Pain and Central Nervous System Week

Herpes Zoster - Wolf isotopic response can be granuloma annulare at herpes zoster wound site

Hip Fracture - Interventions needed to promote adoption of evidence-based acute pain management

Immunoglobulins - Cocaine-binding scFv antibody can be made in E. coli, purified, freeze-dried

Intracerebral Hemorrhage - IL-10 release following intracerebral hemorrhage varies depending on hemisphere

Kidney Transplantation - Nonmyeloablative SCT from kidney donor can resolve PTLD

Market Forecast - Report: G protein-coupled receptors have significant potential

Guillain-Barre Syndrome - galE gene in campylobacters linked to Guillain-Barre syndrome

Memory Function - VEGF is a prerequisite for exercise-induced hippocampal neurogenesis

Memory Improvement - Concord grape juice improved memory, neuromotor skills in animal study

Meningitis - CDC: Vaccine shortage likely

Menopause - Early hormone replacement is fundamental to limiting cognitive decline

Mergers and Acquisitions - Acquisition to advance treatment of viral diseases and neurological disorders

Multiple Sclerosis - A whole genome screen reveals 33 genes associated with multiple sclerosis

Multiple Sclerosis - A whole genome screen reveals five genes associated with multiple sclerosis

Multiple Sclerosis - Neutralizing antibodies to IFN beta-1b therapy for relapsing-remitting MS may affect outcome

Multiple Sclerosis - Vascular changes prevail in disorders that host chronic neuroinflammation

Muscular Diseases - Neurons in Duchenne, myotonic dystrophy have excess non-cholinergic synapses

Memory - Mad cow mechanism may be integral to storing memory

Neuronal Cell Death - Glutamate neurotoxicity may be blockable by a calcineurin-inhibiting peptide

Neuronal Synapse - Interneuronal synapse formation, actin restructuring involves cadherins, nectins

Neuropathy - Apolipoprotein E is a nerve recovery and neovascularization intermediary

Neuroscience - Estrogen protects against methamphetamine-induced neurological insult

Neuroscience - Microangiogenesis facilitates parkinsonism

Neuroscience - Novel hyaluronan-based biomaterials support nerve repair

Ophthalmology - Genetic basis for fashion crime?

Pain Medicine - Desflurane general anesthesia alters hepatic venous pressure

Parkinson Disease - DJ-1 gene polymorphism not linked to Parkinson disease

Parkinson Disease - Molecular chaperones protect parkin from oxidative stress inactivation

Alzheimer Disease - Alzheimer disease treatment slows progression of cognitive decline in study

Prion Disease - Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease can occur as a result of an insertion in the PRNP gene

Proteomics - O-GlcNAc plays role in diabetes, cancer, and neurodegeneration

Receptor Studies - LDL receptor-related protein controls blood-brain barrier permeability

Rett Syndrome - MeCP2, the mutated transcription factor in Rett syndrome, alters nerve synapses

Substance Abuse - Individuals with eating disorders more likely to abuse alcohol and drugs

Sudden Infant Death - The cytokine interleukin-1beta is highly expressed in SIDS brains

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome - Neurons of dorsal motor vagal nucleus show hypoxia-related marker in SIDS brains

Urinary Tract Dysfunction - Sacral neuromodulation beneficial for patients with neurogenic urinary retention

Alzheimer Disease - Down syndrome study reveals possible method for detecting initial stages of AD

Alzheimer Disease - Scope of Phenserine trial; sub-study to include brain scans