Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH) have been measured by specific bioassays in pooled urine samples from prepubertal children, aged 2-6 yr, and from male adults. For children the mean urinary excretion of FSH was 2.2 U 2nd International Reference Preparation (2nd IRP) per liter and the mean urinary excretion of LH was 0.44 U 2nd IRP per liter. For adults the mean FS...

Objective The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of abnormal vaginal microorganisms in pregnant women according to trimester, and to determine whether the presence of abnormal vaginal colonization is associated with higher risk of miscarriage or preterm delivery. Furthermore, we analyzed delivery outcomes according to individual microorganism species. Methods We included preg...

OBJECTIVE In this study, we measured the cortical bone thickness in the mandibular buccal and lingual areas using computed tomography in order to evaluate the suitability of these areas for application of temporary anchorage devices (TADs) and to suggest a clinical guide for TADs. METHODS The buccal and lingual cortical bone thickness was measured in 15 men and 15 women. Bone thickness was me...

BACKGROUND the abilities of school children for reading static texts have been widely discussed, however little is known about how well they can read dynamic texts and what skills are required for this kind of reading. AIM to evaluate the skills involved in reading movie subtitles of 2nd and 4th graders of students at the a public school. METHOD analysis of the level and skills needed for m...

The goal of the study was to examine whether speakers naming pairs of objects would retrieve the names of the objects in parallel or in sequence. To this end, we recorded the speakers' eye movements and determined whether the difficulty of retrieving the name of the 2nd object affected the duration of the gazes to the 1st object. Two experiments, which differed in the spatial arrangement of the...

Second order neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS) process and integrate the afferent information from arterial baroreceptors with high fidelity and precise timing synaptic transmission. Since 2nd-order NTS neurons receiving baroreceptors inputs are relatively well characterized, their electrophysiological profile has been accepted as a general characteristic for all 2nd-order NTS neu...

We have identified five recessive allelic mutations, mori1-1 to mori1-5, which drastically modify the shoot architecture of rice. The most remarkable feature of mori1 plants is a rapid production of small leaves and short branches. The mori1 plants are about 5 cm in height even 7 months after sowing. No reproductive growth was attained in mori1 plants even if inductive short-day treatment was a...

The aim of this study is to compare and analyze the components of ground reaction force (GRF) relative to the foothold heights during downward step of 16-t truck. Adult males (n= 10) jumped downward from each 1st, 2nd, 3rd foothold step and driver's seat orderly using hand rail. Sampling rate of force components of 3 axis (medial-lateral [ML] GRF, anterior-posterior [AP] GRF, peak vertical forc...

consistent with origin activation during the 1st pulse period; (2) Uni-directional forks—contain a track of 1st label with an adjacent track of 2nd label, consistent with individual growing forks; (3) Clustered replicons—contain intermingled and contiguous tracks of 1st and 2nd label, which must represent clustered replicons that engaged and completed synthesis during labelling. Because labelli...

2 60 M Duodenum, Ist part 56 M Duodenum, Ist part 1 45 M Ampulla 1 41 F Duodenum, 2nd part 2 Unspecified 1 46 F Duodenum, 3rd part 3 64 F Unspecified 63 M Duodenum, 1st part 60 F Duodenum, Ist part 1 42 F Unspecified 1 36 F Unspecified 1 65 F Duodenum, Ist part 3 64 M Duodenum, Ist part 63 M Duodenum, Ist part 70 F Duodenum, 1st part 1 Unspecified 2 49 F Duodenum, 2nd part 70 F Duodenum, Ist pa...