BACKGROUND A community health assessment (CHA) is used to identify and address health issues in a given population. Effective CHA requires timely and comprehensive information from a wide variety of sources, such as: socio-economic data, disease surveillance, healthcare utilization, environmental data, and health resource allocation. Indonesia is a developing country with 235 million inhabitant...

Two cholic acid (ChA) analogues, containing a 4-nitrobenzo-2-oxa-1,3-diazole (NBD) moiety at C-3, were incorporated into ChA aggregates and submitted to fluorescence quenching by the two enantiomers of several tryptophan derivatives. In all cases, a significant stereodifferentiation was observed; the most remarkable effect was found when comparing the 3alpha and the 3beta diastereomers.

Dutta AK, Khimji A, Sathe M, Kresge C, Parameswara V, Esser V, Rockey DC, Feranchak AP. Identification and functional characterization of the intermediate-conductance Ca -activated K channel (IK-1) in biliary epithelium. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 297: G1009–G1018, 2009. First published September 17, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpgi.00223.2009.—In the liver, adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is ...

The unidirectional porous hydroxyapatite HAp (UDPHAp) is a scaffold with continuous communicated pore structure in the axial direction. We evaluated and compared the ability of the UDPHAp as a three-dimensional (3D) bone tissue engineering scaffold to the interconnected calcium porous HAp ceramic (IP-CHA). To achieve this, we evaluated in vitro the compressive strength, controlled rhBMP-2 relea...

A gas permeable CHA-type aluminophosphate molecular sieve membrane was ionothermally synthesized on a porous d-alumina substrate through the so-called “substrate surface conversion” method. The synthetic conditions for this specific membrane were optimized. The temperature, time and the amounts of H3PO4 and HF in the initial synthesis solution were investigated. X-ray diffraction (XRD), scannin...

Background: Certain marker studies have practical importance in the biology of prostate cancer. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the quantification of certain neuroendocrine and proliferative markers obtained during transurethral resection or prostatectomy, would help in the prognostic evaluation of prostatic adenocarcinomas. Methods: The present study was performed on samples...

conclusions caffeine has a potential role for pain modulation. current evidence on caffeine use for migraine and terminal stage cancer is not well-established. future studies should address the use of caffeine alone for different types of pain with dose escalation and standardization of outcome measurement. evidence acquisition the data on caffeine as an adjuvant therapy or as a main component ...

BACKGROUND For more than 50 years, Community Health Aides and Community Health Practitioners (CHA/Ps) have resided in and provided care for the residents of their villages. OBJECTIVES This study is a systematic description of the clinical practice of primary care health workers in rural Alaska communities. This is the first evaluation of the scope of health problems seen by these lay health w...

Aromatic amino acids have been shown to promote self-assembly of amyloid peptides, although the basis for this amyloid-inducing behavior is not understood. We adopted the amyloid-β 16-22 peptide (Aβ(16-22), Ac-KLVFFAE-NH(2)) as a model to study the role of aromatic amino acids in peptide self-assembly. Aβ(16-22) contains two consecutive Phe residues (19 and 20) in which Phe 19 side chains form ...