Three papers in the Journal this month consider issues related to outcomes and treatment in first-episode psychosis. Crossley et al (pp. 434–439) reviewed 15 randomised controlled trials of antipsychotic treatment in first-episode psychosis and found no evidence for differences in discontinuation rates or effect on symptoms between atypical and typical antipsychotics. Clear differences in side-...

The objective of this research is to produce dwarf Eustoma grandiflorum (Raf.) Shinn. ‘Little Belle Blue’ potted plants flower in 130 days after sowing without exhibiting high temperature induced (HTI) rosette. High rosette defined as “the abnormal growth and development a compressed stem near the ground forming 3 – 4 pairs true leaves resulting from exposure seedlings temperatures, fail form e...

The present study was designed to investigate the histochemical developmental changes of proventriculus at pre-hatching and post-hatching in northern bobwhite quail periods 11- 15-days addition 14- 21-days post-hatching. composed four tunics is tunica mucosa, sub-mucosa, muscularis, serosa. mucosa lined with simple columnar epithelium height increases age also thickness submucosa filled provent...

BACKGROUND Our previous study showed that electroacupuncture (EA) increases the concentration and reorganisation of collagen in a rat model of tendon healing. However, the ultrastructure of collagen fibrils after acupuncture is unknown. OBJECTIVES To assess the effect of acupuncture protocols on the ultrastructure of collagen fibrils during tendon healing. METHODS Sixty-four rats were divid...

As a control for biochemical studies in progress, an ultrastructural study has been carried out on the deteriorating, 21-day photoreceptors of the 020/Cpb strain of mice, homozygous for retinal degeneration, slow (rds). At 21 postnatal days, outer segments were essentially lacking, but cilia erupting from the inner segments were common. A low percentage of cilia bore small cytoplasmic masses co...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study is to establish the retroperitoneal lymph node metastasis model of endometrial VX2 carcinoma in rabbits and observe of its metastatic features. METHODS The VX2 cells were transplanted into the uterine muscularis mucosae of 48 rabbits by injecting carcinoma mass suspension. According to time, the rabbits were killed after the transplantation of VX2 cells,...