Nurse-Administered Auricular Point Acupressure for Cancer-Related Pain.

Purpose: The study aimed to (1) examine the feasibility of providing a training course on auricular point acupressure (APA) for clinical oncology nurses to integrate APA into real-world nursing care settings, and (2) examine the effectiveness of APA on cancer-related pain (CRP) under usual inpatient oncology ward conditions.

Methods: This was a 2-phase feasibility study. Phase 1, an in-person, 8 hour training program was provided to oncology nurses.

Chromatographic techniques for the analysis of organophosphate pesticides with their extraction approach: a review (2015-2020).

In agriculture, a wide range of OPPs has been employed to boost crop yield, quality, and storage life. However, due to the ever-increasing population and rapid urbanization, pesticide use has surged in recent years. These compounds are exceedingly poisonous to humans, and despite the fact that specific legislation prohibits their use, the frequency of toxic and/or fatal incidents, as well as current statistics, suggest that they are currently accessible.

Airway Elastin is increased in severe asthma and relates to proximal wall area: histological and computed tomography findings from the U-BIOPRED severe asthma study.

Background: Airway remodelling, which may include goblet cell hyperplasia / hypertrophy, changes in epithelial integrity, accumulation of extracellular matrix components, smooth muscle hypertrophy and thickening of the lamina reticularis, is a feature of severe asthma and contributes to the clinical phenotype.

Objective: Within the U-BIOPRED severe asthma study, we have assessed histological elements of airway remodelling and their relationship to computed tomography (CT) measures of proximal airway dimensions.

Methods: Bronchial biopsies were collected from two severe asthma groups, one non-smoker (SAn, n = 28) and one current/ex-smoker (SAs/ex, n = 13), and a mild-moderate asthma group (MMA, n = 28) classified and treated according to GINA guidelines, plus a healthy control group (HC, n = 33).

Development of pyrene-stacked carbon nanotube-based hybrid: measurement of NO ions using fluorescence spectroscopy.

Non-covalent bonding via π-π stacking is in demand these days because it does not affect the structure of the carbon nanotube (CNT). Herein, a hybrid material was fabricated via π-π stacking between the aromatic rings of carbon nanotubes and a dihydropyrimidone-based pyrene derivative. The developed CNT@pyrene hybrid material was fully characterized using SEM, EDX, TEM, XRD, and FTIR techniques.