BACKGROUND Enteroviruses have been considered as the most common etiologic agents in clinical myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy; however, their pathogenetic role remains unknown. Hence, the relation of viral replication and development of cardiomyopathy has been determined in a murine model of myocarditis by evaluating the persistence of viral genome during acute and chronic stages of myoc...

Two papers in the Journal this month report on results from the Christchurch Psychotherapy of Depression Study, a randomised controlled trial of interpersonal psychotherapy and cognitive–behavioural therapy (CBT) involving an out-patient sample. Luty et al (pp. 496–502) found no significant difference in efficacy between the two treatment groups, with overall improvements in depressive symptoma...

To study the temporal relationship between changes in hormone levels with the development of myometrial gap junctions, rats were sacrificed to collect uterine vein blood and uterine tissues daily from Day 15 to Day 20 of pregnancy, every 3 h on Day 21, during delivery, and 3 h after parturition. Levels of progesterone, estradiol and prostaglandin F2 alpha (PGF2 alpha) were measured by specific ...

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