More than 500,000 U.S. women develop postpartum depression (PPD) annually. Although psychosocial risks are known, the underlying biology remains unclear. Dysregulation of the immune inflammatory response and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis are associated with depression in other populations. While significant research on the contribution of these systems to the development of PPD ...

Epidemiological studies have provided evidence of an association between vitamin D insufficiency and depression and other mood disorders, and a role for vitamin D in various brain functions has been suggested. We hypothesized that low vitamin D status during pregnancy might increase the risk of postpartum depression (PPD). The objective of the study was thus to determine whether low vitamin D s...

20(S)-Protopanaxadiol (PPD) is one of the major active metabolites of ginseng. It has been reported that 20(S)-PPD shows a broad spectrum of antitumor effects. Our research study aims were to investigate whether apoptosis of human breast cancer MCF-7 cells could be induced by 20(S)-PPD by targeting the Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/Protein kinase B/Mammalian target of rapamycin (PI3K/AKT/mTOR) ...

BACKGROUND Postpartum depression (PPD) is a mood disorder that affects 10-20 percent of women, and can begin any time during first year after delivery lasting for months. Social support may decrease risk of depression during pregnancy for women. However, literature shows that the amount of social support received during and after pregnancy is different for teen mothers and adult mothers. This s...

, 81 infliximab naive RA patients and 47 healthy subjects as controls. At the same time and apart from the purposes of that study, we also had done a pathergy test in those subjects who agreed to participate, with the aim of determining the effect of the pathergy phenomenon on the response of BS patients to the tuberculin test. Informed consent was obtained from all subjects. The study was appr...

This paper addresses a hardware design of low cost, real time (faster than video rate) and suitable for on board applications systolic VLSI circuit, named pPD, for aerial image matching. Matching operation temporal results from Pentium PC200 (software simulation of the pPD) and estimated with Xilinx XC 6264 (encompassing pPD) working at 50 MHz are provided : the speed up factor is 2000 with fre...