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Volume 38, Index, Canadian Medical Association

Canadian Journal of Surgery

The mission of CJS is to contribute to the effective continuing medical education of Canadian surgical specialists, using innovative techniques when feasible, and to provide surgeons with an effective vehicle for the dissemination of observations in the areas of clinical and basic science research.

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What's Happening: December 27, 1995, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Ventricular Remodeling Following Infant-Pediatric Cardiac Transplantation. Does Age At Transplantation Or Size Disparity Matter?, Girish S. Shirali, F Lombano, W L. Beeson, D A. Dyar, N F. Mulla, A Khan, J K. Johnston, R E. Chinnock, S R. Gundry, A J. Razzouk

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

Early left ventricular (LV) remodeling following pediatric cardiac transplantation has not been described. To identify patterns and determinants of change in left ventricular mass and volume posttransplant, we studied 125 consecutive children who underwent cardiac transplantation between January 1, 1989 and July 31, 1993. Two-dimensional imaging-directed M-mode echocardiograms were studied weekly until 26 weeks post-transplant. LV mass and volume (indexed to BSA1.5) were measured. LV mass index increased until 3 weeks post-transplant, and then decreased. The mean decrement in LV mass index after 8 weeks post-transplant (relative to baseline) was significantly larger in patients with donor-recipient weight ratio > 1.5 compared …

News Clippings, Armin Weinberg

Works on Radiation Effects, 1990-2020

News clippings related to Chernobyl and other radiation events. See more at https://archives.library.tmc.edu/dm-ms211-012-0026.

One-Trial Context Fear Conditioning As A Function Of The Interstimulus Interval, Rick A. Bevins, John J. B. Ayres

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

In two experiments, we examined the effects of a wide range of interstimulus intervals (2.5, 15, 45, 120, 135, and 405 sec) on one-trial context fear conditioning with rats. Here, the interstimulus interval (ISI) denotes the time between placement in a conditioning chamber and the onset of a single footshock. On the conditioning day, we observed that the rats’ behavior at the time of shock onset varied systematically across ISI values. On the subsequent test day, we used context-evoked freezing as a measure of context conditioning and found the well-known inverted U-shaped ISI function. We also found that conditioned freezing …

3 Pertanyaan Umum Tentang Kutil Kelamin.Doc, Denature Indonesia

denature indonesia

Ua66/14/3 Nursing Pinning Ceremony, Wku Nursing

WKU Archives Records

Pinning ceremony program listing graduates of the WKU Nursing program.

What's Happening: December 13, 1995, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

2,4-Disulfonyl Phenyl Butyl Nitrone, Its Salt And Their Use As Pharmaceuticals, John M. Carney

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences Faculty Patents

2,4-disulfonyl α-phenyl-tert-butyl nitrone and its pharmaceutically acceptable salts are disclosed. These materials are useful as pharmaceutical agents for oral or parenteral, e.g. intravenous administration to patients suffering from acute central nervous system oxidation as occurs in a stroke or from gradual central nervous system oxidation which can exhibit itself as progressive central nervous system function loss. The materials are also used to ameliorate the side effects of oxidative-damage causing antineoplastic disease treatments.

The Impact Of Humor On Energy, Tension, Task Choices, And Attributions: Exploring Hypotheses From Toughness Theory, Richard A. Dienstbier

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Hypotheses derived from toughness theory suggest that nonaggressive humor should lead to increased feelings of energy without influencing tension, to preferences for studying materials that require more effort and energy, and to ratings of mundane laboratory activities as more challenging but not more threatening. Eighty-one college-age men and women were randomly assigned to watch a 12-minute video of Bill Cosby's humor or to watch a nonhumorous control video that analyzed the Cosby comedy routine. The humor condition resulted in significant increases in feelings of energy but not in feelings of tension. The other hypotheses were also confirmed except that performance …

Wrong Medicine: Doctors, Patients, And Futile Treatment, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.

Phenyl Butyl Nitrone Compositions And Methods For Treatment Of Oxidative Tissue Damage, John M. Carney, Robert A. Floyd

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences Faculty Patents

Compositions for treating tissue damage from ischemia contain PBN, or active derivatives thereof, which are active during ischemia in preventing ATP depletion of the cells which predisposes them to subsequent injury during reperfusion, and which are active during reperfusion as oxygen radical scavengers, in a suitable pharmaceutical carrier for systemic or local administration, especially to the CNS, spinal column and eyes. Based on animal studies, the dosage for treating damage due to stroke is in the range of 10 to 300 mg/kg. Similar dosages are useful in treating damage resulting from free radical generation during inflammation, either as a product …

Optimal Survey Design For Community Intervention Evaluations: Cohort Or Cross-Sectional?, Paula Diehr

Paula Diehr

Community intervention evaluations that measure changes over time may conduct repeated cross-sectional surveys, follow a cohort of residents over time, or (often) use both designs. Each survey design has implications for precision and cost. To explore these issues, we assume that two waves of surveys are conducted, and that the goal is to estimate change in behavior for people who reside in the community at both times. Cohort designs are shown to provide more accurate estimates (in the sense of lower mean squared error) than cross-sectional estimates if (1) there is strong correlation over time in an individual's behavior at …

Invasion Of Caco-2 Cells By Salmonella Typhimurium (Copenhagen) Isolates From Healthy And Sick Chickens, Theodore J. Kottom, Lisa K. Nolan, John Brown

Lisa K. Nolan

In a previous study, Salmonella isolates of sick birds were distinguished from those of apparently healthy birds by their high degree of invasion of tissue culture cells. In this study, a single pair of Salmonella isolates was examined to determine the source of this observed difference in invasion. When isolates were allowed to invade Caco-2 cells for 8 hours, the isolate from the sick bird (S) appeared to invade in greater numbers than did the isolate from the healthy bird (H). However, when invasion was distinguished from intracellular growth/survival, it was found that H invaded in greater numbers than S, …

Influence Of Chondroitinase On Indirect Hemagglutination Titers And Phagocytosis Of Pasteurella Multocida Serogroups A, D And F, Richard B. Rimler, Karen B. Register, Tibor Magyar, Mark R. Ackermann

Mark R. Ackermann

Capsules of Pasteurella multocida serogroups A, D and F contain mucopolysaccharides which block antigenic determinants and prevent phagocytosis. In this study, capsules of serogroup A, D and F strains of P. multocida were depolymerized by enzyme treatment. Capsule depolymerization of serogroup D and F strains with chondroitinase increased indirect hemagglutination (IHA) test titers and enhanced phagocytosis by swine neutrophils. Capsule depolymerization of serogroup A strains with hyaluronidase increased IHA titers, but depolymerization with chondroitinase did not. When serogroup A strains were treated with a combination of chondroitinase and hyaluronidase, IHA test titers were lower than titers of the same strains …

Gas1-Induced Growth Suppression Requires A Transactivation-Independent P53 Function., Giannino Del Sal, Elisabetta M. Ruaro, Rene Utrera, Charles N. Cole

Dartmouth Scholarship

In normal cells, induction of quiescence is accompanied by the increased expression of growth arrest-specific genes (gas). One of them, gas1, is regulated at the transcriptional level and codes for a membrane-associated protein (Gas1) which is down regulated during the G0-to-S phase transition in serum-stimulated cells. Gas1 is not expressed in growing or transformed cells, and when overexpressed in normal fibroblasts, it blocks the G0-to-S phase transition. Moreover, Gas1 blocks cell proliferation in several transformed cells with the exception of simian virus 40- or adenovirus-transformed cell lines. In this paper, we demonstrate that overexpression of Gas1 blocks cell proliferation in …

The Effectiveness Of A Preoperative Patient Education Handbook In Decreasing Anxiety Of Veterans Undergoing Elective Surgery, Garletta White Steen

Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this experimental, pretest/posttest study was to examine the effectiveness of a preoperative patient education handbook developed by postanesthesia care unit (PACU) nurses in decreasing state anxiety of veterans undergoing minor elective surgery. State anxiety was measured by the State Anxiety Scale of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, developed by Spielberger, Gorsuch, Luschene, Vagg, and Jacobs (1983). The population for the study was composed of veterans undergoing elective surgery in a hospital which is part of the South Texas Veterans Healthcare System. The sample consisted of 38 patients admitted to the hospital for a variety of minor elective surgeries. …

Ua66/14/4 Kentucky Partnership Newsletter, Vol. Ii, No. 9, Kentucky Partnership For Farm Family Health & Safety

University Organizations

Newsletter created by and about the Kentucky Partnership for Farm Family Health & Safety.

Jefferson Alumni Bulletin – Volume Xlv, Number 1, December 1995

The Bulletin (formerly the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin)

Jefferson Alumni Bulletin – Volume XLV, Number 1, December 1995

We will fight cancer with molecular therapeutics and prediagnostics, page 4

Behavior and economics will challenge prevention, page 6

From genetic understanding to cure, page 9

Computer-based teaching reshapes how students learn, page 12

Will tomorrow’s journals be electronic? Page 14

Jefferson health system upgrades its information technology, page 17

Molecule essential for cell growth and division is discovered at Jeff, page 19

Update - December 1995, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Making Human Life Captive to Biomedical Technology: Christianity and the Demise of Human Values

Teacher Certification Among Athletic Training Students, Neil Curtis

Sports Medicine Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Middle-Aged And Older Tennis Players, Yuan-Kai Liao, Jin-Shin Lai, Ching Lan

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Objective: To evaluate the training effects of tennis on the maintenance of cardiorespiratory function in middleaged and older individualDesign: Prospective study of a cohort of older tennis players examined two years after initial examination Setting: Research project at a hospital-based exercise physiology laboratory. Participants: 15 male (mean age: 66±4 yrs, range: 52-82 yrs) and 5 female (mean age: 5O±7 yrs, range: 40-59 yrs)subject free of significant cardiovascular, pulmonary and musculoskeletal diseases completed this study. Intervention: During the study period, the subjects practiced tennis 3-7 times per week. The baseline cardiorespira tory function was recorded in the initial exercise test. Same …

Meningioma Associated With Lumbar Hivd-Casereport, Yung-Szu Huang, Sau-Chin Mei, I-Ping Liu

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Spinal meningioma is a well circumscribed benign tumor. It grows slowly and acounts for about 25% of primary spinal cord tumors. It occurs predominantly in women and in thoracic region. Sometimes, we mistook its early symptoms for another problems such as arthritis, arachnoiditis, peripheral nerve disease, or motor neuron disease etc. Fortunately, Patient with severe motor deficit less than two months may get satisfactory improvements after surgery. The recurrent rate of spinal meningioma is much lower than that of intracranial meningioma. We reported a case of spinal meningioma at T4 level. He was diagnosed initially as lumbar disc herniation and …

Volume 38, Issue 6, Canadian Medical Association

Canadian Journal of Surgery

The mission of CJS is to contribute to the effective continuing medical education of Canadian surgical specialists, using innovative techniques when feasible, and to provide surgeons with an effective vehicle for the dissemination of observations in the areas of clinical and basic science research.

Visit the journal website at http://canjsurg.ca/ for more.

Effectiveness Of The Mixture Of Quaternary Ammonium Compounds And Aldehydes In Killing The Bacteria And Fungi(ประสิทธิภาพของสารผสมควอเตอนารีแอมโมเนียมและกลุ่มอัลดีไฮด์ในการฆ่าเชื้อแบคทีเรียและเชื้อรา, Jaowapa Jerngklinchan, Kriengsak Poonsuk

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

Effectiveness of the mixture of quaternary ammonium, alkyl dimethyl ammomium glyoxal, glutaraldehyde and formaldehyde in the inactivation of bacteria and fungi was conducted in vitro. The studies were performed on 53 strains of bacteria, both Gram's positive and Gram's negative, and 5 strains of contaminant fungi. The concentration of this disinfectant was adjusted to 1:100, 1:250 and 1:500 v/v with the exposure time of 1, 5, 10, 20, 40 and 60 min. Most of the tested organisms were completely inhibited at the concentration 1:100 v/v within 1 min after exposure except for Citrobacter and fungi which were inhibited in 5 …

What Is Your Diagnosis, Pranee Tuntivanich

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

No abstract provided.

The In Vitro Antimicrobial Sensitivity Testing Of Escherichia Coli Isolated From Commercially Reared Chickens(การทดสอบความไวของเชื้อ อี. โคไล ที่แยกได้จากไก่ ต่อยาปฏิชีวนะชนิดต่าง ๆ), Niwat Chansiripornchai, Jiroj Sasipreeyajan, Somsak Pakpinyo

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

Ninety three isolated E. coli from commercially reared chickens were tested for their antimicrobial sensitivity to 26 antimicrobial agents. Percentage of E. coli isolates tested were sensitive to gentamicin, lincomycin +spectino-mycin and danofloxacin; 83.52, 73.91 and 73.12%, respectively. Spectinomycin was the only antimicrobial agent that was not resistance to all E. coli isolates testing. One hundred percent of isolates were resistant to nalidixic acid, sulfadiazine, novobiocin and erythromycin.(เชื้อ อี. โคไล จำนวน 93 สายพันธุ์ ที่แยกได้จากไก่ นำมาทดสอบความไวของเชื้อ ต่อยาปฏิชีวนะต่างๆ จำนวน 26 ชนิด พบว่าเชื้อ อี. โคไล มีความไวต่อยาเจนต้ามัยซินสูงสุด คือ 83.52% ส่วนยาที่มีความไวต่อเชื้อรองลงมา ได้แก่ ลินโคมัยซินรวมกับสเปคติโนมัยซิน ดาโนฟลอกซาซิน คือ 73.91 และ 73.12% ตามลำดับ ยาสเป็คติโนมัยซินเป็นยาตัวเดียวที่ เชื้อ อี. โคไล ไม่มีการต้านยา และเชื้อ …

Attitudes Towards Veterinary Services - A Survey Among Bangkok Residents(ความคาดหวังการบริการทางสัตวแพทย์ของประชาชนในกรุงเทพมหานคร), Phichate Satrjeenpong, Chatcharat Reodecha, Achariya Sailasuta, Achara Tawatsin, Natthapol Rungrattansunthorn, Songwut Hothanasombut

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

After interviewing 300 pet keepers, two third of respondents are female whose household leaders hold Bachelor degree or above (33.8%) and overall family income is more then 50,000 bahts a month (26.8%). Most pet keepens keep pets as friends (33.5%), obtaining pets from acquaintants (44.1%), purchase (22.7%). Seventy pont two percent of those pet keepers perchase pets from Chatuchak Sunday Market. Ninety-one point seven percent of pets reared are dogs while 41.4% of them are mixed breeds. Before obtaining pets, most pet keepers have no knowledge of pet care (67.6%). In case of pets' illness and vaccination needs, 53.7% of …

Ovum Pick Up In Thai Native Calf(Ovum Pick Up ในลูกโคพื้นเมืองไทย), Chainarong Lohachit, Mongkol Techakumphu, Wichai Tantasuparak, Kaywalee Chatdarong, Siriwat Suadsong

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

The oocyte collection by using Real time B-mode scanning ultrasound (Ovum Pick Up) was performed in four Thai native calves aged 5-6 mts, weight 100 kg. All calves had an ear norgotromet progestagen implant for 7 days before ovarian stimulation. The calves were stimulated by follicle stimulting hormone (FSH) at dose of 120 mg, IM twice a day (am/pm) for 3 days as follow: 30/30, 20/20, 10/10 mg. The oocytes were collected 24 hrs. after the last injection of FSH. Every calf had a repeat stimulation every two weeks for one to five times. The average oocytes per collection was …

Capricornis Sumatraensis Annectens(ประสบการณ์การวางยาสลบเสียงผา), สุเมธ กมลนรนาถ, วันชัย ตันวัฒนะ, รัฐพันธ์ พัฒนรังสรรค์

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

No abstract provided.