A pilot study of Biotene OralBalance® gel for oral care in mechanically ventilated preterm neonates.

Background: Neonatal ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. In adults on mechanical ventilation, timed oral care decreases the frequency of VAP, but this approach has not been studied in neonates.

Objectives: To evaluate the feasibility of a randomized trial of timed oral care with Biotene OralBalance® gel and estimate the required sample size for such a trial.

Anxiety, significant losses, depression, and irrational beliefs in first-offence shoplifters.

Objective: To evaluate the relationship among demographic data, anxiety, significant losses, depression, and irrational beliefs reported by first-offence shoplifters.

Method: One hundred and six adult shoplifters who were first-time offenders completed a self-administered questionnaire.

Results: Men and women were equally likely to be arrested for this offence.

Shoplifting and mental illness.

A survey of 1,649 shoplifting convictions at a Montreal area municipal court found that a relatively low percentage (3.2%) of the cases involved mentally ill patients and that there is a comparatively closer link between shoplifting and affective disorders, alcoholism and drug addiction. The survey also showed that shoplifting is related more to mental illness than to the use of psychotropic drugs.

Effects of chronic acetone administration on ethanol-inducible monooxygenase activities in the rat.

Liver microsomal monooxygenase activities known to be ethanol-inducible were determined in female Sprague-Dawley rats after 2-week treatment with 1% (v/v) acetone. Daily acetone intake was in the order of 1.2 g/kg.

Differences in the duration of the enhancement of liver mixed-function oxidase activities in ethanol-fed rats after withdrawal.

Liver microsomal mixed-function oxidase activities were determined in female Sprague-Dawley rats after 3 weeks of ethanol feeding and for up to 10 days after withdrawal. Ethanol (36% of total calories) was administered in a high fat liquid diet and was replaced isocalorically by carbohydrates in controls. Chronic ethanol feeding similarly enhanced both microsomal cytochrome P-450 content and benzphetamine N-demethylase activity, per mg of protein, and resulted in a disproportionate increase in both aniline hydroxylase and 7-ethoxycoumarin O-deethylase activities.