Transfer vs. Breakup in the interaction of the 7Be Radioactive Ion Beam with a 58Ni target at Coulomb barrier energies

We measured for the first time 7Be elastically scattered nuclei as well as 3,4He reaction products from a 58Ni target at 22.3 MeV beam energy. The data were analyzed within the optical model formalism to extract the total reaction cross section. Extensive kinematical, Distorted Wave Born Approximation (DWBA)and Continuum Discretized Coupled Channel (CDCC) calculations were performed to investigate the 3,4He originating mechanisms and the interplay between different reaction channels

The varied manifestations of endemic cretinism.

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Choline Content of Mothers' Milk in Ecuador and Boston

To the Editor: We have found that the free choline concentration of human milk varies during postnatal development and is sometimes markedly depressed in samples from women thought to be ingesting a choline-deficient diet. Choline is a precursor in the biosyntheses of phospholipids1 and of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine.2,3 In animals, ingestion of a diet deficient in choline results in hepatic, renal, growth, and memory disorders.4 Neonates must ingest choline-containing foods like milk in order to maintain blood choline concentrations at high levels5; these levels may be needed to supply adequate choline to rapidly growing tissues

Estudo da prevalência das doenças tireoidianas em pacientes tireoidectomizados no Hospital da Santa Casa de Goiânia

OBJETIVO: O Estado de Goiás deixou de ser oficialmente considerado como região endêmica de bócio em 1995. O objetivo deste estudo é verificar a correspondência entre os diagnósticos das doenças tireoidianas (bócio endêmico, tireoidites e câncer), observados nos laudos anátomo-patológicos e nas observações dos inquéritos epidemiológicos. MÉTODO: Estudo retrospectivo de 1399 pacientes submetidos a tireoidectomias na Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Goiânia de 1993 a 2003, e que resultaram em 1610 diagnósticos anátomo-patológicos. RESULTADOS: Os resultados dos exames anátomo-patológicos dos pacientes revelaram: a) adenoma folicular 155 (9,63%); b) outros adenomas 29 (1,8%); c) bócio adenomatoso 87 (5,4%); d) bócio colóide 981 (60,9%); e) carcinoma folicular 36 (2,24%); f) carcinoma indiferenciado 3 (0,19%); g) carcinoma papilífero 93 (5,78%); h) cistos 9 (0,56%); i) bócio difuso tóxico 75 (4,66%); j) outras tireoidites 12 (0,75%); l) outras neoplasias malignas 6 (0,38%) e m) tireoidite linfocítica 124 (7,71%). CONCLUSÕES: O perfil observado com uma prevalência alta de tireoidite linfocítica e carcinoma papilífero se correlaciona realmente com região não endêmica