User involvement in mental health care: the role of nurses. A literature review.

This literature review was carried out to examine the effects of user involvement in shared decision-making processes and the methods/tools available to psychiatric nurses to measure and encourage user involvement. A systematic literature review was then used in this study. Many studies indicate that an increased involvement of service users leads to better care, better treatment compliance, improved health outcomes and higher levels of patient satisfaction.

Care of older people in nursing homes: an Intensive Programme as an educational activity within Erasmus-Socrates.

The paper describes and discusses an Intensive Programme as a European educational activity within Erasmus-Socrates. As nurses and European citizens, it is important to know and understand each other's culture and to be able to work within a united Europe. Education plays a leading role in the preparation of professionals who will have to develop these skills.

Expression of Tcf/Lef and sFrp and localization of beta-catenin in the developing mouse lung.

Recent evidence that Wnts and other genes in the Wnt signaling pathway are expressed in embryonic and adult mouse lung suggests that this pathway is important for cell fate decisions and differentiation of lung cell types. We therefore examined the expression and protein distribution of several Wnt pathway components during prenatal mouse lung development using whole-mount in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry. Between embryonic days 10.

Role of interleukin 1 and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor in photofrin-based photodynamic therapy of rat rhabdomyosarcoma tumors.

Neutrophils play an important role in the efficacy of photodynamic therapy (PDT). These leukocytes rapidly accumulate into the tumor lesion after PDT and most likely eradicate the remaining attenuated tumor cells. The underlying mechanism of the accumulation of neutrophils at the time of PDT is not known.

Evidence for an important role of neutrophils in the efficacy of photodynamic therapy in vivo.

To investigate the role of neutrophils in the efficacy of photodynamic therapy (PDT) in rhabdomyosarcoma-bearing rats, the number of these circulating phagocytes was decreased or increased before interstitial PDT by use of rabbit anti-rat neutrophil serum or granulocyte colony-stimulating factor, respectively. After administration of the antiserum, the number of circulating neutrophils decreased by 99.9%.