Hughes, Jeremy, and Richard J. Johnson. Role of Fas (CD95) in tubulointerstitial disease induced by unilateral ureteric obstruction. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Renal Physiol. 46): F26–F32, 1999.—Murine renal tubular epithelial cells and interstitial fibroblasts may express both Fas (CD95) death receptor and Fas ligand and are vulnerable to Fas-mediated death in vitro. We therefore hypothesized that a...

The paper offers an empirical taxonomy of the factors driving China’s current account. A simple present-value model with non-tradeable goods explains more than 70 percent of current account variability over the period 1982–2007, including the persistent surpluses since 2001. It also correctly predicts the decline of China’s current account since 2008. Expected increases in the prices of non-tra...

Therapy of depression is a current problem in psychiatry. Agomelatine not inferior to other modern drugs terms antidepressant efficacy (response and remission rates) characterized by the best tolerability. Objective: evaluate safety agomelatine treatment nonpsychotic with single recurrent course. Material methods. Patients (n=37) depressive episode (DE; F32 according ICD-10), mean age 41.2±2.07...

After an expansionary monetary policy shock employment increases and unemployment falls. In standard New Keynesian models the fall in aggregate unemployment does not a¤ect employed workers at all. However, Lüchinger, Meier and Stutzer (2010) found that the risk of unemployment negatively a¤ects utility of employed workers: An increases in aggregate unemployment decreases workers’subjective well...

BACKGROUND The incidence and risk factors of suicide reattempts within 1 year after psychiatric hospital discharge in mood disorder patients remain uninvestigated in Thailand. OBJECTIVE To determine incidence and risk factors of suicide reattempts within 1 year after psychiatric hospital discharge in mood disorder patients. METHODS A retrospective cohort study was conducted by reviewing med...

BACKGROUND Depressive disorders have been associated with a number of co-morbidities, and we hypothesized that patients with a depression diagnosis would be heavy users of health care services, not only when first evaluated for depression, but also for preceding years. The aim of this study was to investigate whether increased health care utilisation and co-morbidity could be seen during five y...

Although a lot of the empirical research have studied the relationship between changes of oil price and economic activity, it is surprising that little research has been conducted on the relationship between oil price shocks and the Greater China region (China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan). Therefore, the main goal of this paper is to apply a detail monthly data from 1997/7 to 2008/9 to fill up this ...

BACKGROUND In clinical practice patients with unipolar depression present with a variety of symptom clusters that may combine together in many different ways. However, only few factor analytic studies used general psychopathology scales to investigate the symptom structure of unipolar depression. METHODS The study included 163 consecutive inpatients with an ICD-10 diagnosis of depressive diso...

BACKGROUND Comparisons of structured diagnostic interviews with clinical assessments in general population samples show marked discrepancies. In order to validate the CIS-R, a fully structured diagnostic interview used for the National Survey of Psychiatric Morbidity in Great Britain, it was compared with SCAN, a standard, semi-structured, clinical assessment. METHODS A random sample of 1882 ...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether women who undergo in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment are at greater risk of postnatal suicide or postnatal depression (PND) requiring psychiatric care, compared with women who conceive spontaneously. DESIGN Case-control study using data from national registers. SETTING Sweden during the period 2003-2009. POPULATION Cases were 3532 primiparous women who had...