ROLE OF NOVELTY SEEKING PERSONALITY TRAITS AS MEDIATOR OF THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN COMT AND ONSET AGE OF DRUG USE IN CHINESE HEROIN DEPENDENT PATIENTS.

Personality traits such as novelty seeking (NS) are associated with substance dependence but the mechanism underlying this association remains uncertain.Previous studies have focused on the role of the dopamine pathway.Examine the relationships between allelic variants of the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene, NS personality traits, and age

Skull stripping in brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an essential step to analyze images of the brain.Although manual segmentation has the highest accuracy, it is a time-consuming task.Therefore, various automatic segmentation algorithms of the brain in MRI have been devised and proposed previously.However, there is still no method that sol

Mole crickets can become serious pests of turfgrasses, pastures, and vegetable seedlings.The first step in determining if you have a mole cricket Stash Gear problem at a site is to compare the existing damage to pictures of known mole cricket damage.If the damage is likely caused by mole crickets, specimens should be obtained and the pest identifie

Lassa virus (LASV) is the most prevalent arenavirus afflicting humans and has high potential to become a threat to global public health.The transmembrane domain (TM) of the LASV glycoprotein complex forms critical interactions with the LASV stable signal peptide that are important for the maturation and fusion activity of the Shaving Kit virus.A fu

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