BACKGROUND This paper is based on ethnobotanical interviews conducted from 1996-2000 in Trinidad and Tobago with thirty male and female respondents. METHODS A non-experimental validation was conducted on the plants used for urinary problems and diabetes mellitus: This is a preliminary step to establish that the plants used are safe or effective, to help direct clinical trials, and to inform C...

IS PSYCHOPATHY ASSOCIATED WITH NEPOTISM? Krupp et al. (2012) state, “individuals executing well-designed strategies, a necessary feature of psychological adaptations, should tend to be nepotistic—providing aid to close genealogical kin and/or sparing them from harm (p. 2).” They then present data linking psychopathy to index offenses involving violence toward nonrelatives as opposed to relative...

Differences in manufacturing processes can affect the properties of biological products. This is especially true for products based on botulinum toxin. The manufacturing process for Xeomin /Bocouture (NT 201, incobotulinumtoxinA, INCO) employs chromatographic methods and produces a pure neurotoxin without any other bacterial contaminants such as the so-called complexing proteins or clostridial ...

Kinetics of first stages of precipitation in Mg-RE alloys have been studied by means of Atom Probe and by Transmission electron microscopy techniques. Formation and development of ordered coherent β′′-precipitates from the HCP solid solution of a binary Mg-2.6Nd and a ternary Mg-2.6Y-2.7Nd (wt.%) alloys were investigated at 150◦C. In the binary alloy, the β′′-precipitates form as plates on the ...

There is a longstanding view within the general population and the criminal justice system that the mentally ill are more prone than the mentally healthy to violence and. This view, however, is not fully supported by empirical research, in particular due to conceptual and methodological challenges that arise when the relationship between mental illness and crime is examined. This paper reviews ...

Although NR4A orphan nuclear receptors have been implicated in inflammatory gene expression and atherosclerosis, there is little information regarding their regulation by combinations of stimuli likely to be found in vivo, such as LPS and inducers of cAMP. LPS rapidly induced Nur77 and NOR1 mRNAs but had little effect on expression of Nurr1 mRNA. All three NR4As were rapidly induced by 8-bromo-...