[Effects of a One-Week Inpatient Health Programme for Family Caregivers and Persons in Need of Care (SVLFG Care Tandem) - A Quasi-Experimental Study].

Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the effect of a one-week inpatient health programme for family carers together with the persons in need of care (care tandem) on the well-being of family carers. Acceptance and subjective benefits were also assessed. The intervention was funded by the Social Insurance for Agriculture, Forestry and Horticulture (SVLFG).

[More free time for me? Effects of a group intervention for informal caregivers based on routine data from the SVLFG long-term care insurance].

Background: The intervention is a multiday health program of the Social Insurance for Agriculture, Forestry and Horticulture (SVLFG) for informal caregivers.

Aim Of The Work: Does the intervention increase the use of outside help to gain free time for self-care?

Material And Methods: Using a quasi-experimental within-design, we analyze annual benefit data from the SVLFG long-term care insurance for the cluster sample Bavaria from 2017 to 2020 with intervention in 2018/2019. Using fixed effects panel regressions, we determine the effect heterogeneity for care relationship, duration of care and degree of care, adjusting for period effects (intervention and comparison group: 88 and 6045 persons with 207 and 16,091 observations, respectively).

Acidification behavior of mixtures of pork meat and wet texturized plant proteins in a minced model system.

The increasing use of wet texturized plant proteins as meat substitutes requires a characterization of their functional properties, especially in terms of pH-behavior when being mixed with meat proteins to create so-called hybrid products. In this study, a minced model system containing pork meat, curing salt, and various amounts (0-100 wt%) of wet extruded proteins from pea (Pea I, II), pumpkin (Pumpkin I, II, III), and sunflower was used to evaluate the effect of mixing on pH and time-dependent pH-changes upon the addition of glucono-delta-lactone (GDL). Increasing concentrations of plant extrudates resulted in a linear increase of the initial (pH ), intermediate (pH ), and final pH for all samples and higher slopes at higher native pH of extrudates were found.

NAD(H)-mediated tetramerization controls the activity of phospholipase PlaB.

The virulence factor PlaB promotes lung colonization, tissue destruction, and intracellular replication of , the causative agent of Legionnaires' disease. It is a highly active phospholipase exposed at the bacterial surface and shows an extraordinary activation mechanism by tetramer deoligomerization. To unravel the molecular basis for enzyme activation and localization, we determined the crystal structure of PlaB in its tetrameric form.