Problems to Be Addressed by Pharmacoepidemiology in Japan : A Personal View

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Protein Arrays: Issues to Be Addressed

Protein arrays are fast becoming established as a means to monitor protein expression levels and investigate protein interactions and function. They present particular technical demands that will need to be solved in order to achieve the maximum capability of efficient and sensitive protein analysis in the high throughput setting of functional genomics. The following resumé of some major issues...

Homology a personal view on some of the problems.

There are many problems relating to defining the terminology used to describe various biological relationships and getting agreement on which definitions are best. Here, I examine 15 terminological problems, all of which are current, and all of which relate to the usage of homology and its associated terms. I suggest a set of definitions that are intended to be totally consistent among themselv...

Acute and chronic nephropathy induced by fluindione must be addressed.

BACKGROUND Among the vitamin K antagonists (VKA), indanedione-derived VKA is suspected to induce an immunoallergic risk. One indanedione-derived VKA, fluindione, is still being used in France. The aim of this study was to evaluate the contribution of VKA to acute and chronic nephritis. METHODS Twenty-four cases of biopsy proven acute interstitial nephritis (AIN) were retrospectively selected,...

Pharmacoepidemiology in Japan: medical databases and research achievements

Pharmacoepidemiology involves development of new models to predict safety in the development stages of pharmaceutical products, development of various guidelines and policy related to clinical trials, pharmacovigilance, establishment and implementation of risk management in postmarketing studies, and cost-effectiveness research in medical and social welfare sectors. Evaluations of safety, effic...