Publications by authors named "P G Whittaker"

Humans feel visceral disgust when faced with potential contaminants like bodily effluvia. The emotion serves to reject potentially contaminated food and is paired with proto-nausea: alterations in gastric rhythm in response to disgust. Here, we offer a narrative synthesis of the existing literature on the effects of disgust on the stomach as measured through electrogastrography, a non-invasive technique that measures stomach activity with electrodes placed on the abdominal skin surface.

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Disgust is a vital emotion in the avoidance of illness. Human adults across cultures show disgust towards sources of potential contamination or pathogens, and elect to avoid their ingestion or even to look at them. Stomach rhythms appear to play an important role: disgust reduces normogastric power, and the pharmacological normalisation of gastric state reduces disgust avoidance.

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Objectives: We assessed whether initiation of oral enteral nutrition in the emergency department (ED) for patients with bronchiolitis hospitalized on humidified high flow nasal cannula (HHFNC) was associated with a shorter hospital length of stay (LOS) without an increase in return ED visits or hospital readmissions.

Patients And Methods: This retrospective cohort study included children ≤24 months of age with bronchiolitis hospitalized to the general pediatric floor on HHFNC in two time periods: October 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019, and following implementation of a revised institutional bronchiolitis pathway that encouraged enteral nutrition initiation in the ED, October 1, 2021 - April 30, 2022. The primary outcome of interest was hospital LOS where the exposure was enteral feeding in the ED.

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Description of the problem: Pharmacy students are expected to learn how condition and patient-specific factors influence medication decision-making. Our objective was to create an interactive learning tool that would support students as they learn how individual factors change over-the-counter (OTC) medication recommendations. Description of the innovation: OTC Coach was created to allow student pharmacists to practice making recommendations about OTC medications.

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Aims: This study assessed how the etiological agent of mouth rot in farmed Atlantic salmon, Tenacibaculum maritimum, induces toxicity in host salmonid barrier cells, and determined whether environmental changes are relevant for these effects.

Methods And Results: Tenacibaculum maritimum soluble extracellular products (ECPs) were collected and used to treat Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout intestinal barrier cell lines as a comparative model of bacterial-salmonid cell interactions. Cellular assays that examine cell membrane integrity, marker expression, and metabolic activity revealed that T.

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