NISS: From Vision to National Institute

The cardiovascular programs of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute: from vision to action to impact.

p t m f o t p F B D he National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) is ommitted to its public health mission of deepening undertanding of the pathobiology of cardiovascular (CV), lung, nd blood disorders and translating this knowledge into mproved care and clinical outcomes for patients and imroved public health. The Institute’s blueprint for guiding, timulating, and supporting outstanding...

National Institute of Virology

EHPnet: National Eye Institute

During cell division, chromosome segregation must be coordinated with cell cleavage so that cytokinesis occurs after chromosomes have been safely distributed to each spindle pole. Polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1) is an essential kinase that regulates spindle assembly, mitotic entry and chromosome segregation, but because of its many mitotic roles it has been difficult to specifically study its post-an...

National Institute of Genetics

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National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire or Indian Vision Function Questionnaire for visually impaired: a conundrum.

PURPOSE Both the long form visual functioning scale (LFVFS(39)) and visual functioning scale (VFS) are measures of visual functioning (VF) that represent the Rasch-scaled versions of the NEI-VFQ(39) and the Indian vision function questionnaire (IND-VFQ), respectively. The objectives of this study were to investigate if the 15-item LFVFS(39) and 13-item VFS of the IND-VFQ meet the assumptions of...