Factors influencing the determination of dosing weight in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) by Cassandra R. Montoya, Janine Y. Khan, Delphine Nelson, Gustave Falciglia

“…The only factor associated with the frequency of dosing weight updates was day of the week. Dosing weights in the NICU appear to fall into one of three categories: BW prior to regaining BW, practical weight to facilitate medication and nutrition ordering, and “dry” weight, adjusting for fluid overloaded states. …”
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Neuromuscular Monitoring, Muscle Relaxant Use, and Reversal at a Tertiary Teaching Hospital 2.5 Years after Introduction of Sugammadex: Changes in Opinions and Clinical Practice by Thomas Ledowski, Jing Shen Ong, Tom Flett

“…Two departmental audits (26-page online survey and 1-week in-theatre snapshot audit) were undertaken to investigate the change of beliefs and clinical practice related to the use of neuromuscular blocking agents at the Royal Perth Hospital since this introduction. …”
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Designing a Long Acting Erythropoietin by Fusing Three Carboxyl-Terminal Peptides of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin β Subunit to the N-Terminal and C-Terminal Coding Sequence by Fuad Fares, Avri Havron, Eyal Fima

“…However, in vivo studies indicated that treatment once a week with EPO-(CTP)3 (15 μg/kg) dramatically increased (~8 folds) haematocrit as it was compared to rHuEPO. …”
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Widespread Striatal Delivery of GDNF from Encapsulated Cells Prevents the Anatomical and Functional Consequences of Excitotoxicity by Dwaine F. Emerich, Jeffrey H. Kordower, Yaping Chu, Chris Thanos, Briannan Bintz, Giovanna Paolone, Lars U. Wahlberg

“…The devices were implanted into the rat striatum 1 week prior to striatal quinolinic acid injections. …”
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Development of Transgenic Papaya through Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation by Md. Abul Kalam Azad, Md. Golam Rabbani, Latifah Amin, Nik Marzuki Sidik

“…The explants were co-cultivated with Agrobacterium tumefaciens on regeneration medium containing 500 mg/L carbenicillin + 200 mg/L cefotaxime for one week. The cocultivated explants were transferred into the final selection medium containing 500 mg/L carbenicillin + 200 mg/L cefotaxime + 50 mg/L kanamycin for callus induction as well as plant regeneration. …”
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Identifying Risk Factors of Upper Extremity Injuries in Collegiate Baseball Players: A Pilot Study by Robert Slowik, Christopher Morris, Matthew Hoch, Timothy Uhl

“…Athletes with an ACWR above or below 33% were 8.3 (CI~95~ 1.8-54.1) times more likely to suffer a throwing overuse injury occurring to the upper or lower extremity in the subsequent week. # Conclusion ACWR change in a positive or negative direction by 33% was the primary predictor of subsequent injury. …”
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Duodenal Villous Atrophy in a TTG-Negative Patient Taking Olmesartan: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Tasha Kulai, Thomas Arnason, Donald MacIntosh, John Igoe

“…He presented to hospital with a five-week history of diarrhea, vomiting, and a 20 lb weight loss. …”
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Ventral Prostate Fibrosis in the Akita Mouse Is Associated with Macrophage and Fibrocyte Infiltration by Sanghee Lee, Guang Yang, William Mulligan, Jerry Gipp, Wade Bushman

“…We characterized the inflammatory cell infiltrate and collagen content of the anterior, dorsal, and ventral lobes of 18-week-old DBA2J.Ins2-Akita mice (Akita) and age-matched control mice. …”
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Evaluating Oculomotor Tests before and after Vestibular Rehabilitation in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: A Pilot Pre-Post Study by Amirabas Abasi, Reza Hoseinabadi, Parvin Raji, Joseph H. Friedman, Mohammad-Reza Hadian

“…Then, the patients underwent vestibular rehabilitation training for 24 sessions (3 sessions per week). The VNG and BBS were measured again after 48 hours of the completion of the last session of the training. …”
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Optimized Two-Port Laparoscopic-Assisted Ovariohysterectomy for Hydrometra and Pyometra in Small-Sized Dogs by Young-Tae Park, Tomomi Minamoto

“…All sutures were removed 7–10 days postoperatively, and all dogs were clinically healthy at the two-week follow-up. The findings indicate that two-port laparoscopic-assisted ovariohysterectomy is a safe and effective treatment option for managing mild to moderate hydrometra and pyometra in small-sized dogs.…”
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A Preliminary Study: The Effect of Slow Deep Breathing Exercise (SDBE) on Resting Heart Rate and Respiration Rate of Hypertension Patients by Candrawati Susiana, Oktaviana Husnul Afifah Rizky, Bening Ati Viva Ratih, Mustofa Mustofa

“…Participants were treated with slow, deep breathing exercises three times a week for six weeks. Resting heart and respiratory rates were examined before and after the intervention of slow, deep breathing exercises. …”
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Parenteral Antibiotics Reduce Bifidobacteria Colonization and Diversity in Neonates by Séamus Hussey, Rebecca Wall, Emma Gruffman, Lisa O'Sullivan, C. Anthony Ryan, Brendan Murphy, Gerald Fitzgerald, Catherine Stanton, R. Paul Ross

“…Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis was used to investigate the composition of Bifidobacterium in stool samples taken at four and eight weeks. Bifidobacteria were detected in all control infants at both four and eight weeks, while only six of nine antibiotic-treated infants had detectable bifidobacteria at four weeks and eight of nine at eight weeks. …”
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Neuroplastic Correlates in the mPFC Underlying the Impairment of Stress-Coping Ability and Cognitive Flexibility in Adult Rats Exposed to Chronic Mild Stress during Adolescence by Yu Zhang, Feng Shao, Qiong Wang, Xi Xie, Weiwen Wang

“…Using a valid chronic mild stress (CMS) model of depression, we found that adolescent (postnatal days [PND] 28–41) CMS induced transient alterations in anhedonia that did not persist into adulthood after a 3-week recovery period. Previously stressed adult rats exhibited more immobility/despair behaviors in the forced swimming test and a greater number of trials to reach criterion in the set-shifting task, suggesting the impaired ability to cope with stressors and the cognitive flexibility that allows adaptation to dynamic environments during adulthood. …”
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Characteristics and outcome of patients with anorexia nervosa on medical nutritional therapy: an institutional study with review of literature by Denise Elizabeth Shi Yun Teo, Valerie Wei Ling Teong, Rajeev Ramachandran, Su Lin Lim, Charlotte Xianghui Lin

“…Patients on the AN protocol achieved a higher rate of weight gain per week (1.15 vs. 0.29 kg) and had a shorter length of hospital stay (23 vs. 36 days). …”
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Controlled temperature contrasts of three native and one highly invasive annual plant species in California by Mario Zuliani, Stephanie Haas-Desmarais, Laura Brussa, Jessica Cunsolo, Angela Zuliani, Christopher J. Lortie

“…To test this, we examined the effects of temperature variation on germination, establishment, and per capita seedling biomass of three native and one invasive plant species (Bromus rubens) in independent 6 week growth trial experiments in a controlled greenhouse. …”
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The Effects of Vitamin D Supplement on Prevention of Recurrence of Preeclampsia in Pregnant Women with a History of Preeclampsia by Sanam Behjat Sasan, Farnaz Zandvakili, Nasrin Soufizadeh, Elaheh Baybordi

“…The intervention group received a 50000 IU pearl vitamin D3 once every two weeks. The control group was administered placebo. …”
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Congenital Chloride Diarrhea: Diagnosis by Easy-Accessible Chloride Measurement in Feces by C. Gils, M.-C. Eckhardt, P. E. Nielsen, M. Nybo

“…A 27-year-old woman had an emergency caesarian due to pain and discomfort in gestational week 36 + 4. The newborn boy had abdominal distension and yellow fluid per rectum. …”
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Atypical Presentation of Idiopathic Bilateral Optic Perineuritis in a Young Patient by Jessica Mani Penny Tevaraj, Evelyn Tai Li Min, Raja-Azmi Mohd-Noor, Lakana Kumar Thavaratnam, Win Mar Salmah, Wan Hazabbah Wan Hitam

“…It was associated with headache and vomiting for the past week. Relative afferent pupillary defect was present in the right eye, with reduced optic nerve function. …”
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Acute and Fatal Isoniazid-Induced Hepatotoxicity: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Wissam K. Kabbara, Aline T. Sarkis, Paola G. Saroufim

“…She was admitted to the hospital for epigastric and right sided flank pain of one-week duration. Laboratory results and imaging confirmed hepatitis. …”
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Effect of Ranirestat on Sensory and Motor Nerve Function in Japanese Patients with Diabetic Polyneuropathy: A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Study by Jo Satoh, Nobuo Kohara, Kenji Sekiguchi, Yasuyuki Yamaguchi

“…We conducted a 26-week oral-administration study of ranirestat (an aldose reductase inhibitor) at a once-daily dose of 20 mg to evaluate its efficacy and safety in Japanese patients with diabetic polyneuropathy (DPN). …”
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