Summary Patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) develop complications including coronary artery disease (CAD), which is the leading cause of mortality in this group of patients. One of the diagnostic modalities for early detection of myocardial ischemia in symptomatic and asymptomatic patients with DM is myocardial perfusion tomography (MPI). ...

By Miloš Stević, Marina Vlajković, Goran Koraćević, Radivoj Kocić, Milena Rajić, Slobodan Ilić

SUMMARY Sexual abuse is considered as a crime against the person all over the world. Despite the age of victims, it could trigger serious physical and psychological consequences, psychoactive substances and drug abuse, reproductive disorders, suicides and even death. The aim of retrospective investigation was to analyze the incidence of sexual...

By Radoynova Dobrinka Demireva, Miteva Radostina Dimitrova, Irina Slavcheva Burulyanova, Ganchev Dimitar Ivanov, Dokov Wiliam Viktorov, Ivanov Teodor Ivanov, Kolev Yanko Geogiev

SUMMARY Since the time of Freud’s “Project for psychology as natural science” in 1895, at the dawn of psychoanalysis as the theory and therapy, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in general have been attempting to establish and develop their biological roots. Numerous external and internal limitations and resistances have been limiting and oppos...

By Ljiljana Samardžić, Gordana Nikolić

Summary Sex education is aimed at equipping individuals with sex-related information, motivation, and behavioral skills that will enable them to avoid sex-related problems and to achieve sexual well-being. Safer sex promotion and condom promotion and distribution programmes have grown significantly since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic. Cond...

By Biljana Kocić, Marina Kostić, Tatjana Cagulović

SUMMARY Burkitt lymphoma (BL) is a disease of predominantly young population, while in the elderly it occurs as a rare neoplasm. Elderly patients (age >60 years) represent a significant problem because of the inability to apply effective aggressive chemiotherapy in these cases. The risk of induction death is very high and unacceptible. Main...

By Ivan Petković, Dragan Mihailović, Miljan Krstić, Ivica Pejčić, Svetislav Vrbić, Mirjana Balić

Summary A war wound to the proximal humerus is characterised by profuse bleeding, multifragmentary fracture-dislocations, defects of the muscle tissue, capsule, skin and by primary contamination with polymorphic bacterial flora, and it is rarely isolated. Out of 27 injured people, subluxation/dislocation of the humeral head occured in the f...

By Predrag Grubor, Milorad Mitković, Milan Grubor, Milan Mitković

Summary The first line of defence in parasitic infection is the innate immune system. On the other hand, adaptive immune system posseses numerous mechanisams of hummoral and cellular immunity. Cellular immunity in a helminth infection is characterised by Th2 immune response. Considering the fact that the aim of a parasite is not to kill it...

By Dragan Zdravković, Jovana Kostić, Jelena Radović, Aleksandar Kostić, Milena Potić Floranović, Ana Ristić Petrović, Aleksandra Ignjatović, Aleksandar Tasić, Nataša Miladinović Tasić, Suzana Otašević

Summary The reason of prostate cancer is the mutation in the prostate cell. The present study was aimed at determining the effects of different concentrations of vitamin D on the anti-proliferative action of 24,25(OH)2D3 applied on LNCaP (cell line of human prostate cancer) cells. It was evident from the results that vitamin D having concentra...

By Ahmad Humayan Kabir, Ferdhos Khan, Mamunur Rashid Sarkar

SUMMARY Clindamycin is an antibiotic effective against Gram-positive aerobes and both Gramnegative and Gram-positive anaerobic pathogens. Clindamycin (its phosphate ester) was used as a model drug for our study in order to check the efficacy of the developed vaginal gel formulations. The aim of this study was to develop an analytical metho...

By Milica Stanković, Vesna Savić, Valentina Marinković

SUMMARY Fig (Ficus carica) tree latex was a source of treatment of different diseases in the Iranian traditional medicine reported by Avicenna in his 10th century book Canon of Medicine. The aim of this investigation was to establish the anticancer effect of fig tree latex on human cancer cells. The in vitro effect of different doses of fi...

By Seyyed Abbas Hashemi, Saeid Abediankenari