Changing systems to address elder abuse: examples from aging services, the courts, the long-term care ombudsman, and the faith community.

The authors describe their use of systems change as a means of ameliorating elder abuse. After assessing the needs of their target audiences, projects developed a variety of strategies. These include disseminating promising practices in courts, creating Elder Law Clinics to assist with conservatorships, educating older adults about predatory mortgage lending, building a new response system for complaints of abuse and neglect in unlicensed care facilities, and convening clergy and lay leader groups to learn how faith communities can make a difference in elder abuse and neglect.

Gastric mucosal cytokine and epithelial cell responses to Helicobacter pylori infection in Mongolian gerbils.

Experimental infection with Helicobacter pylori in Mongolian gerbils results in chronic gastritis and gastric cancer. To investigate epithelial cell proliferation, apoptosis, and mucosal cytokine responses in gastritis, Mongolian gerbils were infected with the H pylori SS1 strain. At 4 weeks post-infection, gastritis was predominantly within the antrum, but extended to the corpus in approximately 50% of gerbils by 36 weeks.

Infection of Mongolian gerbils with Chinese Helicobacter pylori strains.

To date only a few Helicobacter pylori strains have been demonstrated to colonise Mongolian gerbils successfully. The aim of this study was to establish stable colonisation of Chinese strains of H. pylori in gerbils.

Gastric Helicobacter species infection in murine and gerbil models: comparative analysis of effects of H. pylori and H. felis on gastric epithelial cell proliferation.

C57BL/6 mice and Mongolian gerbils were infected with Helicobacter felis and Helicobacter pylori SS1 strain to investigate the effects of different Helicobacter species on gastric inflammation and epithelial cell proliferation in different animal models. At 4 weeks, gerbils infected with H. pylori or H.