THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM MEETING IN THE UK FROM THE PATIENTS’ PERSPECTIVE: COMMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS FROM CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA PATIENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES

The multidisciplinary team meeting in the UK from the patients’ perspective: comments and observations from cholangiocarcinoma patients and their families

Helen Morement,1 Rachel Harrison,2 Simon D Taylor-Robinson3 1AMMF – The Cholangiocarcinoma Charity, Enterprise House, Stansted, Essex, 2Department of South East Asia, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 3Division of Digestive Health, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, UK Background: The multidiscipl

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Effects of Lipoic Acid on High-Fat Diet-Induced Alteration of Synaptic Plasticity and Brain Glucose Metabolism: A PET/CT and 13C-NMR Study

Abstract High-fat diet (HFD)-induced obesity is accompanied by insulin resistance and compromised brain synaptic plasticity through the impairment of insulin-sensitive pathways regulating neuronal survival, learning, and memory.Lipoic acid is known to modulate the redox status of the cell and has insulin mimetic effects.This study was aimed at dete

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