Synergistic risks of ambient air particulate matter and ozone exposure on low birth weight: An 11-year longitudinal Chinese maternity cohort study.

Observational epidemiological studies have demonstrated that maternal exposure to air pollution increases the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes. However, interactions among multiple environmental exposures remain underexplored. In this study, we performed an epidemiological analysis on 147,979 pregnant women recruited from nine provinces in southeastern China between 2013 and 2023, focusing on the risk of low birth weight (LBW).

NETs exacerbate placental inflammation and injury through high mobility group protein B1 during preeclampsia.

Background: Inflammatory stress at the maternal-fetal interface plays an important role in the occurrence and development of preeclampsia(PE) caused by different etiologies. Many pathological neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) at the maternal-fetal interface are believed to be among the main pathogenic factors leading to preeclampsia and the worsening of its symptoms. However, the underlying mechanism is largely unclear.

Establishing a Multifaceted Comprehensive Maternity Cohort Facilitates Understanding of How Environmental Exposures Impact Perinatal Health.

China's "three-child policy", implemented in response to population aging, has made the protection of maternal and infant health an urgent priority. In this environmental and medical big-data era, the Zhejiang Environmental and Birth Health Research Alliance (ZEBRA) maternity cohort was established with the aim of identifying risk factors for perinatal morbidity and mortality from the perspectives of both observational epidemiology and experimental etiology. Compared with conventional birth cohorts, the inclusion of a maternity cohort allows greater scope for research and places an emphasis on maternal health.

A Mutation in the Gene Leading to Severe Osteogenesis Imperfecta: Case Report and Review of the Literature.

 Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is the most common monogenic inherited skeletal dysplasia disorder. Mutations in the gene cause ∼85 to 90% of OI. Studies of cases have demonstrated that missense mutations are the primary cause of OI, with poor prognosis.

Surface State Modulation via Electrochemical Heterogeneous Redox Reactions for Full-Color Emission Carbon Dots.

Carbon dots (CDs) still suffer from unclear surface state fluorescence mechanism for fine modulation. Here, redox reactions for cathode and anode within electrochemical method are firstly employed to construct differentiated strategy for surface-state modulation, so as to obtain CDs with controllable emission in separated electrodes simultaneously. The fluorescence peaks of CDs from blue to red centered at 425 nm (mCDs-), 530 nm (mCDs+), 580 nm (oCDs-) and 665 nm (oCDs+) are mainly originated from the different bombardment effects of the ions and reaction tendencies of modifier during the electrolysis process.

A Chinese longitudinal maternity cohort study (2013-2021) on intrahepatic cholestasis phenotypes: Risk associations from environmental exposure to adverse pregnancy outcomes.

Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) is an idiopathic disease that occurs during mid-to-late pregnancy and is associated with various adverse pregnancy outcomes, including intrauterine fetal demise. However, since the underlying cause of ICP remains unclear, there is an ongoing debate on the phenotyping criteria used in the diagnostic process. Here, we identified single- and multi-symptomatic ICP (ICP-S and ICP-M) in 104,221 Chinese females from the ZEBRA maternity cohort, with the objective of exploring the risk implications of the two phenotypes on pregnancy outcomes and from environmental exposures.

Exogenous carbon turnover within the soil food web strengthens soil carbon sequestration through microbial necromass accumulation.

Exogenous carbon turnover within soil food web is important in determining the trade-offs between soil organic carbon (SOC) storage and carbon emission. However, it remains largely unknown how soil food web influences carbon sequestration through mediating the dual roles of microbes as decomposers and contributors, hindering our ability to develop policies for soil carbon management. Here, we conducted a C-labeled straw experiment to demonstrate how soil food web regulated the residing microbes to influence the soil carbon transformation and stabilization process after 11 years of no-tillage.

Antisense oligonuleotides influences trophoblasts behaviors by changing LncNR_040117 expression in antiphospholipid antibody syndrome-induced recurrent pregnancy loss.

Objective: The primary objective of this study was to explore whether antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) that reduce LncNR_040117 expression in patients with antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APS)-induced recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL), and further decrease apoptosis and improve trophoblasts invasion through mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathways. This paper aimed to provide a new strategy to treat APS-induced RPL.

Methods: In this study, we used quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) to analyze the expression level of LncNR 040117 in HTR-8/SVneo cells following transfection with ASOs.

Protection by hydroxychloroquine prevents placental injury in obstetric antiphospholipid syndrome.

Obstetric antiphospholipid syndrome (OAPS) is mediated by antiphospholipid antibodies (aPLs, and anti-β2 glycoprotein I antibody is the main pathogenic antibody), and recurrent abortion, preeclampsia, foetal growth restriction and other placental diseases are the main clinical characteristics of placental pathological pregnancy. It is a disease that seriously threatens the health of pregnant women. Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) was originally used as an anti-malaria drug and has now shown benefit in refractory OAPS where conventional treatment has failed, with the expectation of providing protective clinical benefits for both the mother and foetus.

Dok-3 deficient mice display different immune clustering and Tim-3 expression.

Background: Dok-3 has been shown to play an important role in immune system. Tim-3 also has been recognized as an important immune regulator which involves in many diseases. The relationship of them is still unclear.