Prediction of disability-adjusted life years for diseases due to low fruit intake in 2017-2040 in Japan.

Objective: The current study aimed to predict disability-adjusted life years (DALY) rate in Japan through 2040 with plausible future scenarios of fruit intake for neoplasms, cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and diabetes and kidney diseases (DKD).

Design: Data from National Health and Nutrition Surveys and the Global Burden of Diseases study in 2017 were used. We developed an autoregressive integrated moving average model with four future scenarios.

We cannot change the past, but we can change its meaning. A randomized controlled trial on the effects of self-help imagery rescripting on depression.

Background: Imagery rescripting is a psychotherapeutic technique that aims to ameliorate negative emotions by altering (i.e., rescripting) inner representations of negative memories and images.

[ICF-Checklist to Evaluate Inclusion of Elderlies with Intellectual Disability - Psychometric Properties].

Background: An instrument should have been developed to measure participation as one possible criterion to evaluate inclusion of elderly people with intellectual disability. The ICF was utilized, because participation is one part of health related functioning, respectively disability. Furthermore ICF includes environmental factors (contextual factors) and attaches them an essentially influence on health related functioning, in particular on participation.

Attentional mechanisms of social perception are biased in social phobia.

Previous studies of social phobia have reported an increased vigilance to social threat cues but also an avoidance of socially relevant stimuli such as eye gaze. The primary aim of this study was to examine attentional mechanisms relevant for perceiving social cues by means of abnormalities in scanning of facial features in patients with social phobia. In two novel experimental paradigms, patients with social phobia and healthy controls matched on age, gender and education were compared regarding their gazing behavior towards facial cues.

[Exacerbation of chronic lower back pain with an unexpected twist].

We report a case of an 88-year old male patient with known chronic lower back pain who presented in late August with progressive pain in his right knee and lower leg as well as paraesthesias. Diagnostic work-up revealed an acute Lyme-Borreliosis.

Association of noncirrhotic portal hypertension in HIV-infected persons and antiretroviral therapy with didanosine: a nested case-control study.

Background: Noncirrhotic portal hypertension (NCPH) is a newly described life-threatening liver disease of unknown cause in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected persons. Postulated pathogenesis includes prolonged exposure to antiretroviral therapy, particularly didanosine.

Methods: We performed a nested case-control study including 15 patients with NCPH and 75 matched control subjects of the Swiss HIV Cohort Study to investigate risk factors for the development of NCPH.

Observation of a topological relaxation mode in microemulsions.

We report the observation of two diffusive relaxation modes in a very swollen microemulsion, measured by quasielastic light scattering experiments. In addition to a short-time diffusion process, we observe a long-time diffusive relaxation mode with unusual scaling behavior: the diffusion constant D is an exponential function of the characteristic length scale xi, D~exp(-xi). This observation provides experimental evidence for thermally activated topological relaxation of random fluid phases, as predicted by Milner et al.

Genetic influence on laterality in schizophrenia? A twin study of neurological soft signs.

Objective: This study explored the genetic basis of neurological soft signs in schizophrenia and addressed disturbed hemispheric lateralization.

Method: The authors investigated neurological soft signs in 30 monozygotic twin pairs, 13 pairs discordant for schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder and 17 healthy comparison twin pairs.

Results: The twins with schizophrenia showed higher total scores for neurological soft signs than did the comparison subjects.

Expression of the messenger RNAs for luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) and its receptor in human ovarian epithelial carcinoma.

Recently we reported the presence of specific high affinity binding sites for luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) and its analogues (Kd = 1.5 or 1.7 nM) in the human epithelial ovarian cancer cell lines EFO-21 and EFO-27.

[Medical ethnology--what is it?].

Departing from illness as subjective experience of the patient and disease as objective term of medical use the concept of an explanatory model of illness permits to introduce a novel perception for a fundamental problem in modern medicine: The growing hiatus separating the medico-therapeutic means offered on one hand and the needs of the patient on the other hand. The model developed by Arthur Kleinmann asks for universal validity for every form of medicine and leads by its ethnological view on our medicine to interesting conclusions. It is emphasized that natural sciences and technology represent only bases for modern medicine.

Redox Transfer across the Inner Chloroplast Envelope Membrane.

In leaves of spinach plants (Spinacia oleracea L.) grown in ambient CO(2) the subcellular contents of adenylates, pyridine nucleotides, 3-phosphoglycerate, dihydroxyacetone phosphate, malate, glutamate, 2-oxoglutarate, and aspartate were assayed in the light and in the dark by nonaqueous fractionation technique. From the concentrations of NADP and NADPH determined in the chloroplast fraction of illuminated leaves the stromal NADPH to NADP ratio is calculated to be 0.

[Metastasis of bronchial carcinoma in the temporomandibular joint. Case report].

Within 35 years 1008 patients were treated that were taken ill in a malignant tumor of face, jaw and mouth. There was found in five patients a distant metastasis of a carcinoma in lower yaw. One case with metastasis in left mandibular condyle is being described.

[Stimulation of prenatal development in laboratory animals by nootropics].

Described in this paper is the use of nootropics for stimulation of prenatal development of laboratory animals. Investigations, in that context, led to the discovery of so far unknown and unexpected properties of this group of medicaments. Foetal weight gain, reduction of teratogenicity, and decrease in implantation loss proved to be some of them.

[Cancer of the gastric stump (author's transl)].

During a period of 10 years (1968 to 1978) 320 patients underwent surgical treatment for gastric cancer, inclusive 20 patients after partial gastrectomies (B II) for gastric or duodenal ulcer. Gross survival time comes up to 9,8 months. Only the early detection of the carcinoma by gastroscopy will give the patient a better chance for survival.