Clioquinol: To harm or heal

To heal or not to heal? Chemokines as determinants of constructive or destructive inflammatory microenvironments

To heal or not to heal? Chemokines as determinants of constructive or destructive inflammatory microenvironments Dear Readers, Dental pulp stem cells gained attention as a subpopulation of postnatal stem cells with the ability of multipotential differentiation. Therefore, these cells, specifically SHED (stem cells from human exfoliated deciduous teeth), have been extensively investigated as a p...

Treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases: to heal the wound or to heal the sick?

tool rather than a therapeutic goal.4 MH has also been reported in a small proportion of CD patients achieving clinical remission following corticosteroid treatment.5 In CD, Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs), encompassing ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD) are chronic, progressive and relapsing pathologic conditions caused by a dysregulation of the immune system.1 IBDs are charac...

MinireviewLocal Therapies to Heal the Penis : Fact or Fiction ?

Penile rehabilitation has been an area of intense study and debate over the last decade. Interest in this topic was stimulated by the observation that erectile dysfunction remained a significant problem after radical prostatectomy despite meticulous nerve-sparing technique. Smooth muscle alterations and fibrotic changes in the penis were identified as the underlying causes of penile atrophy, ve...

Local therapies to heal the penis: fact or fiction?

Penile rehabilitation has been an area of intense study and debate over the last decade. Interest in this topic was stimulated by the observation that erectile dysfunction remained a significant problem after radical prostatectomy despite meticulous nerve-sparing technique. Smooth muscle alterations and fibrotic changes in the penis were identified as the underlying causes of penile atrophy, ve...

Global Alcohol Harm Network: Struggling or Emerging? A Response to Shiffman