Easing the Entry of Qualified International Medical Graduates to U.S. Medical Practice.

Almost one quarter of physicians and physicians-in-training in the United States are international medical graduates (IMGs), meaning they have graduated from a medical school not accredited in the United States. Some IMGs are U.S.

Temporal gene expression profiling indicates early up-regulation of interleukin-6 in isoproterenol-induced myocardial necrosis in rat.

Gene expression was evaluated in the myocardium of male Wistar rats after a single subcutaneous administration of 0.5 mg of isoproterenol, a beta-adrenergic agonist that causes acute tachycardia with subsequent myocardial necrosis. Histology of the heart, clinical chemistry, and hematology were evaluated at 9 time points (0.