THE discovery of a new drug, terra Silesiaca, in the sixteenth century and the publicity and experimentation that were a part of marketing it provide an interesting insight into the medical practice and the pharmaceutical trade of that period. Various earths had long been used in medicine as alexipharmics, astringents, and absorbents. In the first century AD, Dioscorides and Pliny the Elder des...

ABSTRACT: The existence of donation-based crowdfunding as an alternative fundraising system in Indonesia has a great opportunity to keep growing. millennials digitally-native generation should actively contribute the development crowdfunding. This study tries identify effect variables performance expectancy, effort social influence, facilitating conditions, sense trust, and experience expectati...

GH secretion and release are complex phenomena depending on activation of several genes, including those encoding GH, GHRH, and its receptor (GHRH-R). The GH gene, which is the most extensively analyzed sequence in patients with familial GH deficiency (GHD), represents the main known target of mutations. To test the involvement of the GHRH-R gene in this disease phenotype, we investigated one c...

The territory of Nigeria (Fig. I) is about four times the size of Britain and is composed of two large areas of pre-Cambrian granite separated by marine sediments in the Niger and Benue valleys. It is inhabited by many races that differ considerably in their social customs and reaction to western civilization. In the south, the eastern and western regions include the Ibo and Yoruba peoples, man...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to determine the threshold of anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) as predictor of follicular growth failure in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) patients treated with clomiphene citrate (CC). METHODS Fifty female subjects with PCOS were recruited and divided into two groups based on successful and unsuccessful follicular growth. Related variables such as age, infertility du...