ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVEnvironmental NewsNEXTGardea-Torresdey receives Distinguished Scientist Award from SACNASThe honor recognizes his research and his work to promote careers in science among Hispanics and Native Americans.Barbara BoothCite this: Environ. Sci. Technol. 2009, 43, 23, 8711Publication Date (Web):October 28, 2009Publication History Published online28 October 2009Published inissue 1 December 2009https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/es9032259https://doi.org/10.1021/es9032259newsACS PublicationsCopyright © 2009 American Chemical Society. This publication is available under these Terms of Use. Request reuse permissions This publication is free to access through this site. Learn MoreArticle Views987Altmetric-Citations-LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail PDF (2 MB) Get e-AlertscloseSUBJECTS:Remediation,Students Get e-Alerts

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners' (RACGP) 1998 Rural Quality Assurance and Continuing Education (QA & CE) Needs Assessment Project was designed to generate sufficient data to inform strategic planning for rural and remote GPs participating in the College's QA & CE Program. Results indicated that the demand for QA & CE activities has changed over the past 12 years. Three distinct streams of continuing education emerged, where once only one was researched. This reflected a move towards continuing professional development (CPD) rather than purely continuing medical education (CME). However, differences between the CME needs identified suggested that national data could not be reduced to the local level. Data on CME in which rural and remote GPs felt underserviced, proved more useful in relation to other workforce variables such as age, length of service and gender. A broad 'rural set' of CPD topics was established, and the survey yielded information on learning format preferences that will be of use to providers of QA & CE activities for rural GPs across Australia.

Conditioned serum-free media from cultured human, bovine and rodent endothelial cells contained binding proteins with high affinity for the insulin-like growth factors (IGFs). After partial purification on heparin or Multiplication Stimulating Activity (MSA)-affinity columns, 2 species of binding protein were identified, a major protein having Mr ∼35,000 and a minor 22–28,000 protein. The binding proteins had greater affinity for IGF-I than IGF-II with no affinity for insulin or proinsulin. Substantial amounts of the binding proteins remained cell-associated, loosely bound to the outer cell surface of the endothelial cell. Binding protein(s) from human endothelial cells cross-reacted with antibodies to the 53,000 dalton acid-stable human serum binding protein. Production of endothelial binding proteins was not stimulated by growth hormone or insulin. We conclude that endothelial cells in culture produce large quantities of specific IGF binding proteins. Such binding proteins should be relevant in understanding the complex metabolism and function of the IGFs in the intact host.