Student Pedagogical Consultants: A Strategy for Increasing Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity, and a Sense of Belonging in Curricular Approaches in Physical Therapist Education.

Background And Purpose: Diversity within the physical therapy profession lags in comparison to the United States population. As the profession strives to diversify, faculty must pay attention to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEI-B) in curricular approaches, including classroom materials, instruction, and assessment. With critical application, students from equity-deserving groups (EDGs) can provide unique perspectives to faculty about curricular approaches.

Conditional mutagenesis by oligonucleotide-mediated integration of loxP sites in zebrafish.

Many eukaryotic genes play essential roles in multiple biological processes in several different tissues. Conditional mutants are needed to analyze genes with such pleiotropic functions. In vertebrates, conditional gene inactivation has only been feasible in the mouse, leaving other model systems to rely on surrogate experimental approaches such as overexpression of dominant negative proteins and antisense-based tools.

[The influence of psychological factors on the integral health characteristic (data from a prospective population study)].

Aim: To develop integral assessment of the health status based on the examination of representative samples from different regions of Russia (Veliky Novgorod, Nizhni-Novgorod, Vologda, Omsk and Nalchik) with the use of special questionnaires and simple anthropometric and functional methods in the framework of a prospective 3-year population study of organized groups.

Methods: The above questionnaires allowed to elucidate the socio-economic status of the patients, their somatic and psychological conditions (lifestyle index or psychological protection mechanisms (PPM), social adaptation, sanogenic reflexia; also used were Eysenck's psychotism scale, hospital anxiety and depression scale, the perceived stress scale (PSS), and moral potential of personality development scale.

Results: It was shown that the profile of psychological protection mechanisms is dominated by primitive reactions, such as projection, protection, and negation.

[The methodology of therapeutic hypothermia in children born in a state of asphyxia].

This guideline provides the diagnostic and treatment algorithm for newborns with gestational age over 35 weeks and weighing more than 1800g who has severe asphyxia in birth with the threat of severe or medium-severe hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.

Urinary soluble VCAM-1 in systemic lupus erythematosus: a clinical marker for monitoring disease activity and damage.

Objective: To determine the urinary levels of soluble vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) and intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and to assess their relationship with clinical and laboratory features and the degree of activity and damage associated with the disease.

Methods: The study sample included 24 consecutive patients with SLE. 24-hour urine samples were collected for the determination of soluble VCAM-1 and ICAM-1 levels by ELISA.