Effect of a health education program on reduction of pediculosis in school girls at Amphoe Muang, Khon Kaen Province, Thailand.

BackgroundPediculosis caused by head lice (Pediculus humanus capitis) infestation is still an important health problem in schoolchildren, especially girls, worldwide, including in Thailand.Although pediculicidal agents effectively kill head lice, the re-infestation rate is still high.Thus, prevention is an important strategy for any sustainable con

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When the genome plays dice: circumvention of the spindle assembly checkpoint and near-random chromosome segregation in multipolar cancer cell mitoses.

BackgroundNormal cell division is coordinated by a bipolar mitotic spindle, ensuring symmetrical segregation of chromosomes.Cancer cells, however, occasionally divide into three or more directions.Such multipolar mitoses have been proposed to generate genetic diversity and thereby contribute to clonal evolution.However, this notion has been little

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