Pharmacological approaches to reperfusion therapy

Innovative Pharmacological/Therapeutic Approaches against Hepatic Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury

1Department of Internal Medicine andTherapeutics, Pharmacology and Toxicology Unit, Via Ferrata 9A, 27100 Pavia, Italy 2Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology &Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Boulevard, MS 1018, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA 3Department of Abdominal Transplant Surgery and Transplant Coordination, University Hospitals Leuven and Department of Microbi...

Adjunctive and alternative approaches to current reperfusion therapy.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Current ischemic stroke reperfusion therapy consists of intravenous thrombolysis given in eligible patients after review of a noncontrast CT scan and a time-based window of opportunity. Rapid clot lysis has a strong association with clinical improvement but remains incomplete in many patients. This review appraises novel adjunctive or alternative approaches to current rep...

Pharmacological Approaches to Stuttering

Purpose: To address questions raised by T. Meline andW. E. Harn (2008) in their critique of our previous article (A. K. Bothe, J. H. Davidow, R. E. Bramlett, D. M. Franic, & R. J. Ingham, 2006). Method: Additional information is provided to address several issues raised by Meline and Harn. Results and Conclusions: Our previous systematic review omitted 1 relevant article about the use of olanza...

Pharmacological approaches to smoking cessation.

Smoking, the most prominent nongenetic factor contributing to mortality, remains the major public health problem throughout the world. There are nearly 1.1 billion users of nicotine and tobacco products worldwide while approximately one third to half of them will die from smoking-related disease. The habit of smoking is mainly propelled by nicotine, a strongly addictive substance, to which the ...

Pharmacological Approaches to Improve Ageing