Assessing Barriers to use of the Specific Carbohydrate Diet in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Qualitative Study.

Unlabelled: Because of the high cost and associated toxicities of pharmacotherapy treatment for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), there has been growing interest in dietary therapy. The objective of this study is to assess barriers to initiating or maintaining the specific carbohydrate diet (SCD) to inform strategies for improving access and adherence to the diet.

Methods: We conducted semistructured interviews with parents of 10 children with IBD receiving care at a single academic treatment center.

Arabidopsis Is Essential for Male and Female Gametogenesis and Is Regulated by Alternative Splicing.

Plant intracellular Ras-group leucine-rich repeat (LRR) proteins (PIRLs) are related to Ras-interacting animal LRR proteins that participate in developmental cell signaling. Systematic knockout analysis has implicated some members of the Arabidopsis () family in pollen development. However, for , no bona fide knockout alleles have been recovered, suggesting that it may have an essential function in both male and female gametophytes.