PSYCHIATRIC ASPECTS OF OPHTHALMIC DISORDERS: A NARRATIVE REVIEW

Psychiatric aspects of ophthalmic disorders: A narrative review

Ophthalmic disorders have psychiatric aspects associated abc material with them at various levels.Psychological factors have a well-documented role in the causation, aggravation, and maintenance of various ophthalmic conditions, including glaucoma, central serous retinopathy, dry eye disease, and retinitis pigmentosa.Many ophthalmic conditions, inc

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Mating with stressed males increases the fitness of ant queens.

BACKGROUND: According to sexual conflict theory, males can increase their own fitness by transferring substances during copulation that increase the short-term fecundity of their mating partners at the cost of the future life expectancy and re-mating capability of the latter.In contrast, sexual cooperation is expected in social insects.Mating indee

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Evaluation of the efficacy duration of different types of pheromone dispensers to lure Ips typographus (L.) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)

We presentthe results oftesting10pheromonedispensersused to lure the sprucebark beetle-Ipstypographus(Linnaeus, 1758).A comparisonwas made between boththeir efficacyand also the decrease intheir efficacyafterapplication.DispensersPheagrITand ITEcolureTubusare effectivethroughout the wholeflightactivity ofI.typographus; the efficacy of ITPheagrExtra

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The Genome-Wide DNA Methylation Profile of Peripheral Blood Is Not Systematically Changed by Short-Time Storage at Room Temperature

Background: Epigenetic epidemiology has proven an important research discipline in the delineation of diseases of complex etiology.The approach, in such studies, is often to use bio-banked clinical material, however, many such samples were collected for purposes other than epigenetic studies and, thus, potentially not processed and stored appropria

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