Solutions to improve care provided during cardiac arrest resuscitation attempts must be multifaceted and targeted to the diverse number of care providers to be successful. In this article, new approaches to improving cardiac arrest resuscitation performance are reviewed. The focus is on a continuous quality improvement paradigm highlighting improving training methods before actual cardiac arres...

Recent results reinforce the view that actin-based and microtubule-based motility systems do not operate independently, but are used in coordinated fashion to determine intracellular localization of cargo such as organelles.

P ick any animal cell, and chances are you'll fi nd a protein called ankyrin somewhere under the plasma membrane. Vann Bennett fi rst discovered ankyrin (1, 2) as the anchor that connects the anion exchanger to the spectrin-based membrane skeleton in erythrocytes. Ankyrin is a member of a family of adaptors that perform similar roles for multiple membrane transporters as well as cell adhesion m...