The effects of telepresence with real-time video and audio communication on parent-infant interaction and staff experience in neonatal intensive care unit.

Objective: We implemented an online visitation system named "telepresence" in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) for family members at home to communicate with their babies in real-time using video and audio. This study evaluated the impact of this system on families and medical staff.

Methods: Nineteen families of babies admitted to the NICU between 2022 and 2023 and 65 medical staff participated.

Roles of PACAP and PHI as inhibitory neurotransmitters in the circular muscle of mouse antrum.

Mediators of neurogenic responses of the gastric antrum were studied in wild-type and pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) -knockout (KO) mice. Electrical field stimulation (EFS) to the circular muscle strips of the wild-type mouse antrum induced a triphasic response; rapid transient relaxation and contraction, and sustained relaxation that was prolonged for an extended period after the end of EFS. The transient relaxation and contraction were completely inhibited by L-nitroarginine and atropine, respectively.

PACAP- and PHI-mediated sustained relaxation in circular muscle of gastric fundus: findings obtained in PACAP knockout mice.

Mediators of neurogenic responses of the gastric fundus were studied in wild type and pituitary adenylate cyclase activating peptide (PACAP) knockout mice. Electrical field stimulation (EFS) to the circular muscle strips of the wild type mouse fundus induced a tri-phasic response, rapid transient contraction and relaxation, and sustained relaxation that was prolonged for an extended period after the end of EFS. The transient relaxation and contraction were completely inhibited by N(G)-nitro-L-arginine and atropine, respectively.