Publications by authors named "F F Assaad"

Endometriosis is a chronic, complex, systemic inflammatory condition that impacts approximately 190 million girls and women worldwide, significantly impacting their quality of life. The effective management of endometriosis requires a multi-disciplinary and holistic approach, one that includes surgical and medical management, such as a laparoscopy and a chronic medical management plan, as well as dietary, nutritional, and lifestyle adjunct interventions, such as pelvic pain physiotherapy and acupuncture. There is growing evidence to support the role of dietary and nutritional interventions in the adjunct management of endometriosis-related pain and gastrointestinal symptoms.

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Endometriosis is a chronic, inflammatory, oestrogen-dependent disorder that is defined by the presence of endometrium-like tissue in the extra-uterine environment. It is estimated to affect approximately 10% of women of reproductive age, and the cause is still largely unknown. The heterogenous nature and complex pathophysiology of the disease results in diagnostic and therapeutic challenges.

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Article Synopsis
  • A pilot study aimed to identify a microbial signature for endometriosis as a non-invasive diagnostic tool was conducted in Australia, involving 64 participants divided into three groups: healthy controls, non-endometriosis patients, and those with confirmed endometriosis.
  • Self-collected samples from the oral cavity, stool, and vagina were analyzed using advanced sequencing techniques to uncover differences in microbial composition among the groups, with significant findings from both oral and stool microbiota.
  • Results revealed distinct microbiota profiles, particularly highlighting that Fusobacterium was more abundant in the oral samples of patients with moderate to severe endometriosis, suggesting the potential of using microbiome analysis for diagnosis and treatment strategies in endometriosis.
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While altermagnetic materials are characterized by a vanishing net magnetic moment, their symmetry in principle allows for the existence of an anomalous Hall effect. Here, we introduce a model with altermagnetism in which the emergence of an anomalous Hall effect is driven by interactions. This model is grounded in a modified Kane-Mele framework with antiferromagnetic spin-spin correlations.

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The "symmetric mass generation" (SMG) quantum phase transition discovered in recent years has attracted great interest from both condensed matter and high energy theory communities. Here, interacting Dirac fermions acquire a gap without condensing any fermion bilinear mass term or any concomitant spontaneous symmetry breaking. It is hence beyond the conventional Gross-Neveu-Yukawa-Higgs paradigm.

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