The case of a female patient age 37, with antecedents of arthritic episodes for the last 13 yr, and heart failure for the last 4 yr, is reported. Gold salts, oral and local steroids, and physical therapy were used achieving ...

The description of the optimized evolution of a code based on 4 nucleotides involves a sequential transition of codons, formed firstly by monomers evolving to dimers and then to triplets, in accordance with the progressive ...

Triads isolated from frog and rabbit skeletal muscle were equilibrated with different external [Ca2+], ranging from 0.025 to 10 mM. Vesicular calcium increased with external [Ca2+] as the sum of a linear plus a saturable ...

Management of Alzheimer disease includes sedatives, neuroleptic and hypnotic agents for behavior disorders family-directed therapy; activities to maintain functional abilities; care of overall health status and disease ...

We analyzed 31 patients with a diagnosis of primary biliary cirrhosis, 29 of them males, aged 23 to 72 years. Liver biopsy was diagnostic in all showing initial findings of the disease in 5. Echotomography and cholangiography ...

We report 25 patients (20 female) aged 34 to 74 years old, with monoarticular synovial chondromatosis. Affected joints were the knee in 25 cases, the ankle in one case and the elbow in one case. Chronic articular pain was ...