An evaluation of intravenous medication preparation times before and after implementation of first-party digital image capture functionality.

Purpose: The intravenous (IV) medication compounding workflow has long been associated with preventable medication errors. This has led to the development of technologies designed to enhance the safety of IV compounding workflows. Digital image capture is a component of this technology about which there is relatively limited published literature.

Modulation in the microRNA repertoire is responsible for the stage-specific effects of Akt suppression on murine neuroendocrine prostate cancer.

Recent studies indicate a stage-specific, differential role for the oncogene Akt on various cancers. In prostate cancer (PCa), suppression of Akt activity in the advanced stages promoted transforming growth factor-β (TGFβ) pathway-mediated epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and metastasis to the lungs. In the current study, we performed Affymetrix analysis to compare the expression profile of microRNAs in the mouse prostate tissues collected at the prostatic inter-epithelial neoplasia (PIN) stage from Transgenic adenocarcinoma of the mouse versus mice, and at the advanced stage from mice treated with triciribine (Akt inhibitor) versus DMSO-treated control.