al monogamy4 and covert sex outside the main relationship. Delayed marriage and high divorce rates mean that growing numbers of individuals experience multiple sexual partners in a lifetime, and this greatly increases their exposure to infection. Furthermore, National Health and Social Life Survey data show that around 25% of men and 10% of women report extramarital or extracohabitational affai...

Rodent animal models have been widely used for studying neurologic and toxicological events associated with cocaine abuse. It is known that the mouse is more susceptible to cocaine-induced hepatotoxicity (CIH) than the rat. However, the causes behind this species-dependent sensitivity to cocaine have not been elucidated. In this study, cocaine metabolism in the mouse and rat was characterized t...

The chemical and mechanical properties of extracellular matrices (ECMs) modulate diverse aspects of cellular fates; however, how regional heterogeneity in ECM composition regulates developmental programs is not well understood. We discovered that fibronectin 1 (Fn1) is expressed in strikingly non-uniform patterns during mouse development, suggesting that regionalized synthesis of the ECM plays ...

ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) are engineered nanoparticles used in many commercial products inclusive of cosmetics, paints, textiles, and sanitary products. ZnO NPs are potent in protecting the skin against UV radiation so, they are used as ingredients in sunscreen and moisturizing creams/lotions and hence the study of their toxicity is essential. On the one hand, nanoparticles, due to their small si...

A study was conducted to determine the prevalence of intestinal parasites in children from eight schools located in Phuttamonthon District, Nakhon Prathom Province during November 2004 to December 2004. Stool samples were collected from 1920 students; age range from 7 to 12 years old, and examined for intestinal parasites by using formalin-ethyl acetate concentration technique. Of these subject...

As a former district nurse and latterly a tissue viability clinical nurse specialist (CNS), I have always been interested in patients with unmet psychosocial needs relating to chronic venous leg ulceration (Brown, 2003). The high recurrence rates of venous leg ulcers is well documented (Mayberry et al, 1991; Moffatt and Franks, 1995). It therefore always seemed a futile exercise to heal leg ulc...