Somponpun, Suwit J., Alan Kim Johnson, Terry Beltz, and Celia D. Sladek. Osmotic regulation of estrogen receptorexpression in magnocellular vasopressin neurons requires lamina terminalis. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 286: R465–R473, 2004. First published November 6, 2003; 10.1152/ajpregu.00478.2003.— Estrogen receptor(ER) expression in rat magnocellular vasopressin (VP) neurons of the...

Estrogen receptor-beta (ER-beta) expression in rat magnocellular vasopressin (VP) neurons of the supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei (SON and PVN, respectively) becomes undetectable after 72 h of 2% NaCl consumption. To test the hypothesis that osmosensitive mechanisms that originate in the region of the organum vasculosum lamina terminalis (OVLT) control ER-beta expression in the SON and PVN...

BACKGROUND Gaucher's disease (GD) is the most frequently encountered lysosomal storage disease. Here, we describe and discuss the observed concurrence of schizophrenia and Gaucher's disease in two siblings. METHODS Presentation of a family with two siblings with Gaucher's disease. RESULTS In a six-member family, the first son suffers from schizophrenia, while the third and fourth sons suffe...

The diagnosis of Brugada syndrome, or right bundle-branch block with an elevated ST segment and negative T waves in V1-3, is obscured by the transitory normalization of the electrocardiogram, which can be unmasked by administering sodium-channel blockers. It has been recently reported that the condition can be underdiagnosed if only conventional precordial leads are used. We present the cases o...

The natural environment is in a state of constant flux and living organisms are perpetually challenged to adapt to these changes. Yet the mechanisms of adaptation, which lead to the development of new characteristics or behaviours, have troubled philosophers and scientists since the days of ancient Greece. In fact, it was not until 1859, when Charles Darwin (1809– 1882) published The Origin of ...

LYDIE BOULLE, M.D. GRMEK, CATHERINE LUPOVICI, and JANINE SAMIONCONTET, Laennec. Catalogue des manuscrits scientifiques, Paris, Masson, 1982, 4to, pp. vi, 316, Fr. 200.00. The scientific manuscripts of Laennec, among them such important unpublished items as his course in the College de France embracing all of medicine, or a book on pathological anatomy, are now distributed in five libraries in t...

A new genus and species of scorpion belonging to the family Pseudochactidaeare described based on four specimens collected in the Tien Son cave at the Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park, Quang Binh Province, Vietnam. The new species represents a true troglobitic element, the first one known for the family Pseudochactidae. This represents the third known record of a pseudochactid, and the first f...