Breast cancer is the most common cancer in Indonesian females with incidence rate approximately 36.2 in 100,000 and in the top ten of mortality cause with mortality incidence is 18.6 in 100,000 among other diseases (Azis et al., 2009; Wahidin et al., 2012). Roughly 5-10% of breast cancer cases related to the Hereditary Breast and/ or Ovarian (HBOC) syndrome. Individuals with HBOC syndrome have ...

THE FACTS Telocytes (TCs) form a remarkable new cell species found in many types of tissue. They were discovered by Professor Laurentiu-Mircea Popescu of Roumania in 2005 (Popescu et al., 2005), and are characterized by having very small cell bodies (consisting of a nucleus and a small amount of cytoplasm) and “extremely long and thin” tubular processes called telopodes (up to 100 micrometers l...

Medicinal plants have high importance in medicine and pharmacogonosy because of their secondary metabolites. Essential oils, antioxidants and flavonoids are the major compounds of many medicinal plants. These compounds especially antioxidants can increase oxidation of DNA in response to wounds. Nowadays, progresses in biotechnology such as molecular markers were used for phylogenetic relationsh...

This special issue of Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS) contains 16 papers that resulted from the European Science Foundation (ESF) Research Conference “Submarine Paleoseismology: The Offshore Search of Large Holocene Earthquakes” that was held at the Universitätszentrum Obergurgl (Austria), from 11 to 16 September 2010 (Pantosti et al., 2011). The conference enabled scientists ...

introduction intercropping as a common method in sustainable agricultural systems, plays an important role in increasing productivity and yield stability to improve utilization of resources )alizadeh et al., 2010). studies in different countries showed that intercropping causes increase in diversity, production and more efficient use of water resources, land, labor and nutrients and also reduce...

Although constructs related to complex posttraumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) have been discussed for many years, the field still lacks reliable and standardized definitions to guide research in this field. This comment responds to the article by Resick et al. (2012), who conclude that CPTSD lacks sufficient support to be recognized as a diagnosis. Even though there is no doubt that research is ...

I enjoyed reading the article by Malik et al titled ‘Efficacy of sutureless and glue-free limbal conjunctival auto-graft for primary pterygium surgery’ published in the Nepalese Journal of Ophthalmology (Malik et al, 2012). The authors highlighted an important technique of primary pterygium surgery without application of sutures or bio-fibrin glue. This is, of course, a very challenging procedu...