background: the discovery of circulating fetal dna in maternal blood led to the discovery of new strategies to perform noninvasive testing for prenatal diagnosis. objective: the purpose of the study was to detect fetal aneuploidy at chromosomes 13, 18, 21, x, and y by analysis of fetal cell-free dna from maternal blood, without endangering pregnancy. materials and methods: this retrospective st...

conclusions our data showed that inhalation of diazinon during pregnancy increased the hepatocyte area and hepatocyte apoptosis while it decreased the sinusoid area of the fetal liver. materials and methods twenty-five pregnant balb/c mice (25 - 30 gr) were divided into five equal groups in the animal lab of baqiyatallah university of medical sciences, tehran, iran. the normal group was without...

FromSoftware, a Japanese game developer, displays perhaps their most gothic inspired creation in Bloodborne (2015). Hidetaka Miyazaki, the director of game, though drawing from several other key authors field, primarily pays homage to themes and concepts present H. P. Lovecraft’s relatively niche oeuvre. The American tradition thematically underscores various significant characteristics not onl...

background: fetal heart rate (fhr) extracted from abdominal electrocardiogram (ecg) is a powerful non-invasive method in appropriately assessing the fetus well-being during pregnancy. despite significant advances in the field of electrocardiography, the analysis of fetal ecg (fecg) signal is considered a challenging issue which is mainly due to low signal to noise ratio (snr) of fecg. objective...

Tomando como punto de partida diversas teorías sobre la monstruosidad en frontera México-EE. UU (Alemán 2006; Miller y Van Riper 2012) referentes lo monstruoso-femenino (Kristeva 1983; Creed 1993), este artículo pretende analizar From Dusk Till Dawn (Robert Rodriguez, 1996) un mosaico transcultural reconvertido alegato aceptación del “otro” a través su protagonista femenina. This article analys...