... Iranian Traditional Medicine (7th to 14th Century AD) Amirhossein Sahebkar, Nilufar Tayarani-Najaran, Zahra Tayarani-Najaran and Seyed Ahmad Emami Additional information is available at the end ... tectorum L Hay al-aalam Solanum nigrum L Enab al-thaalab Black nightshade Spinacia oleracea L Isphanakh Spinach Terminalia chebula Retz Halilaj aswad Black myrobalan Combretaceae Cleansing the body ... progression and injury of ceae the tumor Malva rotundifolia L Matthiola incana (L.) W.T.Aiton al-Khabaazi albostani Plantago ispaghula Roxb Isphaghul Ispaghula Plantago major L Lesaan al-hamal Common...
... recommended Stage 2A: Alternate Monotherapy Plus Augmentation If a child has a partial response to the monotherapy agent selected in stage 2, then augmentation with an agent that was not used in stage ... the list of stage monotherapy agents because of the lack of any data regarding their use in children and adolescents with BPD However, as data become available, recommendations may change Stage ... clinical trials in adults; level C data were based on open trials and retrospective analyses; and level D data were based on case reports and panel consensus as to recommended current clinical practices...
... processed by a nonamyloidogenic pathway, known asthe α-secretase pathway and defined by the metalloproteinases, ADAM-9, ADAM-10 and ADAM-17 (Buxbaum et al 1998b; Esler and Wolfe 2001; Allinson et al 2003; ... as trafficking in either the synthetic (ER-to-Golgi) or degradative (lysosomal and autophagic) pathways, as well as developmental pathways, such as neuronal migration and branching Mutant Dynactin ... culture and cell-free in vitro reconstitution studies (Annaert et al 1999; Kaether et al 2002; Wanget al 2004; Wood et al 2005; Wanget al 2006; Zhang et al 2006; Cai et al 2003, 200 6a, b; Gandy et...
... reviews the impact of seasonal influenza on pregnancy with particular emphasis onthe 2009 novel H1N1 pandemic Antiviral therapy for influenza, as well as recommendations and safety data on vaccination ... arachidonic acid metabolites that have been implicated in the bronchospasm cascade of asthma exacerbations by increasing vascular permeability Both zafirlukast and montelukast are pregnancy category ... between and 12 mg/mL during pregnancy Asthma in Pregnancy Management of an Acute Asthma Exacerbation in Pregnancy An asthma exacerbation in a pregnant woman places mother and fetus at increased...
... Functional Genomics and Human Disease, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, Australia ISMAIL KOLA, Centre for Functional Genomics and Human Disease, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, Australia ISABEL ... effectors of apoptosis (Chan and Mattson, 1999) Caspases can act during the premitochondrial phase (e.g., caspases and 8) or postmitochondrial phase (e.g., caspases and 9) of apoptosis A variety of ... caspase activation; blockade of Par-4 expression or caspase activation protects striatal neurons against 3NP-induced death (Duan et al., 2000) The ability of activation of the anti-apoptotic transcription...
... activation and inflammation are closely related to the etiology of cancer and other diseases As Balkwill and Mantovanni [58] put the matter, "If genetic damage is the 'match that lights the fire' ... 25 26 American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual fourth edition Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association; 1994 Gilbert P: Evolutionary approaches to psychopathology: ... regulated as transcription Invocation of the Rate Distortion or Joint Asymptotic Equipartition Theorems in address of the mutator necessarily means that mutational variation comes to significantly...
... close packing [10] and associated with a dynamical phase transition [186, 187] as follows: Traditionally, the dynamical transition is marked by the appearance of an exponential number of valleys ... displaced during the dilation phase of vibration The grains are then allowed to relax via a = quench, which lasts until the system has reached a blocked configuration1 where each site i has si ... reaches the SPRT ρ0 , increases with increasing amplitude, and decreases again at large values of Thereafter, ρ always decreases with increasing The part of the curve where is increased for the...
... a parasite belonging to genus Plasmodium: Plasmodium falciparum (the most deadly), Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium malariae, and Plasmodium ovale The last two are fairly uncommon Many animals can ... week and a month Those with thechronic form of malaria may have a relapse as long as 50 years after the initial infection Falciparum Malaria Falciparum malaria is far more severe than other types ... all strains of falciparum malaria in Africa, South Africa, India, and southeast Asia are now resistant to chloroquine In Thailand and Cambodia, there are strains of falciparum malaria that have...
... average (Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, and Washington) and suggested in states where the rate was 1.5 times the national average (Arkansas, ... Causes Hepatitis Athe Nuisance Disease Hepatitis A (HAV) is found in human waste and is spread by close person-to-person contact or by putting anything in one’s mouth that has been contaminated by ... from all races, backgrounds, and educational levels, as well as alcohol and drug abusers The mission of the Hepatitis Foundation International is to heighten awareness of the need for more education...
... regulations that allowed for “educational” broadcast advertising that focuses onthedisease or disorder, rather than ona specific drug, and in part asa result of the pharmaceutical industry’s attempt ... clear that testosterone decreases with age, but whether this decline means that a man has a pathological condition such as andropause is not known That professional societies such asthe AACE are ... “to make medical,” and the analytical emphasis has been on overmedicalization and its consequences, assumptions of overmedicalization are not a given in the perspective The main point in considering...
... repeated measures For each gait parameter, a separate model was applied The dependent variable was the gait parameter and the independent variables were the group (patients or controls), the walking ... ability (as is the case for the response of healthy subjects to an attention demanding task, as discussed above) Second, in a study of healthy older adults and patients with Parkinson's disease, ... fear of falling that appears to be related to this increased stride variability, and have an increased risk of falls [8,9] Further, the extrapyramidal, limbic systems, and the frontal lobe apparently...
... spectrum that were assessed and attended to language therapy ona specialized service The average age on initial assessment was years, months All were male and had received no prior language therapy ... independent factors (Fernandes, 2000b) The correlations regarding grammatical class also cannot be taken asa causal relation; a strong correlation suggests that the variables have important common ground ... children’s participation but the answers ona controlled situation not always express the performance in real communicative situations Associations between language and communication and other aspects...
... medication for their children in comparison to the Caucasian population In a recent study [18] it was shown that Caucasian race is associated with higher proportions of medication use among children ... whether they are overused etc (the questionnaire is shown in Additional file 1) In addition, the sex, age, educational level, place of residence, personal and family history of the parent as ... efficacy, which affects the scientific evaluation of psychotropic medication and may have negative consequences on their therapeutic application The opinion that psychotropic medications cause...
... between-groups analysis of variance was conducted to explore the impact of gender and age (based on 5-year spans) on levels of PTSD, as measured by the HTQ There was a statistically significant ... trauma types; disasters and accidents, loss, malignant disease, non-malignant disease, and violence The data for the total sample consequently consisted of data from 25 different studies of trauma ... relevant especially with an increasing tendency for the average person to reach old age Another comprehensive epidemiological study based on data from the Australian National Survey of Mental Health...
... trauma), and concomitant pathology (diabetes, metabolic or toxic diseases, alcohol abuse, vitamin deficiency) Data onthe concomitant pathology were additionally checked by a set of appropriate ... were indicative of residual axonal damage The involvement of a considerable proportion of axons is associated with a less favorable outcome and a prolongation of the rehabilitation time The study ... conduction velocity of the peroneal nerve at the ankle, below the fibular head and at the lateral popliteal fossa and the sensory conduction velocities of the superficial peroneal and the sural nerve...
... chronic family difficulties (CFD) [24] based on all the information available in the hospital records of the past and present family situation Socioeconomic conditions, social network, marital ... to address the question of whether ADHD alone predicts criminality Nonetheless, previous research has found a linear association between the number of behavioural problems and later antisocial ... unexpected considering the overlap between the PDD group and those with mental retardation (66% of the PDD population had mental retardation), and that mentally retarded and autistic people are Page...
... performed the CPT at 9:00 AM, around to hours after they had taken MPH The SNAP-IV was completed by the patients’ parents, and ADHD-RS ratings were made by the same rater At visit (3 months from baseline) ... with a baseline assessment and at least follow-up assessment were included in the efficacy analyses Missing data were accounted for using the method of last observation carried forward (LOCF) The ... between ADHD subtypes, also by repeated-measure analysis of variance (ANOVA), using average MPH dosage/body weight during month asa covariate The hypothesis that there is a differential change...
... 44 Vega WA, B K, Aguilar-Gaziola S, Alderete E, Catalano R, Caraveo-Anduaga J: Lifetime prevalence of DSM-III-R psychiatric disorders among urban and rural Mexican Americans in California Arch ... health-care services Integrating motivational and cognitive aspects of behavioural change in professional training may also lead to greater mental health-care utilisation At last, enabling greater ... Variables, measurement instruments and data collection Variables assessed in the descriptive analysis (and, in part, in the cluster analysis) are displayed in Table Variables are categorised according...
... NJ, USA Authors’ contributions AS was involved in the oversight of the trials, the analysis and interpretation of these post hoc analyses, and in the preparation and finalization of the manuscript ... involved in the analysis and interpretation of these post hoc analyses and in the preparation and finalization of the manuscript MM was involved in the design of processes and standards for data acquisition ... manuscript JP was involved in the design and oversight of the trials, the analysis and interpretation of these post hoc analyses, and in the preparation and finalization of the manuscript AvW and KN...
... mental health care (CMHC) teams of a large mental health organisation in the Netherlands One team is indicated asthe experimental condition and the other asthe control condition Both CMHC teams ... detailed information about the content of the CC Program is available (see Additional file 1) Organization and contracting A Collaborative Care Team will be put together for adequate coordination ... to CAU By means of data triangulation, the connection between the application and the preliminary outcomes of the Collaborative Care Program will be explained in comparison with Care as Usual...