Virilising ovarian tumours are a rare cause of hyperandrogenism in women, accounting for less than 5% of all ovarian neoplasms. It occurs most often in - and postmenopausal women. We report a case of a 64 year-old woman with signs of virilisation that had started 3 years before. Blood hormone analysis revealed increased levels of testosterone, and 17-hydroxyprogesterone. The tetracosactin test ...

0001 The recent discovery of a Hobbit-like hominid on the Indonesian island of Flores was startling in some respects—its rather modern existence, for one—but it represents a classic case of Darwinian evolution. For reasons that are not entirely clear, when animals make their way to isolated islands, they tend to evolve relatively quickly toward an outsized or pint-sized version of their mainlan...

INTRODUCTION Glabrous skin and hairy skin are innervated by different types of noxious fibers. However, the different nociceptive behaviors induced by formalin, a commonly used model of acute inflammatory pain, have not yet been systematically examined in the glabrous and hairy skin. METHODS In this study, we compared nociceptive behaviors induced by formalin injections (2%, 4%, and 8%) into ...

To compare the heat responses of mechanically sensitive and mechanically insensitive A-fiber nociceptors, an electrical search technique was used to locate the receptive fields of 156 A-fibers that innervated the hairy skin in the anesthetized monkey (77 A beta-fibers, 79 A delta-fibers). Two-thirds of these afferents were either low-threshold mechanoreceptors (n = 91) or low-threshold cold rec...

<i>Ipomoea cristulata</i> Hallier f. (Convolvulaceae), native to the desert regions of central USA Mexico, was newly found in Gojeong-ri, Deokgwa-myeon, Namwon-si, Jeollabuk-do. This species can be distinguished from <i>I. coccinea</i> by leaves with 3-5 lobes, hirsute distributed adaxially, and corolla entirely red or orange-red. Its Korean name is ‘Na-bi-ip-yu-hong-cho...