BACKGROUND Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is one of the primary reasons for increased mortality in patients with schizophrenia. The mechanisms involved in its pathogenesis are not well understood. OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of MetS in adult outpatients with schizophrenia according to the presence or absence of negative symptoms. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective cohort study using ...

Physicochemical properties of 10 rice advanced breeding lines (BC2F7) across 3 environments in Malaysia were evaluated. Highly significant G × E interactions for all measured quality traits were detected using ANOVA, and the additive main effect and multiplicative interaction (AMMI) statistical model was applied to analyze them. The results showed that the grain quality parameters had large gen...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the prevalence and impact of negative symptoms on healthcare resources utilization and costs in patients with schizophrenia. METHODS A retrospective study was conducted using electronic medical records from the health provider BSA (Badalona, Spain). All adult outpatients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia were followed for 12 months. Two study groups were defined by the ...

Acknowledging separable factors underlying negative symptoms may lead to better understanding and treatment of negative symptoms in individuals with schizophrenia. The current study aimed to test whether the negative symptoms factor (NSF) of the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) would be better represented by expressive and experiential deficit factors, rather than by a single factor...

Cowpea exhibits significantly inconsistent performances across different environments, and hence demands performance evaluation of genotypes prior release or cultivation in every breeding program. Hence, the goal this study was to compare 16 cowpea over six planting seasons (2014-2019) Akungba-Akoko, Nigeria for their stability adaptation through Finlay Wilkinson (FW), Additive Main Effects Mul...

Mitigating the effects of changing climate with adaptable cultivars while reducing input burden additional selection criteria is becoming a priority, especially as water shortage limiting soybean production in Europe. To evaluate functionality photosynthetic apparatus drought, chlorophyll (Chl a) fluorescence was measured 16 elite lines drought and conditions sufficient supply V2 (second node),...

Blackgram (Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper) yields are noticeably poor due to a shortage of improved varieties and an aggravated narrow genetic base. An attempt was made isolate novel blackgram mutants by selecting for yield-related traits derived through gamma irradiation testing the mutant genotype’s stability across different environments. The irradiated populations M1-M5 were established in backgro...

A field experiment was conducted in the experimental field of Genetics and Plant Breeding Department, Sher-e Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh to study variability in 10 F4 lines obtained through intervarietal crosses along with 8 released varieties of Brassica rapa. Significant variation was observed among all the genotypes for all the characters studied. Considering genetic pa...

Resequencing has shown that three clones used for making in situ hybridization (ISH) probes for this manuscript were initially misidentified (gene IDs from Figure 1: G17, G23, and G25). The correct identities of these clones are as follow: Glo1, Hnrpa1, and Dkk3, respectively. This finding led the authors to resynthesize and test all ten probes made in the batch which included these misidentifi...