The Grizzly, October 9, 1990

Student Activities Reorganized • Homecoming 1990: Student and Alumnae Festivities • LaRouche Supporter to Speak • Pledging Rules In Effect • EcBa Club Holds First Meeting • The Path to Opportunities • Ursinus Goes South of the Border • Olin Brick Explained • Esther Remembered • Homecoming Festivities • Comedy Brightens Wismer • Pennsylvania Impressionist • Acting Sports • Presenting ProTheatre • Russian Trumpeter • Soccer Team Gets It Together • Grubb\u27s Fearless Predictions • Football Impresses • Field Hockey Rebounds • Harley\u27s Haven • Letters: RAs Question Editorial; Congrats, Now be Quiet! • Classics: Guaranteed to Improve Your Life • Losing Traditions • Grading Our Food Service • Middleton: Man of Many Projectshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1260/thumbnail.jp

Suprarenal fixation of endovascular aortic stent grafts: assessment of medium-term to long-term renal function by analysis of juxtarenal stent morphology.

Objective: The effect of supra-renal stent fixation during endovascular aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR) on renal function remains unclear. Using a unique validated 3D intraluminal imaging technique, we analysed the effect of suprarenal stent position relative to renal artery orifices and its medium to long term effects on renal function.Methods: Thirty-four consecutive patients from a single institution were studied following EVAR using the Zenith endograft system from September 1999 to March 2002. The precise locations of the uncovered supra-renal stent struts were assessed by a virtual endoscopic imaging technique. Anatomical and quantitative categorisation of patients was made according to the configuration of uncovered stent struts across the renal artery ostia (RAO). The anatomical subgroups were defined as struts located centrally or peripherally across both RAO. The quantitative subgroups were defined as RAO crossed by multiple struts, a solitary strut or no struts. The subgroups were compared for their renal function as assessed by temporal measurements of serum creatinine concentration and creatinine clearance, and renal parenchymal perfusion defects as assessed using contrast-enhanced computerised tomography (CT).Results: Mean follow-up was 52.7 months. Separate subgroup analysis for both anatomical and quantitative configurations did not demonstrate any significant difference in renal function between the different strut permutations (p>0.05). Follow-up imaging confirmed one case of renal infarction secondary to an occluded accessory renal artery, although, this patient had normal creatinine levels.Conclusion: RAO coverage by supra-renal uncovered stents does not appear to have a significant effect on renal function as evaluated by creatinine measurements in patients with normal pre-operative renal function

The Grizzly, September 25, 1990

New Student Center Planned for Wismer • Homeland Ministries Honors Landis • Class of 1994 Elects Officers • Parents Day 1990 • The Intifada: A Palestinian View • Myrin Booksale Upcoming • Welcome Class of \u2794 • Japanese Teacher Certification: Ursinus First in State • Bridging the Gap • They are Here! • Clark Publishes Article • Phi Alpha Psi Holds Service Project • Rushing Draws to a Close • Campus Shocker!: WVOU Works • Record Review • Current Berman • Fun Forum • Men Sweep Golden Bear Classic • Wenger Returns in Win • BWC Holds Tournament • Bears Still Can\u27t Beat WM\u27s Jinx • Soccer Team Soars • Women Wait for Warner • Liberals, Stop Legislating from the Bench! • Letters: Clark Calls Japanese Coverage Poor; Hafer\u27s Mortality Statistics Disputed • Ursinus at Woods Hole • The Price of Chemistryhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1258/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, September 19, 1990

Election 1990: Hafer Speaks • Bon Voyage, Richter! • Meistersingers in England • Ursinus to Recycle? • Persian Gulf Dialog • Convocation 1990 • Ursinus Receives Japanese Grant • Slightly Steamed • The Phantoms of Ursinus • Ursinus Students Study in France • Red and Gold Hosts and Hostesses Needed • Berman Catalog Awarded • Urban Art • Bears Hound Hoyas in Opener • Field Hockey on the Ball • Bruins Club to Hold Fifth Bear Pack Run • Lady Bears Start Fast • Netters Improving • Score!! • Encourage Diversity • On Censoring Art • Not Oil Only • Prediction: War With Iraq • Going with the Flow • Bolt to Latest Discoverieshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1257/thumbnail.jp

CNS targets of adipokines

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from American Physiological Society via the DOI in this record.Our understanding of adipose tissue as an endocrine organ has been transformed over the last twenty years. During this time a number of adipocyte-derived factors or adipokines have been identified. This paper will review evidence for how adipokines acting via the central nervous system (CNS) regulate normal physiology and disease pathology. The reported CNS-mediated effects of adipokines are varied and include the regulation of energy homeostasis, autonomic nervous system activity, the reproductive axis, neurodevelopment, cardiovascular function, and cognition. Due to the wealth of information available and the diversity of their known functions, the archetypal adipokines leptin and adiponectin will be the focused on extensively. Other adipokines with established CNS actions will also be discussed. Due to the difficulties associated with studying CNS function on a molecular level in humans, the majority of our knowledge, and as such the studies described in this paper, comes from work in experimental animal models; however, where possible the relevant data from human studies are also highlighted