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At the end of December 2019, a novel acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) appeared as the third unheard of outbreak of human coronavirus infection in the 21st century. First, in Wuhan, China, the novel SARS-CoV2 was named by the World Health Organization (WHO), as 2019-nCOV (COVID-19), and spread extremely all over the world. SARS-CoV2 is transmitted to individuals by human-to-human transmission leading to severe viral pneumonia and respiratory system injury. SARS-CoV2 elicits infections from the common cold to severe conditions accompanied by lung injury, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and other organ destruction. There is a possibility of virus transmission from asymptomatic cases as active carriers, in addition to symptomatic ones, which is a crucial crisis of COVID-19 that should be considered. Hence, paying more attention to the accurate and immediate diagnosis of suspected and infected cases can be a great help in preventing the rapid spread of the virus, improving the disease prognosis, and controlling the pandemic. In this review, we provide a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the different types of Clinical and Para-clinical diagnostic methods and their practical features, which can help understand better the applications and capacities of various diagnostic approaches for COVID-19 infected cases.Objectives To evaluate whether cannabis use during pregnancy is associated with adverse neonatal outcomes that are independent of cigarette smoking. Design Prospective cohort study. Setting Adelaide (Australia), Auckland (New Zealand), Cork (Ireland), and Leeds, London and Manchester (United Kingdom). Participants 5610 pregnant nulliparous women with low risk pregnancies recruited for the Screening for Pregnancy Endpoints (SCOPE) study, November 2004 - February 2011. At 14-16 weeks of pregnancy, women were grouped by self-reported cannabis use. Main outcome measures Infant birthweight, head circumference, birth length, gestational age, and severe neonatal morbidity or mortality. Results 314 women (5.6%) reported using cannabis in the 3 months before or during their pregnancy; 97 (31%) stopped using it before and 157 (50%) during the first 15 weeks of pregnancy, while 60 (19%) were still using cannabis at 15 weeks. Compared with babies of mother who had never used cannabis, infants of those who still used it at 15 weeks had lower mean values for birthweight (adjusted mean difference [aMD], -127 g; 95% CI, -238 to -17 g), head circumference (aMD, -0.5 cm; 95% CI, -0.8 to -0.1 cm), birth length (aMD, -0.8 cm; 95% CI, -1.4 to -0.2 cm), and gestational age at birth (aMD, -8.1 days; 95% CI, -12.1 to -4.0 days). The differences for all outcomes except gestational age were greater for women who used cannabis more than once a week than for those who used it less frequently. Conclusions Continuing to use cannabis during pregnancy is an independent risk factor for poorer neonatal outcomes.Background Uniform and consistent reporting and comparison of donor adverse events (DAEs) and severity are well-recognized challenges for donor hemovigilance (DHV). While the 2014 Standard for Surveillance of Complications Related to Blood Donation (SSCRBD), developed by hemovigilance experts from AABB, the International Society of Blood Transfusion, and International Hemovigilance Network, established the DAE definitions, no specific guidelines were provided to grade severity. A group of subject matter experts developed the Severity Grading Tool for Blood Donor Adverse Events (SGT) to enhance objective assignment of severity and conducted a study to validate the tool. Study design and methods Between January 8, 2019, and February 28, 2019, participants graded severity of 32 cases (34 DAEs) using the SGT. Comments boxes allowed participants to provide rationale for selecting a severity grade for each case. Agreement with expert grading among study participants was evaluated using percentage agreement. Inter-rater reliability was evaluated by Kendall's coefficient of concordance (W). The final SGT was revised based on validation study results and feedback received. Results The overall agreement was almost perfect with W = 0.84 (confidence interval [CI], 0.78-0.90). Of 34 DAEs, respondent agreement with expert grading of more than 90% was reached for 18 DAEs, 80% to 90% for six DAEs, 70% to 80% for six DAEs, and less than 70% for four DAEs. Conclusion The development and validation of a uniform SGT with objective criteria for assigning severity of DAEs used together with standard reaction definitions will provide opportunities for comparison between blood centers and systems to enhance the field of DHV.In the present study, we investigated whether the immortalized chicken hepatocellular carcinoma cell line, LMH, had a comparable aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) response to primary chicken embryonic hepatocytes (CEH) when used in a well-established assay for chemical screening and prioritization. LMH cells were grown as two-dimensional (2D) confluent cells and 3D spheroids in order to determine the optimal cell culture states for chemical screening. Cytochrome P450 1A4 and 1A5 (CYP1A) activity and gene expression were compared between CEH and LMH grown in two culture states following exposure to the dioxin-like compound 3,3',4,4',5-pentachlorobiphenyl (PCB-126). CYP1A activity was measured using the ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase (EROD) assay and changes in mRNA expression associated with the AhR pathway were determined using a custom-designed PCR array. Among LMH cell culture states (i.e. 2D vs 3D), EROD induction was observed only in 3D LMH spheroids. Similarly, 3D spheroids had the greatest number of changes in AhR-related genes compared to confluent cells. Overall, these results suggest that LMH cells grown as 3D spheroids have a metabolic and gene expression profile that is comparable to CEH, and may represent a suitable animal-free alternative for in vitro screening of chemicals. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Aims To analyse the level of evidence (LOE) of clinical studies in the field of periodontology, and to investigate whether LOE is a predictor of scientific impact and social impact. Materials and methods Clinical studies published in five leading periodontal journals during 2015-2019 were identified. The LOE of included studies were assessed with a modified LOE classification system based on Oxford 2009 LOE, Oxford 2011 LOE and GRADE guidelines. Citation counts were harvested from Web of Science and Scopus. AZD9291 EGFR inhibitor Altmetric Attention Scores (AAS) were obtained from Altmetric Explorer. Multivariable generalized estimation equation (GEE) analyses were used to investigate association between LOE and citation count, as well as between LOE and AAS. Results Among 768 studies included, the proportion of level-1, level-2, level-3 and level-4 was 10.4%, 44.8%, 13.7% and 31.1%, respectively. In the multivariable GEE analyses, high LOE was a significant predictor of higher average citation count (p = .010) and higher AAS (p less then .
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