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 Beauty of the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene, NS personality traits, a

Abstract The highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus has been endemic in aquatic birds since 1997, causing outbreaks in domestic poultry and occasional human infections worldwide.Recently, the cross-species transmission of a new reassortant variant from clade 2.3.4.4b of H5N1 to cattle in the US has heightened concerns regarding the exp

Abstract Calcium silicate-based cements have diverse applications in endodontics.This study aimed to evaluate the antibiofilm action, biocompatibility, morphological structure, chemical composition and radiopacity of Five Mineral Oxides (5MO), Mineral Concrete Cutting Saw Trioxide Aggregate Repair High Plasticity (MTA Repair HP), and Mineral Trioxi