Plain language summary This study looked into the lives of pregnant and parenting girls in Kenya by Health examining case notes that were written up by psychologists during the counseling sessions they held with 20 different teenage girls who were pregnant, or already had children, and 6 of their parents.The case notes provided an understanding of
Raiding the Coral Nurseries?
A recent shift in the pattern of commercial harvest in the Keppel Island region of the southern inshore Great Barrier Reef raises concern about the depletion of a number of relatively rare restricted range taxa.The shift appears to be driven by demand from the United States (US) for corals for domestic aquaria.Data Chestnut from the annual status r
Celastrol: A Spectrum of Treatment Opportunities in Chronic Diseases
The identification of new bioactive compounds derived from medicinal plants with significant therapeutic properties has attracted considerable interest in recent years.Such is the case of the Tripterygium wilfordii Inline - Skates - JuniorIntermediate (TW), an herb used in Chinese medicine.Clinical trials performed so far using its root extracts ha
Neuroprotective Potential of Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Based Therapy in Acute Stages of TNBS-Induced Colitis in Guinea-Pigs.
BACKGROUND & AIMS:The therapeutic benefits of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), such as homing ability, multipotent differentiation capacity and secretion of soluble bioactive factors which exert neuroprotective, anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory properties, have been attributed to attenuation of autoimmune, inflammatory and neurodegenerative dis