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Addressing the burden of asthma in Nigeria
Okeoghene Oghenekaro, Nigeria (First published in News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Nigeria on 6th May 2013): Priscilla, a 40-year-old public servant, has been living with asthma for the last 32 years. When Priscilla was first diagnosed of asthma, her grandmother
Viet Nam: Fight against drug-resistant TB has come a long way
Dr Hoang Thanh Thuy Photo credit: CNS According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Viet Nam ranks 12th among 22 high burden tuberculosis (TB) countries, and 14th among 27 high burden multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) countries in the world. “2.7%
Changes in Sexual Behaviors among HIV-Infected Individuals after Their HIV Diagnosis in a Rural Prefecture of Eastern China
by Haijiang Lin, Yingying Ding, Xing Liu, Weiming Zhu, Meiyang Gao, Na He Objective To describe changes in sexual behaviors among HIV-infected individuals after their HIV diagnosis. Methods All HIV-infected individuals diagnosed by the end of 2009 in Taizhou Prefecture
The Turkey Ig-Like Receptor Family: Identification, Expression and Function
by Katharina Windau, Birgit C. Viertlboeck, Thomas W. Göbel The chicken leukocyte receptor complex located on microchromosome 31 encodes the chicken Ig-like receptors (CHIR), a vastly expanded gene family which can be further divided into three subgroups: activating
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow – Adaptation to Change in Memory-Guided Visual Search
by Martina Zellin, Markus Conci, Adrian von Mühlenen, Hermann J. Müller Visual search for a target object can be facilitated by the repeated presentation of an invariant configuration of nontargets (‘contextual cueing’). Here, we tested adaptation of learned
Sex and the Syndrome: Individual and Population Consistency in Behaviour in Rock Pool Prawn Palaemon elegans
by Ben B. Chapman, Alexander Hegg, Peter Ljungberg Animal personality has been widely documented across a range of species. The concept of personality is composed of individual behavioural consistency across time and between situations, and also behavioural trait
Nicotine Affects Bone Resorption and Suppresses the Expression of Cathepsin K, MMP-9 and Vacuolar-Type H+-ATPase d2 and Actin Organization in Osteoclasts
by Hideki Tanaka, Natsuko Tanabe, Takayuki Kawato, Kumiko Nakai, Taro Kariya, Sakurako Matsumoto, Ning Zhao, Masafumi Motohashi, Masao Maeno Tobacco smoking is an important risk factor for the development of several cancers, osteoporosis, and inflammatory diseases