For example, in 1952, an outbreak of measles among the Native American inhabitants of Ungava Bay, Quebec, affected 99 percent of the population and killed 7 percent, even though some had the benefit of modern medicine. Cases such as this demonstrate that even diseases that are not normally ...
In Alzheimer's disease, tau protein aggregates form filamen- tous intracellular inclusions that can spread from affected nerve and glial cells to healthy cells, thus spreading the disease. Stud- ies have shown that extracellular α-amyloid aggregates can induce tau pathology in transgenic mice and...
Scott (2002) concluded that gene transfer occurs widely in vivo between gastrointestinal tract bacteria, and between gastrointestinal tract bacteria and pathogenic bacteria, as identical resistance genes are present in diverse bacterial species from different hosts. In fact we face the frightening ...
the proportion of the population that is Hispanic, the proportion of the population that is black, the proportion of the population that is a race other than black or white, the proportion of a county that is contained within a state or federal Native American reservation, the median household...
and other diseases.2Proponents of this theory believe that dental plaque and its metabolites can enter the blood circulatory system and cause a variety of systemic or degenerative changes. Therefore, the treatment of systemic diseases by extracting the affected tooth is not only popular in dentistry...
among the Native American inhabitants of Ungava Bay. Quebec, affected 99 percent of the population and killed 7 percent, even though some had the benefit of modern medicine. Cases such as this demonstrate that even (55)diseases that are not normally fatal can have devastating ...
Parkinson's disease (PD) is another most common NDs that significantly impair the eminence of life and dependency and increase the menace of premature death in affected individuals [11, 16]. This disease is instigated via substantial damage to dopaminergic nigrostriatal neurons, leading to reduced ...
French forces stationed on the island were also affected [47]. A military cohort of soldiers exposed to CHIKV during this outbreak has been screened for infection. Preliminary results are worrying; the attack rate was as high as that within the general local population, and previously unknown ...
Human society has undergone a series of major transitions that has affected our pattern of infectious disease acquisition and dissemina- tion4. These transitions illustrate the interrelationship between envi- ronmental, social and behavioral influences on the emergence and subsequent spread of infectious ...
There is increasing evidence that genome-wide association (GWA) studies represent a powerful approach to the identification of genes involved in common human diseases. We describe a joint GWA study (using the Affymetrix GeneChip 500K Mapping Array Set) u