HEREDITY A MINOR FACTOR IN MENTAL DEFICIENCY

Heredity and Mental Diseases

Lecture, on heredity in relation to mental disease and mental deficiency by Sir Frederick Mott, and also the obituary notice of the distinguished author. The lecture is an important contribution to the problem of insanity and mental deficiency. Sir Frederick opened his lecture by asking whether the increase in the number of registered cases of insanity is due to a raising of the standard of men...

A Pregnant Woman with Factor V Deficiency

Factor XIII deficiency: a review of literature

Coagulaon factor XIII gene, protein structure and funcon Coagulaon factor XIII (FXIII) is a tetrameric (FXIII- A2B2) pro-transglutaminase enzyme with an essenal role in the final stage of coagulaon cascade by cross linking the fibrin monomers and stabilizing the fibrin clot. Congenital FXIII deficiency is a rare bleeding disorder, with an autosomal recessive trait inheritance, and a fre...

Heredity of the Rh Factor.

The blood was obtained from the finger and collected in small test tubes, using as an anticoagulant one drop of 3.8 percent dihydnc sodium citrate for every ten drops of blood. Two percent suspensions of the red cell sediments in saline solution were prepared, and the A , B groups and M , N types were determined. The tests for these agglutinogens were carried out on Boerner well slides, one dro...

Jaundice and factor VII deficiency in newborn

Resistance to thyroid hormone is an uncommon condition. We report the clinical and laboratory findings of a case with both resistance to thyroid hormone and, a reduced capacity to produce and respond to thyroid hormone. RTH is a disorder characterized by elevated circulating thyroid hormones, state of non-suppressed pituitary TSH secretion and refractoriness to hormone action in peripheral tiss...