Reynold Spector
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Spector R
Am J Med
. 2025 Feb;
PMID: 39956504
In the last few years, the longevity of Americans has fallen for the first time in our history. Obesity has mushroomed, heart disease still kills approximately 600,000 Americans, and stroke...
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Spector R
Am J Med
. 2024 Dec;
PMID: 39631643
Thirty percent of Americans report insomnia. After eliminating obvious causes, the best therapy for insomnia is cognitive behavioral therapy, but this is not widely available. However, all the known oral...
3.
Spector R
Am J Med
. 2024 May;
137(10):925-928.
PMID: 38788825
Forty percent of Americans are obese and 20% are overweight. Until recently, notwithstanding great efforts to combat this chronic, worsening epidemic, the only therapy that "worked" was surgery. However, recently,...
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Duque A, Spector R
Brain Struct Funct
. 2019 Jul;
224(7):2281-2295.
PMID: 31278571
There is a widespread belief that neurogenesis exists in adult human brain, especially in the dentate gyrus, and it is to be maintained and, if possible, augmented with different stimuli...
5.
Spector R
J Pharmacol Exp Ther
. 2016 May;
358(1):103-8.
PMID: 27189968
At present, the guideline approach to the medical treatment and prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) is to classify patients by risk and treat the known risk factors (contributory causes),...
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Spector R
Med Hypotheses
. 2016 Mar;
89:32-6.
PMID: 26968905
In animal models of acute ischemic stroke, intravenous dehydroascorbic acid (DHAA), unlike ascorbic acid (AA), readily enters brain and is converted in both normal and ischemic brain into protective ascorbic...
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Spector R, Snodgrass S, Johanson C
Exp Neurol
. 2015 Aug;
273:57-68.
PMID: 26247808
In this review, a companion piece to our recent examination of choroid plexus (CP), the organ that secretes the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), we focus on recent information in the context...
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Spector R, Keep R, Snodgrass S, Smith Q, Johanson C
Exp Neurol
. 2015 Mar;
267:78-86.
PMID: 25747036
Recently tremendous progress has been made in studying choroid plexus (CP) physiology and pathophysiology; and correcting several misconceptions about the CP. Specifically, the details of how CP, a locus of...
9.
Spector R, Johanson C
Mol Brain
. 2014 Jan;
7:3.
PMID: 24410751
The purpose of this review is to discuss the implications of the 2009 discovery of the sixth deoxyribonucleoside (dN) [5-hydroxymethyldeoxycytidine (hmdC)] in DNA which is the most abundant in neurons....
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Spector R, Johanson C
Fluids Barriers CNS
. 2013 Sep;
10(1):28.
PMID: 24059870
We and other investigators have postulated deterioration of essential choroid plexus (CP) functions in some elderly and especially Alzheimer's disease patients based on apparent anatomical, histological and pathological changes in...