Over the past decade, there has been a rapid increase in the number of initiatives involving "for-profit" private health care providers in national tuberculosis (TB) control efforts.We reviewed 15 such initiatives with respect to contractual arrangements, quality of care and success achieved in TB control.In seven initiatives, the National TB Progr
We hypothesize that opioids are involved in the regulation of food intake in fish through homeostatic and hedonic mechanisms.Therefore, we evaluated in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) hypothalamus and telencephalon changes in precursors, endogenous ligands and receptors of Linens the opioid system under different situations aimed to induce chan
BackgroundThe pivotal role of mitochondria in energy production and free radical generation suggests that the mitochondrial genome could have an important influence on the expression of multifactorial age related diseases.Substitution of T to C at nucleotide position 16189 in the hypervariable D-loop of the control region (CR) of mitochondrial DNA