Journal of Czech Physicians

Thyroid tumors are the most common endocrine malignancy. The main genetic changes are point mutations in the RET proto-oncogene (somatic or germ-line) in medullary thyroid...

Authors: Běla Bendlová, Šárka Dvořáková, Vlasta Sýkorová, Eliška Václavíková, Tereza Hálková
Issue: 3/2012

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Autophagy is an integral part of cell strategy to overcome adverse living conditions. Moreover, autophagy participates in the protection of cytoplasm against invasion of the...

Authors: Jan Krejsek, Lucia Hrnčířová, Drahomíra Holmannová, Irena Berglová, 
Mouhammed Abuattieh, Ctirad Andrýs
Issue: 3/2012

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Background. The causes of children’ and adolescents‘ smoking, along with mechanisms which lead to addiction, include both genetic and environmental factors: individual, so...

Authors: Hrubá Drahoslava, Okrajek Petr, Kukla Lubomír
Issue: 3/2012

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According to current statistics, there are, at an average child’s general practice about seventy children registered with obesity, including fifty children indicated for long-t...

Authors: Zlatko Marinov, Dalibor Pastucha
Issue: 3/2012

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Health Promoting Hospitals (HPH) is an international network of more than 800 health care subjects. The HPH initiative is based on an idea of a hospital being an...

Authors: Lenka Štěpánková, Milena Kalvachová, Ivana Kořínková
Issue: 3/2012

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