Arterial inflammatory responses are thought to be a significant component of atherosclerotic disease. We describe here, using a transgenic approach, the mutual perpetuation of immune-mediated arterial inflammation and cholesterol-induced atherosclerosis. Mice expressing the bacterial transgene beta-galactosidase exclusively in cardiomyocytes and in smooth muscle cells in lung arteries and the a...

_____________________________________________ Many young women today are concerned about their sexual health; an increasing number of them consult gynaecologists, youth centres (YCs) and general practitioners with vulvar problems such as painful sensations associated with vaginal intercourse (VIC). It is known that some women continue to have VIC despite pain. Theoretically, repeated painful VI...

A tentative model of schizophrenic psychotic episodes is presented, based on the evidence that certain characteristics of individuals may serve as vulnerability factors and that environmental stressors may precipitate psychotic periods in vulnerable individuals. Certain information-processing deficits, autonomic reactivity anomalies, and social competence and coping limitations are viewed as po...

Smallholder farming in less-favored areas (LFAs) is simultaneously constrained by agro-ecological, economic, and institutional factors that keep households “trapped” in vicious circles of chronic poverty and resource degradation. Common strategies to address rural poverty by increasing returns to agricultural production are likely to fail, since the opportunities for investments in improved res...

UNLABELLED Our understanding of etiology and pathogenesis of many disorders, corneal included, greatly relies on existing knowledge in human biochemistry and biophysics. This study was aimed at chemical mapping of normal and keratoconic corneas. MATERIAL AND METHODS Modern methods of analytical chemistry, such as X-ray fluorescence and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy on the basis of scan...

we consider   bivariate  mean-value interpolationproblem, where the integrals over circles are interpolation data. in this case the problem  is described  over   circles of the same radius and with  centers are on astraight line and it is shown that in this case the interpolation is not correct.