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Establishing an Apheresis Medicine Program in a Resource‐Constrained Setting: A 5‐Year Experience From Lagos, Nigeria

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Establishing a comprehensive apheresis medicine program in a resource‐constrained setting presents significant structural, financial, and logistical challenges. Despite the growing clinical importance of apheresis services globally, published experience from sub‐Saharan Africa remains sparse.
Folasade Adelekan‐Popoola, Shakirat Gold‐Olufadi, Olufunto Olufela Kalejaiye, Abdullateef Ogala, Rasheed A. Balogun   +4 more
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Relationship Between Sexual Attitude and Sexual Function Among Iranian Women and Men During Pregnancy: A Cross‐Sectional Study

Health Science Reports
Background and Aims Sexual function is considered an essential criterion for enhancing the quality of life, encompassing not only the genital component but also mental and physical factors.
Sepideh Mashayekh‐Amiri, Mobina Ahmadi, Elnaz Hemati, Mojgan Mirghafourvand   +3 more
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Sexual satisfaction and oversexualization among adults. The moderating role of self-esteem

Current Issues in Personality Psychology
Background In the contemporary world, there is excessive creation and exposure of one’s own sexuality among adults. Taking this into account, the determinants of sexualization are being sought.
Iwona L. Janicka, Karolina A. Jarecka
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Determinants of sexual activity and its relation to cervical cancer risk among South African Women

BMC Public Health, 2007
Background Invasive cervical cancer is the commonest cause of cancer morbidity and mortality in South African women. This study provides information on adult women's sexual activity and cervical cancer risk in South Africa.
Williamson Anna-Lise, Denny Lynnette, Kelly Judy, Stander Ilse, Rosenberg Lynn, Carrara Henri, Hoffman Margaret, Cooper Diane, Shapiro Samuel   +8 more
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HIV Self-Testing to Promote Serostatus Disclosure Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in China: Protocol for a Stepped Wedge Randomized Controlled Trial

JMIR Research Protocols, 2020
BackgroundDisclosure of HIV serostatus is important for the prevention of HIV infection among men who have sex with men (MSM). However, knowledge of sexual partners’ HIV status among MSM in China is low.
Lu, Tianyi, Li, Hang, Mao, Xiang, Peng, Erlei, Gao, Yangyang, Chu, Zhenxing, Zhang, Jing, Dong, Willa, Jiang, Yongjun, Xu, Junjie   +9 more
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The microbiome in human skin aging

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Age‐related skin changes encompass the well‐known visible phenotypic alterations, together with microbiome dysbiosis and a series of molecular aging hallmarks. These hallmarks characterize not only a fully stablished aged phenotype but also the skin aging process itself.
Manuel Huerta Arana, Cornelia Wiegand, Omid Omrani, Mario Fabri   +3 more
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Changes in sexual health following total hip arthroplasty in heterosexual patients with stiff hips and their partners: a retrospective study

Frontiers in Medicine
BackgroundSexual activity is an integral component of a healthy life. However, research on changes in sexual activity among patients with stiff hips and their partners before and after total hip arthroplasty (THA) remains limited.
Xiaojin Wu, Xiaojin Wu, Shiyong Wang, Shiyong Wang, Rudong Chen, Haitao Hu, Rong Ma, Rong Ma, Yanbin Tian, Zhaohui Ge, Zhaohui Ge   +10 more
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Partial depletion of plasminogen activator inhibitor‐1 decreases subcutaneous fat cell hypertrophy and liver cholesterol in high‐fat‐fed female mice

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Obesity raises blood levels of PAI‐1, a protein linked to metabolic dysfunction‐associated steatotic liver disease in people with obesity. In female mice fed a high‐fat diet, partially lowering PAI‐1 led to smaller subcutaneous fat cells and lower liver cholesterol, without changing body weight or insulin sensitivity.
Claudia E. Ramirez Bustamante, Robert Sharp, Pradip K. Saha, Elizabeth S. Anaya, Elizabeth L. Lieu, Evelyn L. de Groot, Pooja Patel, Mi Jeong Heo, Aaron R. Cox, Kang Ho Kim, Sean M. Hartig   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tumour–host interactions in Drosophila: mechanisms in the tumour micro‐ and macroenvironment

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This review examines how tumour–host crosstalk takes place at multiple levels of biological organisation, from local cell competition and immune crosstalk to organism‐wide metabolic and physiological collapse. Here, we integrate findings from Drosophila melanogaster studies that reveal conserved mechanisms through which tumours hijack host systems to ...
José Teles‐Reis, Tor Erik Rusten
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Circular RNA expression landscapes in myelodysplastic neoplasms: Associations with mutational signatures and disease progression

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
In this explorative study, the abundance of circular RNA molecules in bone marrow stem cells was found to be elevated in patients with high‐risk myelodysplastic neoplasms, and to be associated with an increased risk of progression to acute myeloid leukemia.
Eileen Wedge, Morten Tulstrup, Gabriele Todisco, Pedro Moura, Christophe Côme, Jakob Werner Hansen, Jakob Schmidt Jespersen, Balthasar Schlotmann, Maria Creignou, Mette Dahl, Claudia Schöllkopf, Klas Raaschou‐Jensen, Krister Wennerberg, Bo Porse, Joachim Weischenfeldt, Eva Hellström‐Lindberg, Lasse Sommer Kristensen, Kirsten Grønbæk   +17 more
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