Japanese family physicians' attitudes, difficulties, and perceived significance in managing mental health problems: A qualitative study.

Background: Family physicians (FPs) are expected to identify, diagnose, and treat mental health problems. Despite challenges such as limited time and low confidence in their skill as mental health providers, FPs generally consider mental health as a meaningful part of their profession. However, the role of the FP in mental health services is not clearly established in Japan.

Descriptive Study of Patients Treated in a Psychosomatic Internal Medicine Declared by Japanese Family Medicine Clinic.

Background: Psychosomatic internal medicine (PSIM) assesses psychosocial factors and provides holistic consideration. In Japan, PSIM physicians seem to be recognized as providers of mental health services, but family medicine did not so. When family physicians confront with psychological problems, high dropout rate is reported so it is needed to reveal factors related to dropouts, The purpose of this study is to describe characteristics of patients, treatment dropouts and its related factors in PSIM practice by family physician.

Niemann-Pick Type C Proteins Are Required for Sterol Transport and Appressorium-Mediated Plant Penetration of .

Many biotrophic and hemibiotrophic fungal pathogens use appressoria to directly penetrate the host plant surface. In the cucumber anthracnose fungus , differentiation of appressoria requires a proper G/S cell cycle progression, regulated by the GTPase-activating protein complex CoBub2-CoBfa1 and its downstream GTPase CoTem1. To explore the mechanisms by which the CoTem1 cascade regulates plant infection, we screened for CoTem1 interaction factors and identified a Niemann-Pick type C2 homolog (CoNpc2).

COVID-19 Vaccination Willingness and Associated Factors in Japanese Primary Care Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Introduction/objectives: COVID-19 vaccination is important to stop the pandemic. It has been reported that willingness to be vaccinated is associated with system factors as well as individual attitudes and beliefs. Primary care patients include individuals at increased risk of poor outcomes after COVID-19 infection, such as elderly people and those with comorbidities.