The Effect of a Perinatal Breastfeeding Support Program on Breastfeeding Outcomes in Primiparous Mothers.

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a self-efficacy intervention on primiparous mothers' breastfeeding behaviors. Participants were recruited from an antenatal clinic at a university-affiliated hospital. Seventy-five primiparous mothers were recruited from November 2013 to February 2014 for the control group, and 75 primiparous mothers were recruited from March to June 2014 for the intervention group.

An Investigation of Factors Influencing Nurses' Clinical Decision-Making Skills.

This study aims to investigate the influencing factors on nurses' clinical decision-making (CDM) skills. A cross-sectional nonexperimental research design was conducted in the medical, surgical, and emergency departments of two university hospitals, between May and June 2014. We used a quantile regression method to identify the influencing factors across different quantiles of the CDM skills distribution and compared the results with the corresponding ordinary least squares (OLS) estimates.

Pain relief effect of breast feeding and music therapy during heel lance for healthy-term neonates in China: a randomized controlled trial.

Objectives: to test the effectiveness of breast feeding (BF), music therapy (MT), and combined breast feeding and music therapy (BF+MT) on pain relief in healthy-term neonates during heel lance.

Design: randomised controlled trial.

Setting: in the postpartum unit of one university-affiliated hospital in China from August 2013 to February 2014.

Predictors of breast feeding self-efficacy among Chinese mothers: a cross-sectional questionnaire survey.

Objectives: to examine breast feeding self-efficacy and identify its predictors among expectant Chinese mothers in the antenatal period.

Design And Setting: a cross-sectional descriptive questionnaire survey was conducted in the antenatal clinics of three university hospitals in China between September and December 2011.

Participants: expectant mothers planning to breast feed, and who were at least 18 years of age, expecting a single, healthy, full-term baby, and competent in Mandarin (n=201).

Ablation of ALCAT1 mitigates hypertrophic cardiomyopathy through effects on oxidative stress and mitophagy.

Oxidative stress causes mitochondrial dysfunction and heart failure through unknown mechanisms. Cardiolipin (CL), a mitochondrial membrane phospholipid required for oxidative phosphorylation, plays a pivotal role in cardiac function. The onset of age-related heart diseases is characterized by aberrant CL acyl composition that is highly sensitive to oxidative damage, leading to CL peroxidation and mitochondrial dysfunction.

Ion transport through dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) induced transient water pores in cell membranes.

It is well known that dimethyl sulphoxide (DMSO) increases membrane permeability, which makes it widely used as a vehicle to facilitate drug delivery across biological membranes. However, the mechanism of how DMSO increases membrane permeability has not been well understood. Recently, molecular dynamics simulations have demonstrated that DMSO can induce water pores in biological membranes, but no direct experimental evidence is so far available to prove the simulation result.

[Reconstruction of urothelium tissue using issue-engineering technique].

Objective: To evaluate the feasibility of reconstruction of urothelium tissue in vivo using tissue-engineering technique.

Methods: The urothelium cells were obtained from young rabbit, bladder by mechanical and enzyme digested methods. After expanded in vitro, the 4th to 5th generation urothelium cells were seeded onto the surface of 8 Polylatical/glycolic acid copolymer polymer, the polymer matrix without seeding cells served as control group.