Knowledge Levels About Inflammatory Bowel Disease Vary Between Healthcare Professional Groups.

Background: Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is one of the most serious chronic diseases affecting the global population. Clinical team members involved in the care of individuals with IBD should have sufficient knowledge about IBD.

Aims: The study aim was to assess IBD knowledge among four health care professional groups in New Zealand: nurses, medical students, dietitians, and pharmacists.

Assessing the impact of antimicrobial stewardship implementation at a district hospital in Ghana using a health partnership model.

Background: Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) is imperative in addressing the menace of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in health systems. Commonwealth Partnerships for Antimicrobial Stewardship uses a health partnership model to establish AMS in Commonwealth countries. The Hospital of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in partnership with Ulster University, Northern Ireland, undertook an AMS project from November 2021 to May 2022.

Variability of breast surgery in women participating in breast cancer screening programs.

Introduction: Currently, variability in surgical practice is a problem to be solved. The aim of this study is to describe the variability in the surgical treatment of breast cancer and to analyze the factors associated with it.

Methods: The study population included 1057 women diagnosed with breast cancer and surgically treated.

Fibronectin amyloid-like aggregation alters its extracellular matrix incorporation and promotes a single and sparsed cell migration.

Fibronectin (Fn) is an extracellular matrix (ECM) multifunctional glycoprotein essential for regulating cells behaviors. Within ECM, Fn is found as polymerized fibrils. Apart from fibrils, Fn could also form other kind of supramolecular assemblies such as aggregates.

Cell cycle arrest or survival signaling through αv integrins, activation of PKC and ERK1/2 lead to anoikis resistance of ovarian cancer spheroids.

Ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecologic cancer mainly due to spheroids organization of cancer cells that disseminate within the peritoneal cavity. We have investigated the molecular mechanisms by which ovarian cancer spheroids resist anoikis, choosing as models the 2 well-characterized human ovarian cancer cell lines IGROV1 and SKOV3. These cell lines have the propensity to float as clusters, and were isolated from tumor tissue and ascites, respectively.

[Cytogenetic study in otosclerosis].

In 50 patients (32 females and 18 males) with otosclerosis who underwent stapedectomy, a cytogenetic study of chromosomal abnormalities was made. No description of G banding in patients with otosclerosis was found in the literature. No chromosomal abnormalities were found in the karyotype using this technique.

[Laryngeal paraganglioma: a case report].

A case of laryngeal paraganglioma in a 25-year-old female is reported. The site of the tumor was the left aryepiglotic fold and ventricular band. The diagnosis was made by histology and immunohistochemistry medial thyrotomy was performed in order to remove a bilateral carotid paraganglioma.

Effect of chronic FSH administration on ovarian follicular development, ovulation rate and corpora lutea formation in sheep.

This study in ewes examined the effects on ovarian function of a pulsatile regimen of ovine FSH (NIADDK-oFSH-17) administered over a 24- to 28-day period beginning on day 1 of the oestrous cycle (day 0 = oestrus). The FSH (1.66 micrograms or 5.

Plasma gonadotropin concentrations and ovarian characteristics in Inverdale ewes that are heterozygous for a major gene (FecX1) on the X chromosome that influences ovulation rate.

Ewes heterozygous (I+) for the Inverdale prolificacy gene (FecX1) located on the X chromosome have ovulation rates approximately 1.0 times higher than noncarriers (++). The aims of this study were to examine, in I+ and ++ ewes, the peripheral plasma concentrations and/or ovarian secretion rates of FSH, LH, inhibin, estradiol, and progesterone during anestrus and the estrous cycle and after ovariectomy.

[Congenital cholesteatoma of the middle ear].

The AA. inform about 8 patients suffering from congenital cholesteatoma of the tympanomastoidal cleft. They underline the difficulties for achieving a correct diagnosis when the eardrum remains intact and remark the need to keep in mind this process for differential diagnosis of the conductive hypoacusis in childhood.