The combined effects of water diversion and climate change are a major conservation challenge for freshwater ecosystems. In the Lemhi Basin, Idaho (U.S.A.), water diversion causes changes in streamflow, and climate change will further affect streamflow and temperature. Shifts in streamflow and temperature regimes can affect juvenile salmon growth, movement, and survival. We examined the potenti...

Growth stanzas or abrupt changes in growth rates are present throughout the life span of fish. Identifying growth stanzas will help to adequately described growth taking into account that fishes are indeterminate growers. In this study, we used length-weight (L-W) relationships to analyze the growth stanzas in the Grouper-Snapper complex of Southern Gulf of Mexico. For this, the type of sexuali...

BACKGROUND Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is the most common chronic rheumatic disease in children and an important cause of short and long-term disability. In a recent systematic review of population based studies, the epidemiology of JIA is variable worldwide with incidence rates ranging between 1.6 and 23.0/100,000, and prevalence rates between 3.8 and 400.0/100,000. We investigate the ...

Profound evidence indicates that GABAA receptors are important in the control of physiological response to stress and anxiety. The a subunit type composition contributes significantly to the functional characterization of the GABAA receptors. The a2, a3, a5 subunits are predominately expressed in the brain during embryonic and early postnatal periods of normal rats, whilst a1 are most prominent...

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Infertility is a serious late effect in childhood cancer survivors. Little is known about acute irradiation effects in immature primate testis. Radiation defects have previously only been studied in postpubertal primates. Here we use the juvenile rhesus monkey as a preclinical model. We expose fragments of testicular tissue to 0, 0.5, 1.0, and 4.0 Gy irradiation in vitro. We then maintain the f...

BACKGROUND The main goal of this paper is to investigate the frequency, clinical profile, and endoscopic findings of children and teenagers submitted to colonoscopies. METHODS Patients of below 18 years of age, diagnosed with polyps by means of colonoscopies at two reference centers of pediatric endoscopy were followed-up between 2002 and 2012. The clinical variables evaluated in this study i...

Any release of transgenic organisms into nature is a concern because ecological relationships between genetically engineered organisms and other organisms (including their wild-type conspecifics) are unknown. To address this concern, we developed a method to evaluate risk in which we input estimates of fitness parameters from a founder population into a recurrence model to predict changes in tr...

BACKGROUND Juvenile psammomatoid ossifying fibroma (JPOF) is a rare fibro-osseous lesion that usually occurs in the facial bones. The pathognomonic histopathologic feature is the presence of spherical ossicles, which are similar to psammoma bodies. It is considered to be a unique lesion because of its reported tendency to occur in children and adolescents and its tendency for locally aggressive...

The HL-A antigen W.27 has been found in 88 to 96% of patients with ankylosing spondylitis (Brewerton, Caffrey, Hart, James, Nicholls, and Sturrock, 1973a; Caffrey and James, 1973; Schlosstein, Terasaki, Bluestone, and Pearson, 1973). More recently a high frequency of W.27 has been reported in Reiter's syndrome (Brewerton, Caffrey, Nicholls, Walters, Oates, and James, 1973c), acute anterior uvei...