BACKGROUND Constipation is a common clinical symptom but its etiology remains unknown. The aims of the study are to discuss the relation between body mass index (BMI), motilin and the slow transit constipation (STC). METHODS A total of 178 patients with STC and 123 healthy volunteers as controls were divided into three groups according to the BMI, group A (BMI <20), group B (BMI 20-25), and g...

[1] A large slow slip event (SSE) had been expected for the Guerrero gap for 2010. It was actually observed with an onset in July 2009. Comparison with the preceding large SSEs, which occurred in 2002 and 2006, highlights both persistent characteristics of the Guerrero SSEs (e.g. the localization of slip in the seismogenic part of the subduction interface), and also particularities of the 2009/...

Coordinated patterns of state-dependent synchronized oscillatory activity have been suggested to play differential roles in both the encoding and consolidation phases of hippocampal-dependent memories. Previous studies have concentrated on the mutually exclusive patterns of theta and sharp-wave/ripple activity because these were thought to be the only collective oscillatory patterns expressed i...

A number of slow neurological diseases occurring in an imals and in man appear to be associated with a long-term, chronic infection of the host by a virus or virall ike agent. Measles virus, or a var ian t of measles, has been shown to be the etiologic agent of the chronic and invar iab ly fatal human disease, subacute sclerosing panencephal i t is (SSPE). 1 In SSPE, the virus appears to produc...

Since 1980, Canadian, Belgian, and American scientists have been working together with colleagues in Kenya to understand the epidemiology and biology of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in Africa. The rapid spread of human immunodeficiency virus has dramatically increased the importance of this information. Interventions to slow the spread of all STDs and to reduce their consequences are no...

The mature T/natural killer (NK) lymphoma/leukemias represent 5-15% of all non-Hodgkin lymphoma. These diseases have a geographic variation, with more nodal disease in North America and Europe, including peripheral T cell lymphomas, unspecified, anaplastic large cell lymphoma, and angioimmunoblastic T cell lymphoma; and more extranodal disease in Asia due to Epstein-Barr virus-related nasal NK/...

The term "slow infection" was coined originally in the veterinary literature to describe several trans­ missible diseases of sheep. 1 Two of these diseases, scrapie and visna, have become the prototypes of slow infection of the central nervous system (CNS). After inoculation of sheep with tissues from an in­ fected sheep, a latent period of one or more years ensues, during which the sheep appea...

Efforts to stimulate lymphocytes from measles seropositive and two patients with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) with either commercially available measles virus or virus isolated from a known case of SSPE failed to show any significant data using a microculture assay. Similar results were obtained using lymphocytes from two patients with active cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections and C...