Three papers in the Journal this month examine the impact on service use of particular service developments and patient/illness characteristics. Williams et al (pp. 480–485) compared patterns of service use, including hospital admission rates, before and after the introduction of a triage admission system in one large innercity mental health organisation. Overall, little difference was found be...

Background T-cell receptor (TCR) and B-cell (BCR) repertoire profiling holds great potential for understanding disease mechanisms the development of new therapeutics in infectious diseases, autoimmunity immuno-oncology. However, this could be greatly improved by combining information about clonotypes with immuno-phenotypes T B cells. Methods To facilitate these studies, we developed a novel tec...

Several papers in the BJPsych this month address issues arising from the overlap or comorbidity between mental and physical ill health. In a UK sample of individuals with affective disorders, Forty et al (pp. 465–472) found significantly increased rates of several medical illnesses among those with bipolar and unipolar disorder compared with controls. Among those with affective disorder, migrai...

New Zealand Journal of Ecology (1999) 23(1): 61-67 ©New Zealand Ecological Society A. MITCHELL, K. HOGAN and H. CHAPMAN Ecology and Entomology Group. Soils, Plants and Ecological Sciences Division, Lincoln University, P.O. Box 84, Lincoln, New Zealand Landcare Research, P.O. Box 69, Lincoln, New Zealand Department of Plant and Microbial Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Chri...

the snp (rs11209026, arg381gln, r381q) in the il-23 receptor (il23r) confers protection against multiple inflammatory diseases, representing one of the most significant human genetic polymorphisms in inflammatory diseases. we, therefore, investigated the association between il-23 r r381q gene polymorphism and asthma.this case-control study was performed on 209 patients, and 200 healthy controls...