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A new urinary catheter design reduces in-vitro biofilm formation by influencing hydrodynamics.

May 03, 2021

To evaluate the performance of a new catheter design based on different hydrodynamics aiming to reduce the development of biofilm, and compare it with a conventional Foley catheter (FC).The new propos...

Prevalence and incidence of postpartum depression and environmental factors: The IGEDEPP cohort.

May 03, 2021

IGEDEPP (Interaction of Gene and Environment of Depression during PostPartum) is a prospective multicenter cohort study of 3310 Caucasian women who gave birth between 2011 and 2016, with follow-up unt...

Single and mixed effects of metallic elements in maternal serum during pregnancy on risk for fetal neural tube defects: A Bayesian kernel regression approach.

May 03, 2021

Studies of the association between prenatal exposure to metal elements and risk for neural tube defects (NTDs) have produced inconsistent results. Little research has examined the joint effects and in...

Bevacizumab, carboplatin, and paclitaxel in the first line treatment of advanced ovarian cancer patients: the phase IV MITO-16A/MaNGO-OV2A study.

May 03, 2021

To explore the clinical and biological prognostic factors for advanced ovarian cancer patients receiving first-line treatment with carboplatin, paclitaxel, and bevacizumab.A multicenter, phase IV, sin...

ONC201 induces the unfolded protein response (UPR) in high- and low-grade ovarian carcinoma cell lines and leads to cell death regardless of platinum sensitivity.

May 03, 2021

Treatment of both platinum resistant high grade (HG) and low-grade (LG) ovarian cancer (OVCA) poses significant challenges as neither respond well to conventional chemotherapy leading to morbidity and...

Platinum-based Chemotherapy and Bevacizumab Instigate the Destruction of Human Ovarian Cancers via Different Signaling Pathways.

May 03, 2021

The standard chemotherapy regimens of ovarian cancer are platinum-based chemotherapy (carboplatin and paclitaxel) and bevacizumab (BEV). However, the effects of BEV alone or combined with carboplatin ...

Evaluation of multi-epitope recombinant protein as a candidate for a contraceptive vaccine.

May 03, 2021

Contraceptive vaccine (CV) is a valuable, non-invasive, and alternative method for purposeful contraception. Sperm antigens are useful targets for producing CVs due to their specialized expression in ...

A protein-sulfosalicylic acid/boswellic acids @metal-organic framework nanocomposite as anticancer drug delivery system.

May 03, 2021

The metal-organic frameworks (MOF) have shown fascinating possibilities in biomedical applications, designing a multifunctional drug delivery system based on the MOF is important. In this study, 5-sul...

Genistein loaded in self-assembled bovine serum albumin nanovehicles and their effects on mouse mammary adenocarcinoma cells.

May 03, 2021

Antitumor activity of plant-derived flavonoids has been researched during recent decades. Among them, genistein (Gen) stands out for showing cytotoxic activity against breast cancer cells. However, it...

Carbon fiber-reinforced PEEK instrumentation in the spinal oncology population: a retrospective series demonstrating technique, feasibility, and clinical outcomes.

May 03, 2021

The authors aimed to demonstrate the feasibility and advantages of carbon fiber-reinforced PEEK (CFRP) composite implants in patients with both primary and secondary osseous spinal tumors.Twenty-eight...

A survey of Japanese interns to prepare for mandatory clinical training in obstetrics and gynecology.

May 03, 2021

Obstetrics and gynecology (Ob/Gyn) training became compulsory for Japanese physician interns from April 2020 to improve medical competence in treating women's diseases. This study aims to understand t...

In the Name of Prevention: Maternal Perspectives on School-Based HPV Vaccination in Rural Southern Chile.

May 03, 2021

Since the introduction of the HPV vaccine in Chile in 2014, there have been few studies exploring community perspectives on the vaccine, specifically of parents of adolescents. This study sought to id...

The Duration of Antibiotics Prophylaxis at the Time of Catheter Removal after Radical Prostatectomy: Clinically-Integrated, Cluster, Randomized Trial.

Apr 29, 2021

Prophylactic antibiotics are routinely given at the time of catheter removal post radical prostatectomy (RP). The low rate of infectious complications entails that large sample sizes are required for ...

Placentas associated with female neonates from pregnancies complicated by urinary-tract infections have higher cAMP content and cytokines expression than males.

Apr 29, 2021

The cAMP pathway is involved in important biological processes including immune regulation and hormone signaling. At the feto-maternal unit, cAMP participates in placental function/physiology and the ...

Screening for idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus in the elderly after falls.

Apr 29, 2021

Many patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) have reportedly fallen prior to diagnosis. However, there are no previous reports on the iNPH prevalence among the elderly with histo...

Reproductive Health Care for Incarcerated Pregnant, Postpartum, and Nonpregnant Individuals.

Apr 29, 2021

Obstetrician-gynecologists and other women's health care practitioners can support efforts to improve health care for incarcerated pregnant, postpartum, and nonpregnant individuals. The majority of in...

PAX8 and MECOM are interaction partners driving ovarian cancer.

Apr 29, 2021

The transcription factor PAX8 is critical for the development of the thyroid and urogenital system. Comprehensive genomic screens furthermore indicate an additional oncogenic role for PAX8 in renal an...

IGF-1R anti-idiotypic antibody antagonist exhibited anti-ovarian cancer bioactivity and reduced cisplatin resistance.

Apr 29, 2021

Ovarian cancer is the most deadly gynecological malignant tumor in the world today. Previous studies have shown that insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor (IGF-1R) is closely related to the occurrence...

Development of a high payload, cancer-targeting liposomes of methyl aminolevulinate for intraoperative photodynamic diagnosis/therapy of peritoneal carcinomatosis.

Apr 29, 2021

Methyl aminolevulinate (MAL) is a photosensitizer topically used for photodynamic diagnosis (PDD) and photodynamic therapy (PDT) of skin pre-cancers and cancers. In this study, our goal is to expand t...

A High-Androgen Microenvironment Inhibits Granulosa Cell Proliferation and Alters Cell Identity.

Apr 29, 2021

A naturally occurring bovine model with excess follicular fluid androstenedione (High A4), reduced fertility, and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)-like characteristics has been identified. We hypothes...

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