... School of Pharmacy, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran Department of Dental Prosthesis, School of Dentistry, Mashhad, University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran Department of ... comprised of 11 chapters and finally the fifth is inclusive of chapters Yadegar was edited by Professor M Mohaghegh and published by the Institute of Islamic Studies in Tehran in 2003 One of Jorjani’s ... Treatment of corrosive cancers; healing of Solanaceae Chenopodia‐ ceae ous wounds Healing of cancerous wounds; cleansing the body from black bile; healing of tumor injury Increasing the longevity of...
... the use of as much as g/day of OFAs in the general population Methodologically rigorous studies of OFAs in pediatric BPD are needed to determine what role OFAs might have in the treatment of young ... higher risk of relapse during discontinuation of pharmacotherapy: coadministration of other agents that might destabilize the patient’s mood, a greater length of illness, and a higher number of episodes ... Disorders Research Program, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine; Paul E Keck, Jr., M.D., Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine; Ellen Leibenluft, M.D.,...
... a targeted inhibitionof dynein/dynactin function Overexpression of the dynactin subunit dynamitin in motor neurons led to the disruption of dynein/dynactin function and inhibitionof retrograde ... the intramembrane proteolysis of βAPP contributes to the production of Aβ (Fig 4) and therefore to the pathogenesis of AD, the intramembrane proteolysis of Notch is of much greater physiological ... aspartate mutants of SPP/SPPLs phenocopy a morpholino-mediated, knockdown phenotype of the respective SPP/SPPL family member (Krawitz et al 2005) The formal proof of the requirement of the aspartate...
... gases have a pH of 7.40 to 7.45, and a PCO2 of 28 to 32 mm Hg There is a mild increase in PO2 of 106 of 110 mm Hg Increased pH is compensated for by increased renal excretion of bicarbonate (which ... exacerbation rate of 51.9% and a hospitalization rate of 26.9%.9 Thus, knowing the classification of a patient’s asthma is important in assessing her risk of exacerbation Initial investigations of asthma ... fetus.15 Despite the lack of precise knowledge of the pathophysiologic interactions of asthma with the fetus, it is clear that with worsening severity of asthma comes the risk of increasingly negative...
... increase soluble APP production High levels of Fe inhibit the maturation of APP production of downstream catabolites Iron modulation of APP may be at the level of -secretase cleavage Fe and lipid 26 ... of striatum from HD patients have shown increased indices of a number of oxidative damage markers, including TBARS (Beal, 1995) Moreover, transgenic mouse models of HD have increased levels of ... indicating that oxidative modification of proteins has occurred in the target cells of this disorder A relatively selective inhibitor of the neuronal isoform of nitric oxide synthase, 7-nitroindazole,...
... proportion of triads in a network out of the total number of potential triads, i.e C= 3N∆ , N3 ( 5) where N∆ is the number of triads in the network and N3 is the number of connected triples of nodes, ... Distortion of consciousness is not simply an epiphenomenon of the emotional dysregulation which many see as the 'real' cause of mental disorder Like the pervasive effects of culture, distortion of consciousness ... of both the individual experience of mental disorder and the effect of it on the embedding of the individual within both social relationships and cultural or environmental milieu Distortion of...
... the process of compaction in granular media thus also consists of a competition between the compaction of local clusters and the minimisation of voids globally, and that this feature of Eq 6.1 ... ingredient of the random graphs model Another key feature of this model [152, 153] is the existence of metastable states We note from Fig 6.2, which illustrates the phase space of a plaquette of three ... minimisation of voids; put another way, the search for a ‘better’ local minimum of potential energy of the system can, at least in part of the system, result in the global minimum of packing,...
... Breed of Mosquito A newer strategy as of late 2002 involves the development of genetically modified non-biting mosquitoes A research team in Italy is studying the feasibility of this means of controlling ... It was the bark of the cinchona tree, a close cousin of coffee Local people called the remedy quina quina (bark of barks)—and it was later distributed worldwide as quinine Word of the medicine, ... Day of Oxford University, there are more than 160 species of the Plasmodium parasite, four of which infect humans, including the deadly Plasmodium falciparum that accounts for 80 percent of all...
... understanding of the importance of the liver and no frame of reference to know how a liver disease could affect the bones in his body Researchers still not understand the cause of this childhood ... fever, loss of appetite, and abdominal pain, symptoms that often are confused with the flu Some also may experience jaundice, a yellowing of the skin and eyes resulting from a malfunction of the liver ... available in 1995 Lutwick is a professor of medicine at the State University of New York and an expert in infectious diseases H epatitis A is an inflammation of the liver caused by a virus, the...
... risk of oversimplification, I suggest that medicalization three factors underlie most of those analyses First, there was the power and authority of the medical profession, whether in terms of professional ... affect the degree of medicalization Much of what is called self-care involves the use of medical approaches by lay people in the absence of professional medical treatment Most analysts of medicalization ... give a general sense of the amount of attention and writing given to this topic In sociology alone there are dozens of case examples of medicalization; the corresponding body of literature has loosely...
... unknown origin [4] Of note, those subjects with a gait disorder of unknown origin had a higher risk of mortality during a five year follow up period, compared to the group of age-matched subjects ... not aware of the specific questions of this investigation Assessment of Gait Dynamics Previously described methods were used to quantify gait variability and evaluate gait dynamics of each walk ... underneath the foot as a function of time The system consists of a pair of shoes and a recording unit Each shoe contains load sensors that cover the surface of the sole and measure the vertical...
... association of two types of variables of the same corpus These results reinforce the use of samples of spontaneous communication as a useful alternative to the assessment of children of the autism ... analysis of the occupation of communicative space and of the number of communicative acts produced per minute by the subjects of this research shows variations in both aspects The occupation of the ... advantage The analysis of MLU-w (mean length of utterance in words) identifies the medium number of words per utterance on a sample of 100 utterances The analysis of MLU-m (mean length of utterance in...
... medication of parents of children with psychiatric disorders who are users of a child psychiatry service Methods Materials Study subjects were 134 out of 140 (90.3%) parents of an equal number of children ... and adolescents under 18 years of age All were residents of the Byron-Kesariani area of the city of Athens, Greece Methodology The Service for the Mental Health of Children and Adolescents is ... Annals of General Psychiatry 2007, 6:32 first contact of the parents with the child psychiatry service of the Center The questionnaire comprised of questions regarding the attitudes and beliefs of...
... 1: 11-15 years of age Age group 5: 31-35 years of age Age group 9: 51-55 years of age Age group 13: 71-75 years of age Age group 2: 16-20 years of age Age group 6: 36-40 years of age Age group ... 10: 56-60 years of age Age group 14: 76-80 years of age Age group 3: 21-25 years of age Age group 7: 41-45 years of age Age group 11: 61-65 years of age Age group 4: 26-30 years of age Age group ... prevalence of PTSD for men (18.2%) was found in the age group of 41 to 45 years while women showed their highest prevalence of PTSD (42.8%) in the age group of 51 to 55 years The lowest prevalence of...
... patients were indicative of isolated damage of the peroneal nerve None of the patients had abnormalities in the distribution of other peripheral nerve of the limb, indication of lumbosacral radiculopathy, ... amount of axonal damage In case 9, with a seven year history of peroneal nerve palsy, the findings were indicative of residual axonal damage The involvement of a considerable proportion of axons ... The common peroneal nerve (PN) originates as one of the two terminal divisions of the sciatic nerve at the apex of the popliteal fossa At the level of the fibular head it divides into its terminal...
... description of the offences committed The offences were classified into violent offences (all offences involving interpersonal aggression and threats, robbery, arson), sexual offences (offences ... None of the offenders was sentenced to mandatory care Crime rates Of the total sample of 541 persons, 131 (24%) were found in the crime registry at follow-up (Table 2) Of these, 114 (31%) of the ... overlap of the various crimes committed in the convicted group, n = 131 ª : sexual offences, of these sexual offences only ( )* = in combination with “other crimes” (Ex: 10 (2)*= of ten offences...
... have also been reported [15] The effects of methylphenidate on the neuropsychological profiles of subtypes of ADHD patients are still controversial [16,17] Of the stimulant medications, MPH is the ... aggression scale of the CBCL, with a cutoff point of 60 Chisquare was used to compare the rate of lost to followup between subtypes The Student’s t-test or One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) ... mean age of 7.84 ± 1.64 years Fifteen of them were inattentive type, 11 were hyperactive-impulsive type, and 24 were combined type Using a cutoff point of 60 on the aggression scale of the CBCL,...
... characteristics and patterns of service use, however, is essential to the efficacious planning of mental health-care delivery [38] In an effort to enhance knowledge of service needs profiling, this Canadian ... south-western section of Montreal, Canada This area has a population of 258,000 and encompasses a broad range of social structures, socio-economic status, education, availability of health-care services, ... services they used, type and frequency of utilisation, and degree of appropriateness of the service they used Services covered by this questionnaire were those offered in hospitals (including hospitalisation),...
... submission of the final version of the manuscript Declaration of competing interests Drs Szegedi, Zhao, Nations, and Mackle are full-time employees of Merck Dr Panagides was an employee of Schering-Plough ... oversight of the trials, the analysis and interpretation of these post hoc analyses, and in the preparation and finalization of the manuscript JP was involved in the design and oversight of the ... range of values reported in a meta-analysis of controlled bipolar depression trials of quetiapine, olanzapine, and aripiprazole, which reported overall mean MADRS total score reductions of 3.91...
... and the preferences of the patient Although CCP offers a goaloriented structure, it comes to the professionalism of the nurses to adjust this structure to the preferences of the patient, the ... indicators Quality of life The Manchester Short Appraisal (MANSA) is a self-report scale, which measures quality of life It is a short version (16 items) of the Lancashire Quality of Life Profile (LQoLP) ... Thornicroft G, Dunn G, Holloway F, Wykes T, Strathdee G, Loftus L, McCrone P, Hayward P: The Camberwell Assessment of Need: the validity and reliability of an instrument to assess the needs of people...