Purpose As CAM use continues to grow a new generation of CAM consumers are including CAM as part of their repertoire of activities to promote their health and wellbeing. Yet little is known about how CAM is perceived to fit in with other health-related activities in this population. Understanding how young adult CAM consumers integrate CAM into their lifestyle can help guide policy and practice...

Calmodulin (CaM) is a widely studied Ca(2+)-binding protein that is highly conserved across species and involved in many biological processes, including vesicle release, cell proliferation, and apoptosis. To facilitate biophysical studies of CaM, researchers have tagged and mutated CaM at various sites, enabling its conjugation to fluorophores, microarrays, and other reactive partners. However,...

The octane (OCT) plasmid in Pseudomonas putida derived from the omega-hydroxylase-carrying strain of Coon and coworkers is transferable to the camphor (CAM) plasmid-bearing strain by conjugation or by transduction. While the majority of the Cam (+)Oct(+) exconjugants segregate Cam(+) or Oct(+) cells, exconjugants with stable Cam (+)Oct(+) phenotype (CAM-OCT) can be detected at a low frequency. ...

In this review article we provide a broad overview of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs), including prevalence of use, common therapies used, and reasons for and factors associated with CAM use. CAM is commonly used by those suffering from IBD. Multiple forms of CAM are used to treat IBD, and often patients use multiple CAM therapies and conti...

To obtain a picking and planting integrated transplanting mechanism (PITM) with ideal trajectory shape, reasonable operating attitude, compact structure for vegetable pot seedling transplanting, symmetrical structural PITM composed of two planetary carriers driven by cam–noncircular gear combination was proposed in this paper. In accordance the requirements agronomy, shape motion attitude end t...

BACKGROUND CAM use is widespread, especially among patients with diabetes. The Gulf States have a high prevalence of diabetes, alongside a long tradition of CAM use. The aim of this study is to establish the prevalence of CAM use among patients with diabetes mellitus in Bahrain and to examine the characteristics of the CAM users. METHODS A questionnaire was developed and administered to a con...

OBJECTIVE To assess whether complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use is associated with the timing of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) initiation among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected participants of the Women's Interagency HIV Study. STUDY METHODS Prospective cohort study between January 1996 and March 2002. Differences in the cumulative incidence of HAART ini...

Facultative crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) describes the optional use of CAM photosynthesis, typically under conditions of drought stress, in plants that otherwise employ C3 or C4 photosynthesis. In its cleanest form, the upregulation of CAM is fully reversible upon removal of stress. Reversibility distinguishes facultative CAM from ontogenetically programmed unidirectional C3-to-CAM shifts...

BACKGROUND Despite the substantive literature from survey research that has accumulated on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the United States and elsewhere, very little research has been done to assess conceptual domains that CAM and conventional providers would emphasize in CAM survey studies. The objective of this study is to describe and interpret the results of concept mappin...

AIMS The channel function of the cardiac ryanodine receptor (RyR2) is modulated by calmodulin (CaM). However, the involvement of CaM in aberrant Ca(2+) release in diseased hearts remains unclear. Here, we investigated the pathogenic role of defective CaM binding to the RyR2 in the channel dysfunction associated with heart failure. METHODS AND RESULTS The involvement of CaM in aberrant Ca(2+) ...