Pregnancy

Fetal Cardiac Doppler Signal Processing Techniques: Challenges and Future Research Directions.

The fetal Doppler Ultrasound (DUS) is commonly used for monitoring fetal heart rate and can also be used for identifying the event timings of fetal cardiac valve motions. In early-stage fetuses, the detected Doppler signal suffers from noise and signal loss due to the fetal movements and changing fetal location during the measurement procedure. The fetal cardiac intervals, which can be estimated b...

Preoperative cesarean delivery intravenous acetaminophen treatment for postoperative pain control: a randomized double-blinded placebo control trial.

BACKGROUND: The United States currently has an opioid use disorder epidemic and research evaluating ways to minimize the use of opioids postsurgery are needed. One of these options is intravenous acetaminophen. If the use of preoperative intravenous acetaminophen was found to be effective for cesarean delivery, this would be beneficial for both the mother and breast-feeding neonate.

[Surveillance of Sensitivity to Penicillin in streptococcus Agalactiae recovered from pregnant women between 35-37 weeks of gestation].

Streptococcus agalactiae (GBS) cause severe infections in newborns under three months. Meningitis, pneumonia and sepsis are the main infectious diseas...

Ultrasound-assisted crystallization of lactose in the presence of whey proteins and κ-carrageenan.

The conventional process of lactose crystallization is prolonged, hardly controllable and the crystals have low quality. In this work, the effect of u...

Effect of feeding rumen-protected methionine on productive and reproductive performance of dairy cows.

The objectives of this study were to evaluate the effects of daily top-dressing (individually feeding on the top of the total mixed ration) with rumen...

Enzymatic preparation of "functional oil" rich in feruloylated structured lipids with solvent-free ultrasound pretreatment.

In this study, a series of functional oils rich in feruloylated structured lipids (FSLs) was prepared by enzymatic transesterification of ethyl ferula...

Determination of Seminal Concentration of Fingolimod and Fingolimod-Phosphate in Multiple Sclerosis Patients Receiving Chronic Treatment With Fingolimod.

The safety profile of fingolimod 0.5 mg, approved therapy for relapsing multiple sclerosis, is well established in clinical and real-world studies. As...

Vitamin D: Effects on human reproduction, pregnancy, and fetal well-being.

Pregnancy places exceptional demands on vitamin D and calcium availability; thus, their deficiencies during pregnancy threaten the woman and her fetus...

Somatic cell count and type of intramammary infection impacts fertility from in vitro produced embryo transfer.

The objective of this study was to assess the impact of mastitis-causing bacteria and somatic cell count (SCC) on pregnancy per embryo transfer (P/ET)...

Toltrazuril mixed nanomicelle delivery system based on sodium deoxycholate-Brij C20 polyethylene ether-triton x100: Characterization, solubility, and bioavailability study.

Toltrazuril (Tol) is a broad-spectrum anticoccidiosis drug that is widely used in the prevention and treatment of coccidiosis infection in poultry and...

Symtosis: A liver ultrasound tissue characterization and risk stratification in optimized deep learning paradigm.

Background and Objective Fatty Liver Disease (FLD) - a disease caused by deposition of fat in liver cells, is predecessor to terminal diseases such as...

Breast lesion classification based on supersonic shear-wave elastography and automated lesion segmentation from B-mode ultrasound images.

Supersonic shear-wave elastography (SWE) has emerged as a useful imaging modality for breast lesion assessment. Regions of interest (ROIs) were requir...

The ability to predict pregnancy loss in cattle with ELISAs that detect pregnancy associated glycoproteins is antibody dependent.

The concentration of circulating pregnancy associated glycoproteins (PAGs) early in pregnancy may serve as markers to predict late embryonic mortality...

Extracellular vesicles yield predictive pre-eclampsia biomarkers.

Circulating extracellular vesicles (EVs) such as cholera toxin B chain (CTB)- or annexin V (AV)-binding EVs were previously shown to be rich sources o...

One-pot synthesis of glutathione-responsive amphiphilic drug self-delivery micelles of doxorubicin-disulfide-methoxy polyethylene glycol for tumor therapy.

We present a novel glutathione-responsive amphiphilic drug self-delivery (DSD) micelle with one-pot synthesis to synergistically address the problems ...

Zinc-Modified Nanotransporter of Doxorubicin for Targeted Prostate Cancer Delivery.

This work investigated the preparation of chitosan nanoparticles used as carriers for doxorubicin for targeted cancer delivery. Prepared nanocarriers ...

A Novel Method of Synovitis Stratification in Ultrasound Using Machine Learning Algorithms: Results From Clinical Validation of the MEDUSA Project.

Ultrasound is widely used in the diagnosis and follow-up of chronic arthritis. We present an evaluation of a novel automatic ultrasound diagnostic too...

From passive passenger to participating co-pilot - Pregnant women's expectations of being able to access their online journal from antenatal care.

OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to describe pregnant women's expectations of being able to access their electronic health records from antenatal c...

Using deep learning and Google Street View to estimate the demographic makeup of neighborhoods across the United States.

The United States spends more than $250 million each year on the American Community Survey (ACS), a labor-intensive door-to-door study that measures s...

Iodine deficiency in pregnancy: Still a health issue for the women of Cassino city, Italy.

OBJECTIVE: The World Health Organization, the United Nations Children's Fund, and the International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disor...