Pallister-Killian syndrome is a sporadic disorder caused by the presence of mosaic tetrasomy of the short arms of chromosome 12. Case reports of children with Pallister-Killian syndrome have described a range of developmental and behavioral outcomes, but no systematic studies of these outcomes exist. The objective of this study was to describe developmental and behavioral characteristics of ind...

Pain is a major symptom in cancer patients, and most cancer patients with advanced or terminal cancers suffer from chronic pain related to treatment failure and/or tumor progression. In the present study, we examined the development of cancer pain in mice. Murine hepatocarcinoma cells, HCa-1, were inoculated unilaterally into the thigh or the dorsum of the foot of male C3H/HeJ mice. Four weeks ...

Our purpose was to describe intellectual and behavioral characteristics of persons with tetrasomy 18p. This is a more detailed investigation into the cognitive and behavioral characteristics of our previously reported tetrasomy 18p cohort of 43 plus six additional participants. We evaluated the intellectual functioning using standard measures of cognitive ability, measures of executive function...

The molecular basis of species-specific differences in courtship behavior, a critical factor in preserving species boundaries, is poorly understood. Genetic analysis of all but the most closely related species is usually impossible, given the inviability of hybrids. We have therefore applied interspecific transformation of a single candidate behavioral locus, no-on-transient A (nonA), between D...

This study examined the difference in dog owning between Japan and the United States, and the effect of these differences on dogs' behavioral characteristics. Behavioral evaluations of privately-owned dogs were obtained by using online questionnaire. We compared background and demographic information from the two countries and analyzed the effects of these differences on behavioral characterist...

For thousands of years, humans have instinctively used some physical characteristics (such as face, voice, posture, etc.) to recognize each other. About half the 800, A. Bertillon, chief of criminal identification section of the Paris police, plans to use some measures of the human body (height, length of arms, feet, fingers, etc.) to identify those responsible crimes. Towards the end of the ni...

1. Personal Identification For thousands of years, humans have instinctively used some physical characteristics (such as face, voice, posture, etc.) to recognize each other. About half the 800, A. Bertillon, chief of criminal identification section of the Paris police, plans to use some measures of the human body (height, length of arms, feet, fingers, etc.) to identify those responsible crimes...

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