spearmint (mentha spicata l.) is one of the most important mint family plants that has numerous applications in food, cosmetical, and pharmaceutical industries due to its valuable medicinal properties. in this research, the change in plant fresh and leaf dry weights, essential oil content, yield and composition during year as randomized complete block design with twelve treatments and three rep...

Preface I wrote these lecture notes during my stay in Aarhus in the academic year 1974/75. As a young researcher I had a wonderful time at DAIMI, and I have always been happy to have had that early experience. I wish to thank Heiko Vogler for his noble plan to move these notes into the digital world, and I am grateful to Florian Starke and Markus Napierkowski (and Heiko) for the excellent trans...

Since they introduction in the treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED), phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE-5) inhibitors have achieved widespread acceptance. Today PDE-5 inhibitors are considered as first-line oral pharmacotherapy in the management of ED (Hatzimouratidis et al., 2010). However, penile implants are still a popular choice, especially in patients who have failed to achieve erections by ...

When we started to plan this special issue, we were under the thought that we are facing more and more cases of small renal masses in our daily work as urologists and pathologists. This common fact nowadays will probably increase in the near future as radiological studies are more frequently ordered and fortunately we face an increase in longevity, and also as people can get to detect their ren...