animal models

Animal Models of Nicotine Exposure: Relevance to Second-Hand Smoking, Electronic Cigarette Use, and Compulsive Smoking.

Animal models of nicotine exposure: relevance to second-hand smoking, electronic cigarette use, and compulsive smoking.

Front Psychiatry. 2013; 4: 41
Cohen A, George O

Much evidence indicates that individuals use tobacco primarily to experience the psychopharmacological properties of nicotine… Continue reading

Variations in Rodent Models of Type 1 Diabetes: Islet Morphology.

Variations in rodent models of type 1 diabetes: islet morphology.

J Diabetes Res. 2013; 2013: 965832
Novikova L, Smirnova IV, Rawal S, Dotson AL, Benedict SH, Stehno-Bittel L

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is characterized by hyperglycemia due to lost… Continue reading

Legalization of Marijuana: Unraveling Quandaries for the Addiction Professional.

Legalization of marijuana: unraveling quandaries for the addiction professional.

Front Psychiatry. 2013; 4: 50
Roffman RA

HubMed – addiction

 

Emerging role for corticotropin releasing factor signaling in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis at the intersection of… Continue reading

Paediatric Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Impact on Patients and Mothers’ Quality of Life.

Paediatric non-alcoholic Fatty liver disease: impact on patients and mothers’ quality of life.

Hepat Mon. 2013 Mar; 13(3): e7871
Mazzone L, Postorino V, De Peppo L, Della Corte C, Lofino G, Vassena L, Fatta L, Armando M, Bedogni G,… Continue reading

Human Skin Keratinocytes Can Be Reprogrammed to Express Neuronal Genes and Proteins After a Single Treatment With Decitabine.

Human skin keratinocytes can be reprogrammed to express neuronal genes and proteins after a single treatment with decitabine.

Biores Open Access. 2013 Jun; 2(3): 217-21
Bickenbach JR, Tomanek-Chalkley A, Wiechert S, Winter MC

Patient-specific cell replacement therapy is fast… Continue reading

What Do Libyan Doctors Perceive as the Benefits, Ethical Issues and Influences of Their Interactions With Pharmaceutical Company Representatives?

What do Libyan doctors perceive as the benefits, ethical issues and influences of their interactions with pharmaceutical company representatives?

Pan Afr Med J. 2013; 14: 132
Alssageer MA, Kowalski SR

Evidence suggests that 80-90% of doctors in most countries… Continue reading

Don’t Be Too Strict With Yourself! Rigid Negative Self-Representation in Healthy Subjects Mimics the Neurocognitive Profile of Depression for Autobiographical Memory.

Don’t be Too Strict with Yourself! Rigid Negative Self-Representation in Healthy Subjects Mimics the Neurocognitive Profile of Depression for Autobiographical Memory.

Front Behav Neurosci. 2013; 7: 41
Sperduti M, Martinelli P, Kalenzaga S, Devauchelle AD, Lion S, Malherbe C,… Continue reading

Is Your Prescribing Serving a Hidden Addiction?

Is your prescribing serving a hidden addiction?

S Afr Med J. 2013; 103(6): 359-361
Bateman C

Addiction to prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) medicines is a hidden, little-researched chronic illness – which could be significantly countered by destigmatisation, ‘up-scheduling’ certain… Continue reading

Interpersonal Problems and Impacts: Further Evidence for the Role of Interpersonal Functioning in Treatment Outcome in Major Depressive Disorder.

Interpersonal problems and impacts: Further evidence for the role of interpersonal functioning in treatment outcome in major depressive disorder.

J Affect Disord. 2013 May 30;
Quilty LC, Mainland BJ, McBride C, Bagby RM

INTRODUCTION: Empirical research has converged to… Continue reading

Preclinical Analysis of Resistance and Cross-Resistance to Low-Dose Metronomic Chemotherapy.

Preclinical analysis of resistance and cross-resistance to low-dose metronomic chemotherapy.

Invest New Drugs. 2013 Jun 2;
Chow A, Wong A, Francia G, Man S, Kerbel RS, Emmenegger U

Low-dose metronomic chemotherapy is an emerging form of chemotherapy with distinct… Continue reading