The interesting article by CHINN et al. [1] explored the relationship of transfer factor (TL) or diffusing capacity to alveolar volume (VA) within normal subjects at different depths of inspiration and between normal subjects having lungs of different sizes, and found that the ratio TL/VA (often called the carbon monoxide transfer coefficient (KCO)) varied with VA itself (i.e. lung size) as wel...

JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS, Vol. 22 No. 6, December 2007 558-561 DOI: 10.1177/0748730407308285 © 2007 Sage Publications Melanopsin (Opn4) contributes to the entrainment of circadian rhythms in mammals. In rats, retinal ganglion cells expressing Opn4 sense light and regulate circadian entrainment (Hattar et al., 2002) by relaying light information to the SCN via release of neuropeptides, incl...

Melanoma is a highly metastatic and therapeutically resistant cancer, whose incidence has more than tripled in the last decades (Smalley et al., 2010). Physiologically, melanocytes produce and store melanin pigments in the melanosomes, which are transported to the cell periphery and transferred to keratinocytes, a process that requires the tripartite complex Rab27a/melanophilin/myosin-Va (Hume ...

IJEMHHR • Vol. 17, No. 3 • 2015 661 The definition of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) underwent substantial changes in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), including the inclusion of negative affective experiences that were underrepresented in prior conceptualizations, among other changes (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). How these chan...

sobhi mansour, in the book al-quran va kafa masdara li al-tashri' al-islami, tries to introduce the quran as the single source of islamic legislationaccording to quran itself and therefore to prove the lack of authority of traditions.he maintains that according to quranic verses, quran is a complete andcomprehensive book, has declared itself to be sufficient for the guidance, and hasforbid...

La noción de diseño va ligada al creación, como acto implícito en un determinado contexto

Background and objectives: Hemorrhoidal disease is a prevalent anorectal condition that is explained as the symptomatic expansions and displacements of the normal hemorrhoidal cushions. Symptomatic hemorrhoids affect more than one million individuals in the western world every year. Hemorrhoids is a well-known disease in Iranian traditional medicine (ITM). Avicenna and other Ir...

Verbal autopsies (VA) are widely used to provide cause-specific mortality estimates in developing world settings where vital registration does not function well. VAs assign cause(s) to a death by using information describing the events leading up to the death, provided by care givers. Typically physicians read VA interviews and assign causes using their expert knowledge. Physician coding is oft...