Role of public relations practices in content management: the mediating role of new media platforms.

Public relations practices are widely accompanied by communication and persuasion. Especially today, when new media platforms provide direct accessibility, communication through PR has become more improved. This research focused on media organizations in the UAE, with a special consideration given to their audience content management.

d-Amphetamine-induced cytotoxicity and oxidative stress in isolated rat hepatocytes.

Amphetamines (AMP) are potent psychostimulants and commonly used drugs of abuse. Its chronic administration creates tolerance and addiction and also associated with neurotoxicity and hepatocellular damage through oxidative stress. The present study was designed to evaluate the cytotoxic effects as well as the oxidative stress induced by d-amphetamines in isolated rat hepatocytes.

Kufor Rakeb disease: autosomal recessive, levodopa-responsive parkinsonism with pyramidal degeneration, supranuclear gaze palsy, and dementia.

Kufor Rakeb disease is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by subacute, juvenile-onset, levodopa-responsive parkinsonism, pyramidal signs, dementia, and a supranuclear gaze palsy. It was originally described more than a decade ago, and linkage analysis identified a locus on chromosome 1p36 that was previously assigned PARK9. We have further characterized the clinical picture and specifically re-assessed the response to levodopa in the original family, in the northern highlands of Jordan.