Pharmacology down under in 2000.
In December the pharmacologists and toxicologists of Australia and New Zealand get together for their annual scientific meeting, which is made up of pre-meeting workshops followed by invited lectures, symposia and free communications. This year, one of the pre-meeting workshops was on "Animal Models for the Development of Molecular Pharmaceuticals." Symposia included "Models and New Therapies for Traumatic Brain Injury" and "New Targets for Rheumatoid Arthritis." Novel medicines being developed in Australia revealed at the meeting included potassium channel blockers, C5a receptor agonists and antagonists, brain-derived neurotrophic factor mimetics and AM-36.
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Doggrell Biomedical Communications, Lynfield, Auckland, New Zealand.