Placental inflammation and autism?

The placenta . Quite an important part of the nine months that makes us; an organ exquisitely evolved to provide oxygen and nutrition to the...

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"a leaky gut may play a critical role in the development of age-related inflammation and frailty"

The quote heading this post is taken from the findings reported by Yanfei Qi and colleagues [1] who set out to investigate whether " a...

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Schizophrenia and CRP meta-analysed again

" Our study provides evidence that higher CRP  [ C-reactive protein ]  levels are associated with increased risk of SZ  [ schizophrenia...

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Oral vitamin D and the inflammatory effects of sunburn

In something of a departure from the typical content of this blog, I want to briefly introduce the paper by Jeffrey Scott and colleagues [1...

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The inflammatory effects of unemployment?

" Our study demonstrates that systemic inflammation is associated with an important but little-studied aspect of the social environmen...

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Autism, pregnancy maternal immune activation and vitamin D?

Today's post is a bit of a mash-up, drawing on two articles quite recently published in the peer-reviewed science domain. The first is b...

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HSV-2 gestational infection and offspring autism risk

" In our cohort, high levels of antibodies to herpes simplex virus 2 at midpregnancy were associated with an elevated risk of autism s...

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New Video on Sinusitis and Sinus Surgery Explained (Balloon Sinuplasty and Endoscopic Sinus Surgery)

A  new video  has been uploaded to YouTube that explains how sinus infections occur as well as how sinus surgery helps with this condition ...

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