Therefore it is not surprising that changes in neuromelanin have been implicated to be important, contributing to the selective vulnerability of dopaminergic neurons in PD. It has been shown that the ventral tie
even before the policy of Japanese imperialists on Hansen's disease was launched. In the modern era, Hansen's disease patients cooperated more actively with influential non-patients and campaigned through various media for policies that would support their survival and the establishment of facilities....
This paper, too, has been exceptionally influential by academic standards, as witnessed by its ~3000 citations to date. What may be less appreciated among scientists is that its impact in the real world of addiction treatment has remained more limited, with large numbers of patients still not ...
The amyloid cascade hypothesis for Alzheimer's disease (AD) (Fig. 1) has been very influential in the research conducted in academia and the pharmaceutical industry. This hypothesis synthesizes histopathological and genetic information, and posits that the deposition of theamyloid-βpeptide in the br...
China has recently become the second largest economy and is increasingly playing an important and influential role in global trade and infrastructure investment, particularly since the initiation of the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013 (National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) 2018). In 2018...
It is conceivable that other environmental factors that are less well described but potentially more influential in the pathogenesis of pediatric IBD share similar paradoxical associations. For example, a study conducted in the United Kingdom reported that NO2 exposure (marker of traffic-related air ...
“Research, along with the budget, has been steadily increasing over the last 20 years,” Melov says. “It’s not a lack of money or a semantic thing of aging as a disease or not a disease that’s holding the field back.”
Church-placed CHWs are trusted influential connectors between communities and health systems. Studies have shown that these CHWs can successfully implement health prevention protocols in churches, including those related to cancer control, making them potentially important community mediators of CRC screening...
Low uptake of the jab has been directly blamed on a paper published in a medical journal in 1998 that linked it to autism and bowel disease, causing a nationwide scare. That research has now been widely discredited, with the influential British Medical Journal calling the research an "elabora...
“It’s a difficult condition to manage because one day I will be fine, and the next I will be doubled over in pain and not even able to walk. To look at me, most people would never even know that I was ill other than my tummy swelling up. ...