Consequences of viral infection and cytokine production during pregnancy on brain development in offspring

D Elgueta, P Murgas, E Riquelme, G Yang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Infections during pregnancy can seriously damage fetal neurodevelopment by aberrantly
activating the maternal immune system, directly impacting fetal neural cells. Increasing …

Bubble-propelled micro/nanomotors: a robust platform for the detection of environmental pollutants and biosensing

SK Panda, NA Kherani, S Debata, DP Singh - Materials Advances, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The sensitive and rapid detection of a variety of hazardous environmental pollutants and bio-
analytes such as microorganisms and biomolecules is of great importance for environmental …

[HTML][HTML] The choroid plexus synergizes with immune cells during neuroinflammation

H Xu, P Lotfy, S Gelb, A Pragana, C Hehnly, LIJ Byer… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
The choroid plexus (ChP) is a vital brain barrier and source of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).
Here, we use longitudinal two-photon imaging in awake mice and single-cell transcriptomics …

Placental pathology findings during and after SARS-CoV-2 infection: features of villitis and malperfusion

T Menter, KD Mertz, S Jiang, H Chen, C Monod… - Pathobiology, 2021 - karger.com
Since the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there has been a debate
whether pregnant women are at a specific risk for COVID-19 and whether it might be …

Prenatal Zika virus infection has sex-specific effects on infant physical development and mother-infant social interactions

G Moadab, F Pittet, JL Bennett, CL Taylor… - Science Translational …, 2023 - science.org
There is enormous variation in the extent to which fetal Zika virus (fZIKV) infection affects the
develo** brain. Despite the neural consequences of fZIKV infection observed in people …

Plant-made vaccines against viral diseases in humans and farm animals

H Su, A Van Eerde, E Rimstad, R Bock… - Frontiers in plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Plants provide not only food and feed, but also herbal medicines and various raw materials
for industry. Moreover, plants can be green factories producing high value bioproducts such …

Smartphone clip-on instrument and microfluidic processor for rapid sample-to-answer detection of Zika virus in whole blood using spatial RT-LAMP

AM Jankelow, H Lee, W Wang, TH Hoang, A Bacon… - Analyst, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Rapid, simple, inexpensive, accurate, and sensitive point-of-care (POC) detection of viral
pathogens in bodily fluids is a vital component of controlling the spread of infectious …

The placental pathology in Coronavirus disease 2019 infected mothers and its impact on pregnancy outcome

B Joshi, A Chandi, R Srinivasan, SS Saini, GRV Prasad… - Placenta, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction This study aims at observing placental pathologies in COVID-19 infected
women, and analyzing its impact on pregnancy outcome. Method This is a descriptive …

Pregnant women with COVID-19: the placental involvement and consequences

S Aghaamoo, K Ghods, M Rahmanian - Journal of molecular histology, 2021 - Springer
Abstract SARS-CoV-2, the leading cause of COVID-19 pandemic, was detected for the first
time in Wuhan. In this study, we investigated the potential undesirable maternal and feto …