Results are promising but long-term safety remains uncertain.

Why do people give to strangers? We propose that people trust and give more to those whose emotional expressions match how they ideally want to feel ("ideal affect match"). European Americans and Koreans played multiple trials of the Dictator Game with recipients who varied in emotional expression (excited, calm), race (White, Asian) and sex (male, female). Consistent with their culture's value...

Testosterone declines with aging, so most midlife women have "low" testosterone levels. Because libido also declines with aging, and distressing sexual problems peak at midlife, should midlife women with low libido and associated distress be treated with testosterone? This Practice Pearl reports clinical trial evidence, reviews the risks, and explains how testosterone might be used in a clinica...

Phagocytosis and intracellular killing of Staphylococcus aureus by granulocytes were examined in diabetic patients. There was no significant difference in the phagocytic activity of granulocytes between control and diabetic-subjects. However, intracellular killing by granulocytes was significantly reduced in insulin-treated diabetic patients compared with control subjects. No significant differ...

background : vaginal epithelium is the most important site for initial contact of the parasite infection in humans.   objective: to investigate the effect of lactobacillus acidophilus (la) and ph on attachment of t. vaginalis isolated from symptomatic and asymptomatic patients to vaginal epithelial cells (vecs).   methods: following 1-4 hrs contact of parasite with vecs, wet mounts were prepare...

land use changes are one of the important consequences of urban spatial extent. regarding the role of green space as one of important land use classes in urban ecosystems, the investigations of its changes seem to be crucial. in this study, to estimate the changes of green space, the ndvi index was applied to tm and irs images of 1990 and 2006 and green space maps of district 1 of tehran munici...

histidine at the doses 30 and 60ml /kg had no effect when injected at 7 :ooh, or at 19:00h. histidine at the doses of 120, 240 and 480 mg / kg decreased defecation at the first 8 and 24 hours post injection, respectively, when injected at 07:00h. the amino acid at the doses of 120, 240 and 480 mg / kg decreased the number of fecal pellets at 2, 8 and 24 h post injection, respectively, when inje...