Heritability of amygdala reactivity to angry faces and its replicable association with the schizophrenia risk locus of .

Background: Among healthy participants, the interindividual variability of brain response to facial emotions is associated with genetic variation, including common risk variants for schizophrenia, a heritable brain disorder characterized by anomalies in emotion processing. We aimed to identify genetic variants associated with heritable brain activity during processing of facial emotions among healthy participants and to explore the impact of these identified variants among patients with schizophrenia.

Methods: We conducted a data-driven stepwise study including samples of healthy twins, unrelated healthy participants and patients with schizophrenia.

Combined vesicouterine rupture during second-trimester medical abortion for fetal abnormality after prior cesarean delivery: A case report.

Introduction: The use of mifepristone and misoprostol for the induction of a second-trimester abortion is common and effective. However, its safety in women with previous cesarean delivery is still controversial, given the potentially higher risk of uterine rupture.

Case Presentation: We present the case of a 30-year-old woman (G2P1) who experienced vesicouterine rupture with escape of the dead fetus into the bladder during second-trimester induced abortion after prior cesarean delivery.

Risk of neural tube defects according to maternal body mass index: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Introduction: The aim of our systematic review and meta-analysis was to evaluate the risk of neural tube defects (NTDs) according to the pre-pregnancy body mass index.

Materials And Methods: Electronic databases were searched (MEDLINE, EMBASE, Web of Sciences, Scopus, ClinicalTrial.gov, OVID, and Cochrane Library).

Oligothiophene isothiocyanates as a new class of fluorescent markers for biopolymers.

The regioselective synthesis of fluorescent oligothiophene isothiocyanates is described. The isothiocyanates were reacted with bovine serum albumin (BSA) following standard procedures and the optical properties of the oligothiophene-BSA conjugates were analyzed as a function of oligomer concentration, time, and irradiation power. The oligothiophene-BSA conjugates were chemically very stable and their photoluminescence characteristics persisted unaltered for several months.

[Therapeutic proposals in vulvar dystrophy and burning vulva].

The paper reports the results of 80 cases of vulvar dystrophy and 11 cases of burning vulva. The Authors put forward a protocol for therapy which also aims to provide the basis for a comparative study of this pathology about which little is known from a clinical and research point of view.