Donald R. Ulrich Award 2019

2007 Ralph R. Tompsett Writing Award winners.

Volume 20, Number 1 12 Dr. William C. Roberts, editor in chief, announced the cowinners of the sixth Ralph R. Tompsett Writing Award. Bertrand J. Brown, MD, who was a fellow in transplant anesthesiology until July 2006, published the article, “Use of dexmedetomidine versus general anesthesia for endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms,” in the July 2006 issue. Coauthors of the article...

Contentious Contracts ¤ Ulrich Hege

This paper o¤ers an explanation of rationally incomplete contracts where incompleteness refers to unforeseen contingencies. Agents enter a relationship with two-sided moral hazard in which a commitment to discard parts of the joint resources may be ex ante e¢cient. This happens through costly legal dispute which arises when contract terms are missing for the undesirable outcomes. We show that a...

Friedenwald Award and Lecture. Introduction of R. F. Brubaker, Friedenwald Award winner 1991.

Ulrich Häring Erwin

FT3 values. FT3 values in the 2 patients with antibodies to T2, T3, or their conjugates were 12.3 and 32.6 pmol/L for the Vitros FT3II assay. With the Vitros FT3 assay, FT3 concentrations in 2-fold diluted control sera were 96% (1.1%) [mean (SD)] of those in the nondiluted sera, and in 2-fold diluted sera from 2 patients taking diclofenac, FT3 concentrations were 95.9% and 96.3% of those in the...

Op-brai150131 2005..2019

Endophilin-B1, also known as Bax-interacting factor 1 (Bif-1, and encoded by SH3GLB1), is a multifunctional protein involved in apoptosis, autophagy and mitochondrial function. We recently described a unique neuroprotective role for neuron-specific alternatively spliced isoforms of endophilin-B1. To examine whether endophilin-B1-mediated neuroprotection could be a novel therapeutic target for A...