Standardization of the use of opsonized zymosan as stimulus in the 1,2,3-dihydrorhodamine technique for the assessment of neutrophil respiratory burst.

Introduction: Chronic granulomatous disease is a defect in phagocytosis due to deficiency of gp91phox, p22phox, p47phox, p40phox, and p67phox (classic form of the disease). Recently, EROS and p40phox deficiency were described as responsible for the non-classical form of the disease. The 1,2,3-dihydrorhodamine oxidation technique, with phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate as a stimulus, is performed to diagnose the classic chronic granulomatous disease.

Building Family Medicine Research Through Community Engagement: Leveraging Federal Awards to Develop Infrastructure.

Many academic departments and programs struggle with the challenge of how to begin a meaningful research program. A useful place to start is with the work they already are doing in communities. Using work in practices and other clinical venues as a springboard can build helpful relationships that can catalyze research and build infrastructure that matters to family medicine clinicians, researchers, and the communities they serve.

In Search of an Integrative Method to Study Unconscious Processing: An Application of Bayesian and General Recognition Theory Models to the Processing of Hierarchical Patterns in the Absence of Awareness.

The dissociation between conscious and unconscious perception is one of the most relevant issues in the study of human cognition. While there is evidence suggesting that some stimuli might be unconsciously processed up to its meaning (e.g.

Evaluation of an F Protein-Based Recombinant Protein for Immunization Against Respiratory Syncytial Virus.

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is one of the most important etiologies of acute respiratory infections that cause bronchiolitis in children under 5 years of age. Treatments are expensive, no vaccine is available, and this is an important cause of hospitalization. Costimulatory molecules have been reported to be good inducers of antiviral type 1 immune response.