Androgen deprivation is a common treatment option in patients with locally advanced or metastatic prostate cancer. No case of long term treatment with an intermittent approach with only low dose bicalutamide (50 mg daily) has been described yet. We report a 60-year-old patient, initially presenting with a PSA elevation of 19.2 ng/mL in 1996. After diagnosis of well to moderately differentiated ...

Forum for Nord Derm Ven Vol. 10 May 2005 Plenary lectures PL1: A short history of EB in Sweden. Anders Vahlquist PL2: Classification and diagnosis of EB. Robin A J Eady PL3: Pathogenesis and prognosis of EB. L Bruckner-Tuderman PL4: Multiprofessional care. J.C. Duipmans and M.F. Jonkman PL5: The role as a social worker in the hospital setting. J. Carrera PL6: Focus on daily life – a member stud...

OBJECTIVES Lung cancer invading beyond the interlobar pleura, classified as T2a in the new TNM, is a rare entity with a poor outcome. Our purpose was a better understanding of the mechanisms of this particular behaviour and its prognostic value. METHODS Patients who underwent surgery between 1984 and 2007 were reviewed. We focused on T1 and T2 tumours. Tumours not traversing the pleural elast...

the present study aims at recognizing and analyzing the relationship among variables such as stress, social capital, self esteem and the locus of control that affect the high school students’ quality of life in fars province, iran. to this end 224 high school students form shiraz, kazerun, and marvdasht were selected as participants based on cluster sampling. cronbach’s alpha was used to measur...

neuromelanin (nm) pigment accumulates with age in catecholaminergic neurons in man, and the ventral substantia nigra dopaminergic neurons that are the most vulnerable to degeneration in parkinson's disease (pd) contain the greatest amount of this pigment. in vitro data indicate that nm pigment is formed from the excess cytosolic catecholamine that is not accumulated into synaptic vesicles via t...

introduction: oxytocin is a active neuropeptide of central nervous system. in this study the effects of naloxone (opioid receptor antagonist) and yohimbine (α-2 adrenergic receptor antagonist) on analgesic effect of oxytocin applied into the locus coeruleus (lc) nucleus were investigated. methods: adult male wistar rats were used. animals divided into different groups receiving saline, oxytocin...

  In an attempt to characterize Theileria parva parasites circulating in South Sudan cattle , polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based assays were carried out using four single copy encoding antigen genes p104, PIM, p150 and p67 in addition to one microsatellite MS321. A total of 20 bovine DNA samples from two locations in South Sudan were included in this study, in addition to two references stra...