Providing person-centred dementia care on general hospital wards.

Dementia is caused by conditions that result in a progressive loss of brain function. People with dementia often have complex multimorbidity which increases their risk of admission to hospital. However, care in acute hospitals is often not adapted to patients with dementia, who have reported negative experiences of their hospital stay from admission to discharge.

Morphometric analysis of gastrocnemius muscle fiber size and fiber proportions in the hypophysectomized rat after prolonged administration of growth hormone or thyroxine.

This study investigated the effects of either growth hormone or thyroxine on muscle fiber atrophy caused by hypophysectomy in male Wistar rats. Muscle fiber size is reported as equivalent circle diameter (ECD) in transverse section of fresh-frozen gastrocnemius muscle. Three months post-hypophysectomy type 1 (slow twitch) and type 2 (fast twitch) muscle fibers were smaller (p < 0.