BACKGROUND The spastic paraparesis associated to HTLV-1 causes degenerative pyramidal tract lesions of the spinal cord and affects cortical-nuclear connections in the brain. AIM To report the findings of magnetic resonance imaging in patients with spastic paraparesis. MATERIAL AND METHODS A magnetic resonance imaging of the brain and spinal cord was performed in 30 patients (24 females), me...

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Contraceptive vaccines (CV) may provide viable and valuable alternatives to the presently available methods of contraception. The molecules that are being explored for CV development either target gamete production [luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH)/GnRH, FSH], gamete function [sperm antigens and oocyte zona pellucida (ZP)], and gamete outcome (HCG). CV targeting gamete production ha...

This Target Organ Symposium is the 10th in a continuing series. Only one previous Target Organ Symposium, that on the gonads, dealt with the endocrine system. The Organizing Committee for the Endocrine Target Organ Symposium fully recognizes the diversity of scientific topics to be included into this two-day period. Nevertheless, it seemed just as defensible to include these diverse topics into...

Implication for health policy makers/practice/research/medical education: This article aims to introduce saffron as a useful herbal medicine. Copyright © 2014, School of Pharmacy, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences; Published by DOCS. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution...

This paper deals with unmual set of psychiatric patients who basically sought help for depression. The cases were gathered from Community Mental Health Centre, Hyderabad (2 cases) and from Government Hospital for mental care, Vishakhapatnam (2 cases). All four patients were males who were basically diagnosed as transexuals. Their age range was between 18 and 25. Clinically, associated with depr...

Impotence is the consistent inability to achieve or sustain an erection of sufficient rigidity for sexual intercourse. It is an age dependent disorder with an incidence of 1.9% at 40 years and 25% at 65 years of age 1 , which increases manifold in certain diseases 2. Recent developments in the field of erectile dysfunction has now improved the understanding of the physiologic mechanisms of peni...

PURPOSE To overcome radioresistance for patients with unfavorable prostate cancer, a prospective trial of pelvic external beam irradiation (EBRT) interdigitated with dose-escalating conformal high-dose-rate (HDR) prostate brachytherapy was performed. METHODS AND MATERIALS Between November 1991 and August 2000, 207 patients were treated with 46 Gy pelvic EBRT and increasing HDR brachytherapy b...