Biomarkers.

Background: Cerebral blood flow (CBF) and glucose utilization have both proven sensitive biomarkers of brain function in Alzheimer's disease. However, while blood flow supplies glucose to cells to meet local demand, and therefore, are inter-related, the two aspects are physiologically distinct. Our goal was to conduct a region-to-region correlation of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) biomarkers of cerebral blood flow and glucose utilization to determine whether these physiologically distinct biomarkers yield functionally distinct information.

Alzheimer's Imaging Consortium.

Background: Cerebral blood flow (CBF) and glucose utilization have both proven sensitive biomarkers of brain function in Alzheimer's disease. However, while blood flow supplies glucose to cells to meet local demand, and therefore, are inter-related, the two aspects are physiologically distinct. Our goal was to conduct a region-to-region correlation of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) biomarkers of cerebral blood flow and glucose utilization to determine whether these physiologically distinct biomarkers yield functionally distinct information.

Fostering Collaborative Practice Through Interprofessional Education.

Background And Objectives: Health care leaders use interprofessional collaborative practice as a strategy to improve health outcomes, and they have stressed its importance in the education of primary care medical providers to apply public health concepts like the social determinants of health and community collaborations. Interprofessional education (IPE) prepares students from different professions for collaborative practice as they enter the health workforce by developing core competencies. Understanding the importance of IPE is vital toward improving person and client-centered care and population health outcomes.

Diagnostic Performance of Clinical and Routine Laboratory Data in Acute Mesenteric Arterial Occlusion-An International Multicenter Study.

Background: There are no clinical or laboratory markers that can diagnose acute mesenteric ischemia (AMI) accurately. This study aimed to find differences in clinical and laboratory markers between arterial occlusive AMI and other acute abdominal diseases where AMI was initially suspected.

Methods: This was a post hoc study of an international prospective multicenter study where data on patients with suspected AMI were collected.

High-Statistics Measurement of the Cosmic-Ray Electron Spectrum with H.E.S.S.

Owing to their rapid cooling rate and hence loss-limited propagation distance, cosmic-ray electrons and positrons (CRe) at very high energies probe local cosmic-ray accelerators and provide constraints on exotic production mechanisms such as annihilation of dark matter particles. We present a high-statistics measurement of the spectrum of CRe candidate events from 0.3 to 40 TeV with the High Energy Stereoscopic System, covering 2 orders of magnitude in energy and reaching a proton rejection power of better than 10^{4}.