Background Breast cancer is the first female cancer, especially after menopause. In Morocco its prevalence estimated at 35.8%. Its hormone-dependent aspect requires use of hormone-modulating treatments, in particular aromatase-inhibitors responsible for hypogonadism, bone loss and osteoporosis (OP) with increased fracture risk. Objectives The aim this study to determine epidemiological, clinica...

Tree patterns are natural candidates for representing rules and hypotheses in many tasks such as information extraction and symbolic mathematics. A tree pattern is a tree with labeled nodes where some of the leaves may be labeled with variables, whereas a tree instance has no variables. A tree pattern matches an instance if there is a consistent substitution for the variables that allows a mapp...

Every man's life is an interesting story. When one of the leading physiologists of our time gathers his memories and opinions, his frustrations and achievements into an autobiography, he is sure to have an interested audience. And when these reminiscences are pithy, uninhibited, concise and specific the story may be instructive as well as fascinating. Dwight Ingle began life on an Idaho farm, m...

In man the essential functions of the adrenal cortex stem from at least two hormones, cortisol (hydrocortisone) and aldosterone, these differing in their quality of action, mode of secretory regulation, and probable site of production within the gland. The adrenal sex hormones are of relatively minor physiological importance and will not be considered here. The new synthetic analogues of cortis...

S ingle-use bioprocessing equipment has become wellaccepted technology in a relatively short time. Disposable devices and components have created market niches and new segments that continue to evolve. In this dynamic environment, it is diff icult to measure acceptance or assess market growth. Here we project the world market for cell culture single-use systems (SUS) as well as problems affecti...

References 1. The European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing. Breakpoint tables for interpretation of MICs and zone diameters. Version 6.0. The Committee; 2016. http://aurosan.de/wp-content/ uploads/2015/05/v_6.0_Breakpoint_table.pdf 2. Liu YY, Wang Y, Walsh TR, Yi LX, Zhang R, Spencer J, et al. Emergence of plasmid-mediated colistin resistance mechanism MCR-1 in animals and hum...

S EXUAL mosaics have been reported in three genera of Crustacea. A bilateral mosaic of Carcinus was found to have a testis on one side and a mixed gonad on the other (VEILLET 1945). Gynandromorphs with a testis and ovary have been reported in Homarus (see review by CHACE and MOORE 1959) and in the cladoceran, Simocephalus (BANTA, WOOD, BROWN and INGLE 1939). No intersex or mosaic of Artemia has...

m n E LUID MANAGEMENT AND OPTIMIZATION are daily problems in anesthesiology and in the critical care setting. emodynamic management is related to the optimization of xygen delivery to the tissues and has been shown to be able to mprove postoperative outcome and to decrease the cost of urgery.1-7 Schematically, in the operating room, the anestheiologist and his/her patients have to deal with 2 d...

Vowel perception in a /b~:b/-context of patients using a singlechannel extra-cochlear implant developed in Vienna has been studied by means of synthetic speech. Three patients were asked t o adjust the f i r s t and second formant of a synthetic vowel sound so that they perceived the sound as a given long Swedish vowel. To study the effect of training, the experiment was made a t two sessions a...

proceedings, and the present volume comprises such a report of the first conference, which was held in November 1949, under the chairmanship of C. N. H. Long. Each of five sessions was opened by a concise presentation of one topic in the field, as follows: Relation of Chemical Structure of Adrenal Cortical Hormones to Biological Activity, by Edward C. Kendall; Regulation of Adrenal Cortical Sec...