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Gastrointestinal Endocrine and metabolic diseases Web alert Jean D Deupree A selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to papers published in this issue of Current Opinion in Pharmacology. Addresses Department of Pharmacology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 986260 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-6260, USA; e-mail: [email protected] Current Opinion in Pharmacology 2002, 2:607–608
Atlas of the Endocrine System http://www.univ-st-etienne.fr/lbti/Mednucl/AtlasEnd/aindex.htm Anatomical, histological and physiological information on the various endocrine disorders are provided at this site. Mitochondrial diseases http://www.umdf.org/mitodisease/descriptions.html#Alpers Information on mitochondrial diseases and links are provided by the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation (Pittsburgh, PA).
Gastrointestinal National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health/digest/digest.htm This site contains links to fact sheets pertaining to different digestive diseases. One helpful fact sheet for those new to the area is a Digestive Disease Dictionary. Fact sheets that may be of interest to readers of this issue of Current Opinion in Pharmacology are Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Celiac Disease, Crohn’s Disease, Statistics On Digestive Diseases can and Digestive Disease Organizations for Professionals. Gastrointestinal.net http://www.gastrointestinal.net/ Descriptions of gastrointestinal function and various gastrointestinal diseases are provided in this site by Altruis Biomedical Network. Digestive System Diseases http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/c6.html A list of sites related to digestive diseases is provided by the Karolinska Institute. Novel Pathways Regulating Appetite and Energy Balance http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/418585 This is a free online article by Ashok Balasubramanyam, MD on hormonal regulation of body weight is on the Medscape web site. Celiac Disease http://www.genomelink.org/celiac/ Helpful links on celiac disease can be found here.
The Medical Biochemistry Page http://web.indstate.edu/thcme/mwking/home.html This is a particularly useful biochemistry reference site to quickly find biochemical information, prepared by Michael J King, Indiana University School of Medicine (Terre Haute, Indiana). Of particular interest to readers of this issue of Current Opinion in Pharmacology are Information On The Different Inborn Errors in Metabolism and the Table Common Of Vertebrate Hormones. The Society for Inborn Errors of Metabolism http://www.ssiem.org.uk/ For those interested in inborn errors of metabolism, this site contains a list of databases for some of the inborn errors of metabolism. The databases contain information on the enzymes involved in the inborn errors and the mutations that are involved. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases http://www.niddk.nih.gov/index.htm Useful information at this site for the researcher are: Diabetes Topics, http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health/diabetes/diabetes.htm; List Of Organizations For The Endocrine Diseases, http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health/endo/pubs/endorg/endorg.htm; Diabetes Statistics Page, http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health/ diabetes/diabetes.htm#stats; The Scientific Databases And Resource, http://www.niddk.nih.gov/intram/intram.htm#database; and Directory of Diabetes Organizations, http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health/diabetes/pubs/diaborgs/ diaborgs.htm.
Endocrine Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, Karolinska Institute http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/c18.html This site contains links to nutritional and metabolic diseases. Although most of the links are to sites for the health care professional there are a few useful educational and research sites such as links to biochemical pathways and cellular and molecular processes on the ExPasy web page, and links to various mitochondrial disorders. Endocrine Database http://www.il-st-acad-sci.org/data2.html Plasma concentrations for various hormones in humans and in animals can be found at this location.
Insulin Pumpers http://www.insulin-pumpers.org/links.shtml Although this site was designed for patients with diabetes, it has some interesting pages such as the history of insulin pumps with pictures, and a page with links to insulin-pump and diabetes information. It also contains a list of diabetes software, including software for PDAs. Diabetes in Control http://www.diabetesincontrol.com/links.htm News and information about diabetes for the medical profession is provided at this site. The homepage gives a weekly news summary of the latest information on diabetes.
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Diabetes-drug http://www.diabetes-drug.net/ This site provides general information on diabetes and the drugs that are used to treat diabetes. This site is provided by Altruis Biomedical Network.
Health Sciences PDA Sites, Hardin Library for Health Sciences, University of Iowa Library http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/pda/healthsci.html This is a helpful health science site for PDAs and pocket PC programs.
Hot thyroidology http://www.hotthyroidology.com/ This is a free online journal that is owned by the European Thyroid Association. Designed to keep researchers informed of the hot topics and controversies in the thyroid field, it contains editorials that discuss important developments in experimental and clinical thyroidology. It also has links to many of the endocrine societies from around the world.
Medline Plus http://medlineplus.gov/ I have found this to be an extremely useful site for finding information on drugs and specific diseases, as well as dictionaries. The dictionary section contains a ‘Multilingual Glossary of Technical and Popular Medical Terms in Eight European Languages’ as well as ‘ADAM Medical Encyclopedia’.
Thyroid Disease Manager http://www.thyroidmanager.org/thyroid_links.htm Links on the thyroid for physicians and patients can be found at this site. National Institute Of Health, Osteoporosis And Related Bone Diseases, National Resource Center http://www.osteo.org/ This site contains fact sheets, research bibliographies and links to various sites containing bone health information. Under the news section, I found recent information on biochemical markers of bone turnover and emerging osteoporosis therapies. Pituitary Disorders Education and Support (PDES) http://www.pituitarysupport.com/index.htm This site presented by PDES, a non-profit organization, is designed to provide current information on advances in the treatment of pituitary disorders. It provides basic information on the pituitary gland and its various diseases.
Hints for searching on the web Search engines I have found to be helpful Google http://www.google.com/ I found Google to be the most helpful search engine for finding many of the web sites I provided in Current Opinions in Pharmacology. The search engines listed below were helpful in finding medical sites for patients and professionals; however, they were not as helpful in finding research sites. California Digital Library http://searchlight.cdlib.org/cgi-bin/searchlight I found a number of research-related web sites using the Science and Engineering search engine. The searches take a little bit of time but in return you get books, journal articles, electronic text and documents including patents and National Science Foundation grant support information and web directories.
Other helpful sites Online Medical And Science Dictionaries http://www.medbioworld.com/advice/dict.html Links to various online dictionaries can be found here including links to medical, life science, chemical and computer dictionaries and a link to Zoological Glossaries, Dictionaries And Acronyms.
Biomedical Information Resources & Services, Karolinska Institute http://www.mic.ki.se/Other.html This site is loaded with information on specific topics but most are medical professional and not research-related.
Writing and Presenting Research Work http://www.medbioworld.com/advice/presenting.html Links to sites for writing in the scientific and medical fields can be found here.
Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/index.html The links provided here are primarily for the health care provider and/or their patients.
Gastrointestinal Endocrine and metabolic diseases Web alert Jean D Deupree A selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to papers published in this issue of Current Opinion in Pharmacology. Addresses Department of Pharmacology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 986260 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-6260, USA; e-mail: [email protected] Current Opinion in Pharmacology 2002, 2:607–608
Atlas of the Endocrine System http://www.univ-st-etienne.fr/lbti/Mednucl/AtlasEnd/aindex.htm Anatomical, histological and physiological information on the various endocrine disorders are provided at this site. Mitochondrial diseases http://www.umdf.org/mitodisease/descriptions.html#Alpers Information on mitochondrial diseases and links are provided by the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation (Pittsburgh, PA).
Gastrointestinal National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health/digest/digest.htm This site contains links to fact sheets pertaining to different digestive diseases. One helpful fact sheet for those new to the area is a Digestive Disease Dictionary. Fact sheets that may be of interest to readers of this issue of Current Opinion in Pharmacology are Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Celiac Disease, Crohn’s Disease, Statistics On Digestive Diseases can and Digestive Disease Organizations for Professionals. Gastrointestinal.net http://www.gastrointestinal.net/ Descriptions of gastrointestinal function and various gastrointestinal diseases are provided in this site by Altruis Biomedical Network. Digestive System Diseases http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/c6.html A list of sites related to digestive diseases is provided by the Karolinska Institute. Novel Pathways Regulating Appetite and Energy Balance http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/418585 This is a free online article by Ashok Balasubramanyam, MD on hormonal regulation of body weight is on the Medscape web site. Celiac Disease http://www.genomelink.org/celiac/ Helpful links on celiac disease can be found here.
The Medical Biochemistry Page http://web.indstate.edu/thcme/mwking/home.html This is a particularly useful biochemistry reference site to quickly find biochemical information, prepared by Michael J King, Indiana University School of Medicine (Terre Haute, Indiana). Of particular interest to readers of this issue of Current Opinion in Pharmacology are Information On The Different Inborn Errors in Metabolism and the Table Common Of Vertebrate Hormones. The Society for Inborn Errors of Metabolism http://www.ssiem.org.uk/ For those interested in inborn errors of metabolism, this site contains a list of databases for some of the inborn errors of metabolism. The databases contain information on the enzymes involved in the inborn errors and the mutations that are involved. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases http://www.niddk.nih.gov/index.htm Useful information at this site for the researcher are: Diabetes Topics, http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health/diabetes/diabetes.htm; List Of Organizations For The Endocrine Diseases, http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health/endo/pubs/endorg/endorg.htm; Diabetes Statistics Page, http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health/ diabetes/diabetes.htm#stats; The Scientific Databases And Resource, http://www.niddk.nih.gov/intram/intram.htm#database; and Directory of Diabetes Organizations, http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health/diabetes/pubs/diaborgs/ diaborgs.htm.
Endocrine Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, Karolinska Institute http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/c18.html This site contains links to nutritional and metabolic diseases. Although most of the links are to sites for the health care professional there are a few useful educational and research sites such as links to biochemical pathways and cellular and molecular processes on the ExPasy web page, and links to various mitochondrial disorders. Endocrine Database http://www.il-st-acad-sci.org/data2.html Plasma concentrations for various hormones in humans and in animals can be found at this location.
Insulin Pumpers http://www.insulin-pumpers.org/links.shtml Although this site was designed for patients with diabetes, it has some interesting pages such as the history of insulin pumps with pictures, and a page with links to insulin-pump and diabetes information. It also contains a list of diabetes software, including software for PDAs. Diabetes in Control http://www.diabetesincontrol.com/links.htm News and information about diabetes for the medical profession is provided at this site. The homepage gives a weekly news summary of the latest information on diabetes.
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Diabetes-drug http://www.diabetes-drug.net/ This site provides general information on diabetes and the drugs that are used to treat diabetes. This site is provided by Altruis Biomedical Network.
Health Sciences PDA Sites, Hardin Library for Health Sciences, University of Iowa Library http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/pda/healthsci.html This is a helpful health science site for PDAs and pocket PC programs.
Hot thyroidology http://www.hotthyroidology.com/ This is a free online journal that is owned by the European Thyroid Association. Designed to keep researchers informed of the hot topics and controversies in the thyroid field, it contains editorials that discuss important developments in experimental and clinical thyroidology. It also has links to many of the endocrine societies from around the world.
Medline Plus http://medlineplus.gov/ I have found this to be an extremely useful site for finding information on drugs and specific diseases, as well as dictionaries. The dictionary section contains a ‘Multilingual Glossary of Technical and Popular Medical Terms in Eight European Languages’ as well as ‘ADAM Medical Encyclopedia’.
Thyroid Disease Manager http://www.thyroidmanager.org/thyroid_links.htm Links on the thyroid for physicians and patients can be found at this site. National Institute Of Health, Osteoporosis And Related Bone Diseases, National Resource Center http://www.osteo.org/ This site contains fact sheets, research bibliographies and links to various sites containing bone health information. Under the news section, I found recent information on biochemical markers of bone turnover and emerging osteoporosis therapies. Pituitary Disorders Education and Support (PDES) http://www.pituitarysupport.com/index.htm This site presented by PDES, a non-profit organization, is designed to provide current information on advances in the treatment of pituitary disorders. It provides basic information on the pituitary gland and its various diseases.
Hints for searching on the web Search engines I have found to be helpful Google http://www.google.com/ I found Google to be the most helpful search engine for finding many of the web sites I provided in Current Opinions in Pharmacology. The search engines listed below were helpful in finding medical sites for patients and professionals; however, they were not as helpful in finding research sites. California Digital Library http://searchlight.cdlib.org/cgi-bin/searchlight I found a number of research-related web sites using the Science and Engineering search engine. The searches take a little bit of time but in return you get books, journal articles, electronic text and documents including patents and National Science Foundation grant support information and web directories.
Other helpful sites Online Medical And Science Dictionaries http://www.medbioworld.com/advice/dict.html Links to various online dictionaries can be found here including links to medical, life science, chemical and computer dictionaries and a link to Zoological Glossaries, Dictionaries And Acronyms.
Biomedical Information Resources & Services, Karolinska Institute http://www.mic.ki.se/Other.html This site is loaded with information on specific topics but most are medical professional and not research-related.
Writing and Presenting Research Work http://www.medbioworld.com/advice/presenting.html Links to sites for writing in the scientific and medical fields can be found here.
Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/index.html The links provided here are primarily for the health care provider and/or their patients.