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M Escudero

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PubMed1975

Goal-striving discrepancy stress in urban Filipino men: II. Housing.

As part of a larger investigation of social/psychological stress and psychiatric adaptation in urban Manila, efforts were made to study the effects of goal-striving discrepancy stress in housing among Filipino men from different age groups and social classes. Goal-striving discrepancy stress is an organismic state characterized by tension and discomfort due to discrepancies between aspirations and achievements. Several studies have demononstrated that goal-striving discrepancy stress are asociated with psychiatric disorder. The present study focused upon the discrepancies between aspiration and achievements in housing among Filipino men. Housing constitutes one of man's basic problems in urban societies; however, in spite of the fact that housing is related to psychiatric adaptation, relatively few studies have been made of this problem. It is important to recognize that housing has numerous psychological implications for an individual. It is a symbol of social status and social acceptance and greatly influences an individual's view of himself and others. Some investigators have even suggested that housing may be construed as a symbolic representation of the mother-child relationship. For the present investigation, twelve housing characteristics considered to be important to Filipinos e. g., size, cost, location, ownership of land, etc., were derived and ninety-six Filipino males from different age groups and social classes were asked to indicate both their aspiration and their actual achievement for each of the twelve housing characteristics. Goal-striving discrepancies were obtained by subtracting the aspirational endorsements from the achievement endorsements. The discrepancy scores were then correlated with various psychiatric symptom patterns through factor analysis. Results of the investigation revealed profound social class differences in the amount of goal-striving discrepancy stress. ......

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Tissue quantification of CA 125 in epithelial ovarian cancer.

The objectives of this study were the determination of CA 125 in the cytosol of healthy and carcinomatous ovarian tissue by immunoanalysis, analysis of its correlation with the biological characteristics of ovarian carcinoma, determination of serum CA 125 levels, and study of the prognostic value of the marker in cytosol. The levels of the marker depend not only on the tumor's production rate, so its determination in tissue can indicate more accurately if the tumor is a producer of the marker and establish its value for the prognosis of the disease. Determination of CA 125 in tissue was performed by immunoanalysis in 50 ovarian epithelial cancer samples, 13 benign pathology samples and 32 healthy ovary samples. The presurgical serum level of the marker was also obtained. The correlation between the CA 125 level in the cytosol and the different biological characteristics of the ovarian carcinoma, the serum levels of the marker and survival were analyzed. The CA 125 level proved to be higher in malignant tissue (p < 0.0001). There was a significant association between the tissue marker and histological type (high CA 125 was associated with serous and endometrioid tumors) and between the marker and survival. No relation with stage was found. There was a correlation between the CA 125 level in the cytosol and serum both variables being dependent, with a correlation coefficient of 0.44. This good correlation speaks in favor of the usefulness of CA 125 determination in serum in the follow-up of ovarian cancer. Tumors having high tissue expression of CA 125 were found to have a double relative risk of death, independently of tumor stage.

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[Study of the facial nerve motor pathway with the transcranial cerebral magnetic stimulation technique].

Transcranial magnetic stimulation method permits the study of the facial nerve in all its aspects (motor cortex-alpha moto-neurone-facial muscle) in an non invasive and painless way. We studied 12 patients using two levels of stimuli, the first was at an occipital level and the second at the primary motor cortex in the frontal lobe. We compared the results of this technique with those obtained by electric stimulation of the nerve.

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