Monomorphic (inversion free) and polymorphic (with inversion) strains of Drosophila ananassae established from out-bred population collected at Mysore have been used to study female age influence on fecundity, fertility, and ovariole number. It was noticed that polymorphic strains had greater fecundity, fertility, and ovariole number than monomorphic strains. It was also noticed that in both mo...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study is to search the inner world of postmenopausal women in late-middle age who are facing senescence and live in small and medium-sized cities. METHODS The methods of the study were the investigation and classification of answers to questions according to a declarative ethnography analysis. The questions asked to late-middle-aged women living in small and med...

Participants in the West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study performed reaction time tasks and took the Alice Heim 4 Part 1 test (AH4) of intelligence twice, 13 years apart. Cross-lagged associations between speed of processing and AH4 were examined using latent variables in structural equation modeling. The stability coefficients of the latent traits of processing speed and of AH4 score across 13 year...

Models of human mortality include a factor that summarises intrinsic differences in individual rates of ageing, commonly called frailty. Frailty also describes a clinical syndrome of apparent vulnerability. In a representative, cross-sectional, Canadian survey (n = 66,589) we calculated a frailty index as the mean accumulation of deficits and previously showed it to increase exponentially with ...

l Smoking is the biggest killer in the UK The causal link between smoking and increased morbidity and mortality is firmly established: 120,000 people die each year in the UK as a result of smoking, about half of them in middle age or earlier1. Smokers are less fit than nonsmokers, they suffer more from both minor and major illness and they feel less healthy2. They also cost each health authorit...

Exposure of rodents to a stimulating environment has beneficial effects on some cognitive functions that are impaired during physiological aging, and especially spatial reference memory. The present study investigated whether environmental enrichment rescues these functions in already declining subjects and/or protects them from subsequent decline. Subgroups of 17-mo-old female rats with unimpa...

The aim of the present work is to present the history of the bioindication at a glance. The major stages of natural sciences in general and bioindication in detail, starting from the ancient times through middle ages and times of scientific revolution to the present time are shown, as well as the past and present examples of using living organisms (especially lichens) to the indication of envir...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine the optimal configuration of an investigational, single-use, needle-free, drug system (ALGRX 3268) that delivers powdered lidocaine into the epidermis for the rapid production of local anesthesia among pediatric subjects undergoing venipuncture. METHODS Children 3 to 18 years of age were randomly allocated to receive 1 of 3 treatments, ie,...

background and objectives: sarcopenia is explained as the loss of muscle strength and muscle mass with aging‚ and is one of the major risk factors for metabolic diseases. cross-sectional studies demonstrate that vitamin d is associated with sarcopenia in both men and women. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of vitamin d supplement consumption on muscle strength, muscle functio...

Background: Alkaptonuria (AKU) or ochronosis is a rare progressive degenerative arthropathy that results from deficiency of enzyme homogentisate 1,2 dioxygenase (HGD). The features include arthritis of the spine and in larger peripheral joints, with chondrocalcinosis. In this paper, we present a case of alkaptonuria in a 54 year old woman in Tehran, Iran. Case Presentation: A 54 year old woman ...