Background: Dermatoglyphics is the study of various dermal configurations on fingers, palms, and soles. These appear during 12th week intrauterine life develop completely by 24th week. It said that they remain constant thereafter. The aim present was to compare assess association dermatoglyphic patterns between skeletal class I III malocclusion. <ns4:b...

BACKGROUND Recreational drugs have a significant impact on the lives of drug users, their close families andfriends, as well as their society. Social, psychological, biological, and genetic factors could make a personmore prone to using recreational drugs. Finger and A-B ridges (dermatoglyphics) are formed during the firstand second trimesters of fetal development, under the influence of enviro...

INTRODUCTION Bronchial Asthma is one of the most extensively studied respiratory diseases and its genetic basis is well established. Dermatoglyphic traits are formed under genetic control early in development but may be affected by environmental factors during first trimester of pregnancy. These patterns may represent the genetic makeup of an individual and therefore his/her predisposition to c...

The enzyme acetylcholinesterase (AChE) which belongs to the family of alpha/beta hydrolases is well known for hydrolyzing the neurotransmitter acetylcholine (ACh). In addition to its catalytic function, AChE appears to play a significant non-catalytic role in development, regeneration and modulation of properties of neurons. However the mechanisms underlying these important actions of AChE are ...

With the ever-increasing need to handle large volumes of sequence data efficiently and reliably, we have developed the EASY system for performing combined protein sequence and pattern database searches. EASY runs searches simultaneously and distils results into a concise 1-line diagnosis. By bringing together results of several different analyses, EASY provides a rapid means of evaluating biolo...

Background: Role of host genes in the etiopathogenesis of periodontal diseases have been useful in developing screening tools for identifying patients who are likely to develop disease. With the risk for aggressive periodontal disease being substantially heritable, search for new screening tools are in the forefront. Dermatoglyphics being one such diagnostic tool has been an area of research. A...

There is much documented information on abnormal fingernail shapes- acquired or congenital. There is a dearth of information on the shapes of the clinically healthy fingernail in medical textbooks and scientific journals. A study was carried out to determine the possible shapes of the healthy fingernails and the prevalence of each shape in the locality, i.e. in Ibadan, south-western Nigeria and...