Book deterioration －Further need for scientific research

Book Reviews Project for a Scientific Psychoanalysis

SELDOM does one have the privilege of reviewing work as important and impressive as these volumes. Along with Schore’s earlier work, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, these two new collections constitute a trilogy of carefully crafted and researched papers. They also mark “a clarion call for a paradigm shift, both in psychiatry and in biology and in psychoanalytic psychotherapies.” ...

Chronic transplant glomerulopathy: need for further assessment.

C hronic transplant glomerulopathy (CTG), investigated in a large single-center study by Akalin et al. (1), is an interesting pathologic lesion that develops in the renal allograft. It is characterized by endothelial cell injury or loss, accumulation of flocculent material in a widened subendothelial space, and mesangial interposition with deposition of new matrix along glomerular capillary wal...

Indian Schistosomes: A Need for Further Investigations

India is uniquely positioned with regard to schistosomes and schistosomiasis-discovering seven new mammalian species with the existence of three more schistosome species: Orientobilharzia turkestanicum, O. harinasutai, and Schistosoma haematobium(?). An endemic focus of urinary schistosomiasis was reported from Gimvi village of Ratnagiri, Maharashtra with infrequent occurrence of schistosome eg...

Need for Further Advancement in Conventional Dentistry

Last decade has been a witness of gradual transformation in the field of craniofacial and dental tissue engineering from synthetic implants and tissue grafts to biomimetic biomaterial scaffolds, and injectable hydrogels. Indeed, a vast variety of biomaterials is available e.g. natural or synthetic polymers, extracellular matrix, self-assembling systems, hydrogels, or bio-ceramics. Each material...

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