EU plans more antibiotic resistance surveillance.
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Biomedical subjects
R Watson
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Food safety remains high on EU agenda
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Randomised controlled trial of effect of Baby Check on use of health services in first 6 months of life.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of Baby Check, an illness scoring system for babies of 6 months or less, on parents' use of health services for their baby. DESIGN: Randomised controlled trial. SETTING: 13 general practices in Glasgow. SUBJECTS: 997 newly delivered mothers, randomised to receive either Baby Check and Play It Safe, an accident prevention leaflet (n=497), or Play It Safe alone (control group, n=500). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Data on consultations and referrals extracted from general practice notes after 6 months. RESULTS: At the time of recruitment, maternal characteristics were similar for both groups (mean maternal age 29 years; deprivation categories 6 and 1 in both groups; 424 (45%) mothers were primiparous). At 6 months, general practice notes were available for 467 (94%) of the Baby Check group and 468 (94%) of the control group. The number of general practitioner consultations did not differ between the groups: median number of consultations was 2 (interquartile range 1 to 4) in the Baby Check group, and 2 (1 to 3) in the control group. Use of out of hours services did not differ significantly between the two groups (86 v 85; P=0.93). CONCLUSION: Distributing Baby Check to an unselected group of mothers does not affect use of health services for infants up to 6 months of age.
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European union considers new plan to help refugees.
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EU says growth hormones pose health risk.
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Belgium is to regulate complementary medicine.
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EU tackles pollution related illness
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European commission proposes public health department.
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B-MYB transactivates its own promoter through SP1-binding sites.
B-MYB is an ubiquitous protein required for mammalian cell growth. In this report we show that B-MYB transactivates its own promoter through a 120 bp segment proximal to the transcription start site. The B-MYB-responsive element does not contain myb-binding sites and gel-shift analysis shows that SP1, but not B-MYB, protein contained in SAOS2 cell extracts binds to the 120 bp B-myb promoter fragment. B-MYB-dependent transactivation is cooperatively increased in the presence of SP1, but not SP3 overexpression. When the SP1 elements of the B-myb promoter are transferred in front of a heterologous promoter, an increased response to B-MYB results. In contrast, c-MYB, the prototype member of the Myb family, is not able to activate the luciferase construct containing the SP1 elements. With the use of an SP1-GAL4 fusion protein, we have determined that the cooperative activation occurs through the domain A of SP1. These observations suggest that B-MYB functions as a coactivator of SP1, and that diverse combinations of myb and SP1 sites may dictate the responsiveness of myb-target genes to the various members of the myb family.
Adenovirus E1A Proteins↗
B-Myb protein in cellular proliferation, transcription control, and cancer: latest developments.
Since its isolation exactly a decade ago, B-Myb has intrigued a growing number of scientists interested in understanding the mechanisms of cell proliferation. In many aspects the B-Myb story resembles that of a fashionable transcription factor involved in cell cycle control: E2F-1. Similar to E2F-1, B-Myb is a transcription factor whose expression is regulated at the G1/S border of the cell cycle. Given the ubiquitous expression of B-Myb within different cell types, its link with the cell cycle, and augmented expression in transformed cells, studies are in progress to define the potential role of B-Myb in human cancer. The purpose of this review is not to provide an extensive background to the B-Myb field but rather to describe the latest developments. A comprehensive outline of B-Myb structure and function can be found in the review by Saville and Watson (1998a, Adv. Cancer Res., 72:109-140).
Cell Cycle Proteins↗
Expression of an engineered form of recombinant procollagen in mouse milk.
We have examined the suitability of the mouse mammary gland for expression of novel recombinant procollagens that can be used for biomedical applications. We generated transgenic mouse lines containing cDNA constructs encoding recombinant procollagen, along with the alpha and beta subunits of prolyl 4-hydroxylase, an enzyme that modifies the collagen into a form that is stable at body temperature. The lines expressed relatively high levels (50-200 micrograms/ml) of recombinant procollagen in milk. As engineered, the recombinant procollagen was shortened and consisted of a pro alpha 2(I) chain capable of forming a triple-helical homotrimer not normally found in nature. Analysis of the product demonstrated that (1) the pro alpha chains formed disulphide-linked trimers, (2) the trimers contained a thermostable triple-helical domain, (3) the N-propeptides were aligned correctly, and (4) the expressed procollagen was not proteolytically processed to collagen in milk.
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Severe hyperkalaemia due to the concomitant use of salt substitutes and ACE inhibitors in hypertension: a potentially life threatening interaction.
We report two cases of hyperkalaemia related to the use of the salt substitute 'Lo Salt' in hypertensive patients on treatment with ACE inhibitors. In each case serum potassium returned to the normal range after cessation of the salt substitute. Without vigilance the contribution of the salt substitute to hyperkalaemia would have been overlooked and an ACE inhibitor erroneously withdrawn.
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Striae and acne following cardiac surgery in a child.
We report a 13-year-old girl with extensive striae and an acneiform eruption following surgery for complex congenital heart disease. These findings were associated with elevated serum and urinary cortisol levels with loss of diurnal rhythm. The resolution of the eruption and the fading of her striae coincided in time with normalization of her blood parameters on day 72 postoperatively. We conclude that the cause of steroid excess in our patient was stress induced by the cardiac surgery and a complicated and protracted postoperative course. To our knowledge, this is the first report in the English language literature of skin changes due to endogenous hypercortisolaemia caused by intense physical and emotional stress.
Acne Vulgaris↗
A longitudinal study into the perceptions of caring and nursing among student nurses.
A longitudinal study of a cohort of student nurses was undertaken in order to investigate whether changes in perceptions of nursing and caring take place and how perceptions of nursing and caring are related. The Caring Dimensions Inventory (CDI) and the Nursing Dimensions Inventory (NDI) were employed for data collection at entry to nurse education and after 12 months. There were significant changes in the scores of a range of items in both inventories which suggested that student nurses lose some of their idealism about nursing and caring after 12 months in nurse education. While the overall ranking of items in the inventories was very similar, it was possible to distinguish between the inventories at entry to training and to observe a change, particularly in the CDI, over time by means of Mokken scaling. Nursing and caring would appear to become more synonymous to the student nurses after 12 months in nurse education. Factors scores, for factors identified in the CDI in a previous study, were used to investigate whether these scores changed at 12 months into nurse education compared with entry. No significant changes were detected.
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A longitudinal study into the perceptions of caring among student nurses using multivariate analysis of the Caring Dimensions Inventory.
A longitudinal study involving student nurses' responses to the Caring Dimensions Inventory (CDI) was carried out to investigate the development of perceptions of caring. This study continues previously reported work in which the development of the CDI was described. The current study was designed to see if the CDI could detect changes in perceptions of caring among student nurses as they progressed through their training. Data were collected on the same subjects at three points, each a year apart, throughout the study. A cohort of 168 student nurses entering training was recruited into the present study and data from the CDI was analysed using exploratory factor analysis. A four factor structure for perceptions of caring throughout the study was supported, with some evidence for a five factor structure at 24 months into the programme of nurse education. A professional and technical factor increased in congruence with a similar factor, identified in a previous study, throughout the present study and was used to provide factor scores for individual students. There was a statistically significant and moderately sized correlation between the score on this factor and the age of the student nurses. The five factor solution yielded a factor of accountability. Professional and educational consequences of the study are discussed along with the problem of attrition in longitudinal studies.
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