Evaluation of a multiprofessional community stroke team: a randomized controlled trial.

Objectives: There is inconclusive evidence of the effectiveness of stroke rehabilitation by a community stroke team. The aim was to evaluate a specialist multiprofessional team in a community setting.

Design: Randomized controlled trial.

Delta opioid receptors mediate glucose uptake in skeletal muscles of lean and obese-diabetic (ob/ob) mice.

Specific binding sites for [125I]beta-endorphin and the delta1-opioid [3H][D-pen(2), D-pen(5)]enkephalin (DPDPE) were quantified using autoradiography in soleus and extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscles of lean and obese-diabetic (ob/ob) mice. The density of binding was significantly higher in obese-diabetic than lean mice. The uptake of 2-deoxy-D-[1-3H]deoxyglucose, a nonmetabolized glucose analogue, into isolated soleus and EDL muscles was stimulated by beta-endorphin, beta-endorphin 1-27, and DPDPE, but not by the delta2-opioid deltorphin II.

Analysis of the primary sex ratio, sex chromosome aneuploidy and diploidy in human sperm using dual-colour fluorescence in situ hybridisation.

In situ hybridisation technology provides a new tool for chromosome analysis of human spermatozoa. We have used dual-colour fluorescence in situ with probes specific for the X and Y chromosomes and chromosomes 1 and 12 to (a) identify the primary male gametic sex chromosome ratio; (b) assess the number of numerical sex chromosome abnormalities, and (c) quantify the incidence of diploid sperm. We have examined over 60,000 sperm from three normal males and found the primary sex ratio to be indistinguishable from unity.

The East Anglian Eye Bank.

The first Corneal Bank in East Anglia is located at the BUPA Hospital in Norwich, a joint venture between NHS, BUPA and the Lions Clubs International (District 101 EA). There was insufficient space to accommodate the Bank at the West Norwich Hospital where the Ophthalmic Department is situated and so, at the suggestion of the BUPA Hospital Manager, Mr Paul Hanke, It came to the BUPA Colney Lane site.

Short-term effects of reclamation of part of Seal Sands, Teesmouth, on wintering waders and Shelduck : I. Shorebird diets, invertebrate densities, and the impact of predation on the invertebrates.

The invertebrate macrofauna of Seal Sands, Teesmouth, is very limited in species composition. Nereis diversicolor has a two-year life cycle; the larger size-class provides the main prey of the birds Pluvialis squatarola, Numenius arquata and Limosa lapponica. Hydrobia ulvae is an important food of P.