Background: There is an under-representation of Black, Asian and minority ethnic nurses in senior positions within the UK's national healthcare system.
Objectives: To understand student nurses' perspectives on the role of race and ethnicity on career expectations, course learning and delivery, and areas for additional training and skill development for all nurses in understanding structural inequalities in healthcare.
Design: Qualitative study involving semi-structured interviews.
We describe a case of radial extension and its management during femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery (FLACS) in a patient with intumescent cataracts. Radial extension was observed after injection of trypan blue into the anterior chamber. Management of the extension was achieved by separation of adhesions between the incomplete capsulotomy, along with manual completion at the areas of extensions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMost patients with the syndrome resistance to thyroid hormone (RTH) express a mutant thyroid hormone receptor beta (TRbeta) with transdominant negative transcriptional effects. Since no patient with a mutant TRalpha has been identified, we introduced a point mutation into the mouse thyroid hormone receptor (TRalpha1) locus originally found in the TRbeta gene, that reduces ligand binding 10-fold. Heterozygous 2- to 3-week- old mice exhibit a severe retardation of post-natal development and growth, but only a minor reduction in serum thyroxine levels.
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