Alzheimer’s disease is an age-related progressive neurodegenerative disorder with an enormous unmet medical need. It is the most common form of dementia affecting 5% of adults over 65 years. In view of our ageing society the number of patients, as well as the economical and social impact, is expected to grow dramatically in the future. Currently available medications appear to be able to produc...

Angiogenesis refers to new blood vessels that originate from pre-existing vascular structures. Corneal neovascularization which can lead to compromised visual acuity occurs in a wide variety of corneal pathologies. A large subset of measures has been advocated to prevent and/or treat corneal neovascularization with varying degrees of success. These approaches include topical corticosteroid admi...

This book is published as one of a series entitled Foundations ofNeurological Surgery and is a clearly produced volume. The early sections on laser types and laser physics read easily and are well illustrated, but the one which follows on the interaction oflaser light with neural tissue is a little less clear but quite comprehensive. The section on benign supratentorial tumours is more of a mat...

*Correspondence: Patricio I. Meneses and Erle S. Robertson, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Tumor Virology Program of the Abramson Cancer Center, 202A Johnson Pavilion, 3610 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19145; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]

The current standard of care for the treatment of arterial thrombosis includes anticoagulants and three classes of antiplatelet agents--aspirin, thienopyridines and glycoprotein IIb-IIIa antagonists. Although these drugs have had a significant impact on morbidity and mortality in several patient populations, up to 15% of the high risk patients with acute coronary syndrome continue to suffer fro...

Correspondence: Rohit Aggarwal UPMC Arthritis and Autoimmunity Clinic, Department of Medicine, Rheumatology, University of Pittsburgh, Falk Medical Building, 3601 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2B, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA Tel +1 412 648 9782 Fax +1 412 383 8864 Email [email protected] Abstract: The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies are a heterogeneous group of diseases that include dermatomyositis (DM...

Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH) is caused by a mutation in the gene that encodes the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor, resulting in very high levels of circulating LDL-cholesterol and endothelial damage during time. Apoprotein B, activated by LDL receptor, and PCSK9 (proprotein convertase subtilisin / kexin type 9 serine Protease), that impairs the clearance of LDL receptors, are impor...

In the last three decades in the United States the prevalence of overweight/obesity in pediatric population has more than tripled, causing the onset also in pediatric age of diseases previously considered exclusively of adults, such as metabolic syndrome (MetS) [1]. MetS represents a cluster of cardiometabolic abnormalities, including visceral obesity, dyslipidemia, hypertension and diabetes me...

The current therapy for glioblastoma multiforme involves total surgical resection followed by combination of radiation therapy and temozolomide. Unfortunately, the efficacy for such current therapy is limited, and newer approaches are sorely needed to treat this deadly disease. We have recently described the isolation of bacterial proteins and peptides with anticancer activity. In phase I human...