Prediction of Disruptive Behavior over Time from Changes in Patients' Global Functioning in Acute Psychiatric Care.

Disruptive behavior of patients in acute psychiatric care is a problem for both patients and staff. Preventing a patient's impending disruption requires recognizing and understanding early signals. There are indications that a change in a patient's global functioning may be such a signal.

Evidence for functional convergence of redox regulation in G6PDH isoforms of cyanobacteria and higher plants.

In a recent paper (Wenderoth et al., J Biol Chem 272: 26985-26990, 1997) we reported that the positions of the two redox regulatory cysteines identified in a plastidic G6PD isoform from potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) differ substantially from those conserved in cyanobacterial G6PDH sequences.