Woodard Blalock

In this review, we will discuss the important molecular pathways through which various metabolites and other signaling substances released by the GM regulate liver biology, under both physiological and pathological conditions. Finally, we highlight numerous therapeutic attempts, such as probiotics, prebiotics, and fecal microbial transplantation…[Read more]

Maternal obesity is an epidemic health problem that is aggravated by excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) and postpartum weight retention. Current US Institute of Medicine (now US National Academy of Medicine) guidelines (2009) for GWG need to be evaluated against the current rise in obesity in the general and pregnant population. We wanted to…[Read more]

score (in the control group, 0.252 ± 0.0009, p  less then  0.0001). There was no difference found in the optical density of melatonin 1B receptors in the stromal cells of placental villi between the two groups in the experimental group, 0.109 ± 0.006 IHC image score, and in the control group, 0.114 ± 0.0011 (p = 0.65). Melatonin receptors 1A…[Read more]