Knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors regarding sickle cell disease: Implications for prevention.

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a widespread inherited blood disorder, which leaves lasting effects on the health, social functioning, and finances of individuals, families, communities, and health care systems. A nonexperimental, cross-sectional research design was used to assess 415 college students' knowledge about SCD. Data was obtained through an online survey derived from a modified version of the SCD Knowledge Assessment Tool.

A High Voltage Power Supply That Mitigates Current Reversals in Capillary Zone Electrophoresis-Electrospray Mass Spectrometry.

Capillary electrophoresis coupled with electrospray ionization typically employs two power supplies, one at each end of the capillary. One power supply is located at the proximal (injection) end of the capillary. The power supply located at the distal (detector) end of the capillary drives the electrospray.

Understanding quality-of-life while living with late-stage lung cancer: an exploratory study.

U.S. Veterans have a higher prevalence of advanced lung cancer and poorer survival outcomes compared to the general population; yet, no studies exist which specifically explore the psychosocial and existential quality-of-life (QOL) of late-stage lung cancer among this population.

Cocaine congeners as PET imaging probes for dopamine terminals.

Unlabelled: The PET imaging properties of three phenyltropane drugs with differing affinities and selectivities for the dopamine over serotonin transporter, were compared.

Methods: Carbon-11-CFT (WIN 35,428, 2 beta-carbomethoxy-3 beta-(4-fluorophenyl)tropane), 11C-CCT (RTI-131, 2 beta-carbomethoxy-3 beta-(4-monochlorophenyl)tropane), and 11C-CDCT (dichloropane, 2 beta-carbomethoxy-3 beta-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)tropane) were evaluated as imaging probes for dopamine neurons in five normal and in two MPTP-treated cynomolgus monkeys (macaca fascicularis) using a high-resolution PET imaging system (PCR-I).

Results: For 11C-CFT, the specific binding ratio (as defined by the ratio of radioactivity levels in striatum versus cerebellum) was 4.