Patients were assessed using the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS), the Hoehn and Yahr scale (HY), the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI), and the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS). Stress and depressive symptoms among caregivers were evaluated

using the Caregiver Burden Inventory (CBI) scale and the GDS. Only PD severity (HY) and mental symptoms (NPI) were significantly associated to caregiver distress. A major attention must be given to the early identification of factors generating stress in caregivers in order to improve caregiver quality of life and patient’s care.”
“The growth of world demand for protein-enriched products generates a great interest in the search of new protein sources of higher nutritional value and, therefore, in the use of cutting edge technologies to achieve that goal. In this work, technologies of ultrafiltration and freeze-drying to process PD0325901 and obtain a protein concentrate from bovine plasma proteins are employed. The effectiveness of inulin as protectant agent to prevent protein denaturation was evaluated during freeze-drying and

storage. The shelf life time of the product with the oligosaccharide was estimated to analyze its stabilizing power. The results showed that when 10% w/v inulin was employed as lyoprotectant the protein denaturation was significantly reduced with a shelf life of 14 months, Ro-3306 stored at 2 degrees C. The proteins concentrate combines improved functional properties due to reduction of protein denaturation, indicating that it could be very

interesting as food ingredient. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.”
“A novel compressible magnetorheological fluid (CMRF) has RXDX-101 nmr been synthesized with additives that provide compressibility to the fluid. This CMRF has been designed to provide an elastic component to a magnetorheological fluid (MRF) that can be used as a springless damper. CMRF provides controllable compressibility to the MRF. The controllability of the fluid is achieved by the use of magnetic particles and an external magnetic field, and the fluid is made compressible by the addition of suspended compressible polymer particles. The compressibility of the fluid has been characterized with force-displacement measurements. This CMRF has controllable off-state viscosity and high shear yield stress. The incorporation of polymeric particles into the MRF also decreases the settling of iron particles and improves the redispersion of the fluid. To make the fluid more redispersible, the surface of the iron particles is coated with a high-temperature fluorinated polymer. (C) 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 115: 3348-3356, 2010″
“Objective This study aimed to compare the prevalence of depressed mood and anhedonia in a sample of men with prostate cancer (PCa) and to determine which of these key symptoms contributed most to the overall depressive status of that sample.