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Using Chronic Social Stress to Model Postpartum Depression in Lactating Rodents
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2013
This article describes the use of chronic resident intruder social stress as an ethologically relevant paradigm to model postpartum depression and anxiety in lactating rodents.
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A Novel Method for Involving Women of Color at High Risk for Preterm Birth in Research Priority Setting
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2018
This manuscript describes the Research Prioritization by Affected Communities (RPAC) protocol and findings from its use with women at risk for preterm birth. Using the protocol, women identified and prioritized their unanswered questions about pregnancy, birth and neonatal care aimed at influencing research priority setting by funders and researchers.
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Electromyometrial Imaging of Uterine Contractions in Pregnant Women
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2023
We present a protocol for conducting electromyometrial imaging (EMMI), including the following procedures: multiple electromyography electrode sensor recordings from the body surface, magnetic resonance imaging, and uterine electrical signal reconstruction.
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Design and Implementation of an fMRI Study Examining Thought Suppression in Young Women with, and At-risk, for Depression
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2015
We aim to identify the neural correlates underlying sustained and transient thought suppression, and thought re-emergence in controls, at-risk and depressed individuals. Activation was greatest for controls compared to the at-risk and the depressed group in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex during thought suppression and anterior cingulate cortex during thought re-emergence.
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Measurement of Four Uterine NK Cell Subtypes Using Multiplexed Fluorescent Immunohistochemical Staining in Women with Repeated Implantation Failure
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2024
This study presents a pioneering method for quantifying uterine natural killer cell subsets during the window of implantation using advanced multiplexed fluorescent immunohistochemical staining techniques.
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Uterine involution is a central part of physical recovery after childbirth. Clinicians consider it alongside bleeding and pain when evaluating whether recovery is progressing appropriately. Because postpartum hemorrhage is a possible complication, attention to uterine changes and bleeding can support earlier recognition of problems and guide patient education during follow-up care.
The decline in pregnancy hormones contributes to the physiological transition after childbirth and occurs alongside changes associated with lactation. This hormonal adjustment is relevant to reproductive, metabolic, and emotional physiology, so postpartum care does not focus only on physical healing. Monitoring breastfeeding, emotional well-being, and overall recovery helps address several connected effects of this transition.
Postpartum care includes blood-pressure and mental-health assessment because this period can involve hypertensive disorders and depression. These concerns may occur within a broader transition that also includes sleep disruption, physical recovery, and infant care. Including both measurements and emotional screening helps clinicians identify complications while supporting maternal well-being rather than focusing only on birth-related tissue healing.
Clinical monitoring commonly addresses bleeding, blood pressure, pain, infection, breastfeeding, sleep, and mental health. These areas reflect the interaction between physical recovery, hormonal adjustment, infant care, and emotional adaptation. Reviewing them together can help clinicians identify complications such as postpartum hemorrhage, hypertensive disorders, and depression, while also providing information for education and treatment planning.
Care teams use ongoing assessment of symptoms and recovery domains to recognize concerning outcomes, including postpartum hemorrhage, hypertensive disorders, and depression. Checking bleeding, blood pressure, pain, infection-related concerns, breastfeeding, sleep, and mental health creates a broader clinical picture. This approach supports timely treatment and allows patient education to address problems as they emerge.
The postpartum period provides a clinical and research context for studying safe recovery, maternal well-being, and longer-term health outcomes. Investigators and clinicians can examine how physical healing, hormonal adjustment, cardiovascular, reproductive, metabolic, and emotional physiology, and infant-care demands intersect. Findings from this work can inform patient education, monitoring practices, and approaches to timely treatment.