ANEMIA IN PREGNANCY IN WESTERN JAMAICA

Anemia in pregnancy in Western Jamaica

Saidah Wright,1 Dominique Earland,1 Swati Sakhuja,1 Anna Junkins,1 Sarah Franklin,1 Luz Padilla,1 Maung Aung,2 Pauline E Jolly1 1Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA; 2Western Region Health Authority, Cornwall Regional Hospital, Ministry of Health, Montego Bay, Jamaica Backgro

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Epigenetics alternation in lung fibrosis and lung cancer

Respiratory disease including interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) and lung cancer is a group of devastating diseases that linked with increased morbidity and healthcare burden.However, respiratory diseases cannot be fully explained by the alternation of genetic information.Genetic Custom Shaped Wood Sign studies described that epigenetic mechanisms a

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Positron Emission Tomographic Imaging of the Cannabinoid Type 1 Receptor System with [C]OMAR ([C]JHU75528): Improvements in Image Quantification Using Wild-Type and Knockout Mice

In this study, we assessed the feasibility of using positron emission tomography (PET) and the Endcap Assembly tracer [ 11 C]OMAR ([ 11 C]JHU75528), an analogue of rimonabant, to study the brain cannabinoid type 1 (CB1) receptor system.Wild-type (WT) andCB1 knockout (KO) animals were imaged at baseline and after pretreatment with blocking doses of

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