The use of atypical antipsychotic drugs has made metabolic disorders one of the most common side effect of pharmacotherapy for schizophrenic patients.The aim of this study was to assess the contribution of polymorphic variants of genes of the P450 cytochrome system Action to changes in body mass index in patients with schizophrenia.As a result of t
Description of the larva of Alampoides alychnus (Kirsch, 1873), the first known species with bioluminescent immatures in Euplinthini (Elateridae, Agrypninae)
Mature larva of Alampoides alychnus (Kirsch) is described and compared to known Pyrophorini immatures.Larvae were collected live in the Other ICs soil of a region dominated by sugarcane plantation and gallery forest in Campo Novo dos Parecis, Mato Grosso, Brazil.They were maintained in laboratory and the pupal period lasted 14 days.This larva diffe
Progressive flatfoot deformity accompanied with avulsion and dislocation of accessory navicular
The accessory navicular is one of the most common accessory bones in the foot, and it is mostly asymptomatic.Symptomatic cases largely belong to type 2, which is characterized by the presence of a 1-3 mm synchondrosis between the large accessory navicular and the native navicular.Chronic injury to the synchondrosis is considered to be a major cause
Re-cognising the political in the pedagogy of media education: the carnival is over
Education should never be reduced to a single subject.A curriculum should never be reduced to a single field, period or academic discipline.Media Education, likewise, has to be committed to a plurality of approaches and fields of interest.It has to deal with the seemingly trite and the unambiguously significant, whether in relation to fashion, hist
Discharge and infection in retinoblastoma post-enucleation sockets
Daphne L Mourits,1 Dyonne T Hartong,1 Andries E Budding,2 Machteld I Bosscha,1 H Stevie Tan,1 Annette C Moll1 1Department of Ophthalmology, VU University Medical Center, 2Department of Microbiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Purpose: To investigate the causes and treatment options Toy Kitchens for socket discharge and infe