Organizational culture and a safety-conscious work environment: The mediating role of employee communication satisfaction.

Introduction: A safety-conscious work environment allows high-reliability organizations to be proactive regarding safety and enables employees to feel free to report any concern without fear of retaliation. Currently, research on the antecedents to safety-conscious work environments is scarce.

Method: Structural equation modeling was applied to test the mediating role of employee communication satisfaction in the relationship between constructive culture and a safety-conscious work environment in several nuclear power plants.

Human esophageal epithelial cells possess an Na+/H+ exchanger for H+ extrusion.

Objective: The human esophagus is regularly exposed to refluxed gastric acid. Therefore, its epithelial cells require for survival a means of extruding excess H+ from the cytoplasm. Because Na+/H+ exchange activity has been observed in many mammalian cell types, including that of rabbit esophagus, we sought its presence in human esophageal epithelium.

HCl-induced cell edema in primary cultured rabbit esophageal epithelium.

Background & Aims: In a prior study, esophageal epithelial cells within intact epithelium were observed to swell after exposure to low extracellular pH (pHo) caused by activation of a bumetanide-sensitive NaK2Cl cotransporter. Because these results were obtained by correlation of tissue wet-weight gain with morphological evidence of cell swelling, another method was selected to confirm and extend these findings.

Methods: Primary cultured rabbit esophageal cells were loaded with the fluorescent dye 2'-7'-bis(carboxyethyl)-5,6-carboxyfluorescein so that changes in intracellular pH (pHi) and cell volume could be simultaneously monitored by microfluorimetry.

Agmatine: a novel endogenous vasodilator substance.

The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of agmatine, an endogenous clonidine-displacing substance (CDS), on systemic hemodynamics in the anesthetized rat. Bolus intravenous (i.v.

The quantitation of triazolam in postmortem blood by gas chromatography/negative ion chemical ionization mass spectrometry.

A specific and sensitive assay has been developed to quantitate triazolam in postmortem blood using 2H6-triazolam as an internal standard. Triazolam is isolated from whole blood by adsorption on an Amberlite XAD-2 resin and subsequent elution with an organic solvent. The extract is analyzed by gas chromatography/mass spectometry using selected ion monitoring (GC/MS/SIM) in the negative chemical ionization mode (Cl-).