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Vol. 25, Nos.1/2, Feb-Apr 2004
The
Endocannabinoid-CB Receptor System: Importance for development and in
pediatric disease
Ester Fride
Departments of Behavioral
Sciences and Molecular Biology, College of Judea and Samaria, ISRAEL
Key words:
cannabinoids, endocannabinoids, CB1 receptors, Endocannabinoi-CB Receptor
(ECBR) system, development, ontogeny, failure-to-thrive, implantation,
teratology
Clinical
Endocannabinoid Deficiency (CECD):
Can this Concept Explain Therapeutic Benefits
of Cannabis in Migraine, Fibromyalgia, Irritable Bowel Syndrome and
other Treatment-Resistant Conditions?
Ethan B. Russo, Missoula, MT 59802, USA
Running Headline: Clinical Endocannabinoid Deficiency
(CECD)
Key words:
cannabis; cannabinoids; medical marijuana; analgesia; migraine; headache;
irritable bowel syndrome; fibromyalgia; causalgia; allodynia; THC; CBD
On
the application of cannabis in paediatrics and epileptology
Rüdiger Lorenz, Bad Wildungen, GERMANY
Key words:
Cannabinoids; children; epilepsy; ion channels; neurodegenerative disease;
posthypoxic state; posttraumatic reaction; olfactory system
Cannabinoid
agonists in the treatment of blepharospasm
A
case report study by
Benjamin Gauter, Roman Rukwied, Christoph Konrad
Department of Anaesthesiology, Clinical Faculty Mannheim, University
of Heidelberg, GERMANY
Running title: Dronabinol therapy in blepharospasm
Key words:
Cannabinoid; CB1 Receptor; Dronabinol; Botulinum Toxin; Blepharospasm,
Dystonia
Original
Article
Immunocytes
Modulate Ganglionic Nitric Oxide Release Which Later Affects Their Activity
Level
Running title:
ganglionic nitric oxide
Key words: nitric
oxide, immunocytes, ganglia, ganglionic nitric oxide
George B. Stefano, Kirk Mantione, Dolisha Jones,
Wei Zhu,
Federico Casares, and Patrick Cadet
Neuroscience Research Institute, State University of New York at Old
Westbury, Old Westbury, NY, USA
Original
Article
Blood serum changes
in patients with pain during bone fractures and acute pancreatitis
Karel Krikava 1, Karel
Kalla 1, Anna Yamamotová 2, Richard Rokyta
2
Key words:
acute pain, pancreatitis, fractures, serum biochemistry
1. Department of Surgery, Department of Clinical Biochemistry,
District Hospital Pelhrimov, CZECH REPUBLIC
2. Charles University, Third Faculty of Medicine, Department of Normal,
Pathological and Clinical Physiology, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC
Original
Article
Qualitative
and quantitative studies on the ultrastructure of ovine pinealocytes
during postnatal development
Key words:
sheep; pineal gland; pinealocyte; ultrastructure; development; postnatal
life
Bogdan Lewczuk 1, Barbara Przybylska-Gornowicz 1,
Henryk Brzostowski 2
1. Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine;
2. Department of Sheep & Goad Breeding and Game Management,
Faculty of Animal Bioengineering, University of Warmia and Mazury in
Olsztyn, POLAND
Original
Article
Effect
of fasting during the month of Ramadan on serum levels of leutinizing
hormone and testosterone in people living in the below sea level environment
in the Jordan Valley
Running Title:
Fasting and testosterone levels in humans
Key Words: Ramadan;
Fasting; Leutinizing Hormone; Testosterone; Human; Below Sea Level
Fayig El-Migdadi, Ali Shotar, Zeyad El-Akawi, Ibrahim
Banihani,
Rola Abudheese and Wajih Oweis
Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Urology, and Forensic
Medicine, School of Medicine and Department of Biology, School of Science
Jordan University of Science and Technology Irbid, JORDAN
Original
Article
Elucidation of the
effect of brain cortex tetrapeptide Cortagen on gene expression in mouse
heart by microarray
Running title:
Effect of Cortagen on gene expression
Key words:
Gene Expression; Microarray; Brain Cortex; Peptides; Cortagen; Heart.
Sergey V. Anisimov,1, Vladimir Kh. Khavinson 1, Vladimir
N. Anisimov 1,2
1. Saint-Petersburg Institute of Bioregulation and Gerontology, RAMS,
St.-Petersburg, RUSSIA.
2. N.N.Petrov Research Institute of Oncology, St.-Petersburg, RUSSIA
Original
Article
Evaluation of Subretinal
Fluid Absorption by Optical Coherence Tomography in Circumscribed Choroidal
Hemangioma after Photodynamic Therapy with Verteporfin
Key
words:
circumscribed choroidal hemangioma, optical coherence tomography, photodynamic
therapy, retinal thickness at fixation point, subretinal fluid absorption,
verteporfin
Petr Soucek, Ilona Cihelková
The Eye Department, University Hospital of 3rd Medical Faculty, Prague,
CZECH REPUBLIC
Original
Article
Impaired somatostatin
accumulation within the median eminence in mice with mosaic mutation
Running head: somatostatin
accumulation in mosaic mice
Key words: mosaic
mutant mice; copper deficiency; somatostatin; median eminence
Urszula Wojewodzka 1, Alina Gajewska 2, Barbara Gajkowska
1, Jozefa Styrna 3
& Kazimierz Kochman 2
1 Laboratory of the Cell Ultrastructure, Medical Research Center, Polish
Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, POLAND
2 The Kielanowski Institute of Animal Physiology and Nutrition, Polish
Academy of Sciences, Jablonna n. Warsaw, POLAND
3 Department of Genetics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Jagiellonian
University, Cracow, POLAND
Insulin-induced
changes of proteolytic activity of the lysosomal enzymes
Key
words: insulin;
lysosomal enzymes; proteolytic activity; mice
Bozena Witek 1, Ewa Ochwanowska 1, Adam Kolataj
2, Teodora Król 1,
Danuta Baranowska 1 & Jan Rafay 3
1.Department of Genetics, Institute of Biology, Swietokrzyska Academy,
POLAND
2. Institute of Genetics and Animal Breeding, Polish Academy of Sciences
in Jastrzebiec near Warsaw, POLAND
3. Research Institute of Animal Production in Nitra, SLOVAK REPUBLIC
Original
Article
Spontaneous ovarian adenocarcinoma
in the domestic turkey breeder hen (Meleagris gallopavo):
Effects of photoperiod and melatonin"
Key
words:
cancer, avain, adenocarcinoma, melatonin, potoperiod, turkey, model,
light
by C. B. Moore and T. D. Siopes
Department of Poultry Science, North Carolina State Universtiy,
Raleigh,
North Carolina, USA
Original
Article
Glucocorticoid-Dependency
of Increased Adiposity in a Model of Hypothalamic Obesity
Running title:
MSG and neuroendocrine-adipocyte interactions.
Key words:
adrenalectomy; adrenal enucleation; ACTH; glucocorticoid; leptin; insulin.
Mario Perelló 1, Griselda Moreno 1, Rolf C. Gaillard
2 & Eduardo Spinedi 1
1. Neuroendocrine Unit, Multidisciplinary Institute on Cell Biology
(CONICET-CICPBA), 1900 La Plata, ARGENTINA; and,
2. Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology & Metabolism, University
Hospital (CHUV), CH 1011 Lausanne, SWITZERLAND.
Original
Article
Light
and electron microscopic examination of pineal gland in rats exposed
to constant light and constant darkness
Key
words:
light; darkness; pineal gland; rat; light and electron microscopy
Ilter Kus 1, Mustafa Sarsilmaz 1, Oguz Aslan Ozen
2,
Asli Ozdem Turkoglu 1, Hidir Pekmez 1, Ahmet Songur
3
& Haluk Kelestimur 4
1. Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Firat University, Elazig,
2. Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Karaelmas University,
Zonguldak,
3. Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Kocatepe University,
Afyon,
4. Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Firat University,
Elazig, TURKEY.
Original
Article
Melatonin
effects on Schiff's base levels induced by iodide administration in
rats
Key
words:
melatonin; Schiff's bases; iodide; lung; liver; brain
Dominika Swierczynska-Machura 1, Andrzej Lewinski 1,2,
Ewa Sewerynek 1,2
1 Department of Thyroidology;
2 Department of Endocrinology and Isotope Therapy; Institute of Endocrinology,
Medical University of Lódz, POLAND
Impact
of a switch from typical to atypical antipsychotic drugs on quality
of life and gonadal hormones in male patients with schizophrenia
Running head:
Antipsychotics, QoL and gonadal hormones
Key words:
adverse events, extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS), hypothalamo-pituitary-gonadal
(HPG) axis, prolactin, psychotic symptoms, quality of life (QoL)
Yasuhiro Kaneda, (1, 3), Ichiro Kawamura, (2), Akira Fujii,
(2), Tetsuro Ohmori, (1)
(1) Department of Neuropsychiatry, The University of Tokushima School
of Medicine, JAPAN
(2) Department of Neuropsychiatry, Fujii Hospital
(3) Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine,
Nashville. TN, USA
Original
Article
Possible
effects of melatonin on thymus gland after pinealectomy in rats
Key Words:
melatonin; pinealectomy; thymus
by Hakan Öner (1), Ilter Kus (2), Jale Öner
(1), Murat Ögetürk (2),
Enver Ozan (3), Ahmet Ayar (4)
(1)
Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine,
Akdeniz University, Burdur;
(2) Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Firat University, Elazig;
(3) Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Firat
University, Elazig
(4) Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Firat University,
Elazig,
TURKEY
Original
Article
Increase
of the IL-1b and IL-6 Levels in CSF in Patients
with Vasospasm Following Aneurysmal SAH
Stanislaw
Hendryk (1), Barbara Jarzab (1), Jadwiga Josko
(2)
1. Dept of
Neurosurgery and Neurotraumatology, Silesian Medical University, Bytom,
POLAND.
2. Dept. of Nuclear Medicine and Endocrine Oncology, Center of Oncology-Maria-Sklodowska-Curie
Memorial Institute, Gliwice. POLAND
PUBLISHED
IN
Vol. 25, No.3, June 2004
Guest
Editorial
What
does freedom look like?
by Professor Jan Sokol,
Faculty of Humanities, Charles University Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC
Review
Articles
Environment-
and gene-dependent human ontogenesis, sociogenesis and phylogenesis (eco-geno-onto-socio-phylogenesis)
Key
words:
functional
teratogenesis; neuro-endocrine-immune-system; primary prevention; onto-socio-philogenesis
Günter Dörner
Institute of Experimental Endocrinology, Humboldt University Medical School
(Charité), Berlin, GERMANY.
Periodic
emergence of great poets in the history of Arabia & Persia, China
and Japan
Key
words:
poetry, periodicity, synchronicity, Inanna
Emil Páleš - Sophia Foundation, Bratislava,
Miroslav Mikulecký Sen. - 1st medical Clinic, Comenius
University, Bratislava,
SLOVAK REPUBLIC
Case Report
Precocious
puberty associated with a Pineal cyst:
Is it disinhibition of the hypothalamic-pituitary axis?
Running Title: Precocius puberty and pineal cyst
Key
words: precocious puberty; pineal cyst;
neuroendocrinology; gonadal hormones
Rob D. Dickerman, Qualls E. Stevens, Jean-Alex. Steide,
Steven J. Schneider
Dept. of Neurosurgery, North Shore University-Long Island Jewish Medical
Center, New Hyde Park, NY, USA
Case Report
Vitamin
B 12 plasma concentrations in Alzheimer disease
Hans Joerg Stuerenburg,
Tomas Mueller-Thomsen & Axel Methner
Key
words: Vitamin B 12, Alzheimer’s
disease, dementia, rehabilitation, cognitive function, Minimental-Status
examination
Neurological
Department, Median-Klinik Bad Suelze, GERMANY,
2 Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University-Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf,
UKE, GERMANY,
3 Clinic for Neurology, University-Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, UKE, GERMANY
Original
Articles:
The
Effect of Vigabatrin, Lamotrigine and Gabapentin on the Fertility, Weights,
Sex Hormones and Biochemical Profiles of Male Rats
Key words:
Lamotrigine, Gabapentin, Vigabatrin, Fertility, Weight, Sex Hormones,
Biochemical Profile
Daoud AS*, Bataineh H**, Otoom S***, Abdul-Zahra
E*
Departments of Neuroscience*, Physiology** and Pharmacology***,
College of Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid,
JORDAN
Nitric
Oxide Modulates the Physiological Control of Ciliary Activity in the Marine
Mussel Mytilus edulis via Morphine: Novel mu opiate receptor splice variants
Running Headline: Ganglionic
novel mu opiate receptors
Key words:
opioid mechanisms; ciliary activity; morphine; dopamine, nitric oxide,
mu3 opiate receptor subtype, presynaptic dopamine release, invertebrate
Patrick Cadet
Neuroscience Research Institute, SUNY College at Old Westbury, Old Westbury,
New York, USA
Leptin
gene expression in the hypothalamus and pituitary of pregnant pigs
Key
words:
leptin gene expression; hypothalamus;
pituitary; gilt; early pregnancy
Nina Smolinska
1, Jadwiga Przala 1, Tadeusz Kaminski 1, Gabriela Siawrys
1, Alina Gajewska 2, Kazimierz Kochman 2 & Stanislaw
Okrasa 1
1 Department
of Animal Physiology, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Olsztyn-Kortowo,
POLAND
2 The Kielanowski Institute of Animal Physiology and Nutrition, Polish
Academy of Sciences, 05-110 Jablonna n. Warsaw, POLAND
Serum
testosterone and corticosterone levels in acute experimental autoimmune
encephalomyelitis (EAE) in male Wistar rats
Running
headline: Testosterone and corticosterone in EAE
Key
words:
stress, neuroendocrine interactions, testosterone, corticosterone, EAE
Daniela R. Maccio 1, Gaston Calfa 2, Marta Volosin
2 & German A. Roth 1
1. Departamento de Quimica Biologica - CIQUIBIC
(CONICET) and
2. Departamento de Farmacologia. Facultad de Ciencias Quimicas. Universidade
Nacional de Cordoba. Cordoba, ARGENTINA
The
influence of chronic exposure to low frequency pulsating magnetic fields
on concentrations of FSH, LH, prolactin, testosterone and estradiol in
men with back pain
Marta Woldanska-Okonska
1, Michal Karasek 2,3 & Jan Czernicki 1,4
Key words:
magnetic fields, magnetotherapy, magnetostimulation, FSH, LH, prolactin,
testosterone, estradiol
1. Chair of Rehabilitation, Swietokrzyska Academy, Piotrkow Branch, POLAND
2. Department of Endocrinology and Isotope Therapy, Medical University
of Lodz; Polish Mother’s Memorial Hospital – Research Institute,
Lodz, POLAND
3. Department of Electron Microscopy, Chair of Pathomorphology, Medical
University of Lodz, Lodz, POLAND
4. Department of Rehabilitation, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, POLAND
Increased
mitogen-induced lymphocyte proliferation in treatment resistant depression:
A preliminary study
Key
words:
treatment resistant depression, blood lymphocytes, cytokines, immunity
Marta Kubera 1, Agnieszka Basta-Kaim 1, Andrzej Wróbel
2, Michael Maes 3, Dominika Dudek 2
1 Department of Endocirnology, Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy
of Sciences, Smetna 12, 31-343 Kraków, POLAND
2 Department and Clinic of Psychiatry, Medical College of Jagiellonian
University, Kraków, POLAND
3 Department of Psychiatry, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, THE
NETHERLANDS
The
beneficial effect of amalgam replacement on health in patients with autoimmunity
Running Head: The beneficial
effect of amalgam replacement on health
Key
words:
metal allergy; mercury allergy; autoimmunity, MELISA®; amalgam replacement;
multiple sclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosus, autoimmune thyroiditis,
atopic eczema
Jarmila Prochazkova, 1 Ivan Sterzl, 2 Hana Kucerova,
1 Jirina Bartova 1
& Vera DM Stejskal 3
1. The Institute of Dental Research 1st Medical Faculty Charles University
and General, University Hospital, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC
2. The Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC
3. MELISA MEDICA FOUNDATION, Stockholm, SWEDEN
Hypothalamic
nitric oxide synthase activity during sexual maturation in female rats.
Effects of Estrogens.
Key
words:
nitric oxide, sexual maturation, Gn-RH, nitric oxide synthetase
Roxana Reynoso, Claudia Mohn, Berta Szwarcfarb,
Osvaldo Ponzo,
Silvia Carbone, Pablo Scacchi* and Jaime A. Moguilevsky*
Departamento de Fisiologia, Facultad de medicina, Universidad de Buonos
Aires and Universidad Favaloro*. Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
Effect
of bromocriptine on cell apoptosis and proliferation in GH3
cell culture
Key
words:
apoptosis, GH3 cells, bromocriptine
R. Wasko 1, M. Wolun-Cholewa 2, P. Bolko 1, M. Kotwicka
2
1 Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism and Internal Disease University
of Medical Sciences, Poznan, POLAND
2 Department of Radiobiology and Cell Biology, University of Medical Sciences,
Poznan, POLAND
PUBLISHED
IN
Volume
25, No.4, August 2004
Review
Articles:
The
neurobiology of pleasure, reward processes, addiction and their health
implications
Running title: Pleasure and addiction [PRESS
RELEASE]
Key words:
Pleasure, reward, addiction, motivation, placebo, dopamine, endorphins,
health
Tobias Esch 1,3, George B. Stefano 2,3
1 Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Institute for General Practice
and Family Medicine, Schumannstrasse 20/21, 10117 Berlin, GERMANY
2 Neuroscience Research Institute, State University of New York College
at Old Westbury, Old Westbury, New York, 11568, USA
3Beijing Foreign Affairs University, Beijing Wellness Medical Center,
South Stone Torii
Chang Ping, Beijing, CHINA
Direct
measurement of free radicals in the brain cortex and the blood serum after
nociceptive stimulation in rats
Runing title: Free radicals after nociceptive stimulation
Key words:
EPR method, free radicals, pain, melatonin, rat
Richard Rokyta 1, Pavel Stopka 2, Václav Holecek
3, Karel Krikava 5, Ivana Pekárková 1,4
1 Charles University, 3rd Faculty of Medicine, Department of Normal, Pathological
and Clinical Physiology, Prague,
2 Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague,
3 Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Mulac´s Hospital, Plzen,
4 Department of Neurology, Hospital Benešov,
5 Department of Surgery, Hospital Pelhrimov,
CZECH REPUBLIC
Original
Articles:
INVITED
ARTICLE
Isoproterenol-stimulated
melatonin production by perifused rat pineal glands: Age- and time-related
effects
Key
words: melatonin; isoproterenol; pineal
gland; rat; ageing
Lobna Naïri-Skandrani, Yasmina Djeridane, Henriette
Charbuy & Yvan Touitou
Faculté de Médecine Pitié-Salpêtrière,
Service de Biochimie Médicale et Biologie Moléculaire,
91, Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013, Paris, FRANCE
Treatment
of giant paraclinoid aneurysms. Own experience
Key words: giant
aneurysms; paraclinoid aneurysms; endovascular treatment; surgery
Pawel P. Kolasa 1, Zbigniew Kaurzel 2 & Andrzej Lewinski
3
1. Department of Neurosurgery,
2. Department of Radiology, Copernicus Province Hospital in Lodz,
3. Department of Endocrinology and Isotope Therapy, Medical University
of Lodz, POLAND
Brain
Differentiation and Preferred Partner Characteristics in Heterosexual
and Homosexual Men and Women
Running head: Brain Differentiation
Key words:
sexual orientation, brain differentiation, mate selection, partner preferences
Frank Muscarella, Vanessa A. Elias, Lenore T. Szuchman,
Department of Psychology, Barry University, Miami, FL, USA
Maternal
and fetal hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis: Different response depends
upon the mode of parturition
Running headline: Maternal and fetal hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis
Key words: Corticotropin-releasing factor; adrenocorticotropin;
cortisol; DHEA; HPA axis
Tomasz Ochedalski 1, Agnieszka Lachowicz 2
1. First Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics,
2. Institute of Endocrinology, Department of Experimental Endocrinology
and Hormone Research, Medical University of Lodz, POLAND
C-reaktive
protein as a predictor of threatening preterm delivery
Key words:
c-reacitve protein, oxytocinase, izooxytocinase, preterm delivery, vaginal
culture
Alfred Reron, Hubert Huras, Maciej Szymik, Andrzej
Jaworowski
Dept. of Septic Gynecology and Obstetrics, Collegium Medicum Jagiellonian
University, Cracow, POLAND
A
new ovarian denervation technique and it's effect on sexual cycle, conception
rates and offspring numbers in rats
Running Title: The Effects of Ovarian Denervation in Rats
Key words:
Ovarian Denervation, Sexual Cycle, Conception and Offspring Numbers, Rat
Ali Risvanli 1a, Huseyin Timurkan 1, M. Faik Ozveren
2, Cahit Kalkan 1
1 Deparment of Obstetric and Gynecology, Faculty of Veterinary, University
of Firat, Elazig,
2 Deparment of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine University of Firat,
Elazig, TURKEY.
Cardiovascular
risk factors in middle-aged women with subclinical hypothyroidism
Running Title:
cardiovascular risks in hypothyroidism
Key
words:
Hypothyroidism, homocysteine, C-reactive protein, coronary heart disease,
lipids
Rafael Luboshitzky 1,2 and Paula Herer 2
1 Endocrine Institute, Haemek Medical center, Afula (RL)
2 The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine (RL, PH), Technion, Institute
of Technology, Haifa, ISRAEL
The
hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis in subjects with subclinical thyroid
diseases: the impact of the negative feedback mechanism
Running title: HPT axis in subclinical thyroid disease.
Key words: HPT
axis, negative feedback, subclinical hypothyroidism, subclinical hyperthyroidim
Paolo Falaschi,
Antonio Martocchia, Antonella Proietti, Rosaria D'Urso,
Serena Gargano, *Franco Culasso, Antonio Rocco
Chair of Internal
Medicine and *Statistics, I and II Faculty of Medicine, University of
Rome
"La Sapienza",
ITALY.
Immune
and Stress Responses in C57BL/6 and C3H/HeN Mouse Strains following photoperiod
manipulation
Running title:
Photoperiodic immune and stress responses in mice
Key words:
day length, photoperiodism, seasonality, glycocorticoids, leukocytes
Michele L. Gatien, Andrew K. Hotchkiss, Gretchen N. Neigh,
Firdaus S. Dhabhar & Randy J. Nelson
Departments of Psychology, Neuroscience, Oral Biology, and Molecular Virology,
Immunology and Medical Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus,
OH, USA
Bovine
pars tuberalis secretions release growth hormone from rat pars distalis
of pituitary gland
Running title: Pars tuberalis
secretions release growth hormone from pars distalis
Key words:
pars tuberalis, adenohypophysis, pars distalis, growth hormone
Martha Maria Lafarque, Marcelo Ezquer, Luis Inocencio Aguado
& Liliana Beatriz Oliveros
Laboratorio de Biologia de la Reproduccion (LABIR), Departamento de Bioquimica
y Ciencias Biologicas, Facultad de Quimica, Bioquimica y Farmacia, Universidad
Ncional de San luis, San Luis, ARGENTINA
Case Study
Coexisting
Acromegaly and Primary Empty Sella Syndrome
Running
Title: Acromegaly and empty sella syndrome
Zeliha Hekimsoy 1, Nilgün
Yünten 2, Seda Sivrioglu 3
1 Celal Bayar University Medical Faculty Department of Internal Medicine,
Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Manisa, TURKEY
2 Ege University Medical Faculty, Department of Radiology, Izmir, TURKEY
3 Izmir Atatürk Training and Research Hospital, Department of Internal
Medicine, Izmir, TURKEY
Laudatio
Zhenan Xue - ad multos transannos
Franz Halberg and
Germaine Cornelissen, Co-Directors,
Robert. B. Sothern, Scientist, George S Katinas, Scientist,
for the BIOCOS project
Halberg Chronobiology Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
55455, USA.
PUBLISHED
IN
Volume 25,
No.5, October 2004
IN
MEMORY:
Dr.
Katharina (Kittie) Dalton
Andrew & Christine Herxheimer
INVITED
PAPER :
Reticuline Exposure
to Invertebrate Ganglia Increases Endogenous Morphine Levels
Running title: Opiate alkaloid nitric oxide interaction
Key
words:
nitric oxide, opiate precursors, opiate metabolites, nervous tissue, invertebrates,
mussels
Wei Zhu, Kirk J. Mantione
and George B. Stefano
Neuroscience Research Institute, State University of New York College
at Old Westbury,
USA
PRESS
RELEASE: Morphine
Synthesis in Animal Ganglia
[Ahead
of Print, free full text]
Review
Article:
Alzheimer
Disease: Mercury as pathogenetic factor and apolipoprotein E as a moderator
Running head: Mercury and Alzheimer’s Disease
Key words: mercury,
amalgam, Alzheimer’s disease, neurotoxicity, neurodegeneration, neurofibrillary
tangles, Apolipoprotein E, metals.
Joachim Mutter, Johannes Naumann, Catharina Sadaghiani,
Rainer Schneider*,
Harald Walach*
Institute for Environmental Medicine and Hospital Epidemiology, University
Hospital Freiburg,
* Samueli Institute, European Office, Freiburg,
GERMANY
Original
Articles:
Effects
of long-term use Topiramate on fertility and growth parameter in adult
Male Rats
Key words:
Topiramate, fertility, growth, male rat
Sameer Otoom*, Hamed Batieneh**, Zuhair Hassan**
and Azhar Daoud***
From the Departments of Pharmacology*, Physiology** and Neuroscience***
of Jordan University of Science and Technology,
Irbid, JORDAN
The
change of regional brain metabolism (18FDG PET)
in panic disorder during the treatment with cognitive behavioral therapy
or antidepressants
Key words: panic
disorder, neuroimaging, PET, brain metabolism, cognitive behavioral therapy,
antidepressants
Ján Praško, Jirí Horácek, Richard
Záleský, Miloslav Kopecek, Tomáš
Novák, Beata Pašková, Lucie Škrdlantová,
*Otakar Belohlávek, Cyril Höschl
Prague Psychiatric Centre, 3rd Faculty of Medicine Charles University,
Centre of Neuropsychiatric Studies,
*PET Centre, Hospital Na Homolce,
Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC
Intermittent
hypoxia causes a suppressed pituitary growth hormone through somatostatin
Key words:
Cysteamine; Growth hormone; Intermittent hypoxia; Rat; Somatostatin
Ning-Yi Xu 1, Xue-Qun Chen 1, Ji-Zeng Du 1*, Tong-Ying
Wang,1and Cunming Duan 2
1 Division of Neurobiology and Physiology, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang
University (Yuquan Campus), Hangzhou 310027, CHINA
2 Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University
of Michigan, Natural Science Building, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1048,
USA
Psychological,
Neuroendocrine and Immune Measures in Non Spousal Carers of Disabled Elderly
in Italy
Running title: Psycho-neuro-immune measures in carers
by Mauro Provinciali, Raffaella Moresi, Mario Muzzioli,
Denis Tarabelli, Cristina Sirolla, Maria Gabriella Melchiorre,
Maria Giovanna Tucci, Alberto Panerai, Paola Sacerdote,
Massimo Mengani & Giovanni Lamura
• Immunology Center, I.N.R.C.A., Department of Gerontological and
Geriatric Research, Ancona, ITALY;
• Centre of Health Economics, I.N.R.C.A., Department of Gerontological
and
• Geriatric Research, Ancona, ITALY;
• Department of Pharmacology, University of Milan, Milan, ITALY.
Serum
levels of growth factors HGF (hepatocyte groth factor), TGFb1
(transforming growth factor b1) and IGF-1 (insulin
growth factor 1) in parathyroid tumors
Key words:
parathyroid, tumor, HGF, TGFb1, IGF-I
Jaromír Astl 1,2, David Veselý 1, Petr Matucha
3, Jindrich Martínek 5, Tomáš Kucera
5,
Petr Laštuvka 1, Jan Betka 1,2, Ivan Šterzl
3,4
1 Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery. The First
Medical Faculty of the Charles University in Prague, University Hospital
Motol,
2 ENT Department, Postgraduate Medical School. Prague, Czech Republic
3 Institute of Endocrinology. Prague,
4 Institute of Immunology and Microbiology. The First Medical Faculty
of the Charles University in Prague, General University Hospital in Prague,
5 Institute of Histology and Embryology. The First Medical Faculty of
the Charles University in Prague, General University Hospital in Prague,
CZECH REPUBLIC
Investigation
of the influence of training status on the relationship between the acute
exercise and serum leptin levels in obese females
Oguz Ozcelik 1, Husnu Celik 2, Ahmet Ayar 1, Selami
Serhatlioglu 3, Haluk Kelestimur 1
1 Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Firat,
Elazig,
2 Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University of Firat, Elazig,
3 Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Firat, Elazig,
TURKEY
Salivary
cortisol in panic: are males more vulnerable?
Running title: Salivary cortisol
in panic
Key words:
35% CO2, challenge, gender differences, HPA axis, Panic Disorder, salivery
cortisol, stress
Marlies A. van Duinen, Koen R.J. Schruers, Erika Jaegers,
Michael Maes, Eric J.L. Griez
Maastricht University, Department of Psychiatry & Neuropsychology,
and Vijverdal Academic Anziety Center, THE NETHERLANDS
The
influence of antibiotic therapy on tocolysis in jeopardized advanced pregnancy
Monika Bobrzynska, Alfred Reron
Department of Septic Gynecology and Obstetrics, the Jagiellonian University,
Cracow, POLAND
The
hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis and melatonin in humans: possible
interactions in the control of body temperature
G. Mazzoccoli*, A. Giuliani*, S. Carughi*, A. De
Cata*, F. Puzzolante*, M. La Viola*,
N. Urbano** , F. Perfetto † , R. Tarquini †
* Department of Internal Medicine, Regional General Hospital "Casa
Sollievo della Sofferenza", Cappuccini Av., S.Giovanni Rotondo (FG),
ITALY,
** Department of Nuclear Medicine, Regional General Hospital "Casa
Sollievo della Sofferenza", Cappuccini Av., S.Giovanni Rotondo (FG),
ITALY,
† Center of Chronobiology, Medical University of Florence, Pieraccini
Av., 50100 Florence (FI), ITALY
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Volume
25, No.6, December 2004
The
presence of heme-oxygenase and biliverdin reductase in human cranial ganglia
indicates a role for carbon monoxide in neural transmission
Running title: Heme-oxygenese in human autonomic ganglia
Key words:
biliverdin reductase; carbon monoxide; heme oxygenase; autonomic ganglia
Rolf Uddman 1 Janos Tajti 2 Frank Sundler 3 &
Lars-Olaf Cardell 1
1. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Malmö University Hospital,
Malmö, SWEDEN
2. Department of Neurology, University of Szeged, Albert Szent-Györgyi
Medical
and Pharmaceutical Center, Faculty of General Medicine, Szeged, HUNGARY
3. Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, Neuroendocrine Cell Biology,
Lund University, Lund, SWEDEN
Paradoxical
firing of thalamic neurons under neuropathic pain state in rats
Running headline: Paradoxical firing of thalamic neurons
Key words: neuropathic
pain; chaodynamic medhods; single unit activity; intralaminar nuclei;
deafferentation; rat
Simon Vaculin 1, Miloslav Franek 1, Ladislav Andrey
2, Richard Rokyta 1
1 Department of Normal, Pathological and Clinical Physiology, Charles
University, 3rd Faculty of Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
2 Institute Of Computer Science, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech
Republic
Melatonin
circadian rhythm in women with idiopathic hyperprolactinemia
Short title: Melatonin and hyperprolactinemia
Key words:
melatonin; prolactin; hyperprolactinemia; circadian rhythm
Michal Karasek 1,2, Renata Stawerska 1, Maciej Hilczer
1, Krystyna Zylinska 3 &
Andrzej Lewinski 1
1. Department of Endocrinology an Isotope Therapy, Medical University
of Lodz; Polish Mother’s Memorial Hospital – Research Institute,
Lodz
2. Department of Electron Microscopy, Chair of Pathomorphology, Medical
University of Lodz
3. Department of Experimental Endocrinology and Hormone Diagnostics, Institute
of Endocrinology, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, POLAND
The
Naloxone test in Klinefelter Syndrome
Key words:
Klinefelter syndrome, naloxone test, hypophyseal hormones, gonadal hormones,
male infertility
Miroslaw Wielgos 1, Leszek Bablok 1, Stanislaw Fracki
1, Maciej Czaplicki 2,
Longin Marianowski 1
1 1st Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical University of Warsaw,
2 Department of Urology, Medical University of Warsaw, POLAND
Declining
melatonin levels and older people. How old is old?
Key words:
melatonin, ageing
Deborah Graham and Angus McLachlan
School of Psychology, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland
Department of Psychology, University of Ballarat, Ballarat, Victoria,
AUSTRALIA
Mechanism
of ipamorelin-evoked insulin release from the pancreas of normal and diabetic
rats
Running title: Ipamorelin and insulin secretion
Key words:
insulin, diabetes mellitus, ipamorelin, radioimmunoassay, pancreas, adrenergic
receptor antagonists, cholinergic receptor antagonist
Ernest Adeghate, Abdul Samad Ponery
Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, United
Arab Emirates University, P.O. Box 17666, Al Ain, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Hyperprolactinemia
after low dose of Amisulpride
Key words:
amisulpride; prolactinemia; depression; side effects; safety
Miloslav Kopecek 1,2,3, Martin Bareš 1,2, Jirí
Švarc 1, Colleen Dockery 1,3,
Jirí Horácek 1,2,3
1 Psychiatric Centre Prague, 2Charles University, 3rd School of Medicine
in Prague,
3 Centre of Neuropsychiatric Studies in Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC
5-hydroxyindoleacetic
acid and homovanillic acid concentrations in
cerebrospinal fluid in patients with Alzheimer's disease, depression and
mild cognitive impairment
Key
words: 5-hydroxyindoleacetic
acid, 5-HIAA, homovanillic acid, HVA, cerebrospinal fluid, csf, alzheimer`s
disease, mild cognitive impairment, depression, tau, beta-amyloid, abeta42,
APOE, SSRI
Hans Joerg
Stuerenburg*, Stefanie Ganzer**, Tomas Müller-Thomsen
**
*Neurological
Department, Median-Klinik Bad Suelze,
** Clinic for¨Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University-Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf,
UKE,
GERMANY.
Influence
of the operative treatment of leiomyomas
on lipid profile
Key words:
leiomyomas, hysterectomy, conservative myomectomy, lipids
Alfred Reron, Hubert Huras
Department of Septic Gynecology and Obstetrics, Collegium Medicum Jagiellonian
University
Cracow, POLAND
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