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C Evers

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The DIAL-log study 1: Profiling the experience of people with dementia.

Between July 1996 and December 1997 telephone helpline staff from the Alzheimer's Disease Society (ADS) in London, and six participating ADS regions in England and one in Northern Ireland, documented calls from people with dementia who contacted the service. Each call was recorded as soon as practicable after its completion on a Dementia Information and Advice Line (DIAL) log form (DIAL-log). Sixty-four calls were recorded in this way and 62 completed DIAL-logs were included in the study findings. Analysis of the data was undertaken via SPSS 6.1 for Windows. This article, the first of two, introduces the background to the study and notes that callers reported memory loss and forgetfulness as the most frequently noticed first signs of dementia. The study aims and limitations are also outlined in this first article. The second article will detail the main findings and the challenges that the DIAL-log study may provide for future dementia care practice and research.

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The DIAL-log study. 2: Support in the early stages of dementia.

In the previous article (Vol 8(6): 387-93) the background information and study aims/limitations of the Dementia Information and Advice Lines (DIAL-log) project were outlined. This article introduces the main findings of the project and suggests that the transition into dementia is experienced through rising degrees of uncertainty and anxiety. People with the early experience of dementia also requested strategies for coping with memory loss and uncertainty over the meaning and purpose of memory testing. Building on the main findings of the project, the article concludes with a five-stage framework to help shape future research and service support.

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The effect of parathyroid hormone (PTH) and dietary phosphate on the sodium-dependent phosphate transport system located in the rat renal brush border membrane.

The effect of two parameters regulating renal phosphate excretion, namely parathyroid hormone application and dietary phosphate intake, on the transport properties of isolated rat renal brush border membrane vesicles was investigated. In the first set of experiments brush border membrane vesicles from young normal rats injected i.m. with 30 USP parathyroid hormone or i.v. with 1 mg dibutyryl cAMP were compared. PTH and dbcAMP injection decreased specifically the Vmax of the sodium-dependent phosphate transport system by appr. 30%. In a second set of experiments rats were kept on phosphate-rich and phosphate-poor diet and after 6-8 weeks the brush border membranes were isolated. The membranes obtained from phosphate-depleted animals showed a markedly (approximately 100%) higher initial sodium-dependent phosphate uptake than membranes isolated from animals kept on phosphate-rich diet. Again only the sodium-dependent phosphate uptake was affected, sodium-independent phosphate permeability, sodium-dependent D-glucose transport, mannitol permeability and sodium permeability remained unchanged.

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