There is a good deal of research showing that suicide attempts increase markedly during adolescence. This study aims at studying the demographic and clinical variables of adolescent suicide attempters and comparing certain potential risk factors between adolescent and adult suicide attempters. It was found that adolescents in our study sample differ significantly from adults in the levels of de...

Essential genes are defined by their requirement to sustain life in cells or whole organisms. The systematic identification of essential gene sets not only allows insights into the fundamental building blocks of life, but may also provide novel therapeutic targets in oncology. The discovery of essential genes has been tightly linked to the development and deployment of various screening technol...

BACKGROUND The present naturalistic study aimed to distinguish between suicide attempts (SAs) of bipolar and unipolar patients, and among SAs characterized by different lethality risk. METHODS The records of 2395 consecutive admissions to our psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) were assessed for presence of suicide attempt (SA). Cases of SA were rated for symptom severity with the brief ps...

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is often characterized by multiple low lethality suicide attempts triggered by seemingly minor incidents, and less commonly by high lethality attempts that are attributed to impulsiveness or comorbid major depression. The relationships among life events, impulsiveness, and type of suicidal behavior has hardly been studied in BPD and mood disorders. This stu...

background: currently available radioprotectors are poorly tolerated in man and the general use of aminothiols is compromised by their side effects. this study was carried out to test and compare the radioprotective potential of cimetidine and famotidine against lethally gamma irradiated nmri mice. materials and methods: adult male nmri mice in groups of 10 were exposed to various doses of gamm...

BACKGROUND It has long been known that both tumor size and the presence of malignant disease in the regional lymph nodes are indicators of outcome for patients with invasive breast carcinoma; however, the way in which these two characteristics could be integrated into an overall assessment of prognosis has not been obvious. METHODS Kaplan-Meier survival estimates (15 years) according to tumor...

Amalakyadi churna is an Ayurvedic formulation, which is extensively used in traditional system of Indian medicine and by folk practitioner for treating all types of fever, and other common ailments In this study, an equal concentration of ethanolic extracts of Amalakyadi churna and its ingredients (50μg/ml of artificial sea water) were subjected to a bioscreening study to detect the cytotoxic a...

Purpose: The purpose of the article is to determine effectiveness use perfluorocarbon gas vehicles in acute, severe anemia animals caused by external blood loss and autoimmune intravascular hemolysis. Methodology: transport agents hemolysis was carried out based on assessment lethality groups, biochemical criteria that were determined using an automatic analyzer hematocrit, which a general clin...