M. du Plessis
Stellenbosch University
11 Papers
27 Citations
M. du Plessis is an academic researcher from Stellenbosch University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dipole antenna & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 9 publications.
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Papers
Cancer and Covid-19: Collectively catastrophic.
TL;DR: The Covid-19 panactivated in most cancers and is associated with prolonged demic has spread rapidly across the globe, resulting in more than 3 million deaths worldwide as mentioned in this paper, and patients with inflammatory or immunocompromising illnesses such as cancer are more susceptible to develop acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and systemic inflammation.
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Molecular regulation of autophagy in a pro-inflammatory tumour microenvironment: New insight into the role of serum amyloid A.
M. du Plessis,Tanja Davis,Ben Loos,Etheresia Pretorius,W.J.S. de Villiers,Anna-Mart Engelbrecht +5 more
TL;DR: A review of known mechanisms that regulate autophagy as well as illustrating the role of SAA in modulating these pathways and its clinical implications for cancer therapy can be found in this article.
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Breastfeeding policies and practices in health care facilities in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
Debbi Marais,HE Koornhof,M. du Plessis,Celeste E Naude,K. Smit,E. Hertzog,R. Treurnicht,M. Alexander,L. Cruywagen,I. Kosaber +9 more
TL;DR: The findings highlighted the importance of the establishment and implementation of BF policies, of appropriate and continuous BF training and better referral systems to ensure initiation and establishment of early BF, EBF practices and support on an ongoing basis to ensure the best start in life for infants.
The relationship between psychosocial variables and measures of health status in fibromyalgia
TL;DR: Self-efficacy was found to be the most important psychosocial variable in the present study, correlating with several measures of health status and quality of social support and cognitive beliefs hardly showed any relationship with health status.
Novel non-sense GCH1 mutation in a South African family diagnosed with dopa-responsive dystonia.
TL;DR: Dopa‐responsive dystonia, a movement disorder characterized by onset in early childhood and a dramatic response to low doses of levodopa, has been shown to be caused by a number of different mutations in the GCH1 gene.
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