Catherine Williamson, Victoria Geenes
In Brief Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy is the most common pregnancy-specific liver disease that typically presents in the third trimester. The clinical features are maternal pruritus in the absence of a rash and deranged liver function tests, including raised serum bile acids. Intrahepatic c...
Katie Kurkjian, Louise E. Vaz, Rashidul Haque, Catherine Cêtre-Sossah et al.
Several serology-based immunoassays are used to diagnose visceral leishmaniasis (VL), a chronic protozoan parasitic disease caused by the Leishmania donovani complex. These tests are primarily designed to diagnose the most severe clinical form of VL, known as kala-azar. However, leishmanial infectio...
Julia Zöllner, Sarah Finer, Kenneth J. Linton, Shaheen Akhtar et al.
This study assessed the contribution of five genes previously known to be involved in cholestatic liver disease in British Bangladeshi and Pakistani people. Five genes (ABCB4, ABCB11, ATP8B1, NR1H4, TJP2) were interrogated by exome sequencing data of 5236 volunteers. Included were non-synonymous or ...
Julia Zöllner, Sarah Finer, Kenneth J. Linton, David A. van Heel et al.
Abstract Objectives This study assessed the contribution of five genes previously known to be involved in cholestatic liver disease in British Bangladeshi and Pakistani people in the United Kingdom as they are an understudied genetic ancestry group with disproportionate disease burden. Methods Five ...
Megan M. Sweeney, Judith Kegan Gardiner
Preface Megan Sweeney (bio) and Judith Gardiner "the history of feminism is, in a sense, a history of autotheory," writes Lauren Fournier in her 2021 book, Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism.1 This special issue of Feminist Studies features essays, artworks, and an interv...
Gregory J. Fulton, M. G. Davies, P. O’Hagen, A. El Rasheed et al.