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Vascular endothelial growth factor and acute mountain sickness

Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock, 2009
Study Objective: Despite causing significant morbidity throughout the mountainous regions of the world, the pathophysiology of acute mountain sickness (AMS) remains poorly understood.
Nilles Eric, Sayward Helen, D'Onofrio Gail   +2 more
doaj  

Extracting vitalities: Cuts in Indigenous women's bodies‐territories (Brazil)

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I explore the connections between the medicalization of childbirth and environmental devastation through Guarani‐Mbyá understandings of life and the living. I argue that the cuts made to Guarani‐Mbyá women's vaginas (episiotomies) in Brazilian hospitals are experienced and situated on the same cosmopolitical level as the cuts ...
Maria Paula Prates
wiley   +1 more source

Research progress on molecular mechanism of neuroprotective effects of acetazolamide under acute hypoxic exposure

环境与职业医学
Acute hypoxic exposure can induce functional brain impairment, driven by molecular mechanisms including mitochondrial dysfunction, intracellular calcium overload, glial cell activation and inflammatory responses, blood-brain barrier disruption, and ...
Qi FU, Yu WANG, Ruili GUAN, Yuankang ZOU, Kejun DU   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Identifying the lowest effective dose of acetazolamide for the prophylaxis of acute mountain sickness: systematic review and meta-analysis

, 2012
OBJECTIVES: To assess the efficacy of three different daily doses of acetazolamide in the prevention of acute mountain sickness and to determine the lowest effective dose.DESIGN: Systematic review and meta-analysis.DATA SOURCES: Medline and Embase along ...
Schedlbauer, Angela, Gupta, Vaibhav, Low, Emma V., Avery, Anthony J., Grocott, Michael P.W.   +4 more
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Caring for the institution: An ethnography of quality assurance policy in U.S. rural primary care

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on mixed‐methods, ethnographic research in a geographically isolated rural medical center in the upper midwestern United States, this paper explores the social implications of healthcare quality assurance policies highly reliant on managerial logics, including measurement and monitoring programs.
Chloe L. Warpinski
wiley   +1 more source

That sinkin’ feeling: Environmentally induced distress on a disappearing island

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Residents of Tangier Island, Virginia, a subsiding island in the Chesapeake Bay, embody psychosocial dimensions of environmental change. Analysis of ethnographic data shows islanders’ experiences and articulations of anxiety, panic, and despair as “that sinkin’ feeling,” resulting from the stress of living with the long‐term threat of imminent
Jonna Yarrington
wiley   +1 more source

Becoming a physician–scientist: Early research participation as an identity sandbox for preclinical medical students

Medical Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Early participation in research is a widely used strategy to encourage medical students to pursue physician–scientist careers. Yet its influence on professional identity formation (PIF) remains poorly understood. We explored how participation in an extracurricular research programme during preclinical education influenced students'
Maria Eduarda da Silva, Wieke E. van der Goot, Dineke S. Verbeek, Marco A. de Carvalho‐Filho   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Strange can be quite normal”: How the environmental crisis becomes present in Han Kang's and Samanta Schweblin's “constructively alienating” environmental fiction

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents the concept “constructive alienation” as a response to the oversaturation of apocalyptic environmental fiction that has contributed to deep‐seated desensitization toward the climate crisis, resulting in crisis of imagination (Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate change and the unthinkable, 2016; Solnit, If you win the ...
Agnethe Brounbjerg Bennedsgaard
wiley   +1 more source

Neurofilament Light Chain Is Associated With Acute Mountain Sickness

Brain and Behavior
Background Neurological symptoms are common in acute mountain sickness (AMS); however, the extent of neuroaxonal damage remains unclear. Neurofilament light chain (NfL) is an established blood biomarker for neuroaxonal damage.
Klaus Berek, Anna Lindner, Franziska Di Pauli, Gabriel Bsteh, Benedikt Treml, Markus Ponleitner, Clemens Engler, Axel Kleinsasser, Thomas Berger, Maria Wille, Martin Burtscher, Florian Deisenhammer, Harald Hegen   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Psychophysiological indicators of emotional arousal in sexual assault survivors: Evaluating ANS reactivity to therapeutic COPE cards within the SEE FAR CBT framework for PTSD treatment

Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective SEE FAR CBT is an integrative treatment protocol for PTSD and anxiety disorders, utilizing imagery‐based (fantastic reality) methods through associative therapeutic COPE cards. Although preliminary evidence suggests potential impacts, further validation is necessary to confirm their efficacy in eliciting specific arousal‐affective ...
Sivan Raz, Noa Burchis, Mooli Lahad
wiley   +1 more source