The first articles published in Journal of Angiogenesis Research today cover a wide range of angiogenesis related topics, reflecting the journal’s aim of providing a pivotal platform for researchers in this area. Dr Meadows and colleagues examine the role of Akt signalling factors in early embryonic heart development, while Professor Mross and colleagues assess the… Read more »
An article published this week in Environmental Health provides a current review of the epidemiological literature on the effect of temperature on mortality. Epidemiological studies of temperature and heat-related mortality have been receiving increased attention recently. Identifying risk factors and potentially susceptible populations are becoming increasingly important for public health interventions as temperatures are predicted… Read more »
Key genes involved in the development of resistance to methotrexate chemotherapy are reported in “Networking of differentially expressed genes in human cancer cells resistant to methotrexate”, a research article recently published in Genome Medicine. Carlos Ciudad and colleagues used networking analysis of genes mutually deregulated between seven different cancer cell lines to show that DKK1,… Read more »
The Lyn Clearihan Award for the Best Paper has recently been awarded to the authors of the following article in Asia Pacific Family Medicine: Care for chronic illness in Australian general practice – focus groups of chronic disease self-help groups over 10 years: implications for chronic care systems reforms Carmel M Martin, Chris Peterson, Rowena… Read more »
When will the next wave of influenza A (H1N1) or “swine flu” infections occur, how quickly will they spread, and are there dangers of new emerging human strains? These are some of the questions addressed in two recent papers published by BMC Medicine, both of which use mathematical modeling to make predictions about the spread… Read more »
Lithium is the most effective prophylactic and therapeutic agent for bipolar disorder, yet we have much still to learn about its mechanisms, report Christina Cruceanau and colleagues in “Lithium: a key to the genetics of bipolar disorder”, a Review article recently published in Genome Medicine. Bipolar disorder is extremely heterogeneous in terms of susceptibility, symptoms… Read more »