IMBALANCE BETWEEN THYROID HORMONES AND THE DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM MIGHT BE CENTRAL TO THE PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME: A HYPOTHESIS

Imbalance between thyroid hormones and the dopaminergic system might be central to the pathophysiology of restless legs syndrome: a hypothesis

Data collected from medical literature indicate that dopaminergic agonists alleviate Restless Legs Syndrome symptoms while dopaminergic agonists antagonists aggravate them.Dopaminergic agonists is a physiological regulator of thyroid-stimulating hormone.Dopaminergic agonists infusion diminishes the levels of thyroid hormones, which have the ability

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Continuing the Conversation on the Chilean Student Movement

This current Plymovent Filter article is an interview made with Francisco Figueroa.Francisco is a Chilean university student who was Vice-President of Student Federation from University of Chile between 2010 and 2011.He, like other students, was leading the mass student demonstrations in 2011 who demanded a radical reform of the Chilean education s

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Experimental Investigation of Composite Steel-Concrete Arches

This research is concerned with behavior of composite steel-concrete arches under static load.For this purpose, eight models of composite steel-concrete arches are fabricated as test specimens.According to their supporting systems, the eight fabricated specimens are equally divided into Hinge-Roller and Hinge-Hinge supported arches in which varied

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