Palliative Care for Refractory Depressive Symptoms in a Female Veteran Geriatric Patient.

AbstractPsychiatric treatment options, such as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), can be lifesaving for individuals suffering from severe mental illness. For individuals who are unable to make or communicate their own medical decisions, this decision may fall on a legal guardian, who will make decisions on the patient's behalf. Here we discuss the considerations of end-of-life planning in a patient with severe mental illness under guardianship when treatment modalities, in this case ECT, are no longer effective.

Liquid Crystalline Systems from Nature and Interaction of Living Organisms with Liquid Crystals.

Biomaterials, which are substances interacting with biological systems, have been extensively explored to understand living organisms and obtain scientific inspiration (such as biomimetics). However, many aspects of biomaterials have yet to be fully understood. Because liquid crystalline phases are ubiquitously found in biomaterials (e.

Effect of Gravity and Various Operating Conditions on Proton Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis Cell Performance.

Water electrolysis is an eco-friendly method for the utilization of renewable energy sources which provide intermittent power supply. Proton exchange membrane water electrolysis (PEMWE) has a high efficiency in this regard. However, the two-phase flow of water and oxygen at the anode side causes performance degradation, and various operating conditions affect the performance of PEMWE.

Eating disorder symptomatology in transgender patients: Differences across gender identity and gender affirmation.

Objective: Past studies have reported high rates of eating disorder (ED) symptomatology among transgender people, yet without consideration of gender affirmation. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the relationship between gender identity, gender affirming interventions such as gender affirming hormones (GAH) and gender affirming surgeries (GAS), and ED symptomatology.

Method: Transgender patients at a primary care outpatient gender health program in the United States completed a survey consisting of demographics, medical history, and clinical variables, including the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q).

[A case of gallbladder tuberculosis diagnosed by positive tuberculosis-polymerase chain reaction].

Gallbladder tuberculosis is an extremely rare disease that is rarely reported in the literature. Arriving at the correct diagnosis of gallbladder tuberculosis is difficult, and it is usually made by histopathologic examination after cholecystectomy. However, due to the low sensitivity of acid-fast stain and culture result, diagnosing gallbladder tuberculosis is still demanding even after tissue acquisition.

Increased alternative lengthening of telomere phenotypes of telomerase-negative immortal cells upon trichostatin--a treatment.

Human immortal cells maintain their telomeres either by telomerase or by alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) that is based on homologous telomeric recombination. Previous studies showed that the ALT mechanism is activated in non-ALT cells when heterochromatic features are reduced. In this study, we examined the ALT phenotypes of ALT cells after treatment with trichostatin-A (TSA), which is an inhibitor of histone deacetylases and causes global chromatin decondensation.

Identification of cdc25 gene in pinewood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, and its function in reproduction.

The cdc25 gene, which is highly conserved in many eukaryotes, encodes a phosphatase that plays essential roles in cell cycle regulation. We identified a cdc25 ortholog in the pinewood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus. The B.