Bazex-Dupre-Christol syndrome (BDCS) is an X linked dominant disorder of the hair follicle characterised by follicular atrophoderma, multiple basal cell carcinomas, hypotrichosis, milia, and localised hypohidrosis. Follicular atrophoderma (FA) are follicular funnel shaped depressions, "ice pick marks", seen most commonly on the dorsum of the hands. We describe the first known Scottish family wi...

BROOKFIELD [1933] showed that in the serum of the rabbit there was an inverse relationship between calcium and magnesium, a direct relationship between magnesium and inorganic phosphorus and an inverse relationship between calcium and inorganic phosphorus, the latter of which had been previously observed by Dupre and Semeonoff [1931] and Bourne and Campbell [1932]. The rises and falls in the co...

It is well documented in the modem literature that the conventional laws of capillarity such as Laplace, Kelvin, and Young-Dupre equations are not adequate when applied to fluids confined by particulate and porous materials. Specifics of interactions of fluids with solid surfaces at the nanoscale are of special engineering importance in view of recent discovery of carbon nanotubes and rapidly g...

In this issue of the Journal, Dupre et al. (Am J Epidemiol. 2009;170(5):546–555) use data from a nationally representative cohort of older US adults to examine the association of current marital status, timing of first marriage, number and kind of transitions out of marriage, and durations spent in various marital statuses with the risk of all-cause mortality. Their study offers a wealth of emp...

In this issue of the Journal, Dupre et al. (Am J Epidemiol. 2009;170(5):546-555) use data from a nationally representative cohort of older US adults to examine the association of current marital status, timing of first marriage, number and kind of transitions out of marriage, and durations spent in various marital statuses with the risk of all-cause mortality. Their study offers a wealth of emp...

It is common practice to augment efficacious treatment protocols for special populations (Durlak & DuPre, 2008), but this is often done before establishing that standard services are not appropriate. In this randomized controlled trial with families at risk or with a history of maltreatment (N = 151), we investigated the effectiveness of standard 12-session Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCI...

We study the wetting by water of complex "hydrophobic-hydrophilic" surfaces made of a hydrophobic substrate covered by a hydrophilic polymer brush. Polystyrene (PS) substrates covered with polystyrene- block-poly(acrylic acid) PS- b-PAA diblock copolymer layers were fabricated by Langmuir-Schaefer depositions and analyzed by atomic force microscopy (AFM) and ellipsometry. On bare PS substrate, ...

Maladie de Roger or Patent Interventricular Septum, as a clinical and cardiovascular entity, needs no introduction to the majority of practising physicians. In 1879, Roger, for the first time, gave a clinical description of this relatively asymptoniatic cardiovascular entity; his lucid exposition ! ?f the physical signs of this disease remains ; unrivalled to this day. It was Dupre, however, wh...

Rediscovery of the role of the gastrointestinal tract in the control of carbohydrate metabolism and, as we now know, fat and protein metabolism, was made independently in London by two groups of workers (Dupre, 1964a; McIntyre et al., 1964). The major credit undoubtedly belongs to McIntyre and his colleagues (1964, 1965) who, by the simplest of methods, namely comparing the glycaemic and insuli...