Publications by authors named "Grazyna Wojcik"

The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine resulted in a refugee crisis. The terms of employment of Ukrainian Refugee background Medical Professionals (UKR-MPs) in the Polish healthcare system were liberalised. The aim of the study was to identify challenges in job seeking and the integration of Ukrainian war refugee healthcare workers into the Polish healthcare system.

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There are a lot of factors affecting the release of hormones from the anterior part of pituitary gland and their interactions with other parts of the endocrine, nervous and immune systems. The special significance of the proestrus phase of the estrous cycle of the rat, during which LH and FSH levels increase, followed by ovulation is known. The short length of the estrous cycle and the well recognized sequence of vaginal lavage cytology make it useful for investigating the influence of a stressful environment on the reproductive function.

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The adaptation of an organism to a change in environmental conditions is a complex and in some aspects a poorly understood physiological process. The activating influence of stress on the sympathetic nervous system, the hypothalamic - pituitary - adrenal axis and the suppression of TSH, LH, FSH release is well known. The interplay of communication between the endocrine and immune systems plays an essential role in modulating the response to stress related mediators.

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To date, there has been little research examining whether short-time changes of external environmental conditions exert any effects on immune responses. The activation of metabolic changes, release of hormones responsive for immunomodulation and the action of interleukins play an important role in interaction with hormones of an anterior pituitary gland in the proestrous phase of the reproductive cycle. The aim of our study was to determine the effects of a short-time change of ambient temperature (30 minutes) on interleukin-6 (IL-6) and corticosterone plasma concentration of female rats in the proestrous phase of the reproductive cycle.

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Crystal structures of two polymorphic forms of p-nitrophenol have been determined at several temperatures between 120 and 375 K. The thermal expansion tensor has been determined for both polymorphs. The rigid-body mean-square amplitudes of molecular translations and librations and the amplitudes of the internal torsions of the nitro group have been calculated at different temperatures.

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The meta-dinitrobenzene crystal structure has been determined at five temperatures in the 100-300 K temperature range. The thermal expansion coefficients have been calculated from the temperature variation of the lattice parameters. Rigid-body motion analysis with allowance for large-amplitude internal motions provided the T, L and S tensors' values at the temperatures studied and was used to characterize the torsional motion of two nitro groups in the molecule.

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Crystalline 4-isopropylphenol, C(9)H(12)O, an optically non-linear material, was studied by X-ray diffraction in order to determine its structure at several temperatures in the 95-300 K range. The thermal expansion coefficients have been calculated from the lattice parameters' dependence on temperature. The rigid-body analysis of the anisotropic displacement parameters including the correlation with the internal motion of large amplitude provided the values of the molecular translation and libration tensors at the temperatures studied and was used to characterize the torsional motion of the isopropyl group.

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