Archive for May, 2008
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
The validity, reliability and normative scores of the parent, teacher and self report versions of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in China.
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) has become one of the most widely used measurement tools in child and adolescent mental health ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Impact of five years of peer-mediated interventions on sexual behavior and sexually transmitted infections among female sex workers in Mombasa, Kenya.
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Since 2000, peer-mediated interventions among female sex workers (FSW) in Mombasa Kenya have promoted behavioural change through improving knowledge, attitudes and awareness of ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Bilateral sternoclavicular joint septic arthritis secondary to indwelling central venous catheter: a case report.
ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION: Septic arthritis of the sternoclavicular joint is rare, comprising approximately 0.5% to 1% of all joint infections. Predisposing causes include immunocompromising diseases such as diabetes, HIV infection, renal failure and ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Comparison of two self-reported measures of physical work demands in hospital personnel: a cross-sectional study.
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Low back pain (LBP) is a frequent health complaint among health care personnel. Several work tasks and working postures are associated with an increased risk of LBP. The aim ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Cost-effectiveness analysis of insecticide-treated net distribution as part of the Togo Integrated Child Health Campaign.
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the first nationwide delivery of long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLITNs) as part of the 2004 measles vaccination campaign in Togo to all children between nine ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Solitary colonic polypoid ganglioneuroma.
ABSTRACT: This short report discusses a case of solitary colonic polypoid ganglioneuroma associated with melanosis coli in a woman with no systemic manifestations. To our knowledge this is the first ganglioneuroma reported in the literature in association with melanosis coli. The nature ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Pruritus is a common feature in sheep infected with the BSE agent.
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: The variability in the clinical or pathological presentation of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) in sheep, such as scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), has been attributed to prion protein genotype, strain, breed, ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Biological treatment of tannery wastewater by using salt-tolerant bacterial strains.
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: High salinity (1-10 % w/v) of tannery wastewater makes it difficult to be treated by conventional biological treatment. Salt tolerant microbes can adapt to these saline conditions and degrade the organics in saline wastewater. ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Differences in mtDNA haplogroup distribution among 3 Jewish populations alter susceptibility to T2DM complications.
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Recent genome-wide association studies searching for candidate susceptibility loci for common complex diseases such as type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and its common complications have uncovered novel disease-associated genes. Nevertheless ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Optimized haemostasis in nephron-sparing surgery using small-intestine submucosa.
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: The indications for nephron-sparing surgery are expanding constantly. One major contributing fact for this development is the improvement of haemostatic techniques following excision of the tumor. Nevertheless, postoperative bleeding complications still occur. To prevent this, we ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Ethnomedicinal plant knowledge and practice of the Oromo ethnic group in southwestern Ethiopia.
ABSTRACT: An ethnomedicinal study was conducted to document the indigenous medicinal plant knowledge and use by traditional healers in southwestern Ethiopia from December 2005 to November 2006. Data were collected from 45 randomly ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Osseous metaplasia in an ulcerating tubular adenoma of the colon: a case report.
ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION: Heterotopic bone is rarely found in the gastrointestinal tract. Here we report a rare case of metaplastic ossification within a benign ulcerating adenoma and review the literature concerning the aetiology. CASE ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Current therapeutic options of chronic leg ulcers.
Wound treatment is continually becoming more complex and difficult. In the following review, we focus on the different options of wound debridement, stimulation of granulation tissue, different wound dressings, and therapeutic strategies in hard-to-heal-wounds. We also present some future ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Neonatal stimulation of 5-HT(2) receptors reduces androgen receptor expression in the rat anteroventral periventricular nucleus and sexually dimorphic preoptic area.
Masculinization of the brain is dependent upon a perinatal surge in testosterone. It also requires a transient decrease in hypothalamic 5-HT concentration and turnover and an ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Augmented brain 5-HT crosses the blood-brain barrier through the 5-HT transporter in rat.
The present study re-evaluated an existing notion that serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine; 5-HT) could not cross the brain to the circulating blood via the blood-brain barrier (BBB). To elevate brain 5-HT alone, 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP; 30-75 ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Mechanical lesion activates newly identified NFATc1 in primary astrocytes: implication of ATP and purinergic receptors.
Ca(2+)-dependent calcineurin is upregulated in reactive astrocytes in neuroinflammatory models. Therefore, the fact that the nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT) is activated in response to calcineurin qualifies this family ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Expression and function of striatal enriched protein tyrosine phosphatase is profoundly altered in cerebral ischemia.
Striatal enriched protein tyrosine phosphatase (STEP) acts in the central nervous system to dephosphorylate a number of important proteins involved in synaptic function including ERK and NMDA receptor subunits. These proteins ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Down-regulation of insulin-degrading enzyme by presenilin 1 V97L mutant potentially underlies increased levels of amyloid beta 42.
Amyloid beta (Abeta)42 plays a pivotal role in Alzheimer\'s disease. We previously reported a novel presenilin (PS)1 mutant (V97L) that was expressed in related patients with early onset Alzheimer\'s ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Membrane properties of excitatory and inhibitory neurons in the rat prepositus hypoglossi nucleus.
The prepositus hypoglossi nucleus (PHN) is thought to be a neural structure involved in transforming eye or head velocity signals into eye position signals for horizontal eye movements. In this study, we investigated ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Functional analysis of human CNGA3 mutations associated with colour blindness suggests impaired surface expression of channel mutants A3(R427C) and A3(R563C).
Mutations in the CNGA3 gene have been associated with complete and incomplete forms of total colour blindness (achromatopsia), a disorder characterized by reduced visual acuity, lack ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
The role of RNA editing of the serotonin 2C receptor in a rat model of oro-facial neuropathic pain.
We examined whether infraorbital nerve injury affected the RNA editing efficiency of the serotonin (5HT) 2C receptor in the cervical spinal cord, in association with increased pain thresholds, ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
13-cis-retinoic acid alters the cellular morphology of slice-cultured serotonergic neurons in the rat.
Retinoids influence cellular processes such as differentiation, proliferation and apoptosis via retinoic acid receptor (RAR) and retinoid X receptor (RXR), and have therapeutic applications in several cancers and dermatologic diseases. Recent reports indicate ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Cortex- and striatum- derived neural stem cells produce distinct progeny in the olfactory bulb and striatum.
Neural stem cells can be isolated from the mouse embryonic cortex but do not persist in the adult cortex. In contrast, neural stem cells from the striatal embryonic germinal zone ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Disentangling neural structures for processing of high- and low-speed visual motion.
Human psychophysical and electrophysiological evidence suggests at least two separate visual motion pathways, one tuned to a lower and one tuned to a broader and partly overlapping range of higher speeds. It remains unclear whether ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Functional similarities between the P1 component and alpha oscillations.
The present study attempts to demonstrate functional similarities between the P1 component of event-related potentials and alpha oscillations that are predicted by the \'alpha inhibition-timing\' hypothesis. On the basis of findings showing that the frequency characteristic of ...
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