A family from Iraq with five growth hormone deficient children in two closely related sibships is reported. The clinical forms and modes of inheritance of familial growth hormone deficiency are discussed briefly.

Cristina Cachero DLSI, Universidad de Alicante Apartado de Correos 99. E03080 Alicante, España [email protected] Emilio Insfran, Silvia Abrahão DSIC, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Camino de Vera, s/n, 46022, Valencia, España {einsfran, sabrahao}@dsic.upv.es Geert Poels Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University Hoveniersberg 24, 9000 Ghent, Bélgica geert.poels@ug...

ing Steady Qualitative Descriptions over Time from Noisy, High-Frequency Data Silvia Miksch, Andreas Seyfang, Werner Horn, Christian Popow 1 Institute of Software Technology, University of Technology, Vienna, fsilvia, [email protected] 2 Department of Medical Cybernetics and Arti cial Intelligence, University of Vienna [email protected] 3 Austrian Research Institute for Arti cial I...

The addition of hyperthermia (HT) to regional isolated perfusion (RIP) with Melphalan theoretically has two advantages. Firstly, heat can selectively kill cells in poorly vascularised areas that are usually not reached by the drug. Secondly, in vitro data have revealed that the effect of Melphalan is enhanced at temperatures 39-45 degrees C. However, for the simultaneous application of Melphala...

forest fragmentation results in a loss of forest interior and an increase in edge habitat. we studied how understorey bird community composition and habitat variables changed along an edge-to-interior gradient in a 1248-ha lowland rainforest patch in peninsular malaysia. birds and environmental variables such as vegetation structure and litter depth were detected within a 25-m radius of each of...

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it is a well-established fact that adenosine and its receptor subtypes (a 1 and a ) are involved in changes of contractility, heart rate and coronary blood flow (cbf) under different circumstances. this study was conducted to evaluate the role of nitric oxide and prostaglandins in development of these changes. for this purpose, nitro-l-arginine methyl ester (l-name), and indomethacin as inhibit...

family studies suggest that there is a strong genetic component to the etiology of comitant strabismus. seven cases of a family in three consecutive generations found to have isolated comitant exotropia. this pattern of inheritance is highly suggestive of an autosomal-dominant mode with complete penetrance which is an unreported finding in this entity.   iranian journal of ophthalmology 200921(...

background: the outcome of hepatitis b virus (hbv) infection is chronic or resolved hbv infection. over the time, the levels of hbsag or anti-hbs declined and were not detectable in their sera and was named as isolated anti-hbc. the purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of isolated anti-hbc in previously hbv infected individuals.methods: from april 2000 to september 2008, the resul...

background: it has been reported that the chronic oral administration of garlic homogenate protected the rat heart from in vitro ischemic reperfusion injury. however, the biological effects of garlic juice on the heart are expected to be different from oral administration of it. objective: the present study was designed to investigate the effect of garlic juice on the isolated rat heart in isch...