Ashlee

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Healthcare and the hospital chaplain
08 May

Healthcare and the hospital chaplain

Ashlee0 CommentsHealthcare and the hospital chaplain
Many chaplains and most chaplaincy programs in the United States--with encouragement from their accrediting organization, the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE)--have begun to assume a more proactive stance toward patients, healthcare professionals, and healthcare facilities. Some chaplains and chaplaincy programs have begun to engage in activities that have ranged from initiating conversations with and perusing the medical records of patients who have not requested their services to proposing that they be permitted to do "spiritual assessments" on patients--in some instances whether these patients have been explicitly informed and have agreed to this beforehand. Moreover, many chaplains and chaplaincy programs have begun to assume…
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Epidemiological studies on cystic echinococcosis in China–a review
08 May

Epidemiological studies on cystic echinococcosis in China–a review

Ashlee0 CommentsEpidemiological studies on cystic echinococcosis in China--a review
In the four decades from 1951 to 1990, the six provinces or autonomous regions (Xinjiang, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xizang and Nei Monggol) reported a total of 26,065 surgical cases of hydatid disease, most of which were reported in the recent decade. About one third of the patients was children and adolescents under 15 years old. So far, cystic hydatid infections of local origin have been confirmed in 22 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in the whole nation. Findings of X-ray examination and real-time B-mode ultrasonography in agricultural and pastoral areas of Xinjiang, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia and Xizang showed that the…
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Distress assessment: practice change through guideline implementation.
08 May

Distress assessment: practice change through guideline implementation.

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Most nurses agree that incorporating evidence into practice is necessary to provide quality care, but barriers such as time, resources, and knowledge often interfere with the actual implementation of practice change. Published practice guidelines are one source to direct practice; this article focuses on the use of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network's Clinical Practice Guidelines for Oncology: Distress Management, which articulate standards and demonstrate assessment for psychosocial distress. Planning for the implementation of the guidelines in a feasibility pilot in a busy radiation oncology clinic is described. Results indicate that adding a distress assessment using the distress thermometer and problem checklist did…
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16 Apr

Influenza B

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Influenza B   How could we detect Influenza B? Highly sensitive and special enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the detection of influenza B nucleoprotein-specific antibodies in serum which may be used for the detection of influenza B NP antibodies in human serum as well as experimental animals.Influenza B Nucleoprotein Antigen Detection ELISA also incorporates proprietary diluents which are made to avoid the progression of nonspecific signal derived from complex sample matrix effects or the nonspecific adsorption of reactive test components leading to both high sensitivity and specificity. The test kit can be found in a conventional photometric format that uses…
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09 Apr

Influenza A virus

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Influenza A virus, typically encountered more frequently than types B and C, and associated with the majority of serious epidemics, can be further subdivided into strains or subtypes based on antigenic differences in the external hemagglutinin proteins (H1-H16) and neuraminidase proteins (N1-N9). An open reading frame or ORF is a portion of an organism's genome which contains a sequence of bases that could potentially encode a protein. In a gene, ORFs are located between the start-code sequence (initiation codon) and the stop-code sequence (termination codon). Historically, human influenza virus infections have been associated with H1N1, H2N2, and H3N2 subtypes of…
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Tailoring translational strength using Kozak sequence variants improves bispecific antibody assembly and reduces product-related impurities in CHO cells
06 Apr

Tailoring translational strength using Kozak sequence variants improves bispecific antibody assembly and reduces product-related impurities in CHO cells

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Optimal production of bispecific antibodies requires efficient and tailored co-expression and assembly of two distinct heavy and two distinct light chains. Here, we describe a novel technology to modulate the translational strength of antibody chains via Kozak sequence variants to produce bispecific antibodies in a single cell line. In this study, we designed and screened a large Kozak sequence library to identify 10 independent variants that can modulate protein expression levels from approximately 0.2 to 1.3-fold compared to the Wild-type sequence in transient transfection. We used a combination of several of these variants, covering a wide range of translational strength,…
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Quantitative Proteomics Reveal an Altered Pattern of Protein Expression in Brain Tissue from Mice Lacking GPR37 and GPR37L1.
06 Apr

Quantitative Proteomics Reveal an Altered Pattern of Protein Expression in Brain Tissue from Mice Lacking GPR37 and GPR37L1.

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GPR37 and GPR37L1 are glia-enriched G protein-coupled receptors that have been implicated in several neurological and neurodegenerative diseases. To gain insight into the potential molecular mechanisms by which GPR37 and GPR37L1 regulate cellular physiology, proteomic analyses of whole mouse brain tissue from wild-type (WT) versus GPR37/GPR37L1 double knockout (DKO) mice were performed in order to identify proteins regulated by the absence versus presence of these receptors (data are available via ProteomeXchange with identifier PXD015202). These analyses revealed a number of proteins that were significantly increased or decreased by the absence of GPR37 and GPR37L1. One of the most decreased proteins…
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