Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) transport substantial plant carbon (C) that serves as a substrate for soil organisms, a precursor of soil organic matter (SOM), and a driver of soil microbial dynamics. Using two-chamber microcosms where an air gap isolated AMF from roots, we CO-labeled Avena barbata for 6 wk and measured the C Rhizophagus intraradices transferred to SOM and hyphosphere microorganisms. NanoSIMS imaging revealed hyphae and roots had similar C enrichment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Comprehensive sex and sexuality education (CSE) is an evidence-based intervention associated with improved sexual and reproductive health outcomes. Currently, there are no standardized requirements for sex and sexuality education in the United States, despite expert recommendations.
Contributions To Theory: In the United States, a Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child theoretical model proposed by the Centers for Disease Control, and current examples of school sex education policy is used to make recommendations for the standardization of comprehensive sexual health education in K-12 schools.
Objective: The purpose of this study is to use feedback from student evaluations of teaching (SETs) to define and describe themes associated with perceived teaching effectiveness.
Methods: We retrospectively analyzed SETs for instructors in required didactic courses from one academic year using qualitative content analysis. The analysis included student responses to the following questions: "Describe the strongest aspect of the instructor's teaching.
Objective: Physician well-being impacts all areas of health care. There is, however, a paucity of evidence regarding burnout among chiropractic students. The purpose of this project is to evaluate burnout among a single cohort of chiropractic students as they progress through their clinical rotation.
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February 2024
Social workers assess and intervene to prevent harm among clients at risk of harm to self (HTS) and harm to others (HTO) with a firearm. This study sought to assess the impact of client race on social workers' approaches to reduce firearm access when they weighed voluntary (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: In 2011, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons released a consensus recommending venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). The purpose of our study was to examine (1) incidences of postoperative complications, including pulmonary embolism (PE), deep vein thrombosis (DVT), and transfusion rates; (2) trends from 2016 to 2021 in VTE prophylaxis; and (3) independent risk factors for 90-day total complications following TKA between aspirin, enoxaparin, rivaroxaban, and warfarin.
Methods: Using a national, all-payer database from 2016 to 2021, we identified all patients who underwent primary TKA.
Background: In 2021, alternative payment models accounted for 40% of traditional Medicare reimbursements. As such, we sought to examine health disparities through a standardized categorization of social disparity using the social vulnerability index (SVI). We examined (1) risk factors for SVI ≥ 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCloverleaf skull deformity or Kleeblattschadel syndrome is a severe condition where multiple cranial sutures are absent and prematurely fused, leading to a trilobate head shape. The remaining open sutures or fontanelles compensate for rapid brain expansion, while the constricted fused calvarium restricts brain growth and results in increased intracranial pressure. Recent data show that early posterior cranial and foramen magnum decompression positively affects infants with cloverleaf skulls.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: There is limited knowledge about the effect of liberal intraoperative oxygen on non-infectious complications and overall recovery from surgery.
Methods: In this retrospective cohort study, we investigated associations between mean intraoperative fraction of inspired oxygen (FiO), and outcome in adults undergoing elective surgery lasting more than 2 h at a large metropolitan New Zealand hospital from 2012 to 2020. Patients were divided into low, medium, and high oxygen groups (FiO ≤ 0.
Background: Distal femoral replacements (DFRs) are excellent treatment options for limb salvage procedures in patients who have bone loss secondary to neoplasm. Multiple studies report adequate survivorship and complication rates following DFR implantation, primarily for non-neoplastic indications. However, current literature regarding neoplasm-specific reports is often limited by sample size, survivorship, and patient reported outcome measurements.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFViruses are the leading cause of foodborne illness globally. Concentration of viruses from samples is important for detection because viral contamination of foods often occurs at low levels. In general, virus concentration methods can be classified as either nonspecific, exploiting the relatively homogeneous physicochemical properties of the virus to separate/concentrate it from the sample matrix, or specific, relying on recognition elements such as antibodies to specifically capture and separate viruses from foods.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: An open Achilles tendon repair is performed in patients who have suffered an acute rupture. All patients with this injury should be counseled on their treatment options, which include open operative repair and functional rehabilitation. We prefer the use of an open repair in high-level athletes and those who have delayed presentation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Open trigger finger release is an elective surgical procedure that serves as the gold standard treatment for trigger digits. The aim of this procedure is to release the A1 pulley in a setting in which the pulley is completely visible, ultimately allowing the flexor tendons that were previously impinged on to glide more easily through the tendon sheath. Although A1-or the first annular pulley-is the site of triggering in nearly all cases, alternative sites include A2, A3, and the palmar aponeurosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Ganglion cysts are benign soft-tissue tumors that are most commonly found in the wrist. Within the wrist, 60% to 70% of ganglion cysts occur on the dorsal side and 20% to 30% occur on the volar side. Although ganglia arise from multiple sites over the dorsal wrist, dorsal ganglia most commonly originate at the scapholunate joint.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Gulf War Illness is a type of chronic multisymptom illness, that affects about 30% of veterans deployed to the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War. Veterans deployed to Iraq/Afghanistan after 2000 are reported to have a similar prevalence of chronic multisymptom illness. More than 30 years after the Persian Gulf War, Gulf War Illness still has an unexplained symptom complex, unknown etiology and lacks definitive diagnostic criteria and effective treatments.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChallenges to docetaxel use in prostate cancer treatment include several resistance mechanisms as well as toxicity. To overcome these challenges and to improve the therapeutic efficacy in heterogeneous prostate cancer, the use of multiple agents that can destroy different subpopulations of the tumor is required. Brusatol, a multitarget inhibitor, has been shown to exhibit potent anticancer activity and play an important role in drug response and chemoresistance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChronic wasting disease (CWD) is a highly infectious, fatal prion disease that affects cervid species. One promising method for CWD surveillance is the use of detection dog-handler teams wherein dogs are trained on the volatile organic compound signature of CWD fecal matter. However, using fecal matter from CWD-positive deer poses a biohazard risk; CWD prions can bind to soil particles and remain infectious in contaminated areas for extended periods of time, and it is very difficult to decontaminate the affected areas.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe process of dead cell clearance by phagocytic cells, called efferocytosis, prevents inflammatory cell necrosis and promotes resolution and repair. Defective efferocytosis contributes to the progression of numerous diseases in which cell death is prominent, including liver disease. Many gaps remain in our understanding of how hepatic macrophages carry out efferocytosis and how this process goes awry in various types of liver diseases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Mineral oil injection represents a dated practice of rapid and inexpensive breast augmentation. After a latency period, surrounding tissue becomes inflamed and fibrotic. Breast paraffinoma is well-documented in women; however, only 3 cases of such masses in male patients exist in the literature.
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