Pre-Pandemic Versus Early COVID-19 Perinatal Outcomes at a Military Hospital.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of the first year of COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and neonatal outcomes at a large military treatment facility in Southern California.

Study Design And Methods: A retrospective review of maternal and neonatal medical records was conducted between January 1, 2019, and December 31, 2020. Outcomes measured included stillbirth rate, neonatal intensive care unit admission, neonatal death, cesarean birth, and postpartum hemorrhage.

Addressing Intergenerational Trauma With an Innovative Instrument and Process.

Parent-child relationships have been researched in many ways. This article describes a qualitative study using the concept of reflective functioning (defined by Slade as the parent's capacity to hold and reflect upon her own and her child's internal mental experience) as a framework. The study focused on understanding the experiences of early childhood adversities, social supports, and the reflective functioning capacity of 11 young adult African American mothers and their children in urban and suburban areas of Minnesota.

Messenger RNA and protein expression analysis of betaglycan in the pituitary and ovary of the domestic hen.

Betaglycan was originally characterized as the type III receptor for TGFbeta, yet recent research has indicated that betaglycan can serve as an accessory receptor for inhibin. To understand better the action of inhibin in avian follicular development, we have investigated the expression of betaglycan in the pituitary gland and ovary of the hen. In experiments 1 and 2, betaglycan mRNA was detected at 6 kilobases (kb) by Northern blot analysis (n = 5) in chicken pituitary, granulosa, and theca layers and whole ovary.