Amarjot Kaur Grewal, Thakur Gurjeet Singh, Deepak Sharma, Veerta Sharma et al.
Neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs) are the primary cause of disabilities in the elderly people. Growing evidence indicates that oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, neuroinflammation and apoptosis are associated with aging and the basis of most neurodegenerative disorders. Quercetin is a flav...
Vivek Sharma, Thakur Gurjeet Singh, Nikhil Garg, Sonia Dhiman et al.
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an incurable, neuropsychiatric, pathological condition that deteriorates the worth of geriatric lives. AD is characterized by aggregated senile amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, neuronal loss, gliosis, oxidative stress, neurotransmitter dysfunction, and bioenerget...
Gillian Lancaster, Gareth McCray, Patricia Kariger, Tarun Dua et al.
BACKGROUND: Renewed global commitment to the improvement of early child development outcomes, as evidenced by the focus of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4, highlights an increased need for reliable and valid measures to evaluate preventive and interventional efforts designed to aff...
Gareth McCray, Dana Charles McCoy, Patricia Kariger, Magdalena Janus et al.
INTRODUCTION: With the ratification of the Sustainable Development Goals, there is an increased emphasis on early childhood development (ECD) and well-being. The WHO led Global Scales for Early Development (GSED) project aims to provide population and programmatic level measures of ECD for 0-3 years...
Vanessa Cavallera, Gillian Lancaster, Melissa Gladstone, Maureen M. Black et al.
INTRODUCTION: Children's early development is affected by caregiving experiences, with lifelong health and well-being implications. Governments and civil societies need population-based measures to monitor children's early development and ensure that children receive the care needed to thrive. To th...
B Chazan, Marek K. Janiak, Magdalena Kobus, Janusz Marcickiewicz et al.
Pregnant Swiss mice were repetitively exposed during various periods of gestation to 2,450 MHz continuous wave microwave radiation. Irradiations were conducted daily in an anechoic chamber at a power density of 10 (subthermal) or 40 mW/cm2 (thermal) for 2 h/day, 7 sessions/week. Thermal exposures to...
Ambreen Nizar Merchant, Raghbir Kaur, Gareth McCray, Vanessa Cavallera et al.
BACKGROUND: To assess the neurodevelopment of children under three years, a multinational team of subject matter experts (SMEs) led by the World Health Organization (WHO) developed the Global Scales for Early Development (GSED). The measures include (1) a caregiver-reported short form (SF), (2) a di...
Melissa Gladstone, Gillian Lancaster, Patricia Kariger, Magdalena Janus et al.
<h3>Aims</h3> Over 200 million children under 5 are not reaching their developmental potential. At present, no tools exist that can measure indicators of children’s development in meaningful, valid and culturally comparable ways within or across populations. This study aimed to identify items within...
Toufica Sultana, Mónica Ruiz‐Casares, René Iwo, Magdalena Janus et al.
Background. Maternal education may influence child supervision practices in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC). However, little is known about the maternal factors that can improve child supervision in LMIC with scarce childcare facilities. Objective. To investigate the prevalence of children un...