Effectiveness of interprofessional education in renal physiology curricula for health sciences graduate students.

The primary purpose of conducting an interprofessional education (IPE) experience during the renal physiology block of a graduate-level course was to provide basic science, physical therapy, and physician assistant graduate students with an opportunity to work as a team in the diagnosis, treatment, and collaborative care of a patient with acute kidney injury. The secondary purpose was to enhance the understanding of basic renal physiology principles with a patient case presentation of renal pathophysiology. The overall purpose was to assess the value of IPE integration within a basic science course by examining student perceptions and program evaluation.

Six minute walk test in people with tuberculosis sequelae.

Background & Purpose: Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that affects the lungs and results in poor lung compliance secondary to diffuse fibrotic changes to lung tissue. Consequently, people with pulmonary tuberculosis experience impaired gas exchange resulting in a decline in functional capacity. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the physical functional capacity (VO(2)max) in a group of older (50 - 65 years) people with pulmonary tuberculosis and to compare them to an age-matched healthy group.

Consequences of alcohol-induced early dysregulation of responses to trauma/hemorrhage.

Acute alcohol intoxication is a frequent underlying condition associated with traumatic injury. Studies from our laboratory have been designed to examine the early hemodynamic, proinflammatory, and neuroendocrine alterations in responses to hemorrhagic shock in surgically catheterized, conscious, unrestrained, male Sprague-Dawley rats during acute alcohol intoxication (1.75-g/kg bolus, followed by a constant 15-h infusion at a rate of 250-300 mg/kg/h).

Cardiac myosin phenotype remodelling following adrenodemedullectomy and chronic 6-hydroxydopamine in male Sprague-Dawley rats.

Background: An increase was previously found in relative beta myosin heavy chain (MyHC) in the right ventricle of rats following thoracic spinal transection. It was hypothesized that the MyHC remodelling that was observed might be due, in part, to autonomic influences on the right ventricle.

Objective: To evaluate cardiac myosin phenotype following 21 days of reduced sympathetic activity.

Use of anabolic steroids to attenuate the effects of glucocorticoids on the rat diaphragm.

Background And Purpose: Administration of glucocorticoids results in atrophy and contractile dysfunction in the rat diaphragm. Anabolic steroids may be useful in preventing atrophy and contractile dysfunction. The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of simultaneous administration of testosterone and glucocorticoids on morphological and contractile properties of the rat diaphragm.