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Investigating the mechanisms that may underlie the reduction in contrast sensitivity during dynamic accommodation. - Mucke S, Manahilov V, Strang NC, Seidel D, Gray LS, Shahani U.
Head and eye movements, together with ocular accommodation enable us to explore our visual environment. The stability of this environment is maintained during saccadic and vergence eye movements due to reduced contrast sensitivity to low spatial frequency ...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 22, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Inflammation, sanitation, and consternation: loss of contact with coevolved, tolerogenic microorganisms and the pathophysiology and treatment of major depression. - Raison CL, Lowry CA, Rook GA.
CONTEXT: Inflammation is increasingly recognized as contributing to the pathogenesis of major depressive disorder (MDD), even in individuals who are otherwise medically healthy. Most studies in search of sources for this increased inflammation have focused...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 22, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Impulsivity and aggressiveness in bipolar disorder with co-morbid borderline personality disorder. - Carpiniello B, Lai L, Pirarba S, Sardu C, Pinna F.
Few studies to date have been performed to investigate impulsivity and aggressivity in patients with bipolar disorder (BD) and borderline personality disorder (BPD); the primary aim of the present study was to evaluate the impact of co-morbidity of BPD on ...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 22, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Heart rate variability during motor and cognitive tasks in females with major depressive disorder. - Nugent AC, Bain EE, Thayer JF, Sollers JJ, Drevets WC.
Research indicates that major depressive disorder (MDD) is associated with alterations in autonomic control, particularly cardiac control as measured by heart rate variability (HRV). In this preliminary study, we investigated the neural correlates of auton...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 22, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia Associated with Mania and Serious Violence. - Nielssen O, Holmes-Walker DJ, Large M, Steinbeck K.
[Abstract unavailable] Language: Eng...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 22, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Circulating levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor: correlation with mood, cognition and motor function. - Teixeira AL, Barbosa IG, Diniz BS, Kummer A.
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is the most widely distributed neurotrophin in the CNS, where it plays several pivotal roles in synaptic plasticity and neuronal survival. As a consequence, BDNF has become a key target in the physiopathology of sev...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 22, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Cardiac asystole during a cluster of right temporo-parietal seizures. - Serafini A, Gelisse P, Reana V, Crespel A.
Ictal bradycardia and asystole can appear during an epileptic seizure. They must be promptly recognized and treated due to their potential life threatening consequences. Indeed, they have been implicated in the pathogenesis of sudden unexpected death in ep...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 22, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Arrow injury to the heart. - Nwiloh J, Edaigbini S, Danbauchi S, Aminu MB, Oyati A.
We report such a patient who survived 3 days after such an injury and traveled 1000 km with a pulsating arrow in the chest for treatment. The litera...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 22, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, physical exercise, trauma and sports: results of a population-based pilot case-control study. - Beghi E, Logroscino G, Chio A, Hardiman O, Millul A, Mitchell D, Swingler R, Traynor BJ.
Our objective was to investigate exposure to physical exercise and trauma in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) compared to the general population. Previous studies in this area have yielded conflicting results. Using population-based ALS re...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 22, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Beetroot juice probably not 'elixir of life'
Conclusion This small crossover trial found that short-term supplementation with nitrate-rich beetroot juice reduced systolic blood pressure, as well as oxygen expenditure during walking and moderate-intensity and severe-intensity running. It also appeared to increase the time to exhaustion during both severe-intensity running and knee-extension exercises. However, the findings of this study are greatly limited by its small sample size, as it was in only nine men. The experimental period was also very short, at only six days. As such, there is a high probability that the differences between the two groups are due to chance...
Source: NHS News Feed - December 20, 2010 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Food/diet Older people Source Type: news

Professor Roberts honoured
Emeritus Professor Peter Roberts in the School of Physiology and Pharmacology has been elected to an Honorary Fellowship of the British Pharmacological Society.
Source: University of Bristol news - December 20, 2010 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: news_text Tags: Other news Source Type: news

The Pharmacological Role of Phosphatases (Acid and Alkaline Phosphomonoesterases) in Snake Venoms related to Release of Purines - a Multitoxin. - Dhananjaya BL, D Souza CJ.
Snake venom components, acting in concert in the prey, cause their immobilization and initiate digestion. To achieve this, several hydrolytic enzymes of snake venom have evolved to interfere in various physiological processes, which are well defined. H...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Roller coaster-induced barotrauma. - Al-Khudari S, Loochtan M, Yaremchuk K.
We present the case of a 24-year-old male who presented to the otolaryngology clinic for otalgia and aural fullness after riding a roller coaster. We present his clinical course and outcome and briefly discuss the mechanism of injury and otologic barotraum...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Renal Pathological Changes in Poisonous Snake Bite - Pal M, Maiti AK, Roychowdhury UB, Basak S, Sukul B.
[Abstract unavailable]...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Pattern of Renal Pathology in Fatal Envenomation by Indian Cobra (Naja naja) - Mukhopadhyay PP, Ghosh S, Ghosh TK.
Deaths due to poisonous snakebite are a significant health related problem especially the rural heartland of in tropical countries. Renal involvement in snakebite is well documented especially so in bites by the Viperidae group. The Elapidae family consist...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Pattern of fatal blunt head injury: A two year retrospective/prospective medicolegal autopsy study - Patil AM, Vaz WF.
The current study was conducted from 1 November 2002 to 31 October 2004 at Topiwala National Medical College & BYL Nair Charitable Hospital, Mumbai. A total of 189 victims of fatal blunt head injury were recorded and a complete medicolegal autopsy was cond...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Hip extension, knee flexion paradox: A new mechanism for non-contact ACL injury. - Hashemi J, Breighner R, Chandrashekar N, Hardy DM, Chaudhari AM, Shultz SJ, Slauterbeck JR, Beynnon BD.
Considering that an athlete performs at-risk sports activities countless times throughout the course of his or her career prior to the instance of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury, one may conclude that non-contact ACL injury is a rare event. Nevert...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

High Resolution Analysis of Snake Venom Metalloproteinase (SVMP) Peptide Bond Cleavage Specificity Using Proteome Based Peptide Libraries and Mass Spectrometry. - Paes Leme AF, Escalente T, Pereira JG, Oliveira AK, Sanchez EF, Gutiérrez JM, Serrano SM, Fox JW.
Both serine and metalloproteinases have been shown to play the role of toxins in the venoms of many snakes. Determination of the natural protein substrates of these toxins is an important feature in the toxinological characterization of these proteinases. ...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Hand-eye coordination relies on extra-retinal signals: evidence from reactive saccade adaptation. - Cotti J, Vercher JL, Guillaume A.
Execution of a saccadic eye movement towards the goal of a hand pointing movement improves the accuracy of this hand movement. Still controversial is the role of extra-retinal signals, i.e. efference copy of the saccadic command and/or ocular proprioceptio...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Gene expression analysis predicts insect venom anaphylaxis in indolent systemic mastocytosis. - Niedoszytko M, Bruinenberg M, Van Doormaal JJ, De Monchy JG, Nedoszytko B, Koppelman GH, Nawijn MC, Wijmenga C, Jassem E, Elberink JN.
Background: Anaphylaxis to insect venom (Hymenoptera) is most severe in patients with mastocytosis and may even lead to death. However, not all patients with mastocytosis suffer from anaphylaxis. The aim of the study was to analyze differences in gene e...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Frequency, features, and factors for falls in a group of subacute stroke patients hospitalized for rehabilitation in Istanbul. - Bugdayci D, Paker N, Dere D, Ozdemir E, Ince N.
Falling is a major complication seen in stroke patients. The purpose of this study was to investigate the frequency, features, and factors for falls affecting subacute stroke patients hospitalized for rehabilitation. Ninety-nine subacute stroke patients, h...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Fish-hook injuries: a risk for fishermen. - Inchingolo F, Tatullo M, Abenavoli FM, Inchingolo AD, Inchingolo AM, Dipalma G.
Fishing is one of the best known and practiced human activities. However, you should remember that, when casting the hook from the riverbank or grasping it to add bait, fishermen run a real risk of injury if the hook punctures the skin. Briefly we describe...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Estimation of muscle response using three-dimensional musculoskeletal models before impact situation: a simulation study. - Bae TS, Loan P, Choi K, Hong D, Mun MS.
When car crash experiments are performed using cadavers or dummies, the active muscles' reaction on crash situations cannot be observed. The aim of this study is to estimate muscles' response of the major muscle groups using three-dimensional musculoskelet...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Emergency department prediction of post-concussive syndrome following mild traumatic brain injury-an international cross-validation study. - Faux S, Sheedy J, Delaney R, Riopelle R.
Background: Between 20-50% of those suffering a mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) will suffer symptoms beyond 3 months or post-concussive disorder (PCD). Researchers in Sydney conducted a prospective controlled study which identified that bedside recordin...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Electrophysiological Changes in Patients with Acute Organophosphorous Pesticide Poisoning. - Jalali N, Balali-Mood M, Jalali I, Shakeri MT.
Organophosphorous pesticides (OP) are widely used in agriculture without proper control in the Islamic Republic of Iran and thus OP poisonings are common in this country. Epidemiological and management aspects of OP have been studied in detail, but the...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Efficacy of a 3 month training program on the jump-landing technique in jump-landing sports. Design of a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. - Aerts I, Cumps E, Verhagen E, Meeusen R.
BACKGROUND: With the relatively high rate of injuries to the lower extremity due to jump-landing movement patterns and the accompanied high costs, there is need for determining potential preventive programs. A program on the intervention of jump-landing te...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Effectiveness of neuropsychological rehabilitation in acquired brain injury (II): executive functions, behavioural modification and psychotherapy, and the use of the new technologies. - de Norena D, Sanchez-Cubillo I, Garcia-Molina A, Tirapu-Ustarroz J, Bombin-Gonzalez I, Rios-Lago M.
INTRODUCTION. The consequences of acquired brain injury include impairments in cognition, emotion and behaviour. Neuro-psychology provides techniques for treating these disorders, but it is still important to establish which of all the available tools are ...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Domestic violence screening and intervention programmes for adults with dental or facial injury. - Coulthard P, Yong SL, Adamson L, Warburton A, Worthington HV, Esposito M, Sharif MO.
There is no evidence from RCTs to support or refute that screening for domestic violence in adults with dental or facial injury is beneficial nor that it causes harm. Screening tools to detect domestic violence exist but no RCTs have specifically evaluated...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Differences in lumbar spine load due to posture and upper limb external load. - Kamińska J, Roman-Liu D, Zagrajek T, Borkowski P.
As the lumbar region of the spine is particularly predisposed to musculoskeletal disorders, the aim of this article was to assess lumbar spine load on the basis of an accurate model of this part of the body. The model was developed with the finite element ...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Cricket ball trauma causing temporal space abscess: Report of a case. - Waknis PP, Sabhlok S, Deshpande R.
A 9-year-old boy reported with swelling on right side of the face after injury by a cricket ball while fielding. There was a history of hot fermentation after which the swelling increased in size leading to a temporal space abscess. The patient underwent i...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Combining epidemiology and biomechanics in sports injury prevention research: a new approach for selecting suitable controls. - Finch CF, Ullah S, McIntosh AS.
Several important methodological issues need to be considered when designing sports injury case-control studies. Major design goals for case-control studies include the accounting for prior injury risk exposure, and optimal definitions of both cases and su...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Clinical effects of red-bellied black snake (Pseudechis porphyriacus) envenoming and correlation with venom concentrations: Australian Snakebite Project (ASP-11). - Churchman A, O'Leary MA, Buckley NA, Page CB, Tankel A, Gavaghan C, Holdgate A, Brown SG, Isbister GK.
RBBS envenoming caused local effects, systemic symptoms, anticoagulant coagulopathy and, uncommonly, myotoxicity. One vial of tiger snake or black snake antivenom appears to be sufficient to remove venom and neutralise reversible effects, but hypersensitiv...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Case Report: Death due to Airgun Injury - Udayashankar Y, Kumar MP.
In medicolegal practice, the examination of injuries is very important to solve the medicolegal problems like weapon identification, age of the injury, fatality, ante mortem or postmortem etc. Commonly the firearms are classified like rifled guns and smoot...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Case report: Acute myocardial infarction related to blunt thoracic trauma: Review of literature with two case reports - Sharma A.
Cardiac injury occasionally occurs as a result of blunt chest trauma. Most cardiac complications in chest trauma are due to myocardial contusion rather than direct damage to the coronary arteries. Coronary artery injury rarely occurs after blunt chest trau...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Case report of a traumatic abdominal wall hernia resulting from falling onto a flat surface. - Yücel N, Uğraş MY, Işık B, Turtay G.
This article reports a case of high-energy type traumatic abdominal wall hernia (TAWH) associated with multiple organ injuries including pelvic fractures, liver laceration and ascending colon perforation. The cause of the trauma was falling to the ground f...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Carbon monoxide poisoning: impact on ocular motility. - Fielding J, Lang W, White OB.
These observations suggest subclinical deficits potentially reflecting damage to the GP. Furthermore, we have shown that ocular motor measures sensitively characterize cognitive deficits that may otherwise be overlooked after CO poisoning, and that may ben...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Bipolar disorder and suicide risk. - Jollant F.
Bipolar disorder is a serious disease characterised by intense mood fluctuations. There is a significant risk of suicide during depressive episodes. Establishing a diagnosis, providing effective treatment and knowing and assessing the suicide risk factors ...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Association of polyaminergic Loci with anxiety, mood disorders, and attempted suicide. - Fiori LM, Wanner B, Jomphe V, Croteau J, Vitaro F, Tremblay RE, Bureau A, Turecki G.
These results demonstrate that genetic variants in polyaminergic genes are associated with psychiatric conditions, each of which involves a set of separate and distinct risk alleles. As several of these polymorphisms are associated with gene expression, th...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Arterial and Venous Brain Reactivity in the Acute Period of Cerebral Concussion. - Dicheskul ML, Kulikov VP.
Transcranial color duplex scanning of the cerebral vessels was used to study arterial and venous reactivity in 38 patients in the acute period of cerebral concussion (CC) and in 32 healthy volunteers. Arterial flow was assessed in the middle cerebral arter...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Allergy is associated with suicide completion with a possible mediating role of mood disorder - a population-based study. - Qin P, Mortensen PB, Waltoft BL, Postolache TT.
Background: With increasing research suggesting a role of allergy on suicidality, this study, on a population level, delved into how allergy affects risk for suicide completion in the context of mood disorder and other factors. Methods: Based on the ...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Air guitarist's knee - a new musical injury. - Douglas RJ, Ward J.
Rock music may be bad for your knees as well as your ears. Language: Eng...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Advanced Trauma Life Support can be hazardous. - Braagaard JN, Bisgaard T.
A 22 year-old patient wearing a down- and feather jacket was brought to the emergency department after a car accident. Initial treatment was according to Advanced Trauma Life Support principles. The patient was awake and stable. A computed tomography showe...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

AGA, General Mills announce grant to uncover role between intestinal bacteria and health and disease
(American Gastroenterological Association) The American Gastroenterological Association Foundation for Digestive Health and Nutrition announced that Anisa Shaker, M.D., is the recipient of the AGA-General Mills Bell Institute of Health and Nutrition Research Scholar Award in Gut Physiology and Health. This award provides $225,000 over three years for a young investigator working toward an independent career studying the relationship of gut microflora to physiology and immune function.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - December 20, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

How Fewer Calories Can Extend Life
For years, researchers have known that consuming fewer calories can slow the aging process and improve health in mammals. New research reveals how reduced caloric intake can also slow the deterioration of tissues and cells. Scientists found that mice on restricted diets had increased levels of Sirt3, an enzyme that influences cell fate and physiology. The amped up levels reduced damage caused by free radicals associated with age-related hearing loss. These findings give insight into the causes of aging and could lead to drugs that improve health in the elderly.
Source: NIGMS Biomedical Beat - December 16, 2010 Category: Research Source Type: news

Methods for Studying the Genetics, Molecular Biology, Physiology, and Pathogenesis of the Streptococci
Source: Springer Medicine titles - December 15, 2010 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology 139
series:Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and PharmacologyIn this volume of Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology there a contributions by M.D. Swope, E. Lolis, F.Hofmann, L. Lacinova, N. Klugbauer, M. Hermann, P. Berger, S.S. Shen, J.S. Kim, M.E. Weksler, M. Hirsch-Kauffmann and M. Schweiger.
Source: Springer Biomedical Sciences titles - December 15, 2010 Category: Biomedical Science Tags: Human Physiology Source Type: news

Physiology and Pharmacology of Biological Rhythms
series:Handbook of Experimental PharmacologyThis volume provides a concise and accessible account of recent developments in chronobiology and of the implications and applications of chronobiological principles in pharmacology and medicine. The molecular biology and genetics of circadian clocks are considered along with the neuroanatomy and neurochemistry of the vertebrate clock. Recent advances in our understanding of entrainment ...
Source: Springer Biomedical Sciences titles - December 15, 2010 Category: Biomedical Science Tags: Pharmacology / Toxicology Source Type: news

Protein Restores Learning, Memory In Alzheimer's Mouse Model
Scientists at the UT Health Science Center San Antonio restored learning and memory in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model by increasing a protein called CBP. Salvatore Oddo, Ph.D., of the university's Department of Physiology and Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, said this is the first proof that boosting CBP, which triggers the production of other proteins essential to creating memories, can reverse Alzheimer's effects...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 15, 2010 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Alzheimer's / Dementia Source Type: news

New Edition Cardiovascular Physiology, 7e The study guide that helps you to truly understand rather than merely memorize the essential principles of cardiovascular medicine
Source: AccessMedicine Updates - December 14, 2010 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: news

The Importance Of Making A Good First Impression In The Classroom
A study of how medical students evaluate their professors is illustrating the critical importance of making a good first impression. Students in a physiology course at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine were asked to evaluate 16 professors who lectured during the course. Students had the option of evaluating each professor concurrently during the course, or waiting until the course ended. Students were allowed to change their minds before the evaluations were finalized at the end of the course...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 13, 2010 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Students / Training Source Type: news