The purpose of this paper is to summarize the need, feasibility, safety, legality, and ethical perspectives of pacemaker reutilization in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). It will also describe, in-depth, Project My Heart Your Heart (PMHYH) as a model for pacemaker reuse in LMICs. The primary source of the discussion points in this paper is a collection of 14 publications produced by th...

A long-acting thymidine pellet consisting of 190 mg of cholesterol and 60 mg of thymidine has been developed for the study of thymidine metabolism and reutilization in vivo. Implantation of such a pellet s.c. in adult mice will maintain the blood plasma concentration of thymidine at levels between 40 and 8 X 10(-6) M, which are from 36 to 7 times those of normal mice, for periods up to 48 hr. D...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of the present study was to examine the feasibility and efficacy of a program to acquire devices with adequate battery life from crematories and funeral homes for potential reutilization in underserved nations. BACKGROUND There exists a great health-care disparity between the industrialized world and underserved nations--specifically in the frequency of pacemaker implan...

Phenolic compounds are frequently reported to be the main components of root exudates in response to iron (Fe) deficiency in Strategy I plants, but relatively little is known about their function. Here, we show that removal of secreted phenolics from the root-bathing solution almost completely inhibited the reutilization of apoplastic Fe in roots of red clover (Trifolium pratense). This resulte...

Low health literacy is associated with higher mortality, higher rates of hospitalization, and poor self-management skills for chronic disease. Early, unplanned hospital reutilization after discharge is a common and costly occurrence in U.S. hospitals. Still, few studies have examined the relation between health literacy and 30-day hospital reutilization rates. The authors examined the associati...

On the assumption that all amino acids entering protein must pass through the intracellular pool of free amino acids, reutilization of leucine, lysine, arginine, and alanine was determined by pulse labeling of HeLa cell protein, followed by a chase in unlabeled medium and measurement of the specific activities of the intracellular free pool and protein amino acids. The half-lives of the amino a...

I enjoyed reading the review article on anemia of chronic disease (ACD) that appeared in the October I , 1992 issue of Blood.’ I agree that the name of this type of anemia is a misnomer and misleading. I prefer to call it “anemia of defective iron reutilization.” Iron utilization is the iron that appears in red blood cells (RBC) after intravenous (IV) injection of radioactive inorganic iron int...

NH4 + is a major source of inorganic nitrogen for rice (Oryza sativa), and NH4 + is known to stimulate the uptake of phosphorus (P). However, it is unclear whether NH4 + can also stimulate P remobilization when rice is grown under P-deficient conditions. In this study, we use the two rice cultivars ‘Nipponbare’ and ‘Kasalath’ that differ in their cell wall P reutilization, to demonstrate that N...