Recent advances in astrodynamics, 1961 /

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Comorbid Migraine in Major Depressive Disorder Suggests a Subgroup Related to Bipolar Disorder

Aims: Previous small-scale studies suggest presence of migraine in major depressive disorder (MDD) is associated with specific clinical characteristics that may overlap with those of bipolar disorder. We aimed to compare a broad range of characteristics in participants who have MDD with and without migraine, and to explore possible similarities between those characteristics associated with the presence of migraine in MDD and those in bipolar disorder in a large UK sample. Methods: Lifetime and episodic clinical characteristics and affective temperaments in DSM-IV MDD with (n=134) and without (n=218) migraine were compared. Characteristics associated with the presence of migraine were then compared with a sample of participants with DSM-IV bipolar disorder (n=407). All participants were recruited into the Bipolar Disorder Research Network (www.bdrn.org). Results: The presence of migraine in MDD was associated with female gender (76.9% vs 56.9%, p<0.001), younger age of onset (23 vs 27 years, p=0.002), history of attempted suicide (38.3% vs 22.7%, p=0.002), and more panic/agoraphobia symptomatology (6 vs 4, p<0.001). Female gender (OR=2.44, p=0.006) and younger age of onset (OR=0.97, p=0.013) remained significant in a multivariate model. These clinical characteristics were not significantly different to those of our participants with bipolar disorder. Conclusions: The presence of migraine in MDD delineates a subgroup of individuals with a more severe illness course. The clinical presentation of this subgroup more closely resembles that of bipolar disorder than that of MDD without migraine. The presence of migraine in major depression may be a marker of a specific subgroup that could be useful in future research.

Effect of Calcium on the in vitro Growth of Aechmea blanchetiana (Baker) L. B. Smith Plantlets

This work investigated the influence of different concentrations of calcium on the growth of plantlets of the bromeliad Aechmea blanchetiana cultured in vitro. Seedlings of A. blanchetiana were axenically cultured in liquid Murashige and Skoog basal medium supplemented with different concentrations of calcium (Ca; 1.5, 3, 4.5, 6, or 12 mM) without growth regulators. The resulting plantlets were cultured under 93 mol m-2 s-1 illumination, 12 hour photoperiod regime and 25C 1 for 120 days with subculture to fresh identical media every 30 days. The addition of calcium at 9.38 mM to MS modified medium increased the production of fresh and dry mass of plantlets, whilst chlorine from calcium chloride dehydrate (CaCl2 2 H2O) in excess (3.35 mM) decreased both the fresh and dry mass of plantlets.

Reflexions sur la rhetorique : où l'on répond aux objections du P. L'Amy, bénédictin ([Reprod.])

Collection : Archives de la linguistique française ; 177

Morfoanatomia comparada e ontogênese do pericarpo de Bidens gardneri Baker e B. pilosa L. (Asteraceae)

Este trabalho descreve a morfologia, anatomia e ontogênese do pericarpo e pápus de Bidens gardneri Baker e B. pilosa L., espécies de Heliantheae (Asteraceae). Verificou-se que as duas espécies são muito similares, possuem ovário ínfero, bicarpelar, sincárpico e unilocular. O pericarpo se desenvolve a partir do alongamento das células, sem fase multiplicativa. O exocarpo é unisseriado e recoberto por cutícula; ocorrem tricomas tectores multicelulares, que persistem até a maturidade. O mesocarpo externo possui de uma a três camadas de células parenquimáticas em B. pilosa e de uma a cinco células em B. gardneri. A região mediana do mesocarpo possui de quatro a oito camadas em ambas as espécies e, entre a região mediana do mesocarpo e o mesocarpo interno, estão imersos feixes vasculares colaterais. O endocarpo é unisseriado, mas nas regiões de fusão dos carpelos, é bi a trisseriado. Ocorre deposição de fitomelanina entre o mesocarpo externo e o mediano, mais precoce em B. pilosa. No ápice do pericarpo, observa-se a protuberância onde se insere o pápus aristado, formado por três a quatro cerdas rígidas, que apresentam tricomas voltados para a base. Na base do fruto, ocorre uma pequena projeção, o carpopódio, onde o fruto insere-se no eixo da inflorescência. Na maturidade, o pericarpo das duas espécies é desidratado, e, em B. pilosa, as camadas do pericarpo ficam mais colapsadas; em B. gardneri, também ocorre a desidratação, mas algumas células do exocarpo e mesocarpo externo permanecem distintas.

« Le Miroir de l'ame, lequel ung Chartreux fist à la requeste d'un sien cordial amy ».

Commençant par : « Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas, dixit Ecclesiastes. Le sage roy Salomon escript ceste auctorité au comandement de son livre... » et finissant par : «... nostre doulx Sauveur, qui vit et regne eternellement par sieclez infinis. Amen » .

hystoire de Guy de Warvich, chevalier d'Angleterre, qui en son temps fist plusieurs prouesses et combas conqueste tant en Allemaigne, Ytalie et Dannemarche et aussi sur les infidelles ennemys de la chrestienté et de la belle fille nommée Felixe s'amy surmontant la beaulte de toutes dames et damoyselles et les grandes aventures ou il se trouverent et des grandes trahysons ou il se trouva. XXVI.C. et d. - A Paris, pour Jehan Bonfons, libraire demourant en la rue neufve Nostre Dame a l'enseigne Sainct Nicolas. - (A la fin :) Cy fine ce present livre intitule Guy de Warvich chevalier anglois. Nouvellement imprime a Paris,...

[Gui de Warewic (français moyen). 14.. ?]

L'Afrique équatoriale : récit d'une expédition armée ayant pour but la suppression de la traite des esclaves (3e éd.) / par Sir S. White Baker ; abrégé par H. Vattemare

Collection : Bibliothèque des écoles et des familles

Colorimetric enzymatic assay of L-malic acid using dehydrogenase from baker's yeast

A colorimetric method has been developed and optimized to measure L-malic acid in samples of fruit juices and wine. This method is based on oxidation of the analyte, catalyzed by malate dehydrogenase (MDH) from dry baker's yeast, and in combination with the reduction of a tetrazolium salt (MTT: 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide). In the present study, the method exhibited sensitivity in the range of 500-4000 mu M of L-malic acid in the reaction cuvette, with the lower detection limit of 6.7-10(-2) g/L, the upper limit of 53.6.10(-2) g/L and a maximum standard deviation of only 2.5 % for the analyzed samples. The MDH activity from baker's yeast was also optimized, the enzyme showed a high stability at pH=8.0-9.0 and the activity was maintained completely at temperatures up to 40 degrees C for 1 hour. The results show that the colorimetric method using enzymatic preparations from dry baker's yeast is a simple and low-cost method with possibility of wide application.

Morfoanatomia comparada e ontogênese do pericarpo de Bidens gardneri Baker e B. pilosa L. (Asteraceae)

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