In this thesis I describe the development of an animal model of sustained hyperalgesia induced by exposure to ultraviolet (UV) A light to the rat’s tail, and the role of the Cfibre barrage and peripheral afferent fibre ...

South Africa is one of the countries in sub-Saharan Africa that are severely affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. This epidemic has led to high mortality rates, decreased life expectancies, increasing poverty, and ...

Truth telling forms part of the contemporary debate in clinical bioethics and centers around the right of the patient to know honest information concerning his or her medical condition / illness and the duty of the doctor ...

This research report offers a perspective in which to understand the emergence of two particular racialised subjectivities namely, the “patriotic black’’ subject and the “liberal/anti-patriotic” white subject, in post-apartheid ...

ABSTRACT This report is a study into the corporate sponsorship of art as is evident in South Africa today. Starting with a history of patronage in the West, it leads to South Africa and the role currently being played ...

Abstract Laxatives appear to be one of the most common group of drugs sold in retail pharmacy presently. Use of these drugs appears to be by all patients regardless of age, gender, race, education level and income group. ...

A high, approximately constant normothermic body temperature is associated with elevated maintenance energetic requirements. However, many small endotherms offset the energetic demands of thermoregulation through ...