OBJECTIVE In Japan, the number of elderly people who have difficulties performing the activities of daily living (ADLs) is increasing. The objective of this study was to assess the relationship between ADL and the clinical characteristics of pneumonia. METHODS We conducted a retrospective study of 219 adult patients hospitalized due to pneumonia [151 patients with community-acquired pneumonia...

The papers by Fatt & Katz (1952) and del Castillo & Katz (1954) were watershed events in the history of synaptic physiology because they established that neurotransmitters are released from presynaptic terminals in discrete ‘quanta’. Bernard Katz and colleagues employed the frog neuromuscular junction, an accessible peripheral synapse that had already been used to establish some basic principle...