Castillo

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To examine the understanding of caring in the practice of community nursing from the perspectives of patients and nurses. BACKGROUND An increasing population of patients with chronic disease has produced a need for humanistic caring in communities. As a result, caring has become a core value of community nursing professionals.…[Read more]

This shows that the auto-inhibition effects are unique to nerve terminals. We further determined that serotonin released from peri-synaptic dense-core vesicles contributes to auto-inhibition in the terminals, since blockade of L-type calcium channels, which are required to stimulate extrasynaptic but not synaptic release, decreased the amplitude…[Read more]

Recent developments in fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) methods allow the detection and visualization of the genes/genomic regions of bacteria, archaea and infecting viruses at the single cell level. These methods use mixtures of polynucleotides as probes to specifically detect the target of interest. Gene-PROBER enables the design of…[Read more]

Psychosocial functions were also examined. Results The numbers of participants excluding dropouts were 35 in PCG and 3gIG and 33 in 6gIG. Analysis of covariance revealed that the 6gIG showed significantly improved cognitive function (Trail Making Test B), social interaction and psychological health scores after ingestion compared to the PCG…[Read more]