How do patients describe their disabilities? A coding system for categorizing patients' descriptions.

Background: To provide care that meets the values and preferences of patients with disabilities, health care providers need to understand patients' perceptions and understanding of their disability. No studies have explored patients' definitions of disability within the healthcare setting.

Objective: The aim of the study was to understand how patients' define their disability in the healthcare setting and to develop a coding system for categorizing how they describe their disability.

A community-centered disability curriculum for medical students.

Although disabilities are prevalent, many medical professionals lack knowledge about them. Many haven't been trained to care for patients who have them and have negative attitudes about disabilities and those who have them. Their attitudes can affect health care and patient outcomes.

Photoinduced electron transfer and fluorophore motion as a probe of the conformational dynamics of membrane proteins: application to the influenza a M2 proton channel.

The structure and function of the influenza A M2 proton channel have been the subject of intensive investigations in recent years because of their critical role in the life cycle of the influenza virus. Using a truncated version of the M2 proton channel (i.e.

Non-natural amino acid fluorophores for one- and two-step fluorescence resonance energy transfer applications.

Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) provides a powerful means to study protein conformational changes. However, the incorporation of an exogenous FRET pair into a protein could lead to undesirable structural perturbations of the native fold. One of the viable strategies to minimizing such perturbations is to use non-natural amino acid-based FRET pairs.