Kaiser Permanente South San Francisco Medical Center

Electronic Visit Use for Sexually Transmitted Infection Testing in a Large Integrated Healthcare System

Abstract Background Incorporating online testing platforms, such as electronic-visits (e-visits), into a larger healthcare system could increase access to services for persons in need of testing. A sexual e-visit was built that allows users to order laboratory-based sexually tran...

Continuous Glucose Monitoring and Long-Term Glycemic and Kidney Outcomes

Importance Real-time continuous glucose monitoring (rtCGM) improves short-term glycemic control in diabetes. However, scant evidence exists regarding rtCGM’s longer-term benefits for glycemia or kidney health. Objective To evaluate whether rtCGM initiation and sustained use is as...

Intranigral injection of alpha-synuclein pre-formed fibrils leads to BBB compromise and bilateral dopaminergic neurodegeneration in A53T alpha-synuclein transgenic mice

ABSTRACT Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by alpha-(α)-Synuclein neuronal aggregation and loss of dopaminergic (DA) neurons. Developing animal models that replicate PD’s neuropathological phenotypes is critical for understanding i...