The Internal Secretions

Evaluation of the Effect of Nebulized N-Acetylcysteine on Respiratory Secretions in Mechanically Ventilated Patients: Randomized Clinical Trial

Background: The purpose of our study was to evaluate an inexpensive and available method to reduce mucous impactions in mechanically ventilated patients.Methods: This randomized clinical trial was conducted on 40 mechanically ventilated patients aged 15-90 years. The patients were randomly allocated into two arms; 20 cases and 20 controls. The cases received N-acetylcysteine via their nebulizer...

Sex and Internal Secretions: A Survey of Recent Research

Honey bee males and queens use glandular secretions to enhance sperm viability before and after storage.

Internal fertilization requires live sperm to be transferred from male to female before egg fertilization. Both males and females assist the insemination process by providing sperm with glandular secretions, which have been inferred to contain subsets of proteins that maintain sperm viability. Here we show that in the honeybee (Apis mellifera) secretions of the male accessory glands, the major ...

The Causation of Cancer *Being a paper read at the Medical and Veterinary Research Section of the Indian Science Congress, Allahabad, January 1930.

The comparative infrequency of malignant disease of the alimentary system in India is noteworthy. Even in a large city like Lahore, malignant disease of the stomach may be less than 0.1 per cent, of cancerous tumours. On a report from India, sent to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, of 1,589 cases of carcinoma, less than 5 per cent, were of internal organs. The characteristic of the diet of In...

The Sex Complex

By the expression sex complex is meant the correlation of all the internal secretions with the reproductive functions, e.g., we have long known that there is a physiological connection between the genital organs and the thymus gland. I)r. Blair Bell gives an excellent account of the functions of the various endocritic glands and of the influence of the secretions on one another, on the body met...