Microbiological diagnostics in periodontics: biological significance and clinical validity

Microbiological diagnostics in periodontics: biological significance and clinical validity.

The operationalized psychodynamic diagnostics system: clinical relevance, reliability and validity.

In this paper, we present a multiaxial system for psychodynamic diagnosis, which has attained wide usage in Germany in the last 10 years. First we will discuss the 4 operationalized psychodynamic diagnostics (OPD) axes: illness experience and treatment assumptions, relationships, mental conflicts, and structure, then clinical applications will be outlined. Focus psychodynamic formulations can b...

Dehydroepiandrosterone: Biological Effects and Clinical Significance

Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) is a steroid hormone secreted in greater quantity by the adrenal glands than any other adrenal steroid. For many years, scientists assumed that DHEA merely functioned as a reservoir upon which the body could draw to produce other hormones, such as estrogen and testosterone. However, the recent identification of DHEA receptors in the liver, kidney and testes of rats...

Multiphoton microscopy: technical innovations, biological applications, and clinical diagnostics.

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Biological and clinical significance of haptoglobin polymorphism in humans.

Haptoglobin is a hemoglobin-binding protein expressed by a genetic polymorphism as three major phenotypes: 1-1, 2-1, and 2-2. Most attention has been paid to determining haptoglobin phenotype as a genetic fingerprint used in forensic medicine. More recently, several functional differences between haptoglobin phenotypes have been demonstrated that appear to have important biological and clinical...