This review comprises the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of natural and synthetic
estrogens and progestogens used in contraception and therapy, with special consideration …

There are large inter- and intra-individual variations in the serum concentrations of natural
and synthetic sex steroids irrespective of the route of administration. Oral ingestion of steroids …

The newer progestogens desogestrel, norgestimate, gestodene, dienogest and nomegestrol
share the common property of having weak or no androgenic effects, but there is great …

Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) is a large, cold-adapted teleost that sustains long-standing
commercial fisheries and incipient aquaculture 1 , 2 . Here we present the genome sequence of …

Commercial hunting and habitat loss are major drivers of the rapid decline of great apes [1].
Ecotourism and research have been widely promoted as a means of providing alternative …

The severe Ebola virus disease epidemic occurring in West Africa stems from a single
zoonotic transmission event to a 2‐year‐old boy in Meliandou, Guinea. We investigated the …

Objectives : We sought to study: 1) the accuracy and reproducibility of real-time 3-dimensional
echocardiographic (RT3DE) analysis of left ventricular (LV) volumes in a multicenter …

Members of the Bacteroidetes, formerly known as the Cytophaga‐Flavobacteria‐Bacteroides
(CFB) phylum, are among the major taxa of marine heterotrophic bacterioplankton …

Rationale: Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is characterized by recurrent airway infections
and randomization of left–right body asymmetry. To date, autosomal recessive mutations have …

… , there was a lower mean expected nucleotide diversity in exonic (H e =0.067) compared
with intronic (H e =0.075) and intergenic (H e =0.073) regions. We also observed a diminishing …