Among dietary components that have been suggested as agents for reduction of breast cancer risk a greater consumption of vegetables and/or fruits has attracted much attention. In a few meta-analysis, majority of studies reported an inverse association of a higher consumption of fresh vegetables/fruits and the risk of breast cancer (Gandini et al., 2000; Smith-Warner et al., 2001; Michels et al....

(Shelling, 2000). Of interest is the lower copy number detection rate in our study (4%) compared with the detection rate of 48% in the recent publication by Quilter et al. (2010). Quilter et al. report that one of the 15 women with a CNV had primary amenorrhea. Possibilities to explain the differences in detection rate compared with this study may be differences in the age of onset of POF, or t...

People appear to be biased in their predictions of the future; predicting that projects will take less time than they actually will (see Roy et al., 2005a; Buehler et al., 2010; Halkjelsvik and Jørgensen, 2012, for review) and that they will be unlikely to experience future misfortunes (see Dunning et al., 2004, for review). These biases are frequently attributed to people being overly optimist...

The present study was undertaken to provide more information on nucleolar changes induced by a histone deacetylase inhibitor such as valproic acid in leukaemic myeloblasts at the single-cell level. For this study, RNA in nucleoli was visualized by a simple but sensitive cytochemical procedure in unfixed cytospins of short-term bone marrow cultures from patients suffering from acute myeloid leuk...

Editor's Note: These short, critical reviews of recent papers in the Journal, written exclusively by graduate students or postdoctoral fellows, are intended to summarize the important findings of the paper and provide additional insight and commentary. For more information on the format and purpose of the Journal Club, please see Review of Grundey et al. In recent years, a growing number of stu...

Insight into the organization of the motor and non-motor symptoms in Parkinson’s disease (PD) is critical for understanding the role of basal ganglia in the control of behavioral expression. Motor symptoms are generally characterized by hypokinesia-bradykinesia, resting tremor, muscular rigidity and posture-gait disabilities (Morris et al., 1994; Murrey et al., 1978). Sleep disturbances are maj...

A pair of fly impressions is described as a new species of a new genus, Orientisargus illecebrosusgen. et sp. n., referred to a new family Orientisargidaefam. n. within Archisargoidea of Brachycera, Diptera. The systematic position of Orientisargidae is discussed. Daohugosargusgen. n. is proposed for Sharasargus eximius KY Zhang et al., 2008. Uranorhagionidae is a junior synonym for Archisargid...

Editor's Note: These short, critical reviews of recent papers in the Journal, written exclusively by graduate students or postdoctoral fellows, are intended to summarize the important findings of the paper and provide additional insight and commentary. For more information on the format and purpose of the Journal Club, please see Review of Lemieux et al. Sleep slow waves have gained increasing ...