Meeting Minds

Meeting of Minds XXIV

#1 Title: Music Therapy: An intervention for psychiatric patients and their health care staff Author: Emily Meihls Faculty sponsor: Maureen Thum Affiliation: Honors Program, University of Michigan-Flint Abstract: Music therapy has been developing for several decades, and in recent years has been formally recognized as a highly accredited profession. This non-traditional therapy has been impleme...

Meeting of minds.

Meeting of the cancer minds.

-Mice bearing a methylcholanthrene-induced tumour were tested for their cell-mediated reactivity to the experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) peptide of human myelin basic protein (MBP) in the leucocyte adherence inhibition (LAI) test. Tested over a range of peptide concentrations, peritoneal cells (PC) from tumour-bearing mice exhibited optimal adherence inhibition at 640 ng/ml; PC fro...

Meeting of the minds: metalloneurochemistry.

Metalloneurochemistry is the study of metal ion function in the brain and nervous system at the molecular level. Research in this area is exemplified through discussion of several forefront areas where significant progress has been made in recent years. The structure and function of ion channels have been elucidated through high-resolution x-ray structural work on the bacterial K(+) ion channel...

Meeting of the minds on mercury.

-Bilateral kidney ligation of mice immediately before injection of misonidazole (MIS) prolongs the plasma half-life of this radiosensitizer from about 2 h (in normal mice) to 10-11 h, similar to that in man. Kidney ligation does not, however, change the relative proportions of MIS and its 0-demethylated metabolite, Ro-05-9963, for the first 12 h after MIS injection. Kidney ligation was used wit...