Using Model of Clinic Care Classification in Clinical Nursing Information System.

This article provides an example of the how to choose and use standardized nursing terminologies to build clinical nursing information system in the nursing process. In addition to describing the implement and apply clinic care classification (CCC) system, Evidence-based practice (EBP) and Clinical decision support systems (CDSS), by the nursing action automatic output nursing document.

Serum C-reactive protein and white blood cell count in morbidly obese surgical patients.

Background: Obesity has been widely recognized as a chronic inflammatory condition and associated with elevated inflammatory indicators including C-reactive protein (CRP) and white blood cell count (WBC). Recent studies have shown elevated CRP or WBC is a significant risk factor for cardiac events and stroke but the clinical significance of CRP and WBC has not been clearly studied in morbidly obese patients. This study is aimed at the clinical significance of WBC and CRP in morbidly obese patients and the change after bariatric surgery.

Improvement of insulin resistance after obesity surgery: a comparison of gastric banding and bypass procedures.

Background: Obesity is a major risk factor for the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Insulin resistance (IR) is considered the pathologic link between T2DM and obesity. The mechanism in improving T2DM after bariatric surgery remains speculative.

XpsG, the major pseudopilin in Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris, forms a pilus-like structure between cytoplasmic and outer membranes.

GspG, -H, -I, -J and -K proteins are members of the pseudopilin family. They are the components required for the type II secretion pathway, which translocates proteins across the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria to the extracellular milieu. They were predicted to form a pilus-like structure, and this has been shown for PulG of Klebsiella oxytoca by using electron microscopy.