Study Highlights: Current research being conducted on the GCRC.
Bibliography: Current publications resulting from research on the GCRC
Areas of Interest:
Cardiac Disease: Cardiac function in heart failure; cardiac rehabilitation.
Clinical Pharmacology: Phase I and II drug trials.
Gastroenterology: Regional enteritis; immune studies of chronic active hepatitis; effect of diet on colonic mucosa.
Gynecology: Estrogen metabolism in postmenopausal women; prostaglandin synthetase
inhibitors; modulating role of body composition on reproductive hormones;
effect of estrogen on cardiac function.
Metabolism: Obesity; hypoglycemia; diabetes mellitus; exercise; genetic studies
in multiple endocrine neoplasia; catecholamine metabolism; regulation of energy
expenditure; ketoacid effects on amino acid metabolism in insulin-dependent
diabetes mellitus; protein metabolism-regulation of protein synthesis and degradation
by hormones and substrates; interactions between diabetes and thromboses.
Neurology: Therapeutic intervention in idiopathic chronic polyneuropathy;
DNA damage in muscular dystrophy, polymyositis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,
Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.
Nutrition: Pathophysiology of weight gain; obesity; diet-induced thermogenesis;
dietary fiber; nutrition support; effect of dietary fiber on estrogen metabolism;
effects of vitamin K1 in women of childbearing age; low-calorie versus low-fat
diets; effects of tryptophan depletion on behavior.
Oncology: Clinical trials of chemotherapeutic agents and immunotherapy; intraperitoneal
IL-2 and lymphokine-activated killer cells in recurrent ovarian carcinoma;
lymphatic scintigraphy.
Pediatrics: Hormonal mechanisms of pubertal growth; relation of age-related
decline in growth hormone to muscle loss and fat accumulation; treatment of
obesity
with growth hormone; testing for prediabetes.
Psychiatry: Bulimia and anorexia nervosa: treatment comparison; stimulant
and alcohol interactions; mecamylamine model of dementia; effect of nicotine
administration on cognitive functions in Alzheimer's disease; genetic basis
of aggression in children; substance abuse; drug discrimination.
Surgery: Subcutaneous heparin versus oral warfarin in patients undergoing
unilateral elective knee or hip replacement surgery.