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K Joyce

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Internal and external barriers to obtaining prenatal care.

Few studies have examined the reasons women do not obtain medical care during their pregnancies. A retrospective case review of 70 patients in a large metropolitan hospital who received minimal prenatal care examined demographic variables and reasons women gave for not seeking care. Data suggested there are both internal and external barriers to care. More women cited reasons including depression, denial, and fear than cited financial or transportation problems. Implications for social work intervention in the hospital and in the community are drawn from the data and discussed.

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Synaptic plasticity in the cerebral cortex of mice: effects of radiation and anesthesia.

In the neuropil of layers II and III of the frontal cortex of adult mice, as seen in the electron microscope, sodium pentobarbital anesthesia alone results in a significant decrease in synaptic profile length at 1 day after anesthetization, followed by a return to normal or above normal levels after 2-28 days, while the number of synaptic profiles per unit cross section (profile incidence) is not altered; irradiation with 5-500 rad plateau argon particles significantly inhibits the profile shortening effect of anesthesia at 1 day after exposure, but this inhibition is not dose related; an inverse dose relationship in profile incidence appears at 2 days following irradiation with argon particles; at 1 to 2 hours after 150 or 220 rad x-irradiation, profile incidence is significantly reduced while the length is increased, effects that appear to be dose related and unaffected by adrenalectomy.

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Finished surface texture, abrasion resistance, and porosity of Aspa glass-ionomer cement.

1. With the finishing agents tested Concise had a smoother surface texture than Aspa. 2. The smoothest surface was on Concise polymerized against a Mylar matrix strip. The smoothest surface for Aspa was obtained with a silicon carbide disk. 3. Aspa abraded about three times as rapidly by volume as Concise when tested by a two-body abrasion method. 4. Significantly more air bubbles were entrapped by hand mixing within Aspa than within Concise. 5. Controlled clinical studies of the glass-ionomer cements are needed before they can be fully evaluated as restorative materials.

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