The present study reports the age, growth, and reproduction parameters of 52 brown rays (Raja miraletus) captured from Saros Bay (Northern Aegean Sea) between September 2006 -2008. males females accounted for 44.2% 55.8% sample, respectively. measured 10.5-53.5 cm (disc width, 6.5-32 cm) ranged 25.5-47.7 18-30.5 in total length (TL). equations TW=0.0017*TL3.27 TW=0.0017*DW3.38 were used to desc...

Objective: The Gullah-speaking African American population from the Sea Islands of South Carolina is characterized by a low degree of European admixture and high rates of type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and diabetic complications. Affected relative pairs with T2DM were recruited through Project SuGAR (the Sea Islands Genetic African American Registry). Research Design and Methods: We conducted a genome-...

The tangential wall stress and the tangential elasticity modulus at pressures from 0 to 200 mm Hg were calculated from pressure-volume diagrams of 27 human thoracic aortas aged 22 to 85 years. The relative volume increase of the aortas between 0 and 100 mm Hg decreased linearly from about 190% at age 20 to about 40% at age 85, whereas the elasticity modulus at 100 mm Hg increased linearly from ...

BACKGROUND Ultrasound guidelines for hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (HPS) have fixed minimum measurements and do not account for variation in patient weight or age. We sought to determine if preoperative pyloric measurements correlated with weight and age in patients with surgically proven HPS. METHODS A retrospective analysis was conducted of 189 patients with HPS treated at a single institut...

The relationship between the bone mineral density (BMD) in Croatian female adults and the average incoming solar radiation at the ground was investigated. The study included 387 volunteers of average age of 60 years from three different towns: Pula (n = 128, age from 35 to 76), Krapina (n = 141, age from 43 to 77), and Zagreb (n = 118, age from 32 to 79). Apart from the different lifestyle, eac...

Abstract Linked Article: Eshagh et al. Br J Dermatol 2022; 187:318–323.

In this study, we report a Japanese boy with testotoxicosis due to a heterozygous mutation [p. A572V] in the LH/CGR gene, who was the first boy treated with a third-generation aromatase inhibitor (AI) and reached his adult height in Japan. He showed accelerated growth and rapid penile growth from 3 yr of age and was diagnosed as having testotoxicosis. Combined treatment with anastrozole and spi...