for male fetuses. In recent years, due to the high sensitivity and high specificity of NIPS, its application has gradually expanded from ...
Qing Lin, Chunya Liang, Bole Du, Lijiao Li, Hong Li, Xiaolan Mai, Sheng Li, Wenyu Xu, Cunzhen Wu, Mi Zeng   +9 more
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PBRM1 Deficiency in Microglia Leads to Excessive Neurogenesis and Autism‐Like Behaviors via the CCL5‐CCR1/5‐β‐catenin Signaling Axis

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Microglial PBRM1 deficiency drives excessive hippocampal neurogenesis by enhancing CCL5–CCR1/5 signaling, leading to autism‐like behaviors. A pro‐inflammatory IL1α+/TNFα+ microglial subset is identified as a key cellular contributor to this process. PBRM1 represses Ccl5 expression at the transcriptional level.
Yang‐Yang Duan, Lin‐Fei Jiao, Pei‐Pei Liu, Chun‐Hui Duan, Xiao Li, Zi‐Han Zhang, Yue‐Qi Zhang, Xin‐Li Ouyang, Hong‐Zhen Du, Sha Liu, Yi Tang, Zhao‐Qian Teng, Chang‐Mei Liu   +12 more
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A review of evidence on non-invasive prenatal diagnosis (NIPD) : tests for fetal RHD genotype [PDF]

, 2007
This report concentrates on three main areas. First and foremost, we set the background context for RhD NIPD in prenatal care. While the methodology chapter describes how the literature review was carried out and how additional information was collected,
Clay, Diane, Hyde, Julia, Szczepura, Ala, Osipenko, Leeza, HASH(0x55a67fc1f4e0), Freeman, Karoline   +5 more
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