Orthopedic registry research — limitations and future perspectives

Orthopedic registry research — limitations and future perspectives

Open Access-This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the source is credited. In 2015, there is nothing spectacular about registers. To collect information on the outcome of treatments is as old as medicine itself. Registries merely took the con...

Acetylcholine: future research and perspectives.

Ever since the initial description of chemical transmission in the early part of the 20th century and the identification of acetylcholine (ACh) as the first such transmitter, interests grew to define the multiple facets of its functions. This multitude is only partially covered here, but even in the areas preselected for this special issue, research on the cholinergic system is still thriving. ...

Fighting Sharka in Peach: Current Limitations and Future Perspectives

Sharka, caused by Plum Pox Virus (PPV), is by far the most important infectious disease of peach [P. persica (L.) Batsch] and other Prunus species. The progressive spread of the virus in many important growing areas throughout Europe poses serious issues to the economic sustainability of stone fruit crops, peach in particular. The adoption of internationally agreed-upon rules for diagnostic tes...

Antiepileptic drug treatment 2011; current limitations and future perspectives

Initiating antiepileptic drug (AED) treatment after a first seizure remains a controversial issue because of our lack of understanding of the underlying mechanisms of brain injury and the subsequent processes that lead to injured brain becoming epileptic. Current treatment for established epilepsy requires long-term treatment with drugs that have obvious limitations. The currently available dru...

Membrane Engineering: Future Perspectives