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The article discusses a study that examines the healing of wounds treated with creams with various concentrations of Triticum aestivum extract in the rabbit model for wound healing. Study highlights include use of analysis of variance and Tukey's test to compare means in the clinical assessment for the statistical assays, the decline or lack of crust as common in the proliferative phase, and sample of the histopathological examination of the skin healing process of wounds in the rabbit model.

This study reported a serological test for Toxoplasma gondii infection in 100 pigs from 58 rural farms in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Thirty-six pigs were seropositive (IFAT≥1:64). Bioassays were performed for all 36 seropositive pigs, and 17 isolates were obtained (47.2%). Seven of these isolates (41.2%) were highly pathogenic to mice, as clinical signs of acute infection were observed, and tachyzoites were found in the peritoneal exudates, livers, and lungs. The remaining 10 isolates were able to establish a chronic infection in mice, therefore, they were not highly virulent. The results of this study indicate that pork is a potential source of T. gondii transmission to humans., (Copyright © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)

Objective: To assess the knowledge, attitudes, and behavior associated with cadaver organ donation and transplantation among medical students and physicians., Patients and Methods: We randomly selected 350 medical students, 150 physicians, and 150 intensive care unit physicians. Each completed a questionnaire consisting of 9 self-administered items, from which we gathered data about their knowledge about brain death and criteria for the diagnosis of brain death; their hypothetical behaviors, assuming willingness to donate their own or their family's organs; their trust in physicians; and their confidence in a diagnosis of brain death made by physicians., Results: We observed that knowledge about brain death increased with medical education level; the best results were noted in intensive care unit physicians. Agreement to transplant organs from brain-dead donors (odds ratio [OR], 4.58), confidence in brain-death diagnosis by physicians (OR, 2.17), and knowledge about criteria for the diagnosis of brain death (OR, 2.26) were predictors of willingness to donate one's own organs., Conclusion: Enhanced medical knowledge of and involvement in donation are needed to achieve cadaver organ donation.