Objective: Self-stigma in overweight and obese individuals has strong associations with impairment in mental and global health.This study sought to explore self-compassion as a psychological resource in the self-stigma process.Methods: In a 2012 representative German population survey of N = 1,158 overweight and obese individuals, self-compassion w
Lung adenocarcinomas from patients who respond to the tyrosine kinase inhibitors gefitinib (Iressa) or erlotinib (Tarceva) usually harbor somatic gain-of-function mutations in exons encoding the kinase domain Outdoor Furniture of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR).Despite initial responses, patients eventually progress by unknown mechanism
Despite their evolutionary novelty, lizard venoms are much less studied in comparison to the intense research on snake venoms.While the venoms of helodermatid lizards have long been assumed to be for defensive purposes, there is increasing evidence of toxic activities more useful for predation than defence (such as paralytic neurotoxicity).This stu
Suelen Cristina Sartoretto,1– 4 Jose Calasans-Maia,5 Rodrigo Resende,2,4,6 Eduardo Câmara,3 Bruna Ghiraldini,7 Fabio Jose Barbosa Bezerra,8 Jose Mauro Granjeiro,4,9 Monica Diuana Calasans-Maia4,6 1Oral Surgery Department, Universidade Veiga de Almeida, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; 2Oral Surgery Department, Universidade Iguaçu, Nov