Rev Med Chir Soc Med Nat Iasi
June 2007
Unilateral mild hydronephrosis with ureteral dilatation is a condition that can be detected by careful prenatal ultrasound examination. We present such a case, in a 26 year pregnant woman with hereditary antecedents (mother with Ombredan disease). The fetal ultrasound at 34 weeks indicated a left anechogenic sinuous image, identified as dilated ureter, and connected to a grade 2 hydronephrotic kidney.
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June 2006
The important physiological role of calcium and magnesium ions is all over recognised, about a lot of enzymatic reactions. Magnesium deficit produce neuromuscular hyper-reactivity, psychic reactions, functional hypoparathyroidism, increase of K+ channels membranes permeability, while hypermagnesemia decrease Ach release from neuromuscular synapsis, with post-synaptic excitability decreasing. Using BEROCCA (Hoffman la Roche) 1 cp/day, 30 days at the teenagers with behaviour troubles and at a goup of pregnant women (trimester I-III) with paresthesia, irritability, sleeplessness, we observed an improve of clinical signs, increasing plasma Ca2+ and Mg2+.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExist many interactions of the endogenous system with dopaminergic, serotinergic, GABA--ergig, and glutamat--ergic, as well as the role of these interactions in mediating stress response, analgesia and in appearance the alcoholism. Thus pharmacological blockade of the endogenous opioid system by mu or delta opioid receptor antagonists prevents ethanol's activation of the dopamine system and reduces ethanol consumption. The role of genetic factors in alcohol dependency is recognized.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCytokines involved in the immune process proof, also, the neurotransmitter role, being synthesized by various cells of the body, with specific genes participation. Cytokines can act on the some membrane receptor like the neurotransmitters, and they can produce diverse biological effects. Pro-inflammatory, anti-inflammatory or haematopoetic cytokines as those in the central nervous system can be identified by immunoassay and bioassay methods.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe cerebral motor and cognitive behavior is obviously altered by chronic alcoholism, which generates significant morphological and biochemical changes. In turn, alcoholic withdrawal improves the cerebral blood supply, the psychological and motor behavior and the EEG appearance, especially in young alcoholics. Our study also underlines that alcoholic women develop a late improvement of the clinical and bioelectrical condition during the alcoholic withdrawal.
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