Publications by authors named "C C Presson"
To further investigate the inhibition of 's in vitro growth and biofilm formation by an organo-selenium-incorporated polyurethane (PU) catheter material. , , and were incubated in vitro with organo-selenium and control polyurethane catheter materials in the presence of glutathione. Growth was evaluated by a colony-forming-unit (CFU) count and visualized with confocal laser scanning microscopy.
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- * Patients who had radical prostatectomy and preoperative MRI scans were analyzed, revealing a significant link between total prostate volume (TPV) and GVPZ, with 40 cc identified as the cutoff for small-to-moderate versus large prostates.
- * Findings suggest that larger BPH prostates may compress the peripheral zone, leading to glandular atrophy, and could potentially offer a protective effect against the growth of PCa, which commonly originates in the peripheral
Substantial effort has gone into neuroimaging studies of neural mechanisms underlying addiction. Human studies of smoking typically either give monetary reward during an fMRI task or else allow subjects to smoke outside the scanner, after the session. This raises a fundamental issue of construct validity, as it is unclear whether the same neural mechanisms process decisions about nicotine that process decisions about money.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCigarette smoking is a well-established cause of excess morbidity and mortality in the United States and globally. The current study builds on the existing literature by examining how smoking trajectories might be a mechanism through which adolescent tolerance for deviance predicts premature all-cause and tobacco-specific mortality. Participants were from a cohort-sequential study conducted in the Midwestern United States of the natural history of cigarette smoking from adolescence through midlife that collected nine waves of data from 1980 to 2011.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To test the effect of exposure to the US Food and Drug Administration's proposed graphic images with text warning statements for cigarette packages on implicit and explicit attitudes towards smoking.
Design And Methods: A two-session web-based study was conducted with 2192 young adults 18-25-years-old. During session one, demographics, smoking behaviour, and baseline implicit and explicit attitudes were assessed.