Focal dermal hypoplasia (FDH) is a rare syndrome of severe developmental anomalies of the tissues and organs derived from ectoderm and mesoderm. Though data have suggested that FDH is an X-linked dominant trait associated with male hemizygote lethality, a hypothesis supported by the observation of three unrelated infants with FDH manifestations and de novo chromosome rearrangements involving Xp...

BACKGROUND Wilson's disease (WD) is an autosomal recessive disorder leading to copper overload, mainly in the liver and brain, due to mutations in the ATP7B gene. About 10% of heterozygous carriers of ATP7B gene mutations have decreased serum ceruloplasmin, posing diagnostic difficulties. CASE REPORT We report a four-member family wherein the 11-year-old daughter was diagnosed as having WD ba...

Recent formulations of socialization emphasize a previously neglected facet of parent-child interaction—the effects of child attributes on parent behavior. Empirically, however, little has been done to clarify which attributes of children systematically affect parental behavior and how they affect them. This study examines the relationship between children's activity level and independently ass...

During autumn 1992, we observed two unrelated family outbreaks of Chlamydia pneumoniae infection. Family A consisted of grandmother (aged 77 yrs), father (aged 41 yrs), mother (aged 38 yrs), daughter (aged 10 yrs), and two sons (aged 6 yrs and 3 months, respectively). The grandmother and daughter suffered from pneumonia, father from pharyngitis and bronchitis and the older son from mild bronchi...

We examined the relationship between the spindle orientation and the determination site of cytokinesis in brown algal cells using polyspermic zygotes of Scytosiphon lomentaria. When two male gametes fuse with one female gamete, the zygote has two pairs of centrioles derived from male gametes and three chloroplasts from two male and one female gametes. Just before mitosis, two pairs of centriole...

University professor D. Mikuláš Russnák came from a clerical family. His father, Pavol was Catholic priest o f the Byzantine rite. mother Many, originally itemed Brinszky, Varhaftovce, and daughter of priest. bom on 30 April 1878 in Sopkovce. He received sacrament baptism confirmation Sopkovce 7 May 1878. had threesiblings. younger brother doctor sacred theology. vice-dean at seminaiy Prešov, c...

A poem is able to construct and represent various events, that relates in people's lives, such as habits, family life, married history so on. Poetry an expression dense, concise full of meaning. has a characteristic using short sentences consists only three stanzas. In poetry, there are many expressions expressed indirectly it requires deeper Each certainly different characteristics packaging r...

UNLABELLED Intrauterine seizure is a rare event. Genetic predisposition and trauma are possible risk factors. OBJECTIVE To review and comment on the historical description of intrauterine events of a bastard daughter of Dom Pedro I (Maria Isabel Alcântara Brasileira - 1830-1896). METHOD Review of historical facts about the health of Dom Pedro I's daughter according to primary and secondary ...