Until recently, sex determination in mammals has often been described as a male determination process, with male differentiation being the active and dominant pathway, and only in its absence is the passive female pathway followed. This picture has been challenged recently with the discovery that the gene encoding R-spondin1 is mutated in human patients with female-to-male sex reversal. These f...

1909'da Alman Sosyoloji Topluluğu kurulduğunda, Almanya’da herhangi bir üniversitede ne sosyoloji kürsüsü, sosyolojik dergi, de sosyolojinin spesifik bilimsel özelliği vardı. Bu dernek, müstakil bilim dalı olmasında ve üniversitelerde bölümlerinin açılmasında öncülük etmiştir. Ancak bu dernekte ilk dönemlerde kadınların sayısı hayli sınırlı tutulmuştur. 19. yüzyılın çeyreğinden itibaren kadınla...

Abstract Background Pneumothorax associated with a steep head-down position in vaginal hysterectomy surgery is rare but can cause life-threatening complications. Case presentation We report case of female patient no obvious lung pathology who suffered intraoperative pneumothorax prolonged Trendelenburg position. To the best our knowledge, this first well-documented association. A 53-year-old fe...

INTRODUCTION: Acetabular dysplasia has been implicated as an etiologic factor in the development of secondary osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip . Dysfunction of the hip secondary to dysplasia derives from multifactorial problems such as excessive stresses on the articular cartilage and dynamic hip instability. To our knowledge, however, there have been only a few studies investigating hip instabil...