Just after midnight on the 28th of September 1994, the Estonian-flagged ro-ro passenger ferry MV Estonia was shipwrecked on its route between Tallinn and Stockholm. Out of about 1000 persons on board only 137 survived. This paper describes the work that the Psychiatric Clinic at Ersta Hospital performed with the relatives of the MV Estonia victims after the disaster, in addition, we present dat...

Corresponding author: Hee-Pyoung Park, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 101, Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 110-744, Korea. Tel: 82-2-2072-2466, Fax: 82-2-747-5639, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-...

Correct recognition of butyrylcholinesterase (BChE; EC 3.1.1.8) variants in human serum is essential if patients susceptible to a prolonged reaction following treatment with short acting muscle relaxants, like suxamethonium, are to be reliably identified. The dimethylcarbamate Ro 02-0683 is used in standard procedures for identification of BChE variant by measuring residual activity after two h...

1 Laboratory of Respiratory Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, 111 TW Alexander Drive, Building 101, MD D-201, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA 2The Catholic University of Korea, College of Pharmacy, 43 Jibong-ro, Wonmi-gu, Bucheon, Gyeonggi-Do 420-743, Republic of Korea 3 Institute for Chemical Safety Sciences, The Hamner Institute...

Alkaline earth aluminates with the overall nominal compositions Mg0.5Sr0.5Al2O4 (MSA), Ca0.5Sr0.5Al2O4 (CSA) and Ca0.5Mg0.5Al2O4 (CMA) doped with 0.5 or 1 mol% of Eu2+ ions were obtained by a modified aqueous sol-gel method and annealed in a reductive atmosphere at 900, 1000, 1100 and 1300 °C. The sample compositions and their structures were studied by XRD employing the Rietveld method. Solid ...