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Little information exists on U.S. physicians who have been disciplined with licensure or restriction-of-clinical-privileges actions or have had malpractice payments because of sexual misconduct. Our objectives were to: (1) determine the number of these physicians and compare their age groups' distribution with that of the general U.S. physician population; (2) compare the type of disciplinary actions taken against these physicians with actions taken against physicians disciplined for other offenses; (3) compare the characteristics and type of injury among victims of these physicians with those of victims in reports for physicians with other offenses in malpractice-payment reports; and (4) determine the percentages of physicians with clinical-privileges or malpractice-payment reports due to sexual misconduct who were not disciplined by medical boards.We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of physician reports submitted to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) from January 1, 2003, through September 30, 2013. A total of 1039 physicians had ≥ 1 sexual-misconduct-related reports. The majority (75.6%) had only licensure reports, and 90.1% were 40 or older. For victims in malpractice-payment reports, 87.4% were female, and "emotional injury only" was the predominant type of injury. We found a higher percentage of serious licensure actions and clinical-privileges revocations in sexual-misconduct-related reports than in reports for other offenses (89.0% vs 68.1%, P = < .001, and 29.3% vs 18.8%, P = .002, respectively). Seventy percent of the physicians with a clinical-privileges or malpractice-payment report due to sexual misconduct were not disciplined by medical boards for this problem.A small number of physicians were reported to the NPDB because of sexual misconduct. It is concerning that a majority of the physicians with a clinical-privileges action or malpractice-payment report due to sexual misconduct were not disciplined by medical boards for this unethical behavior.

Can we increase the coverage of agriculturally related topics in the media? A 5-year research study examined how the implementation of a media resource tool developed to provide a more detailed understanding of the cotton industry and access to credible cotton-related sources affects the quality and quantity of print media coverage the cotton industry receives in Texas. An increase in the total number of cotton-related articles, as well as the coverage of certain cotton-related topics, was seen in the 5 years of the study. Causal data is not currently available, but this could be a topic of future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

L-selectin mediates lymphocyte migration to peripheral lymph nodes and leukocyte rolling on vascular endothelium during inflammation. One unique feature that distinguishes L-selectin from other adhesion molecules is that it is rapidly cleaved from the cell surface after cellular activation. The biological significance of L-selectin endoproteolytic release was determined by generating gene-targeted mice expressing a modified receptor that was not cleaved from the cell surface. Blocking L-selectin cleavage on antigen-stimulated lymphocytes allowed their continued migration to peripheral lymph nodes and inhibited their short-term redirection to the spleen. Blocking homeostatic L-selectin cleavage also resulted in a constitutive 2-fold increase in overall L-selectin expression by leukocytes. As a result, neutrophils entered the inflamed peritoneum in greater numbers or for a longer duration. Thus, endoproteolytic cleavage regulates both homeostatic and activation-induced changes in cell surface L-selectin density, which directs the migration patterns of activated lymphocytes and neutrophils in vivo.

The medial octavolateralis nucleus (MON) is the principal first-order medullary lateral line sensory nucleus found in the majority of anamniotic vertebrates. Although its presence has been confirmed in numerous taxa, the cytoarchitecture of this region has not been extensively studied in any species. The purpose of this study was to examine in detail the cytoarchitecture of the MON in the goldfish using Golgi staining and HRP histochemical techniques. The results of this study demonstrated the presence of a number of cell types with distinct cellular morphologies, several of which strongly resemble those described in octavolateralis nuclei dedicated to audition and electroreception. The most prominent of these MON neurons included crest cells of two varieties, either possessing or lacking basilar dendrites. Additionally, we described stellate and cristal interneurons and granule-like cells in the molecular layer, and lateral interneurons and granule-like neurons in deeper MON layers. These morphological similarities together with similarities in functional organization, and the probable close phyletic relationships of this "family" of hair cell sensory systems, argue for parallels in mechanisms of sensory processing and analysis in strongly divergent sensory modalities.

The structure of the organ of Bellonci indicates that it is a sensory organ able to receive a variety of external stimuli. The suspension of the organ was investigated in the marine amphipod Gammarus setosus by light, scanning, and transmission electron microscopy. The organ is suspended ventrally by a cord whose specialized cuticular attachment is in the roof of a canal under the interantennal angle of the head. The conical end of the cord consists of five epithelial attachment cells sheathed by processes of 21 cells arranged in five tiers inside a basal lamina. The attachment cells end within a knob in the centre of a diaphragm. The cuticular attachment is confined to the knob and consists of endocuticular rods within pits on the surfaces of the attachment cells. Dorsally, the long processes of the attachment cells form a net over the surface of the organ and reunite in the dorsal suspensor, which anchors the organ in the epidermis at the crown of the head. The attachment cells are characterized by extensive hemidesmosomes and dense core granules at both attachment sites and by microtubules that extend through their entire length of up to 1 mm in the adult. The large size, cephalic position, elaborate structure, and suspension of the organ suggest that it is of considerable importance in the sensory capability of aquatic Malacostraca., (Copyright © 1989 Wiley-Liss, Inc.)

Calcium is demonstrated by energy and wavelength dispersive X-ray microanalysis to be the major component of the granules that fill the fuselli of the organ of Bellonci in Gammarus setosus. The presence of calcium was confirmed by chelation with EDTA and by other cytochemical techniques. X-ray microanalysis indicated the simultaneous presence of iron in the region of the fuselli occupied by the calcium granules, but this could not be confirmed by cytochemical means in resin-embedded tissue by light or transmission electron microscopy., (Copyright © 1985 Wiley-Liss, Inc.)