Enhanced Survival of Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia-Dysplastic over Proliferative Subtype after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplant: A Tertiary Center Experience and Literature Review.

Introduction: CMML is a rare neoplasm with overlapping myelodysplastic and myeloproliferative features whose only potential cure is allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT).

Methods: This retrospective study examined 27 CMML patients with high-risk clinical features who underwent first allo-HCT at our institution between 2004 and 2022.

Results: Nineteen patients were diagnosed with the proliferative subtype (CMML-MPN) and 8 with the dysplastic subtype (CMML-MDS).

Factors Associated with Medical Students' Attitudes About Cost-Conscious Care: A Mixed-Methods Multi-school Study.

Background: Because physician practices contribute to national healthcare expenditures, initiatives aimed at educating physicians about high-value cost-conscious care (HVCCC) are important. Prior studies suggest that the training environment influences physician attitudes and behaviors towards HVCCC.

Objective: To explore the relationship between medical student experiences and HVCCC attitudes.

V2O3(0001) surface termination: phase equilibrium.

Complementary but independent medium-energy and low-energy ion scattering studies of the (0001) surfaces of V(2)O(3) films grown on Pd(111), Au(111) and Cu(3)Au(100) reveal a reconstructed full O(3)-layer termination creating a VO(2) surface trilayer. This structure is fully consistent with previous calculations based on thermodynamic equilibrium at the surface during growth, but contrasts with previous suggestions that the surface termination comprises a complete monolayer of vanadyl (V=O) species.

Interaction of drug-carrier systems with targets--a study using atomic force microscopy.

To learn about the interaction between drug agents and nanoparticular carrier systems, the physical analytical methods of parelectric, electron spin and fluorescence spectroscopy have proven helpful tools to yield descriptive models of such complex systems. For a deeper understanding of drug absorption from body surfaces and drug distribution into the tissues, however, the lack of knowledge about the interaction between such agents and membranes on different levels is a severe drawback. This gap can be closed by the application of atomic force microscopy at normal temperatures and under the admission of liquid surroundings.

Quartz microbalance device for transfer into ultrahigh vacuum systems.

An uncomplicated quartz microbalance device has been developed which is transferable into ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) systems. The device is extremely useful for flux calibration of different kinds of material evaporators. Mounted on a commercial specimen holder, the device allows fast quartz microbalance transfer into the UHV and subsequent positioning exactly to the sample location where subsequent thin film deposition experiments shall be carried out.