In this existential-phenomenological investigation 15 women were interviewed about their experience of recovering from intimate partner violence (IPV). The purpose of the study was to examine the healing process from IPV from the perspective of those who have experienced it. Transcribed interviews were analyzed using a hermeneutic process. The thematic structure of a woman's journey is comprised of three distinct but connected phases of her life: the abusive past, the struggles of freeing herself physically and emotionally from the abuse/past, and finally the healing/growth that occurs as a woman releases herself from the bitterness and anger of the past. Most of the women in this study were able to experience the peace and healing that occurs with recovery, although a few remained emotionally stuck and unable to free themselves from the past. Thus, there are two stories that are told in this study. The first story is about a journey of recovery. Sadly, the second story is about nonrecovery.

Thoracic duct lymphocytes (TDL) from normal rats will restore a primary antibody response to sheep erythrocytes (SRBC) in irradiated recipients and cause a graft-versus-host reaction in F1 hybrid rats; lymphocytes from rats immunized with either tetanus toxoid or dinitrophenylated bovine gamma globulin (DNP BGG) will generate specific antibody after cell transfer and challenge. The ability of TDL to mediate each of these responses is severely depressed by giving a single intravenous dose of the specific antigen shortly before cannulation of the thoracic duct, although the lymphocyte donors themselves respond normally. The injection of antigen does not decrease the output of lymphocytes in the thoracic duct and the effect is specific for the antigen injected. The findings are most readily accounted for by assuming that small subpopulations of specific lymphocytes are selected from the recirculating pool by antigen which has localized in lymphoid tissue. The observation that passive antibody abolishes selection by SRBC supports this interpretation. The strong selection exerted by a subcutaneous injection of SRBC in Freund's complete adjuvant, which induces delayed hypersensitivity but little early antibody, suggests that a common cell type may be involved in the induction of both delayed hypersensitivity and antibody formation. The anti-DNP antibody response generated by TDL from rats immunized with DNP BGG was abolished by a selecting injection of the homologous conjugate. The response was depressed to a smaller degree by injections of either BGG or dinitrophenylated human serum albumin, suggesting that carrier-specific (T) and hapten-specific (B) lymphocytes could be separately selected from the recirculating pool. The regional selection of recirculating lymphocytes by antigen may explain a number of phenomena in which the prior injection of antigen has been found to inhibit a subsequent immune response.

In this existential-phenomenological investigation seven women were interviewed about their experiences of recovering from rape trauma. The purpose of the study was to discover the meaning of recovery from the perception of the victim, how recovery is experienced, and what contributed to the growth and recovery of the woman who has been raped. Transcribed interviews were analyzed using a hermeneutic process. The thematic structure of a woman's recovery from rape comprises three main themes: reaching out, reframing the rape, and redefining the self. These findings are important to professionals working with women who have been raped because it is the raped woman, rather than the clinician, who is able to define what constitutes recovery.

Thoracic duct lymph from inbred, hooded rats was collected 3-5 days after antigenic stimulation of the caudal lymph nodes. During this period the lymph contained 10-1 5 % of large, basophilic lymphoid blast cells (immunoblasts). By incubating the lymph cells at 38°C with radioactive DNA precursors, either 3H-thymidine or 1251-deoxyuridine, the immunoblasts became labelled but the small lymphocytes did not. The lymph cells were then washed and injected intravenously into syngeneic recipients which were killed after various intervals up to 24 hr so that the radioactivity of their organs could be assayed by scintillation counting and autoradio-The main finding was that in animals killed after 4 or more hours the small gut always contained most of the recoverable activity and autoradiographs showed that this was because the injected cells had infiltrated the lamina propria in large numbers. Earlier, many of the injected cells were retained temporarily in the lungs, liver and spleen but many of them soon left those organs and entered the lamina propria of the small gut.An electron microscope study of autoradiographs showed that 24 hr after injection the cells which entered the lamina propria of the gut had differentiated into plasma cells so that they displayed abundant, lamellar endoplasmic reticulum.graphy.