objective: Assessing the quality of life and the clinical and social-demographic factors associated in schizophrenic spectrum patients (ICD-10 F20-F29) attending CAPS at the programmatic area 3.0. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out in a sample of schizophrenic spectrum patients who have been enrolled in 2008 in CAPS in programmatic area (AP) 3 at Rio de Janeiro city, using MINIPLU...

Activation of telomerase is a crucial step during cellular immortalization, and in some tumors this results from amplification of the human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) gene. Immortalization of normal human cells has been achieved by transduction with hTERT cDNA under the control of a strong heterologous enhancer/promoter, but this is sometimes an inefficient process, with periods o...

BACKGROUND Having friends is associated with more favourable clinical outcomes and a higher quality of life in mental disorders. Patients with schizophrenia have fewer friends than other mentally ill patients. No large scale studies have evaluated so far what symptom dimensions of schizophrenia are associated with the lack of friendships. METHODS Data from four multi-centre studies on outpati...

UNLABELLED AIM : The aim of the research is the analysis of psychiatric consultations conducted in the multi-disciplinary hospital, establishing the cause of the consultations according to ICD-10 and the analysis of psychiatric consultations regarding their number on particular wards. METHODS Retrospective analysis of medical documentation concerning given consultations in the multidisciplina...

Because of rising energy demand and pollution concerns in the transportation industrial sectors, alternative fuel development is critical. The fusel oil, which a by-product ethanol distillation molasses, receiving lot interest. combustion characteristics, performance, emissions 1.8L turbocharged four-cylinder, port injection, spark-ignition engine will be used to compare oil blends with gasolin...

Background : clinical diversity of schizophrenic spectrum disorders determines a variety long-term management and treatment outcomes out-patients. Aim the study to analyze interrelationships social characteristics, quality life adherence therapy in patients with disorders. Patients methods data 120 observed neuropsychiatric dispensary diagnoses (F20, F21, F25 according ICD-10) were studied. Res...