the effect of the mollusciciding of 364 different snail habitat with bayer 73 (bayluscide), undertaken during the period january 1968 to january 1973, for the control of urinary bilharziasis bas been evaluated in khuzestan, southwest iran. the criteria for assessment were as follows:1. complete kill was obtained when no live b.truncatus was found in monthly surveys for one entire year after mol...

Objective: a fetus with a ring chromosome 20 is presented. Methods: at 16 weeks’ gestation, ultrasound examination evidenced no apparent structural malformation. Amniocentesis was performed for maternal anxiety. Results: chromosome analysis identified a ring chromosome 20 and array-CGH demonstrated that the ring including micro-deletion of the short arm in 20p13, that was extended for about 632...

Underand over-nutrition during pregnancy has been linked to the later development of diseases such as diabetes and obesity. Epigenetic modifications may be one mechanism by which exposure to an altered intrauterine milieu or metabolic perturbation may influence the phenotype of the organism much later in life. Epigenetic modifications of the genome provide a mechanism that allows the stable pro...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Vitamin D deficiency has been recently associated with the metabolic syndrome. However, it is not known whether this possible association of vitamin D deficiency with the metabolic syndrome is still present at very high degrees of obesity, as in morbidly obese patients. METHODS Transversal, observational study that included 73 consecutive morbidly obese patients (body mass i...