Marie Chavent, Stéphane Girard, Vanessa Kuentz-Simonet, Benoit Liquet, Thi Mong Ngoc Nguyen and Jérôme Saracco 1 Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux, UMR CNRS 5251 Université de Bordeaux / Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux, 351 cours de la libération, 33405 Talence Cedex, France e-mail: {marie.chavent,jerome.saracco}@math.u-bordeaux1.fr 2 Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest, CQFD team, France 3 Inria G...

OBJECTIVES The serum concentrations of somatotrophin axis hormones (growth hormone--GH, insulin-like growth factor-I--IGF-I and insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3--IGFBP-3) in the patients with psoriasis in its active stage have been evaluated in relation to the control group consisting of healthy people in order to see whether these hormones may play a role in the psoriasis aetiopath...

BACKGROUND Thyroid is one of the ductless endocrine gland, which is located immediately below the larynx on either side of and anterior to the trachea. The principal hormones of thyroid gland are thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3). The current study was carried out to investigate the impact of race, gender and area on the levels of Thyroxine (T4), Triiodothyronine (T3) and Thyroid Stimula...

These notes of a course given at IRMA in April 2009 cover some aspects of the representation theory of fundamental groups of manifolds of dimension at most 3 in compact Lie groups, mainly SU(2). We give detailed examples, develop the techniques of twisted cohomology and gauge theory. We review Chern-Simons theory and describe an integrable system for the representation space of a surface. Final...

BACKGROUND Impaired reproductive function accompanies chronic renal insufficiency (uremia) in both the human and experimental animal. Clinical hypogonadism occurs in both genders. The present studies were designed to investigate possible anti-ovulatory effects of uremia in the female rat, a species that produces multiple ova during the normal estrous cycle. METHODS Renal insufficiency (uremia...

Introduction. Thyroid cancer is one of the most common malignant neoplasms endocrine system. well-differentiated thyroid constitutes about 90 % all tumors gland. Despite growing morbidity and high incidence this pathology, in case timely diagnosis treatment has favorable prognosis. Aim. using clinical examples, to demonstrate possibility thyroglobulin measurement needle washouts fineneedle aspi...

Adrenal incidentalomas are defined as asymptomatic adrenal masses occasionally discovered during high-resolution imaging procedures such as computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance (MR). Pheochromocytoma, a potentially lethal chromaffin tumour, must be excluded before any invasive diagnostic procedures to avoid massive catecholamines release. Chromogranin A (CgA) is a member of the granin...