Department of Electrical Engineering, College Jazan University, Jizan 45142, Saudi Arabia.

justice is one of the main concerns and intellectual foundations of dr. shariati and, along with the principle of “leadership”, one of the two key indicators of “true islam”, that is, “alawi shia”. integrated and interactive definitions and ideas on justice can be found in dr. shariati thoughts. these definitions have many similarities with those proposed by the early and late islamic scholars....

I enjoyed Dr. Olshansky’s gloomy take on the data relating to healthy life expectancy (HLE). As usual with his writings, the essay is clear and thoughtful, but the available data do not support his pessimistic conclusions. First he sets up a straw man offering that, “life extension in the future would probably not yield the same amount of healthy life as it did in the 1980s,” but our argument i...

We have to record with the deepest regret the death of Dr. Carey Coombs. He passed away in the General Hospital on 9th December, after an illness of some five weeks' duration. It will be remembered that he was taken ill suddenly in the street at the beginning of November. Though he appeared to make favourable progress, it was realized by those in attendance that his condition was very grave and...

C. Andrade in his letter published in the Indian Journal of Psychiatry Vol 38, No.2 Page 117, has suggested that non responsiveness to ECT should also be considered an additional pre-requisite for patients who are to receive clozapine. For the reference of the readers of Indian Journal of Psychiatry, I would like to mention the views of some of the foreign authors on this issue. The clinical re...

Background: IFN-γ is mostly secreted by activated CD4, CD8 T cells and NK cells. This cytokine has immunomodulatory, anti-cancer and anti-microbial effects and is important for prophylaxis, diagnosis and treatment of chronic infections and cancers. Objective: The purpose of this study was to clone the full cDNA of human IFN-γ and express it in CHO cell line. Methods: Lymphocytes from a healthy ...

TO THE EDITOR: We would like to thank Dr. Weiskirchen (5) for his interest in our recent publication (3). As we mentioned in the DISCUSSION and as pointed out by Dr. Weiskirchen, the absence of protein data in our adenovirus model represents a limitation of our study. Regarding the RNA expression, we also expected to find a greater difference in ccn1/cyr61 gene expression in the mice instilled ...