The current study aimed to investigate the relationship of family environment and parental bonding with controlling compulsions (cc) obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). also predictive value for OCD. Sample consisted 130 diagnosed patients OCD (65 males & 65 females) within age range 20-50 years. Three measures were used gather data - Family Environment Scale (FES), Parental Bonding Instru...

OBJECTIVES To characterise serum concentrations of various cytokines and detection by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of synovial hypervascularity in patients with remitting seronegative symmetrical synovitis with pitting oedema (RS3PE) syndrome before and after corticosteroid treatment. METHODS Vascular endothelial growth factor(165) (VEGF(165)), tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha), and...

False broomrape on tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) can be induced by applying cytokinins to the roots, by causing an increase in the cytokinin-auxin ratio in the roots, by removing the apical and auxillary buds, or by applying extracts from tobacco with false broomrape to the roots of healthy plants. It can be prevented by treating debudded plants with auxin.

We present numerical evidence that there are two distinct universality classes characterizing driven interface roughening in the presence of quenched disorder. The evidence is based on the behavior of λ, the coefficient of the nonlinear term in the growth equation. Specifically, for three of the models studied, λ → ∞ at the depinning transition, while for the two other models, λ → 0. PACS numbe...

no neurofilaments in axons as a consequence of premature translation termination in NF-L (Ohara et al., 1993). Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and Departments of Medicine and Neuroscience This results in no detectable NF-L protein, total absence of neurofilaments, and resultant axons that almost com-University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive pletely fail to grow radially. A cent...

3-M syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder characterised by pre- and post-natal growth restriction, facial dysmorphism, normal intelligence and radiological features (slender long bones and tall vertebral bodies). It is known to be caused by mutations in the genes encoding cullin 7, obscurin-like 1 and coiled-coil domain containing 8. The mechanisms through which mutations in these genes i...

It has been shown and confirmed that adrenal cortical tumours synthesize and secrete oestro­gens more than normal adrenals and eventually produce feminization in some cases.  In addition to the above mentioned findings the lack of conversion of testosterone to dihydro­testosterone has been shown to be the main bio­chemical disorder which causes the lack of hair growth in public area in some ca...

introduction: depression is a mental disorder that highly associated with immune system. therefore, this study compares the serum concentrations of il-21, il-17, and transforming growth factor β (tgf-β) between patients with major depressive disorder and healthy controls. methods: blood samples were collected from 41 patients with major depressive disorder and 40 healthy age-matched controls wi...

Scientific literature contains numerous accounts of possible hypothalamic pituitary axis dysfunction in pediatric patients with various behavioral disorders and/or psychopathology. However, demonstrating any consistent pattern of endocrine dysfunction in these behavioral areas, if indeed such even exists, remains elusive. This chapter will review the literature regarding possible endocrine dysf...

We analyze the combined effect of a Laplacian field and quenched disorder for the generation of fractal structures with a study, both numerical and theoretical, of the quenched dielectric breakdown model (QDBM). The growth dynamics is shown to evolve from the avalanches of invasion percolation (IP) to the smooth growth of Laplacian fractals, i. e. diffusion limited aggregation (DLA) and the die...