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Teufel-Shone NI, Goldtooth-Begay C, Begay AB, Lazaro A, Yellowhair J, Todecheenie R, Begay D, Singer D, Briscoe C. Maintaining the Partnership Between a Tribal Breast and Cervical Cancer Program and a University-Based Cancer Prevention Center During COVID-19 Lock-Down Restrictions-A Case Study. Front Public Health 2022; 10:902253. [PMID: 35910901 PMCID: PMC9326352 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.902253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2022] [Accepted: 06/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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To inform women of the Navajo Nation of safety measures implemented to minimize COVID-19 virus exposure during screening and treatment procedures at Navajo Nation based health care facilities, the Navajo Nation Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention Program (NNBCCPP) and the University-based Partnership for Native American Cancer Prevention Program (NACP) collaborated to develop a podcast to describe the continued availability of services. During the COVID-19 pandemic, women of all ages and ethnicities in the US needing breast and cervical cancer prevention screenings and treatment, have been hesitant to seek services given the advice to avoid crowded spaces and maintain physical distancing. Epidemiological trends indicate that proactive, intensive strategies are needed in Native American communities for early detection and treatment to support early cancer diagnosis and improve cancer survival. The NNBCCPP and Northern Arizona University (NAU) through the National Institute of Health's National Cancer Institute funded NACP had a nascent partnership prior to the onset of COVID-19 pandemic. This partnership relied on face-to-face interaction to allow for informal social interaction, facilitate clear communication and support continued trust building. To adhere to federal, state and tribal recommendations to minimize gatherings and to stay in-place to minimize the spread of the virus, the Navajo Nation and NAU restricted, and in most cases would not approve employee travel for partnership meetings. The plans to develop a podcast necessitated bringing additional members into the collaboration who were unfamiliar to the original partners and due to travel restrictions, required all interactions to be remote. This expanded group met virtually to develop a script, record and edit the podcast. More importantly, group members had to build and maintain trust over months of communicating via a teleconference video platform. This collaborative addressed challenges related to unstable Internet connections and periodic stay-at-home policies; thus, these emerging partners had to modify social and professional communication to respect and accommodate the stress and uncertain circumstances created by the pandemic on the citizens and employees of Navajo Nation. This case study describes strategies used to maintain and respect all members of the partnership.
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- Nicolette I. Teufel-Shone
- Center for Health Equity Research, Department of Health Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
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- Center for Health Equity Research, Department of Health Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
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- School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, United States
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- Center for Health Equity Research, Department of Health Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
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- Center for Health Equity Research, Department of Health Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
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- Navajo Nation Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention Program, Navajo Nation Department of Health, Window Rock, AZ, United States
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- Navajo Nation Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention Program, Navajo Nation Department of Health, Window Rock, AZ, United States
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- Navajo Nation Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention Program, Navajo Nation Department of Health, Window Rock, AZ, United States
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- Navajo Nation Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention Program, Navajo Nation Department of Health, Window Rock, AZ, United States
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Al-Barazanji KA, Buckingham RE, Arch JR, Briscoe C, Jenkins O, Tadayyon M. Effects of chronic murine and human leptin infusion on plasma leptin and corticosterone levels and energy balance in lean Zucker rats. Diabetes Obes Metab 2001; 3:435-42. [PMID: 11903416 DOI: 10.1046/j.1463-1326.2001.00162.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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AIM To clarify whether centrally delivered leptin can access the circulation and to determine to what extent the effects of i.c.v. h-leptin and m-leptin on body weight and plasma corticosterone are due to reduced food intake. METHODS Male lean Zucker rats were infused i.c.v. with recombinant m-leptin or h-leptin (42 microg/day) for 7 days. Terminal plasma leptin levels were measured using selective r-leptin, m-leptin and h-leptin RIA. Plasma h-leptin and corticosterone levels were determined on days 0, 2, 4 and 6 of h-leptin infusion. Interscapular brown adipose tissue weight and UCP-1 mRNA expression (an indicator of thermogenic capacity) were also measured. RESULTS The terminal plasma leptin level was elevated (from 2.2 +/- 0.4 to 42.7 +/- 20.2 ng/ml) in the h-leptin-treated lean rats to levels similar to those in vehicle i.c.v. infused fa/fa rats (72.2 +/- 4.7 ng/ml), but this was only detectable when the h-leptin radioimmunoabsorbent assay (RIA) was used. Further, both m-leptin and h-leptin infusions in lean rats elevated terminal plasma corticosterone (352 +/- 37 and 389 +/- 55 ng/ml, respectively) to levels similar to those in i.c.v. rats (386 +/- 62 ng/ml), whereas diet-restriction by pair-feeding, with the h-leptin group, in lean rats had no effect (207 +/- 45 ng/ml). The increase in plasma corticosterone level coincided with the maximum hypophagic effects of leptin and preceded the appearance and sustained elevation of exogenous human leptin in the circulation. Both m-leptin and h-leptin i.c.v. infusion reduced body weight gain (3% and 4%, respectively, compared to pair-fed group) and increased UCP-1 expression (11-fold and 16-fold, respectively) in lean rats. However, h-leptin elicited an earlier effect than m-leptin on body weight, manifested as an earlier reduction in food intake and greater increase in UCP-1 expression. h-Leptin also elicited a greater reduction in body weight gain than did pair-feeding. CONCLUSIONS Intracerebroventricular-infused m-leptin or h-leptin was detected in the circulation. Furthermore, m-leptin and h-leptin elevated plasma corticosterone levels and h-leptin caused some weight loss in lean rats independently of its suppression of food intake. The elevation of corticosterone levels in the lean rats may be a mechanism whereby they resist excessive weight loss in response to leptin.
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- K A Al-Barazanji
- Department of Vascular Biology, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, New Frontiers Science Park, Harlow, Essex, UK.
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Komisar JL, Weng CF, Oyejide A, Hunt RE, Briscoe C, Tseng J. Cellular and cytokine responses in the circulation and tissue reactions in the lung of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) pretreated with cyclosporin A and challenged with staphylococcal enterotoxin B. Toxicol Pathol 2001; 29:369-78. [PMID: 11442023 DOI: 10.1080/019262301316905336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Cyclosporin A (CsA), an inhibitor of T cell cytokine production, protects mice against staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) intoxication. To determine whether CsA treatment would work in a species closer to humans. 4 rhesus monkeys were given 50 mg/kg CsA followed by an intratracheal challenge with approximately 6 LD50 of SEB. The CsA was not protective: one of the monkeys died and the other three had to be euthanised when they became moribund. All monkeys made IL-2, TNF, and IFN-gamma in response to SEB. In addition, there was about a 10-fold increase in ACTH levels 2 hr after SEB challenge. CsA significantly suppressed in vitro proliferation of lymphocytes from treated monkeys. Both CsA-treated monkeys and monkeys that had been challenged in a previous experiment with a lethal dose of SEB but had received no cyclosporin had pathologic changes in several organs. The most prominent changes were marked edema and leukocytic infiltration of the bronchial and bronchiolar mucosa. The CsA treatment appeared to reduce the intensity of lung inflammation, but this effect was not sufficient to protect the monkeys. The results suggest that CsA alone may not be an effective therapeutic agent for humans suffering from SEB intoxication or gram-positive septic shock.
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- J L Komisar
- Department of Experimental Pathology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD 20910-7500, USA.
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Briscoe C, Moniakis J, Kim JY, Brown JM, Hereld D, Devreotes PN, Firtel RA. The phosphorylated C-terminus of cAR1 plays a role in cell-type-specific gene expression and STATa tyrosine phosphorylation. Dev Biol 2001; 233:225-36. [PMID: 11319871 DOI: 10.1006/dbio.2001.0217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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cAMP receptors mediate some signaling pathways via coupled heterotrimeric G proteins, while others are G-protein-independent. This latter class includes the activation of the transcription factors GBF and STATa. Within the cellular mounds formed by aggregation of Dictyostelium, micromolar levels of cAMP activate GBF function, thereby inducing the transcription of postaggregative genes and initiating multicellular differentiation. Activation of STATa, a regulator of culmination and ecmB expression, results from cAMP receptor-dependent tyrosine phosphorylation and nuclear localization, also in mound-stage cells. During mound development, the cAMP receptor cAR1 is in a low-affinity state and is phosphorylated on multiple serine residues in its C-terminus. This paper addresses possible roles of cAMP receptor phosphorylation in the cAMP-mediated stimulation of GBF activity, STATa tyrosine phosphorylation, and cell-type-specific gene expression. To accomplish this, we have expressed cAR1 mutants in a strain in which the endogenous cAMP receptors that mediate postaggregative gene expression in vivo are deleted. We then examined the ability of these cells to undergo morphogenesis and induce postaggregative and cell-type-specific gene expression and STATa tyrosine phosphorylation. Analysis of cAR1 mutants in which the C-terminal tail is deleted or the ligand-mediated phosphorylation sites are mutated suggests that the cAR1 C-terminus is not essential for GBF-mediated postaggregative gene expression or STATa tyrosine phosphorylation, but may play a role in regulating cell-type-specific gene expression and morphogenesis. A mutant receptor, in which the C-terminal tail is constitutively phosphorylated, exhibits constitutive activation of STATa tyrosine phosphorylation in pulsed cells in suspension and a significantly impaired ability to induce cell-type-specific gene expression. The constitutively phosphorylated receptor also exerts a partial dominant negative effect on multicellular development when expressed in wild-type cells. These findings suggest that the phosphorylated C-terminus of cAR1 may be involved in regulating aspects of receptor-mediated processes, is not essential for GBF function, and may play a role in mediating subsequent development.
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- C Briscoe
- Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0634, USA
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We have used the chemotactic ability of Dictyostelium cells to examine the roles of Rho family members, known regulators of the assembly of F-actin, in cell movement. Wild-type cells polarize with a leading edge enriched in F-actin toward a chemoattractant. Overexpression of constitutively active Dictyostelium Rac1B(61L) or disruption of DdRacGAP1, which encodes a Dictyostelium Rac1 GAP, induces membrane ruffles enriched with actin filaments around the perimeter of the cell and increased levels of F-actin in resting cells. Whereas wild-type cells move linearly toward the cAMP source, Rac1B(61L) and Ddracgap1 null cells make many wrong turns and chemotaxis is inefficient, which presumably results from the unregulated activation of F-actin assembly and pseudopod extension. Cells expressing dominant-negative DdRac1B(17N) do not have a well-defined F-actin-rich leading edge and do not protrude pseudopodia, resulting in very poor cell motility. From these studies and assays examining chemoattractant-mediated F-actin assembly, we suggest DdRac1 regulates the basal levels of F-actin assembly, its dynamic reorganization in response to chemoattractants, and cellular polarity during chemotaxis.
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- C Y Chung
- Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, Division of Biology, Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0634, USA
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Mann SK, Brown JM, Briscoe C, Parent C, Pitt G, Devreotes PN, Firtel RA. Role of cAMP-dependent protein kinase in controlling aggregation and postaggregative development in Dictyostelium. Dev Biol 1997; 183:208-21. [PMID: 9126295 DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.8499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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We have examined the role of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) in controlling aggregation and postaggregative development in Dictyostelium. We previously showed that cells in which the gene encoding the PKA catalytic subunit has been disrupted (pkacat- cells) are unable to aggregate [S. K. O. Mann and R. A. Firtel (1991). A developmentally regulated, putative serine/threonine protein kinase is essential for development in Dictyostelium. Mech. Dev. 35, 89-102]. We show that pkacat- cells are unable to activate adenylyl cyclase in response to cAMP stimulation due to the inability to express the aggregation-stage, G-protein-stimulated adenylyl cyclase (ACA). Constitutive expression of ACA from an actin promoter results in a high level of Mn(2+)-stimulated adenylyl cyclase activity and restores chemoattractant- and GTP gamma S-stimulated adenylyl cyclase activity but not the ability to aggregate. Similarly, expression of the constitutively active, non-G protein-coupled adenylyl cyclase ACG in pkacat- cells also does not restore the ability to aggregate, although ACG can complement cells in which the ACA gene has been disrupted. These results indicate that pkacat- cells lack multiple, essential aggregation-stage functions. As the mound forms, high, continuous levels of extracellular cAMP functioning through the cAMP serpentine receptors activate a transcriptional cascade that leads to cell-type differentiation and morphogenesis. The first step is the induction and activation of the transcription factor GBF and downstream postaggregative genes, followed by the induction of prestalk- and prespore-specific genes. We show that pkacat- cells induce postaggregative gene expression in response to exogenous cAMP, but the level of induction of some of these genes, including GBF, is reduced. SP60 (a prespore-specific gene) is not induced and ecmA (a prestalk-specific gene) is induced to very low levels. Expressing GBF constitutively in pkacat- cells restores ecmA expression to a moderate level, but SP60 is not detectably induced. Overexpression of PKAcat from the Actin 15 (Act15), ecmA prestalk, and the PKAcat promoters in pkacat- cells result in significant aberrant spatial patterning of prestalk and prespore cells, as determined by lacZ reporter studies. Our studies identify new, essential regulatory roles for PKA in mediating multicellular development.
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- S K Mann
- Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0634
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Schnitzler GR, Briscoe C, Brown JM, Firtel RA. Serpentine cAMP receptors may act through a G protein-independent pathway to induce postaggregative development in Dictyostelium. Cell 1995; 81:737-45. [PMID: 7774015 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(95)90535-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The transcription factor G box-binding factor (GBF) is required for the developmental switch between aggregative and postaggregative gene expression, cell-type differentiation, and morphogenesis. We show that constitutive expression of GBF allows ectopic expression of postaggregative genes, but only in response to exogenous cAMP. GBF activation requires the serpentine cAMP receptors required for aggregation, but not the coupled G alpha 2 or the G beta subunit, suggesting a novel signaling pathway. In response to high cAMP, g alpha 2-null cells can bypass the aggregation stage, expressing cell type-specific genes and forming fruiting bodies. Our results demonstrate that the same receptors regulate aggregation and cell-type differentiation, but via distinct pathways depending upon whether the receptor perceives a pulsatile or sustained signal.
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- G R Schnitzler
- Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0634, USA
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GSK-3, a ubiquitous kinase regulated by tyrosine phosphorylation, controls cell-fate decisions in both Drosophila and Dictyostelium; genetic analysis of its interactions with other signaling pathways is now possible.
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- C Briscoe
- Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0634, USA
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Briscoe C. Catering and nutrition: an educational approach to support a healthier diet. Hum Nutr Appl Nutr 1987; 41:212-9. [PMID: 3305429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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The value of nutritionally-informed caterers should not be overlooked in the practical implementation of healthy eating. A description of a new course on nutrition for caterers is presented. It is designed to satisfy the requirements of students with varied, non-scientific backgrounds. Social and applied aspects of nutrition are emphasised. Information technology is used extensively to support concentrated learning activity. The qualitative evaluation by students of the 'pilot implementation' of the course indicated a successful educational outcome. Such initiatives need the support of up-to-date software.
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A review of the literature and the University of Kentucky Medical Center/Lexington Veterans Administration Medical Center experience regarding calcification of renal masses was undertaken. Twenty per cent of calcified renal masses cannot be easily characterized by CT scan as malignant or benign and are indeterminate. These lesions must be followed closely with follow-up CT scanning or undergo surgical exploration, as 40 per cent may be malignant.
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Myeloid leukaemia can be induced reproducibly in CBA/H male mice following X-irradiation. After serial passage of the leukaemic cells into syngeneic recipients, they grow faster and require fewer cells for a take. Transplantation of primary leukaemias requires high cell doses unlike passaged lines derived from them. Passaging at low cell doses retains their primary-like growth and morphological properties. It would seem that these low cell dose passages may be a more useful model which can be used for investigating the biology and therapeutic responses of myeloid leukaemia than routinely passaged cell lines.
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- M Hepburn
- Department of Anatomy and Experimental Pathology, University of St Andrews, Fife, U.K
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Riches A, Doherty I, Hepburn M, Briscoe C. Investigation of the induction protocol for radiation-induced myeloid leukaemia. Leuk Res 1986. [DOI: 10.1016/0145-2126(86)90313-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Fee WM, Briscoe C, Crombie IK, Irving JM, Smith WC, Threapleton L, Tunstall-Pedoe HD. Prevalence of cigarette smoking in Dundee school children in 1964 and 1984. Community Med 1985; 7:283-8. [PMID: 4092423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Workman RJ, Shaff MI, Jackson RV, Diggs J, Frazer MG, Briscoe C. Relationship of renal hemodynamic and functional changes following intravascular contrast to the renin-angiotensin system and renal prostacyclin in the dog. Invest Radiol 1983; 18:160-6. [PMID: 6345452 DOI: 10.1097/00004424-198303000-00012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Deterioration in renal function has been observed after the use of intravascular contrast media. In an attempt to identify factors responsible for this phenomenon, meglumine iothalamate (Conray 60), in a dosage range of 2.5-3.3 ml/kg, was injected as a bolus into the aorta of dogs. Serial measurements were made of parameters of renal function as well as of changes in aortic and renal venous levels of angiotensin II, renin activity, and 6-keto-PGF1 alpha, the stable metabolite of prostacyclin. The major findings were (1) an initial, brief increase followed by approximately a 20% sustained decrease in renal blood flow and creatinine clearance, (2) no significant changes in angiotensin II and renin levels, and (3) a significant decline in the renal secretory rate of 6-keto-PGF1 alpha. These observations suggest that the suppression of prostacyclin, rather than the activation of the renin-angiotensin system, may contribute to the renal function changes attending the use of intravascular contrast media.
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Briscoe C. Letter: Feed-back monitoring of halothane anaesthesia. Br J Anaesth 1975; 47:1034. [PMID: 1191476 DOI: 10.1093/bja/47.9.1034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Beatty, Blanesburgh, Briscoe C, Cameron JF, Drake JA, Fife CA, Fordyce AD, Fry W, Gilliatt W, Halliday WR, Hambleden E, Holland T, Leeson S, Low VW, Macmillan, Tisdall FF, Whitbread F. Portrait of Dr. G. F. Still. West J Med 1933. [DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.3786.210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Briscoe C, Buzzard EF, English C, Thomson S, Fairbairn JS, Muecke F, Walton AJ. Consultants and Specialists, L.C.C. West J Med 1933. [DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.3770.633-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Briscoe C. The Interchondral Joints of the Human Thorax. J Anat 1925; 59:432-7. [PMID: 17104078 PMCID: PMC1249796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023] Open
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