Clinical Research Update

Parkinson disease: research update and clinical management.

More than 1 million people in the United States have Parkinson disease (PD), more than are diagnosed as having multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, and myasthenia gravis combined. PD affects approximately 1 in 100 Americans older than 60 years. It burdens patients, their care partners, and the overall healthcare system. This article reviews the epidemiology, cl...

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Rats selectively bred for their tendency to drink large or small quantities of alcohol are a useful model for investigators examining the possible neurobiological processes underlying alcoholism. Studies with the alcohol-preferring (P) and alcoholnonpreferring (NP) and the high-alcohol-drinking (HAD) and low-alcohol-drinking (LAD) pairs of rat lines developed at Indiana University have illustra...

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Heavy alcohol consumption over long periods of time can result in severe liver damage, including death of liver cells (i.e., hepatocytes). Two mechanisms— apoptosis and necrosis—can contribute to hepatocyte death. In apoptosis, the affected cell actively participates in the cell death process, whereas in necrosis the cell death occurs in response to adverse conditions in the cell’s environment....

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1. GlaxoSmithKline Australia Post Graduate Support Grant 2. NHMRC Announces New Partnership Projects Scheme 3. Grants, Scholarships And Fellowships for Research into Motor Neurone Disease 4. NSW Cancer Research Institute Grants and Fellowships 5. 2008 Australian Development Research Awards/Grants 6. The Australian Academy Of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) Crawford Fund Agricultur...

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