The purpose of this article is tomake the distinction between antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy, discuss possible etiologies of psychopathy, and analyze the crimes, personality characteristics, and historical aspects of psychopathic serial killers. The research indicates that both environmental and biological factors affect the development of psychopathy. Several different serial ...

C reactive protein (CRP) was measured serially in 29 patients with infective endocarditis. Twenty one patients were initially treated with antimicrobial drugs. In 13, serial measurement of CRP concentrations showed a progressive return to normal (less than 10 mg/l), which correlated with a satisfactory recovery. Of the remainder (eight patients), five had persistently high concentrations of CRP...

Immunoreactive methionine enkephalin and beta-endorphin were sought by serial dilution of tissue extracts and assay of chromatographic fractions in non-endocrine tumour tissue from three patients with the ectopic adrenocorticotrophin syndrome associated with carcinoid tumours and in normal lung tissue and thymic tissue from a patient with myasthenia gravis. In all cases serial dilution of extra...

Licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra L.) is an important medicinal plant. In this study, the antimicrobial activities of ethanolic and aqueous extracts from licorice leaves were studied compared to root extracts activities. Bacillus subtilis, Enterococcus faecalis, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli, and Candida albicans were used as test organisms...

A key challenge in the data analysis of biological high-throughput experiments is to handle the often low number of samples in the experiments compared to the number of biomolecules that are simultaneously measured. Combining experimental data using independent technologies to illuminate the same biological trends, as well as complementing each other in a larger perspective, is one natural way ...

Biology is inherently parallel. Models of biological systems and bio-inspired algorithms also share this parallelism, although most are simulated on serial computers. Previous work created the systemic computer – a new model of computation designed to exploit many natural properties observed in biological systems, including parallelism. The approach has been proven through two existing implemen...

BACKGROUND It has been reported that heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) and interleukin-8 (IL-8) play an important role in cells during the wound healing process. However, there has been no report on the effect of HSP70 and IL-8 on the blisters of burn patients. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to evaluate the serial quantitative changes of HSP70 and IL-8 in burn blisters. METHODS Twenty-five burn pat...

Serial docking of artemisinin derivatives. A serial docking study was undertaken with the purpose to improve the understanding of the mechanism of production of biological activity in Artemisinin derivatives. The Heme molecule receptors were primarily chosen to represent the changing binding and oxidation states of this molecule, which are postulated to occur during the activation of the drug, ...

I grew up in Brooklyn during WWII and freely roamed the streets, spoke to a vast assortment of people, and slipped into the movies underage where they were playing concentration camps, the atom bomb and Superman. I alternately dreamed of becoming a classical dancer and a champion for the oppressed. The fabric of our abode was filled with diverse people, literature and architecture. The latter m...

the mucus layer on the skin of fish contain a several of antimicrobial compounds that provide a first line of defense against fish pathogens. this study was conducted to evaluate the effects of different levels of prebiotic grobiotic®-a on antimicrobial activity and some immune parameters of mucus of cultured juvenile beluga (huso huso). for this purpose, four groups of beluga sturgeon with mea...