Local knowledge has been proposed as a place‐based tool to ground‐truth climate models
and to narrow their geographic sensitivity. To assess the potential role of local knowledge in …

Cutaneous use of lipid nanoparticles (solid lipid nanoparticles, SLN and nanostructured lipid
carriers, NLC) has been showing promising results. These systems consist of low viscosity …

Background Of the 3.7 million neonatal deaths and 3.3 million stillbirths each year, 98%
occur in developing countries. An evaluation of community-based interventions designed to …

Background Adolescent girls between 15 and 19 years give birth to around 16 million babies
each year, around 11% of births worldwide. We sought to determine whether adolescent …

A novel neurotrophic factor named Persephin that is ∼40% identical to glial cell line–derived
neurotrophic factor (GDNF) and neurturin (NTN) has been identified using degenerate PCR…

Objectives. We examined pregnant women's use of cigarettes and other tobacco products and
the exposure of pregnant women and their young children to secondhand smoke (SHS) in …

Background During the post-partum period, most women wish to delay or prevent future
pregnancies. Despite this, the unmet need for family planning up to a year after delivery is …

Target innervation by specific neuronal populations involves still incompletely understood
interactions between central and peripheral factors. We show that glial cell line-derived …

Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinases (PI3Ks) are a family of lipid kinases that phosphorylate the 3-OH
of the inositol ring of phosphoinositides, and deregulation of this pathway has …

Background Antenatal corticosteroids for pregnant women at risk of preterm birth are among
the most effective hospital-based interventions to reduce neonatal mortality. We aimed to …