Structural Model of the Healthcare Information Security Behavior of Nurses Applying Protection Motivation Theory.

Background: Healthcare information includes sensitive data and, as such, must be secure; however, the risk of healthcare information leakage is increasing. Nurses manage healthcare information in hospitals; however, previous studies have either been conducted on medical workers from various other occupations or have not synthesized various factors. The purpose of this study was to create and prove a model of nurses' healthcare information security (HIS).

Beneficial effects of the transgenic expression of human sTNF-αR-Fc and HO-1 on pig-to-mouse islet xenograft survival.

Both human soluble tumor necrosis factor-α receptor-Fc (sTNF-αR-Fc) and heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) transgenic pigs have been generated previously for xenotransplantation. Here, we investigated whether overexpression of sTNF-αR-Fc or HO-1 in pig islets prolongs islet xenograft survival. Adult porcine islets were isolated from human sTNF-αR-Fc or HO-1 transgenic and wild type pigs, and were transplanted into diabetic nude mice.

Roles of Toll-like receptors in allogeneic islet transplantation.

Background: Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are involved in the rejection of solid organ allografts. However, the roles of TLRs in islets are still controversial. We investigated the roles of TLRs in donor islets together with those in recipients in allogeneic islet transplantation.

Roles of islet Toll-like receptors in pig to mouse islet xenotransplantation.

Although innate immunity plays important roles in xenograft rejection, there have been few studies on the role of toll-like receptors (TLRs) in xenotransplantation. Furthermore, most studies focused on the recipient's TLRs. Therefore, we investigated whether TLRs in porcine islets can contribute to islet xenograft rejection.

A coordination polymer of cobalt(II)-glutarate: two-dimensional interlocking structure by dicarboxylate ligands with two different conformations.

A novel Co-glutarate, Co[O(2)C(CH(2))(3)CO(2)] (1), was synthesized as single crystals by the hydrothermal reaction of CoCl(2) with glutaric acid in the presence of KOH and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis, TGA, IR, UV-vis reflectance spectrometry, and SQUID measurements. The dark purple Co-glutarate crystallizes in the monoclinic system in the space group P2/c, with a = 14.002(3) A, b = 4.