84. Naturforscherversammlung in Münster, 16.—20. Sept.

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Bile acids (BA) are essential modulators of lipid, glucose, and cholesterol homeostasis, but they exert cytotoxic effects in the cholestatic liver. Glucuronidation, catalyzed by the UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) enzymes is a pharmacologically relevant BA detoxification process. The present study characterized the BA-conjugating activity of the little-studied human UGTs of subfamily 2A: UGT2...

Sept AJP

Patients and practitioners have been found to have differing views of health and to monitor progress in rehabilitation in different ways (Malzer 1988, St Claire et al 1996). Thus the importance of patient-centred care has been recognised in physiotherapy (Grant 1994, Potter et al 2003b) along with general medicine, nursing and other allied health professions (Brown et al 1986, Fulford et al 199...

Westfälische Wilhelms - Universität Münster

Sept AJP

Shoulder pain is one of the most common of all peripheral joint disorders with the point incidence amongst the general population said to be as high as 20% (Pope et al 1997). Often the cause of non-traumatic shoulder pain is thought to be inflammation of the structures around the shoulder due to poor biomechanics with subsequent impingement and inflammation of the affected structures (Bang and ...

Sept AJP

The development and implementation of evidence-based guidelines appears to be one of the most promising and effective tools for improving quality of care (Grol 2001). To improve the quality of physiotherapeutic care for patients with low back pain, evidence-based clinical practice physiotherapy guidelines were developed (Bekkering et al 2003; Table 1). The content of these guidelines connects w...