Dove Medical Press Research Articles

Impact of an educational program on nursing students' caring and self-perception in intensive clinical training in Jordan [Retraction

Impact of an educational program on nursing students’ caring and self-perception in intensive clinical training in Jordan [Retraction] It has come to the notice of Dr AA Majumder (Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Medical Education and Practice) that the paper published by Dove Medical Press: Khouri R. Impact of an education program on nursing students’ caring and self-perception in intensive clinical training in Jordan. Advances in Medical Education and Practice. 2011;2:173–185 has re-used (without reference) portions of the work of Bayoumy HN and Saeda AM. Impact of a program of education and supervision on nurses’ interns’ caring and professional self concept at selected Cairo University hospitals. 2nd International Nursing Conference: Transforming the Nurse’s Role in Health Care Practice PSMCHS – Dharan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, May 10–11, 2009.Accordingly we retract Khouri R. Impact of an education program on nursing students’ caring and self-perception in intensive clinical training in Jordan. Advances in Medical Education and Practice. 2011;2:173–185. Read the original article

Chronic wound management and research

Chronic wound management and research Marco Romanelli Wound Healing Research Unit, Division of Dermatology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy I would like to share with you a new open access peer-reviewed journal – Chronic Wound Care Management and Research, published by Dove Medical Press. Chronic Wound Care Management and Research is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access online journal publishing original research, case reports, reviews, editorials, and commentaries on the management of chronic wounds and major issues related to chronic wound management.

Postmenopausal vaginal atrophy: evaluation of treatment with local estrogen therapy

Postmenopausal vaginal atrophy: evaluation of treatment with local estrogen therapy Minkin MJ, Maamari R, Reiter S. Int J Womens Health. 2014;6:281–288. On page 281, the year of publication was incorrectly listed as 2013, it should have been 2014. The year for the copyright notice was also listed as 2013 in error, the correct notice is © 2014 Minkin et al. This work is published by Dove Medical Press Limited, and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License. The full terms of the License are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. Permissions beyond the scope of the License are administered by Dove Medical Press Limited. Information on how to request permission may be found at: http://www.dovepress.com/permissions.php.Read the original article

Randomized clinical trial comparing manual suture and different models of mechanical suture in the mimicking of bariatric surgery in swine

© 2014 Fernandes et al. This work is published by Dove Medical Press Limited, and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License. The full terms of the License are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. Permissions beyond the scope of the License are administered by Dove Medical Press Limited. Information on how to request permission may be found at: http://www.dovepress.com/permissions.php

Thoracic solitary pedunculated osteochondroma in a child: a case report

© 2013 Wali and Khoshhal. This work is published by Dove Medical Press Ltd, and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License. The full terms of the License are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Ltd, provided the work is properly attributed. Permissions beyond the scope of the License are administered by Dove Medical Press Ltd. Information on how to request permission may be found at: http://www.dovepress.com/permissions.php

Consequences of International Sanctions on Iranian Scientists and the Basis of Science

Consequences of International Sanctions on Iranian Scientists and the Basis of Science

Editorial

Editorial Ayse Kuruüzüm-Uz Hacettepe University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacognosy, Ankara, Turkey The Botanics: Targets and Therapy journal published by Dove Medical Press (www.dovepress.com/botanics-targets-and-therapy-journal) is now in its third year. From editorial acceptance to publication the average turn around time is 2–3 months. Peer reviews are high quality, and the journal is open access, filling an important niche in academic medical publishing. Specifically, the journal was designed to bridge the gap between basic science and clinical practice. The aim of this journal is to provide the multidisciplinary scientific information obtained from medicinal plants used worldwide for treatment and prophylaxis.

Precisely delivered nanomechanical forces induce blebbing in undifferentiated mouse embryonic stem cells

The aim of this study was to probe the morphological response of single mouse embryonic stem cells (mESC) to precisely delivered nanomechanical forces. Plating mESC as single cells gave rise to either round compact or flattened fibroblastic morphologies. The expression of OCT4 and Nanog was reduced in flattened cells, indicating that this population had begun to differentiate. Upon application of.> nN of force, using atomic force microscopy and simultaneous laser scanning confocal microscopy, round cells, but not flattened cells, were capable of forming mechanically induced blebs (miBlebs). Flattened cells appeared to have a more highly developed cytoskeleton than undifferentiated stem cells as characterized by the distribution of phospho-ezrin-radixin-moesin (pERM). Higher levels of pERM and an inability to form miBlebs in flattened cells imply that the earliest stages of embryonic stem cell differentiation are associated with the development of stronger mechanical links between the plasma membrane and the cytoskeleton © 2011 Hemsley et al, publisher and licensee Dove Medical Press Ltd.

Integrating psychology research and behavioral management

I am grateful that about two years ago Dove Medical Press offered me the opportunity to edit the Journal of Psychology Research and Behavior Management. I find my work on the Journal to be a very gratifying experience and I particularly enjoy its eclectic multidisciplinary qualities that, by attracting contributions from a variety of perspectives and geographic locations, help to ease the artificial boundaries separating our field from other critical areas relevant to mental health, psychology, psychiatry, and to a genuinely broad understanding of human nature and behavior. Furthermore, integration of psychology and behavior is a huge and fascinatingly complex endeavor that has filled and will certainly continue to fill countless volumes of scientific and philosophical literature. Indeed, in the form of the body–mind conundrum, psychology and behavior has permeated human cognition for over 3000 years! While people attributed their behaviors and motivations to the will of Gods in Homer’s era, the term “psyche” only appeared about a millennium after the events described in The Iliad. Plato coined this term and, as did Freud, viewed behavior as a derivative of the conflict among the rational, instinctual, and emotional forces comprising the psyche. Aristotle, Plato’s student, further developed his teacher’s ideas by postulating the holistic and indivisible nature of the body–mind amalgamation. Such Aristotelian concepts survived mostly unchallenged until the 17th century when Descartes upheld the body–mind dualism, but denied the mind’s physical qualities and thus ascribed it to the entirely spiritual domain. Behaviorism is in contrast a purely materialistic school of thought that emerged two centuries thereafter and it rather successfully endeavors to explain all psychic and behavioral phenomena solely on the basis of biochemical and/or physical processes. The origins of human behavior and its management remains a subject of an intense and ongoing debate nowadays. The unprecedented progress in brain imaging technologies has undoubtedly helped to identify neural correlates of numerous cognitions, emotions, and behaviors. The obtained data are not entirely conclusive as we have not yet figured out the true meaning of the brain activity elicited with an astounding variety of stimuli employed on various neuroimaging projects. Following are a few instances of unanswered questions and challenges. Are activations of what is commonly referred as reward circuitry (eg, ventral striatum) equivalent to the perception of happiness? Does amygdala engagement by a stressful stimulus truly spell out negative emotions and fear? According to the same logic, blushing does not necessarily mean embarrassment whereas increased heart rate is not always the same as sexual arousal. These and multiple other physiological correlates of psychic output may well turn out to be an addition (albeit a more sophisticated and an improved one) to the four bodily humors (yellow and black bile, phlegm, and blood) so eloquently described by Plato’s contemporary, Hippocrates. Publication outlets like ours that strive to define behavioral and clinical meaning to psychological phenomena are becoming increasingly important. Rather than strictly adhering to a certain theoretical framework, we encourage a heuristic approach that seeks to apply recent advances from all relevant disciplines to improve outcomes in clinical, educational, sports, and business settings. Notwithstanding the Talmudic wisdom that prophecy is given to fools, I predict much success to this type of journal. In conclusion, I would like to convey my gratitude to our authors, reviewers, and readership along with the Dove Medical Press editorial staff for their support and nurture of the Journal of Psychology Research and Behavior Management. I hope that the upcoming 2011 will be a very happy and healthy year and wish you all to find joy, harmony, and elegance in your scientific discoveries and in personal life.

Experimental Errors: Paul Bert and the Alabama Tenure Killings

Experimental Errors: Paul Bert and the Alabama Tenure Killings

Editorial Foreword: International Journal of Wine Research

Editorial Foreword: International Journal of Wine Research Roger M PinderYork, UKStarting a new journal is generally a difficult, brave and sometimes foolhardy pursuit. Finding publishers, appointing editors, recruiting editorial board members, calling for manuscripts, selecting peer reviewers who will deliver on time and finding substitutes when they do not, and all of this initially without accreditation at the major medical indices, which makes authors understandably reluctant to commit their best work when it cannot be cited yet. The International Journal of Wine Research (IJWR) is no exception, but it did have the advantage that the publisher Dove Medical Press was more than willing to promote a new journal in this important and growing area of science.

COPD: The end of the beginning

After the Battle of El Alamein Winston Churchill said “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning”. This is perhaps an apt quotation to use about the state of knowledge of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Never before has there been so much focus on this common, chronic, and terrible disease, which fills clinics and hospital beds every winter and causes enormous morbidity and increasing mortality. At every level in the healthcare community around the world there is interest in this problem leading to increased research funding and output as well as increasing pressure on governments to legislate against smoking. Global pharmaceutical companies are now investing heavily in target and drug discovery for COPD, and an increasing number of candidate compounds are being tested. It is in this environment that we are delighted to be launching the International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (IJCOPD). We have put together a core editorial team that combines youth and experience. The editorial board is truly global, and we hope to attract and publish research papers from all around the world. You may ask: is there the need for another respiratory journal? We think that there is. In comparison to many of the more “general” respiratory journals, IJCOPD will be focussed on COPD. The aim of this journal is to provide an open forum for scientists, clinical researchers, physicians, and policy makers to review, discuss, and develop treatments and therapeutic approaches. A series of commissioned reviews and original research will be published that encompass the multiple facets of COPD, such as basic science, drug discovery, clinical trials, translational research, clinical studies, and health economics and risk management. In covering these subject areas, we hope that the journal will appeal to all those in the COPD healthcare community and help to maintain and increase the profile of COPD, which for so many years was a Cinderella subject. The journal’s approach will be distinct from its rivals. As much as possible we will attempt a “bench-to-bedside” approach, bringing together the threads from all areas of COPD study. Thus, through a deeper understanding of the basic science of COPD and its impact on individual patients we can slow down this epidemic. Welcome to this endeavor. We hope you enjoy reading this inaugural issue as much as we have enjoyed getting it off the ground. Moreover, we hope you will be stimulated and encouraged to keep up the fight against COPD. Thank you to our authors, reviewers, editorial members, and Dove Medical Press for their tremendous help in preparing this journal.

Clinical Interventions in Aging: a forum for practitioners of evidence-based ?anti-aging medicine?

<i>Clinical Interventions in Aging</i>: a forum for practitioners of evidence-based ?anti-aging medicine?