OBJECTIVES The objective of the work was to determine the resistance of selected protective clothing and glove materials to permeation of cytostatics such as docetaxel, fluorouracil, and doxorubicin. MATERIAL AND METHODS The following glove materials were used: natural rubber latex (code A), acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber (code B) and chloroprene rubber (code C). In addition, we tested a laye...

We examined the relation between church attendance, membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS), and major depressive episode, in a population-based study of aging and dementia in Cache County, Utah. Participants included 2,989 nondemented individuals aged between 65 and 100 years who were interviewed initially in 1995 to 1996 and again in 1998 to 1999. LDS church member...

Nature of Work: Japanese beetles, Popillia japonica Newman, are destructive, polyphagous insects that feed on over 300 different plant species, including many ornamental landscape plants. Since their introduction into the United States, Japanese beetles have spread rapidly throughout the Eastern United States with isolated populations in the Western United States and Canada. Due to the large nu...

The goal of combined pharmacological approaches in the treatment of the acute radiation syndrome (ARS) is to obtain an effective therapy producing a minimum of undesirable side effects. This review summarizes important data from studies evaluating the efficacy of combining radioprotective agents developed for administration prior to irradiation and therapeutic agents administered in a post-irra...

Botrytis gray mold (BGM) caused by Botrytis cinerea Pers. Ex. Fr. is an extremely devastating disease of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) and has a regional as well as an international perspective. Unfortunately, nonchemical methods for its control are weak and ineffective. In order to identify an effective control measure, six fungicides with different modes of action were evaluated on a BGM susc...

Spinosad and chlorpyrifos-methyl plus deltamethrin efficacy at labeled rates on hard red winter wheat were evaluated against 11 field strains of the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Herbst); six strains of the sawtoothed grain beetle, Oryzaephilus surinamensis (L.); and two strains of the lesser grain borer, Rhyzopertha dominica (F.), collected mostly from farm-stored grain in Kansas. Adu...

Skin tears are a common problem that can impact the quality of life due to pain and the potential of becoming complicated wounds if not treated properly. The use of a cyanoacrylate skin protectant to manage skin tears was evaluated in 30 patients in an acute care setting.

One of the lesser-known adverse effects of antipsychotic medication is hypothermia, a signifi cant and protracted plunge in body temperature. Known risk factors are older age and exposure to a newfor-the-person antipsychotic drug. Hypothermia impairs cognitive function, often resulting in a delirium that can paradoxically induce the prescription of escalating doses of the offending drug. As hyp...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of 4-hydroperoxycyclophosphamide (4OOH-CP) on the respiration of human sperm, and investigate the protective properties of mesna and WR-1065. SETTING SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY. PATIENT(S) Men (n = 12) visited the Andrology Department for fertility evaluation. INTERVENTION(S) None. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S) Sperm respiration. RESULT(S...

Long wavelength UV irradiation (302/313 nm) of hybrid and bifilarly labeled BrU-DNA of B. subtilis results in a degradation of the molecular weight of BrU and of parental thymine con­ taining DNA strands. Hydrogen donors present during UV irradiation are able to prevent these “primary” and “secondary” strand breaks. The protection factors are especially large for secondary breaks in parental no...