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J B Pond

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PubMed2000

Creating a "health connection" between STD services and primary care.

Women's health nurse practitioners may find their practice includes men who present for treatment of sexually transmitted diseases (STD). In seven months, the women's health nurse practitioner at Temple Health Connection treated 70 African-American males for STDs. Seventeen males (24%) were diagnosed with hypertension. Nine of these patients returned for follow-up care with a primary care adult nurse practitioner. Our experience shows it is important to combine STD treatment with accessible primary health care.

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PubMed1980

The role of ultrasound-induced cavitation in the 'in vitro' stimulation of collagen synthesis in human fibroblasts.

Collagen synthesis by human embryonic fibroblasts in vitro was estimated using a collagenase-sensitivity assay. Collagen synthesis was stimulated by irradiation with ultrasound at a frequency of 3 MHz, a space-time peak intensity of 0.5 Wcm-2, pulsed at a mark-space ratio of 2:8 ms for 5 min at ambient pressure. This stimulation was suppressed by the application of a positive pressure of 2 atmospheres during irradiation of the cells. Increasing the pressure in the absence of ultrasound had no effect on the rate of collagen synthesis in control cells. This stimulation, therefore, appears to be due to ultrasound-induced cavitation, since it is unlikely that increasing the pressure could modify any other ultrasonic parameter. Collagen synthesis is apparently stimulated to the same extent as general protein synthesis.

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