Developments in rehabilitation psychiatry within the RANZCP and the creation of a mental health rehabilitation curriculum.

Objective: This paper describes the initial development of a mental health rehabilitation curriculum for Australian mental health settings and for psychiatrists and trainees wishing to develop specialist skills in mental health rehabilitation.

Method: Members of the Section of Social Cultural and Rehabilitation Psychiatry (SSCRP) established an expert working group under the auspices of the RANZCP. Existing college training resources were reviewed, and a gap analysis was conducted to guide development of new training modules.

Translocation of Loline Alkaloids in -Infected Cereal and Pasture Grasses: What the Insects Tell Us.

Aphids are major pests of cereal and pasture grasses throughout the world, vectoring disease and reducing plant production. There are few control options other than insecticides. endophytes that produce loline alkaloids in their hosts provide a possible mechanism of control, with both meadow fescue and tall fescue naturally infected with loline-producing endophytes showing a resistance to We screened spp.

Genetic Manipulation of the Ergot Alkaloid Pathway in var. and Its Effect on Black Beetle Feeding Deterrence.

endophytes are filamentous fungi (family Clavicipitaceae) that live in symbiotic associations with grasses in the sub family Poöideae. In New Zealand, var. confers significant resistance to perennial ryegrass () against insect and animal herbivory and is an essential component of pastoral agriculture, where ryegrass is a major forage species.

Identification and Structure Elucidation of Epoxyjanthitrems from Infected with the Endophytic Fungus var. and Determination of the Tremorgenic and Anti-Insect Activity of Epoxyjanthitrem I.

Epoxyjanthitrems I-IV (-) and epoxyjanthitriol () were isolated from seed of perennial ryegrass () infected with the endophytic fungus var. Although structures for epoxyjanthitrems I-IV have previously been proposed in the literature, this is the first report of a full structural elucidation yielding NMR (Nuclear magnetic resonance) assignments for all five epoxyjanthitrem compounds, and additionally, it is the first isolation of epoxyjanthitriol (). Epoxyjanthitrem I induced tremors in mice and gave a dose dependent reduction in weight gain and feeding for porina (), a common pasture pest in New Zealand.

Root Herbivory: Grass Species, Endophytes and Moisture Status Make a Difference.

The root-feeding scarab insect causes severe damage to pasture ecosystems in New Zealand. Loline alkaloids produced by some endophytes deter this insect. In two experiments, tall fescue infected with , strain AR584, and endophyte-free (Nil) controls were subjected to pulse drought stress (DS) or well-watered conditions (WW).

Comparison of earthworm and chemical assays of the bioavailability of aged 1,1-dichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethylene, 1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethane, and heavy metals in orchard soils.

Orchard soils can contain elevated concentrations of 1,1-dichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethylene (p,p'-DDE), 1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethane (p,p'-DDT), and heavy metals as a result of historical agrichemical applications. The bioavailability of p,p'-DDE, p,p'-DDT, As, Cd, Cu, and Pb from five field-aged New Zealand orchards and three grazing soils was assessed by using a 28-d bioassay with Aporrectodea caliginosa and chemical assays. Significant relationships were found between total soil and earthworm tissue concentrations for p,p'-DDE (p < 0.

Anesthetic efficacy of a repeated intraosseous injection following a primary intraosseous injection.

The purpose of this prospective, randomized, single-blinded study was to determine the anesthetic efficacy of a repeated intraosseous injection given 30 minutes after a primary intraosseous injection. Using a crossover design, 55 subjects randomly received a primary X-tip intraosseous injection (Dentsply Inc, York, PA) of 1.4 mL of 2% lidocaine with epinephrine (using the Wand; Milestone Scientific, Deerfield, IL) and a repeated intraosseous or mock injection at 30 minutes in two appointments.

Parotid abscess due to salmonella enteritidis: A case report.

Background: Salmonella infection of the parotid gland is rare.

Case: An instance in a 50-year-old man of Salmonella enteritidis parotiditis initially recognized by microbial culture of a fine needle aspiration cytology material is described. The identified predisposing factor was chronic alcoholic abuse.

HIV and HHV-8 negative primary effusion lymphoma in a patient with hepatitis C virus-related liver cirrhosis.

Primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) or body cavity-based lymphoma (BCBL) is a unique subgroup of B-cell lymphomas that exhibits exclusive or dominant involvement of serous body cavities without a detectable tumor mass. We present a case of a PEL/BCBL that exclusively involved the peritoneal cavity of a 58-year-old immunocompetent male with hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related liver cirrhosis. The lymphoma cells were large, highly atypical and expressed CD19, CD20, CD22, CD10, HLA-DR, and CD45 with kappa light chain restriction.