Background: Childhood trauma encompasses neglect, abuse, abandonment, witnessing abuse, and having mentally ill and/or parent(s) who engaged in substance abuse. Survivors of trauma are more likely to report insecure attachment styles. Thus, the current study aimed to investigate the indirect pathways underlying the relationship between childhood trauma and romantic attachment among adults in In...

The fundamental process of ribosome biogenesis requires hundreds of factors and takes place in the nucleolus. This process has been most thoroughly characterized in baker's yeast and is generally well conserved from yeast to humans. However, some of the required proteins in yeast are not found in humans, raising the possibility that they have been replaced by functional analogs. Our objective w...

Alström syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive genetic disorder characterized by cone-rod dystrophy, hearing loss, childhood truncal obesity, insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia, type 2 diabetes, hypertriglyceridemia, short stature in adulthood, cardiomyopathy, and progressive pulmonary, hepatic, and renal dysfunction. Alström syndrome is a very rare cause of liver cirrhosis. Postmortem bio...

The cultural identity and tribal connectedness of American Indians are commonly believed to have been negatively affected by the urbanization process in which American Indians have been involved during the past half century. This phenomenological study examined the processes through which cultural identity was formed and maintained by a group of American Indians who had lived since childhood in...

JUSTIFICATION Seizures constitute the most common neurological problem in children and the majority of epilepsy has its onset in childhood. Appropriate diagnosis and management of childhood epilepsy is essential to improve quality of life in these children. Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, modified to the Indian setting by a panel of experts, are not available. PROCESS The Indian ...

1 in the Indian population . It is a commonly faced scenario in clinical practice. Overall, patients with NAFLD have a 34% to 69% increased chance of dying with hepatic and non-hepatic complication over 15 years in comparison with the general population. Hence, a concise protocol for the diagnosis and management of NAFLD is quintessential to avoid future complications including cirrhosis and he...

Cirrhosis and chronic liver failure are leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the whole the world –with the majority of preventable cases attributed to excessive alcohol consumption, viral hepatitis or nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Cirrhosis often is an indolent disease. Most patients remain a symptomatic unit the occurrence of decomposition, characterized by ascites, Spontaneous bac...

Of all cancers in childhood (by WHO definition: O-14 year age group), leukemias constitute one of the most important groups of tumors. Our understanding of the biologic features of the childhood leukemias has increased greatly over the past decade. The ability to discern cytogenetic and molecular differences among morphologically and immunologically similar populations of leukemic cells has hel...

acute rheumatic arthritis affect Indians? js unrecognized subacute rheumatic infection in childhood responsible for the mitral stenosis and chronic congestive heart failure of young Indian adults ? My interest in these questions was first aroused by observing a series of some 20 cases of chronic heart failure in young Indian males, mostly between 12 and 18 years of age, in the medical wards of ...

INTRODUCTION American Indian women often have poor perinatal outcomes and are at risk for early childbearing. The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand the experience and meaning of early childbearing among American Indian women. METHODS Employing interpretive phenomenology and a semistructured interview guide, we interviewed 30 adult American Indian women residing in a northwes...