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Earlier studies in our laboratory demonstrated that only certain commercially available brands of bee pollen contained all the necessary nutritional elements to maintain three different inbred strains of mice in a healthy clinical state for periods…

The ability of some mammals to forage on vines or terminal branches depends upon their grasping extremities. This study tests the functional link between use of small-diameter supports and grasping abilities by comparing hand and foot proportions in…

This study investigated the use of the Drinking Problems Index (DPI; Finney et al., 1991) with middle-aged and older adults in treatment for alcohol abuse. Created to screen for middle-aged and older problem drinkers in the community, the DPI is a…

Most children with psychosocial problems do not present for treatment in mental health settings. They are managed by primary care physicians. Children with psychosocial problems often have parents and/or families with psychosocial distress. The…

Objective: To investigate the potential utility of: asking parents about health care utilization as a means of identifying individuals at risk for psychosocial problems. Method: Parents of 366 children ages 2 to 16 completed questionnaires about…

Over the last few years, general surgery has seen the use of more and more laparoscopic techniques in the management of common surgical problems. This expanded use is attributable not only to the excellent results seen with laparoscopic procedures…

The present study examined the reliability and construct validity in an older adult population of scores on the Behavioral Competence Inventory (BCI), a seven-scale informant measure of adaptive functioning. Study participants included 149 older…

OBJECTIVES: The use of laparoscopic surgical techniques for the resection of intraperitoneal malignancies has been rapidly increasing in recent years; concomitantly, tumor recurrences at trocar sites have also been reported. These reports bring into…

Diploic veins (Canales diploicae), which were identified in dogs by Dupuytren more than 200 years ago (Hecker [1845] Die anatomische Verhaltnisse und Krankheiten der Venae diploicae und Vasa emissaria, Erfahrungen und Abhandlungen im Gebiete der…

Hyperostosis frontalis interna (HFI) is manifested by the accretion of bone on the inner table of the frontal bone. Despite the vast literature on HFI, ambiguity exists as to its etiology, osteogenesis, demography, and history. This stimulated the…

Cutaneous horn (cornu cutaneum) is the clinical description of a hyperproliferation of compact keratin in response to a wide array of underlying benign and malignant pathologic changes. We report a patient with a giant cutaneous horn associated with…

To investigate the source of bone brittleness in the disease osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), biomechanical properties have been measured in the femurs from a homozygous (oim/oim) mutant mouse model of OI, its heterozygous littermates, and wild-type…

In the present report adult female rats were ovariectomized (OVX) and assigned to one of four treatment conditions. Treatments consisted of administering pellets containing 17 beta-oestradiol (E), tamoxifen (TMX), a combination of TMX and E or no…
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