New Perspectives on Atherogenesis

New perspectives on atherogenesis: role of abnormal triglyceride-rich lipoprotein metabolism.

Atherosclerosis, along with the resultant coronary artery disease (CAD), is a leading cause of mortality in industrialized countries. Significant attention has focused on the role of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) in the pathogenesis of CAD. A dyslipidemia characterized by a combination of abnormalities in the plasma levels of triglycerides and highdensity lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, with or ...

Scavenging new insights into atherogenesis.

New perspectives on dystonia.

Dystonia is a syndrome of sustained muscular contractions with numerous underlying etiologies. This review examines the varied phenomenology of dystonias, its evolving classification including recent genetic data as well as its clinical investigation and treatment. Although age of onset, anatomical distribution and family history are key elements of the investigation of dystonia, classification...

New Perspectives on Tooth Wear

Some of the efforts that have been made to document tooth wear are reviewed here with an emphasis on nonhuman mammals, literature with which dentists may not be very familiar. We project a change in research strategy from the description of wear at various scales of measurement towards investigation of the mechanical mechanisms that actually create the texture of a worn surface. These studies s...

Opening new perspectives on microbiology

I am pleased and honored to introduceMicrobiologyOpen, a new journal from Wiley-Blackwell. Wiley-Blackwell already publishes an impressive portfolio of microbiology journals, a number of them for leading societies, including some of the most read and most cited journals serving the discipline. These journals are highly regarded among microbiologists. Why then a new journal? The term “open” has ...