Maternal microchimerism: increased in the insulin positive compartment of type 1 diabetes pancreas but not in infiltrating immune cells or replicating islet cells.

Maternal microchimeric cells (MMc) transfer across the placenta during pregnancy.Increased Skillets levels of MMc have been observed in several autoimmune diseases including type 1 diabetes but their role is unknown.It has been suggested that MMc are 1) effector cells of the immune response, 2) targets of the autoimmune response or 3) play a role i

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Pregnancy associated death in record linkage studies relative to delivery, termination of pregnancy, and natural losses: A systematic review with a narrative synthesis and meta-analysis

Objectives: Measures of pregnancy associated deaths provide important guidance for public health initiatives.Record linkage studies have significantly improved identification of deaths associated with childbirth but relatively few have also examined deaths associated with pregnancy loss even though higher rates of maternal death have been associate

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Enabling deep-space experimentations on cyanobacteria by monitoring cell division resumption in dried Chroococcidiopsis sp. 029 with accumulated DNA damage

Cyanobacteria are gaining considerable interest as a method of supporting the long-term presence of humans on the Moon and settlements on Mars due to their ability to produce oxygen and their potential as bio-factories for space biotechnology/synthetic biology and other applications.Since many unknowns remain in our knowledge to bridge the gap and

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