To clarify the functional differences among G-proteins, we investigated the localization of Gi and G, in the olfactory bulb of rats by both immunohistochemical and immunochemical techniques, using purified antibodies specific to the e-subunits of Gi, (G,,a), G, (G,,a), and G, (G,a), respectively. We found that G,,a is localized exclusively in the accessory olfactory bulb, but it is present at o...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association between pubertal gynecomastia and body mass index for age. METHODS A sample of 109 cases was selected from the adolescent outpatient health unit, with ages between 11 and 19 years old at Pedro Ernesto University Hospital. Anthropometric measures of weight, height, mammary horizontal diameter and sexual maturation stage were collected. The analysis of the ...

Commonly, female European eels are injected weekly with pituitary extract (PE) from carp (CPE) or salmon (SPE) to induce sexual maturation. However, a PE is mixture of gonadotropins and other hormones that not specific for eel rapidly cleared circulation. The aim this study was therefore test the effects highly stable eel-specific recombinant (rGTHs) on oocyte development in vitro vivo eels. Fo...

OBJECTIVE To verify the behavior of the mineral bone content and density in male adolescents according to age and secondary sexual characters. METHODS 47 healthy adolescents between 10 and 19 years of age were assessed according to weight, height, body mass index, puberty stage, calcium intake, bone mineral density and content in the lumbar spine and in the proximal femur. The bone mass was m...

BACKGROUND Whether the combined treatment with sustained-release basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) and heparin enhances neovascularization in hypercholesterolemic mouse hindlimb ischemia was investigated. METHODS AND RESULTS Wild-type C57BL/6 and low density lipoprotein receptor-deficient mice were assigned to 1 of the following 4 experimental groups and treated for 2 weeks after femoral ...

Wind, in the duration of its erosional process, affects considerable changes in a grain's morphologyfrom its removal (detachment) step to sedimentation. In other word, a grain undergoes its gradualevolution during the transit process. In this project, the maturation of Aeolian sand grains had beenstudied upon as based on texture maturity indicator which includes: sorting, mean size grain, round...

ObjectiveTo evaluate bone mineral mass in adolescents with failure to thrive in relation to body composition.MethodsA case control study involving 126 adolescents (15 to 19 years), in final puberty maturation being 76 eutrophic and 50 with failure to thrive (genetic or constitutional delay of growth), of matching ages, gender and pubertal maturation. The weight, height and calculated Z score fo...

This study analyzes health, growth and neurodevelopmental outcome of infants who received prenatal corticosteroids with or without thyroxine for fetal lung maturation. During a 12 month period infants from a prospective double blind study who received either steroids or steroids combined with thyroxine for pulmonary maturation and who had reached 18 months of age were recalled for evaluation of...

Introduction. In anthropological and medical practice, in most cases, the method of grouping individuals by chronological age is used comparative studies. A number authors spoke about need for a different approach to children same calendar taking into account level their morphophysiological development. [Deryabin, 2004]. this paper, comparison morphological characteristics studied groups was ca...