[Severe disorders of mother-child interaction due to maternal depression--possibilities and limits of inpatient intervention].

Described is the diagnostic, in-patient-treatment and evaluation of a mother-child-interaction disorder by a maternal depression. The therapy consisted of three elements: cognitive-behaviour therapy for the maternal depression, interaction training, socio-emotional development support. For therapy evaluation quantitative and qualitative data was collected at the beginning and the end of the treatment as well as after to half and one year.

["There is no room for more"--case report of a Kurdish adolescent with an eating disorder in relation to family background of political persecution].

Migrant families make up almost 10% of the population of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein and a significant number of patients in the clinics for paediatrics. A casuistry shall show the specific problems and needs in the psychosomatic treatment of foreign children and adolescents, especially the problems of children of political refugees. In the Clinic for Paediatrics at the University of Lübeck a task group for migration and health has been formed which deals with the special needs of these patients.

The influence of Blastocrithidia triatomae (Trypanosomatidae) on the reduviid bug Triatoma infestans: in vivo and in vitro diuresis and production of diuretic hormone.

The homoxenous flagellate Blastocrithidia triatomae disturbs excretion in Triatoma infestans. During the first 4 and 24 h after feeding, infected 5th instars excreted approximately a 2.5-fold smaller volume of urine.

Influence of Blastocrithidia triatomae (Trypanosomatidae) on the reduviid bug Triatoma infestans: alterations in the Malpighian tubules.

To investigate the cellular basis of our recent observation that the trypanosome Blastocrithidia triatomae disturbs excretion in Triatoma infestans, we compared the morphology and ultrastructure of Malpighian tubules in infected and noninfected bugs. Tubules of bugs infected 3-4 months before dissection did not show any morphological alterations in either the upper or lower regions. In fifth instars with a long lasting infection (9-10 months) and a correspondingly retarded larval development, the tracheal system supplying the Malpighian tubules was reduced and alterations were conspicuous in the upper region, where the tubules were slightly widened, sometimes having parts with conspicuous swellings.