Biomedical sciences publications

We evaluated whether alcohol consumption was prospectively associated with CAD mortality risk independent of familial factors.

Chronic alcoholism is associated with the development of cardiac and peripheral autonomic nervous system (ANS) pathology.

Here we investigate the role of α6β2* nAChRs, a subtype selectively present in the nigrostriatal pathway, using α6 nAChR subunit null mutant (α6(-/-)) mice.

We investigated whether women with dysmenorrhoea, compared with controls, have increased sensitivity to experimentally induced deep-tissue muscle ischaemia in a body area distant from that of referred menstrual pain.

There is an urgent need for effective medicines to protect against and treat the harmful biological effects of radiation . Potential strategies herein include mitochondrial and epigenetic-driven methods using lipoic…

We aimed to quantify sleep disturbance and the underlying contribution of objective hot flashes in 72 women who had, compared to those who had not, developed clinical insomnia in association…

The aim of the present review is to summarize findings linking clock genes, stress, and alcohol and substance abuse, and to propose potential underlying neurobiological mechanisms.

In his article supporting an evolutionary perspective of free will, John Banja (2015) argues that addicts are responsible for their addictive behaviors because they could engage in practices that would diminish…

The authors measured within-subject changes in regional brain morphometry over longer intervals and in larger samples of adolescents than previously reported and assessed differences between adolescents who remained nondrinkers and…

CS teacher development has become a major effort for the SIGCSE community in part due to NSF's CS10K efforts and expanding CSTA involvement. However there are few examples of university…

To further investigate batracylin’s mechanism of toxicity, studies were conducted in Fischer 344 rats. Once daily oral administration of 16 or 32 mg/kg batracylin to rats for 4 days caused…