Istvan Merchenthaler, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc. and Laszlo Prokai, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Dr. Merchenthaler is a Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine and Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; and Dr. Prokai is the Robert A. Welch Professor, Department of Molecular Biology & Immunology, University of North Texas Health Science Center, 3500 Camp Bowie Boulevard, Fort Worth, TX.
Within the past 12 months Dr. Merchenthaler received grant/research support from Ausio Pharmaceuticals, while Dr. Prokai was involved with AgyPharma, LLC, that he co-founded.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, CCME staff and interMDnet staff have nothing to disclose.
Release Date: 06/07/2010
Upon completion of this Cyberounds®, you should be able to:
Describe the mechanisms by which estrogen exerts neuroprotective effects
List the efforts to develop a safe estrogen therapy without side effects in the uterus and breast
Discuss concepts to enable safe, central nervous system-selective estrogen therapy.
