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New Certified Reference Materials Offer Greater Certainty In Monitoring 3 Therapeutic Medications
20 November 2009
To help bring greater certainty to the measurement of medication levels in a patient's bloodstream for three drugs with narrow therapeutic ranges, the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) is releasing new certified reference materials (CRMs)...
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Mood Dysfunction Improved In Gene Knockout Mice
14 November 2009
Removing the PKCI/HINT1 gene from mice has an anti-depressant-like and anxiolytic-like effect. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience applied a battery of behavioral tests to the PKCI/HINT1 knockout...
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Faulty Body Clock May Make Kids Bipolar
12 November 2009
Malfunctioning circadian clock genes may be responsible for bipolar disorder in children. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Psychiatry found four versions of the regulatory gene RORB that were associated...
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