Psychiatric day hospitals: the patients and their preferences in treatment.

One hundred and sixty-five patients were seen after one week of day-hospital attendance, and 82 of them four weeks later. Their demographic characteristics, and their preferences in day-hospital treatment are described. Non specific factors of getting out of the home and mixing with other people, the opportunity to discuss problems, and taking part in various occupational activities concerned with improving coping skills were seen by the patients as valuable.

Effect of lipids on activity and conformation of lysolecithin:lysolecithin acyltransferase from rabbit lung.

Lysolecithin:lysolecithin catalyzing two types of reaction, transacylation or hydrolysis, with the same substrate. Both activities have shown to be dependent on several environmental conditions and among them, the presence of lipids. The addition of several classes of lipids activated in all the cases the enzyme, decreasing the hydrolysis/transacylation molar ratio.