Stress Factors for the Paediatric and Adult Palliative Care Multidisciplinary Team and Workplace Wellbeing Solutions.

Background: Palliative care is a challenging specialty, especially when it comes to caring for children with serious life-limiting conditions and supporting their families. Workers face significant challenges and experience major impacts on their wellbeing. We conducted a qualitative study to understand the sources of stress in the palliative care team, their work expectations, and how they can cope with the demands.

Acidic NAADP-sensitive calcium stores in the endothelium: agonist-specific recruitment and role in regulating blood pressure.

Accumulating evidence implicates nicotinic acid adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NAADP) in the control of Ca(2+)-dependent functions. Little, however, is known concerning its role in the vascular endothelium, a major regulator of blood pressure. Here, we show that NAADP acetoxymethyl ester (NAADP-AM), a cell-permeant NAADP analog, increases cytosolic Ca(2+) concentration in aortic endothelial cells.

Apelin effects on lipopolysaccharide-increased pulmonary permeability in rats.

Material And Method: Pretreatment with apelin-13 (AP-13, 2 mg/kg, i.p.), sodium butyrate (BUT, 200 mg/kg, s.

[Estimation of uncertainty of measurement in clinical biochemistry].

The uncertainty of measurement (UM) or measurement uncertainty is known as the parameter associated with the result of a measurement. Repeated measurements usually reveal slightly different results for the same analyte, sometimes a little higher, sometimes a little lower, because the results of a measurement are depending not only by the analyte itself, but also, by a number of error factors that could give doubts about the estimate. The uncertainty of the measurement represent the quantitative, mathematically expression of this doubt.

Adenosine involvement on bronchial reactivity modulation by diesel exhaust.

Unlabelled: In recent decades, epidemiologic investigations have suggested a strong relationship between air pollution and an increase in the prevalence of allergic rhinitis and asthma.

Aim: To investigate the possible involvement of adenosine (AD) in bronchomotor effects of diesel exhaust (DE).

Material And Method: Isolated bronchi from ovalbumin (OVA) sensitized rats were challenged in presence or absence of diesel exhaust extract (DEE).