UNLABELLED Anxiety is common in Parkinson's disease (PD), but studies concerning specific anxiety disorders are scarce. Essential psychometric properties of anxiety rating scales are also lacking. OBJECTIVE To investigate general anxiety disorder (GAD) in PD and psychometric properties of the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (Ham-A). METHOD Ninety-one PD patients underwent neurological and psy...

Type 2 resistant starch from high-amylose maize (HAM-RS2) is considered a functional ingredient due to its positive organoleptic and physiochemical modifications associated with food and physiological benefits related to human health. The sensory characteristics of three types of food products (muffins, focaccia bread, and chicken curry) with and without HAM-RS2 were evaluated using a 9-point h...

Regulatory programs that control the specification of serotonergic neurons have been investigated by genetic mutant screens in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Loss of a previously uncloned gene, ham-3, affects migration and serotonin antibody staining of the hermaphrodite-specific neuron (HSN) pair. We characterize these defects here in more detail, showing that the defects in serotonin an...

Objective(s):HTLV-1 is the first human retrovirus that has been recognized and is associated with HAM/TSP and ATLL. Studies have shown that less than five percent of HTLV-1 infected carriers develop HAM/TSP or ATLL and about ninety-five percent remain asymptomatic. Therefore, the proviral load with Tax may affect cellular genes such as cytokines and oncogenes, as well as involve in pathogenicit...

We prove that the Seidel morphism of (M × M , ω ⊕ ω) is naturally related to the Seidel morphisms of (M,ω) and (M , ω), when these manifolds are monotone. We deduce a condition for loops of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of the product to be homotopically non trivial. This result was inspired by and extends results obtained by Pedroza [P]. All the symplectic manifolds we consider in this note are ...

  The underlying mechanisms leading to the development of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) in HTLV-I infected individuals are not fully understood. Host genetic factors appear to be involved as risk factors for developing HAM/TSP. We investigated the possible contribution of interleukin-10 (IL-10) as a risk factor to HA...

Let (M,ω) be a closed symplectic manifold and Ham(M,ω) the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of (M,ω). Then the Seidel homomorphism is a map from the fundamental group of Ham(M,ω) to the quantum homology ring QH∗(M ; Λ). Using this homomorphism we give a sufficient condition for when a nontrivial loop ψ in Ham(M,ω) determines a nontrivial loop ψ × idN in Ham(M ×N, ω ⊕ η), where (N, η) is a c...