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Persistent Leukoencephalopathy Following H1N1 Infection Associated With a Novel MYRF Variant (p.Gly735Asp)

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mutations in myelin regulatory factor (MYRF) are linked to demyelinating disorders. We report a 38‐year‐old male who developed acute symmetric leukoencephalopathy mimicking a stroke following an influenza A virus infection. While clinical symptoms markedly improved with corticosteroids, MRI revealed persistent white matter lesions, contrasting
Jinghan Hu, Leiyun Huang, Wan Zhu, Min Peng, Qiang Gong, Jing Qian   +5 more
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Maternidade desnaturada: uma análise da barriga de aluguel e da doação de óvulos "Denatured" motherhood: an analysis of surrogate gestational motherhood and egg donation

Cadernos Pagu, 2002
O artigo discute representações sociais de duas práticas decorrentes das novas tecnologias reprodutivas ou reprodução assistida. Na fertilização in vitro, o procedimento de transferência do óvulo fertilizado de uma mulher para outra separa a maternidade ...
Naara Luna
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Elements for regulating surrogacy arrangements with cross-border effects [PDF]

Zbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2013
Numerous cases of international surrogacy arrangements and their legal effects in different national legal frameworks have caused a need to weigh the possibility and necessity of regulating the issue on international level.
Bordaš Bernadet
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Exploratory Analysis of ELP1 Expression in Whole Blood From Patients With Familial Dysautonomia

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Familial dysautonomia (FD) is a hereditary neurodevelopmental disorder caused by aberrant splicing of the ELP1 gene, leading to a tissue‐specific reduction in ELP1 protein expression. Preclinical models indicate that increasing ELP1 levels can mitigate disease manifestations.
Alejandra González‐Duarte, Lucy Norcliffe‐Kaufmann, Maria Luisa Cotrina, Zenith Khan, Kaia Dalamo, Patricio Millar Vernetti, Matthew Lawless, Elisabetta Morini, Monica Salani, Marla Weetall, Jana Narasimhan, Agostino G. Rocha, Susan A. Slaugenhaupt, Horacio Kaufmann   +13 more
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Chronological and Spatial Distribution of Skeletal Muscle Fat Replacement in FHL1‐Related Myopathies

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives Variants in the FHL1 gene cause FHL1‐related myopathies (FHL1‐RMs), a group of neuromuscular disorders with diverse clinical presentations. This study aimed to comprehensively characterize the spatial and temporal patterns of skeletal muscle fat replacement throughout the whole body in FHL1‐RMs, to examine disease progression over ...
Rui Shimazaki, Satoru Noguchi, Hotake Takizawa, Yasushi Oya, Yuji Takahashi, Hirofumi Komaki, Hajime Arahata, Shinichiro Hayashi, Ichizo Nishino   +8 more
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Bioethical and legal challenges of surrogate motherhood in the Republic of Croatia

European Journal of Bioethics, 2015
Surrogate motherhood represents an increasingly common method of human reproduction, which helps overcome successfully the obstacles of infertility. However, surrogate motherhood, due to its imprecise legal regulation and complex nature, entails many ...
Sunčana Roksandić Vidlička, Dijana Hrstić, Zrinka Kirin   +2 more
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Fertility preservation in gynaecologic cancers [PDF]

, 2018
Due to substantial improvement in the diagnosis and treatment of gynaecologic cancers, a better understanding of patient care needs to be revised. We reviewed the literature related to fertility preservation strategies in gynaecological cancer and ...
De Felice, Francesca, Di Pinto, Anna, Marchetti, Claudia, Musella, Angela, Muzii, Ludovico, Palaia, Innocenza, Panici, Pierluigi Benedetti, Porpora, Maria Grazia, Tomao, Federica, Tombolini, Vincenzo   +9 more
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Whole‐Body Pattern of Muscle Degeneration and Progression in Sarcoglycanopathies

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To characterize whole‐body intramuscular fat distribution pattern in patients with sarcoglycanopathies and explore correlations with disease severity, duration and age at onset. Methods Retrospective, cross‐sectional, multicentric study enrolling patients with variants in one of the four sarcoglycan genes who underwent whole‐body ...
Laura Costa‐Comellas, Mauro Monforte, Angel Sanchez‐Montañez, Penélope Romero‐Duque, Elena Pegoraro, Jordi Díaz‐Manera, Dmitry Vlodavets, Lorenzo Maggi, Marco Moscatelli, Adele D‘Amico, Montse Olivé, Jorge Alonso‐Pérez, Giacomo Comi, José Miguel Escudero‐Fernández, Gabriela S. Urcuyo, Anna Pichiecchio, Angela Berardinelli, Kristl G. Claeys, Claudio Bruno, Chiara Panicucci, Sara Bortolani, Eleonora Torchia, Enzo Ricci, Soledad Monges, Jorge A. Bevilacqua, Jorge Diaz‐Jara, Maggie C. Walter, Simone Thiele, Nicoline Løkken, John Vissing, Susana Quijano‐Roy, Robert Y. Carlier, Nicol C. Voermans, Chiara Marini‐Bettolo, Michela Guglieri, Volker Straub, Lea Leonardis, Francina Munell, David Gómez‐Andrés, Giorgio Tasca   +39 more
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Surrogacy and “Procreative Tourism”. What Does the Future Hold from the Ethical and Legal Perspectives?

Medicina, 2021
Background and objectives: To explore the ethical and legal complexities arising from the controversial issue of surrogacy, particularly in terms of how they affect fundamental rights of children and parents.
Valeria Piersanti, Francesca Consalvo, Fabrizio Signore, Alessandro Del Rio, Simona Zaami   +4 more
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Multiple Twinning in Nacre and Aragonite

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Electron backscatter diffraction map of a cluster of geologic aragonite, exhibiting single, double, and triple twins. The whole cluster is approximately 2 cm wide. Colors indicate crystal orientations, so that pixels where the a‐, b‐, and c‐axis is perpendicular to the image plane are green, red, and blue, respectively.
Connor A. Schmidt, William O. Nachlas, Bil Schneider, Xiaoming Mao, Eric Tambutté, Alexander A. Venn, Sylvie Tambutté, Pupa U. P. A. Gilbert   +7 more
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