Psychosocial characteristics of 60 secondary school adolescent female suicide attempters 
were determined in the present study. We compared 
them with 60 secondary school females, representing a normal population. The data…

Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a Gram negative diplococcus the cause of sexually transmitted dis­ease gonorrhea. It is transmitted through a promiscuous intercourse, from infected mother to the newborn and from one…

This paper deals with the issue of
 wound healing. The physiological aspect of this
 process is described. The authors introduce 
some simplifications and terms denoting combinations of several different wound…

Inherited trombophilia, state that predisposes individuals to venous thrombosis may be due to deficiency of antithrombin III, deficiency of protein C or protein S, or resistance to acti­vated protein C.…

By using the voltage-clamp method we 
can record the end-plate current which reflects
 changes in the conductance of the subsynaptic
membrane during neuromuscular transmission. The classic (plain) voltage-clamp method shows 
some…

Isolated perfused Langendorff rat 
hearts were used for comparing effects of the
 calcium antagonist verapamil on the following 
two models of heart injury: local ischemia (ligature of the anterior interventricular…

We studied 30 patients with stroke within the first 21 days of the onset of the symptoms by determining their plasma adrenaline and noradrenalin levels, their neurological status and the…

Stomach cancer (gastric adenocacinoma) is a common malignant disease in Slovenia. The Lauren's classification distinguishes between a well differentiated intestinal type and a poorly differentiated diffuse type of the disease, which differ in…

We tested the applicability of non-commercial antigen substrates obtained from different human and animal tissues, for routine determination of autoantibodies to Sm, (U1)RNP, La and Ro antigens. For the detection of…

Intracapsular fractures of the femoral neck may considerably deteriorate the quality of life of elderly. The specific structure and blood supply to the uper part of the femur contribute to…

Histomorphological changes occurring in the liver tissue were studied to confirm the hypothesis about sequential development of primary liver carcinoma. Tumor-surrounding liver tissue was evaluated in 27 cases of hepatocellular…

Interleukin 2 (IL-2) is a lymphokine synthesized and secreted by lymphocytes T. Two stimuli are needed for this process: one is antigenic or mitogenic, and another is triggered by a…

We analysed historical and serological data of patients admitted to the Department of Infectious Diseases, Ljubljana, with acute diarrhoic syndrome of known etiology. The goal of our study was to…

Long term athletic training is associated with an increase in left ventricular diastolic cavity dimensions, wall thickness, and mass. These changes are described as the »athlete's heart«. In men, athlete's…

Background. Dilatative atherosclerosis is a rare form of degenerative process manifested by arterial aneurysms. It is believed that endothelial dysfunction is involved in dilatative athero­sclerosis. For estimation of systemic endothelial…

Assessment of pain, disability, and activity limitation was made with the Foot Function Index in healthy volunteers, diabetic patients without symptomatic neuropathy and diabetic patients with symptomatic neuropathy. The Foot…

Mutation in the prothrombin gene (G20120A) and in the factor V gene (G1691A), which is manifested as resistance to the activated protein C (nAPC), are important risk factors for throm­boembolic…

Introduction. Neurocardiogenic syncope is the most frequent transitional form of loss of  onsciousness, which is caused by inappropriate triggering of the Bezold-Jarisch reflex. Most commonly, the triggering agent is an…

BACKGROUND: So far the ontogenesis of the rest-activity rhythm and melatonin excretion rhythm in infants have been treated separately and no direct correlation between them in the first six months…

In the present research we tried to prove, that specific myosin heavy chain is relat­ed to a prevalent metabolic type and that activ­ities of succinate-dehydrogenase and a glycerophosphate dehydrogenase in…

We studied 31 healthy volunteers with a normal menstrual cycle, who were divided according to their age into a group of younger women and a group of premenopausal women. During…

The aim of the study was to find out whether hypertensive reaction induced by exer­cise test, as well as the patient's body weight and heart rate can predict the development…

Somatosensory evoked potentials have been used in paediatrics in Slovenia for many years. In our study we measured the somatosensory evoked potentials on stimulation of the median nerve. The normal…

Non-invasive ultrasound methods have been increasingly used for detecting morpho­logical and functional changes in the arterial wall, indicating the beginning of atherosclerotic process. Early detection of atherosclerosis is of utmost…