Ethnic Self-Identification, Ethnic Involvement, and Group Differentiation among Chinese Youth in the Netherlands.

Ethnic self-identification among Chinese minority youth living in the Netherlands was explored. Four types of ethnic self-identification were differentially related to ethnic involvement and to intergroup differentiation, suggesting that group identification may be less straightforward than researchers have assumed. Collectivism as an individual difference variable was related to ethnic self-description and to ethnic involvement.

Some aspects of pituitary function after neuroadenolysis in patients with metastatic cancer.

The effects of neuroadenolysis on plasma titres of beta-endorphin, beta-lipotropin, ACTH, TSH and prolactin have been investigated in five patients with metastatic cancer who responded to the treatment and have been in remission for more than four years and in five others who were undergoing the treatment for the first time for pain due to cancer metastases. beta-Endorphin, beta-lipotropin and ACTH titres were within the normal ranges of values in both categories of patients but post-neuroadenolysis titres of these peptides were higher than those before the treatment. The ability to secrete TSH and prolactin and to respond to thyroid stimulating hormone releasing hormone (TRH) remains intact following the treatment.