INTRODUCTION Despite increasing use of testosterone therapy (TTh) for men with testosterone deficiency (TD), there remains uncertainty determining who is a candidate for treatment. AIM The aim if this study was to report the opinions of international experts on TTh, as initially presented at the meeting of the World Meeting on Sexual Medicine in Chicago, United States in August 2012. METHOD...

The role of testosterone therapy (TTh) in cardiovascular disease (CVD) outcomes is still controversial, and it seems will remain inconclusive for the moment. An extensive body of literature has investigated the association of endogenous testosterone and use of TTh with CVD events including several meta-analyses. In some instances, a number of studies reported beneficial effects of TTh on CVD ev...

Anax junius is a large dragonfly that regulates thoracic temperature (Tth) during flight. This species, like several other intermittently endothermic insects, achieves control of Tth at least in part by increasing circulation of hemolymph to the abdomen at high air temperature (Ta), thus facilitating heat loss from the thorax. In this paper, I demonstrate that heat transfer to the head is also ...

The DNA ligase from Thermus thermophilus (Tth DNA ligase) seals single-strand breaks (nicks) in DNA duplex substrates. The specificity and thermostability of this enzyme are exploited in the ligase chain reaction (LCR) and ligase detection reaction (LDR) to distinguish single base mutations associated with genetic diseases. Herein, we describe a quantitative assay using fluorescently labeled su...

Background: Tension-type headache (TTH), the most frequently occurring primary is associated with autonomic dysfunction. Time domain analysis of heart rate variability (HRV) a popular tool to detect changes in cardiac nerve function (CANF) TTH patients. Slow breathing exercise (SBE) can significantly improve HRV patients cardiovascular disorders. Objective: To observe effect SBE on by time fema...

Headache is the most common neurological disorder among all symptoms of general health problems. Headaches are frequently complained after back pain, which brings someone to doctor and harms personal, family, social, quality life, work, finances. This study aims find out characteristics primary headache patients in polyclinic, RSUD dr. Saiful Anwar Malang. The design this research was an observ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical and biochemical effects of long-acting testosterone undecanoate injections in men with prostate cancer treated with brachytherapy, as the use of testosterone therapy (TTh) in men with prostate cancer is highly controversial, with limited published safety data, particularly after brachytherapy treatment. PATIENTS AND METHODS In all, 20 men treated with brachy...

We have simulated the classical Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a triangular lattice using a local Monte Carlo algorithm. The behavior of the correlation length ξ, the susceptibility at the ordering wavevector χ(Q), and the spin stiffness ρ clearly reflects the existence of two temperature regimes – a high temperature regime T > Tth, in which the disordering effect of vortices is dominant, and a ...

Staphylococcus aureus is an economically important and a major mastitis-causing pathogen that also poses food safety and antimicrobial resistance threats. Substances in mastitic milk inhibit the Taq DNA polymerase reaction (Taq PCR) making it of limited use for detecting S. aureus mastitis. In the study reported here, a set of oligonucleotide primers of 21 and 24 bases was used in Taq-PCR to am...

BACKGROUND There is little knowledge about how factors early in life affect the development of migraine and tension-type headache. We aimed to examine whether growth restriction in utero is associated with development of migraine and frequent tension-type headache in adults. METHODS The population-based Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT 3) contained a validated headache questionnaire, which d...