Relevant Publications

CAMARADES Monographs

#1: Combining the evidence from different drug trials (Qiuxun Wu): A simulated exploration of the relative performance of weighted and standardised mean difference approaches when sample size is small:

#2: Study quality in experimental stroke (Shehan Samaranayake)

#3: Sources of bias in transgenic studies of stroke pathophysiology (Ling Chan)

#4: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the efficacy of proteins and peptides used in the treatment of Experimental Allerigic Encephalomyelitis (Hanna Vesterinen)

#5: Systematic review and meta-analysis on the role of Th17 cells in the pathophysiology of Experimental Allergic Encephalomyelitis (Mads Hammar)

#6: Dopamine receptor agonist treatment of Parkinson's disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis (Evie Ferguson)

#7:  A systematic approach to research synthesis for the pathophysiology of stroke (Pippa Wheble)

 

Reviews of Specific Drugs

Nimodipine (Pubmed)

Glutamate release antagonists (Pubmed)

Nicotinamide, and Appendix (.pdf)

Melatonin (.pdf)

FK506 (.pdf)

Nitric Oxide donors (.pdf)

Nitric Oxide inhibitors (.pdf)

Tirilazad (.doc)

Piracetam and related compounds (draft, .doc)

tPA (.pdf)

Hypothermia (.pdf)

 

More general publications

Lancet editorial (Sandercock and Roberts, 2002)

Where is the evidence that animal research benefits humans? (Pound et al, 2004)

Methodological quality of animal studies on neuroprotection in focal cerebral ischaemia

(van der Worp et al, 2005)

BMJ editorial (Lemon and Dunnett, 2005) and response (Publisher)

Research Defense Society Newsletter (Macleod and Sandercock, 2005)

1026 Experimental Treatments in Acute Stroke (O’Collins et al, 2006)

Accompanying Editorial (Johnston, 2006)

Bench to bedside: the quest for quality in experimental stroke research (Dirnagl 2006)

 

To contact us:

Malcolm Macleod
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, UK

EH4 2XU

Phone: 44-7786-265166
Fax: 44-131-5371132
E-mail: malcolm@camarades.info