Background Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a proliferative disease of the ocular retinal vasculature in premature infants, being a leading cause of preventable childhood blindness.The COVID-19 pandemic serves as an additional barrier to access to care and referral, potentially leading to more cases of advanced stage ROP.Although surgery can be
BACKGROUND:Undernutrition leads to impaired psychosocial and cognitive development.This study explored the developmental status of children with complicated severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and correlated it with various risk factors for SAM.METHODS AND FINDINGS:We recruited 100 children with SAM and no other associated significant health issues dur
Conventional type 1 dendritic cells (cDC1s) are superior in antigen cross-presentation and priming CD8+ T cell anti-tumor immunity and thus, are a target of high interest for cancer immunotherapy.Type I interferon (IFN) is a potent inducer of antigen cross-presentation, but, unfortunately, shows only modest results in the clinic given the short hal
The concept of Plant Species with Extremely Small Populations (PSESP) has been employed to guide conservation of threatened plant species in China.Climate change has a high potential to threaten PSESP.As a result, it is necessary to integrate climate change effects on PSESP into conservation planning in China.Here, ecological niche modelling is use