Professionals in the field of sexual pharmacology research gathered at the international symposium organized by the Esteve Foundation on October 9-12, 1994 in Majorca with the purpose of seeking answers to related issues. How can pharmacology contribute to clinically improve a number of existing sexual problems? What are the repercussions on the sexual function secondary…
1994
The round table Ion channel pharmacology, organized by the Esteve Foundation and held on May 31, 1994, was moderated by A.G. García, from the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics of the Faculty of Medicine of the Autonomous University of Madrid. A total of eleven submissions, like nicotinic acetylcholine channels, oxygen-regulated potassium channels, or second-messenger-sensitive calcium…
1994
The objective of the round table held on November 24, 1993 in Barcelona, further published in Dr. Antonio Esteve’s Monograph number 16, was to diminish pain in drug-treated patients. Topics like the advances in the knowledge of the pathophysiology of pain, the physiological bases of unconventional analgesics or the problem of chronic or postoperative pain…
1993
Dr. J.A. Vericat, from the Department of Genetics and Toxicology of the Cellular Research Toxicology Centre of Rome, gave the lecture In vitro pharmacotoxicology at the inaugural act of the Academic Year 1993-1994 of the Catalan Society of Pharmacology, with the collaboration of the Esteve Foundation. The lecture was imparted at the Academy of Medical…
1993
Dr. Christine Katlama, from the Service of Infectious and Tropical Diseases of the Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpétrière of Paris, gave the tenth lecture of the Esteve Foundation, held at the Royal Academy of Pharmacy on September 14, 1993 under the title Possibilities of AIDS treatment today. Dr. Katlama’s studies in the field of AIDS are…
1993
The study Activation of facilitation calcium channels in chromaffin cells by D1 dopamine receptors through a cAMP/protein kinase A-dependent mechanism, published by Nature in 1990 (348:239-242) was awarded the third Esteve Foundation Research Price. The authors of this study were Investigator C. Rodríguez Artalejo, from the Department of Pharmacology of the Faculty of Medicine of the…
1993
On May 11, 1993, in Barcelona, a round table was held on cancer research in Spain, ranging from molecular biology to clinics. The twelve submissions were moderated by Joan Bigorra, from Química Farmacéutica Bayer, and are gathered in Dr. Antonio Esteve’s Monograph number 15. The topics discussed were, among others, colon cancer epidemiology, preclinical evaluation…
1993
The inaugural lecture of the Academic Year 1992-1993 of the Catalan Society of Pharmacology, in collaboration with the Esteve Foundation, was imparted by Prof. José L. López Barneo, from the Department of Medical Physiology and Biophysics from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Seville, under the title Ion channels: participation in cellular physiology…
1992
On October 12-15, 1992, in Majorca, the Esteve Foundation organized the international symposium The pharmacology of cell differentiation, where general and specific mechanisms involved in the inter- and intra-cellular systems related to the transduction of signals involved in cell growth and development were explored. This scientific meeting was coordinated by R.A. Rifkind, from the Sloan-Kettering…
1992
