New books received this week

Pharmacology in dental medicine / Jeffrey M. Casiglia, Peter L. Jacobsen. Hamilton, Ontario : B. C. Decker, 2008.

Description: This pocket guide provides key information about pharmacologic agents used by the dental practitioner in general or specialty practice. Subjects are grouped by either specific classes of therapeutic agent, such as antiviral agents, or by a pharmacologic concept, such as reactions to pharmacologic agents.





Oxford handbook of clinical dentistry / David A. Mitchell and Laura Mitchell. 4th ed. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Description: This essential pocket guide covers the whole of clinical dentistry in a concise format. The authors have distilled the key elements of clinical practice into a readily accessible book with a wide range of appeal, from the undergraduate and those preparing for a range of postgraduate dental examinations through to training, and other senior colleagues.





Stedman's medical dictionary for the dental professions Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2007.

Description: This dictionary contains definitions for nearly 13,000 terms relevant to over a dozen dental professions, including dentistry, dental hygiene, and dental assisting. It includes over 500 illustrations, most in full colour, and a full-colour oral conditions and disorders insert.

Two new books received this week

Mosby's dental dictionary. 2nd ed. St. Louis, Mo. ; London : Mosby, c2008.

Description: Thoroughly revised and updated, this edition includes more terms, more pronunciations, more than 10,000 terms and 300 full-color illustrations, and extensive appendices for quick, easy-to-use access to information.







Oral bioscience / David B. Ferguson. Sandy : Authors OnLine, 2006.

Description: An introduction to the physiology and biochemistry of the mouth for dentistry and oral health students, putting oral structure and metabolism into the context of oral function.

Free downloads of 100s of documentaries, including health-related ones.

At Freedocumentaries.org you can stream interesting and provocative documentary films for free. This is a very interesting site, all legal and no download fees. Topics include politics, environment, health, media, human rights, society and much more. Check it out to explore different perspectives.

New Publications by Faculty of Dentistry Staff and Students, January 2009.

The following papers have been added to PubMed in the last 30 days:

Curtis B, Evans RW, Sbaraini A, Schwarz E. The Monitor Practice Programme: is non-invasive management of dental caries in private practice effective? Australian dental journal 2008 Dec;53(4):306-13.

Xue J, Li W, Swain MV. In vitro demineralization of human enamel natural and abraded surfaces: A micromechanical and SEM investigation. Journal of dentistry 2009 Jan 7. [Epub ahead of print]

Gatt JM, Nemeroff CB, Dobson-Stone C, Paul RH, Bryant RA, Schofield PR, Gordon E, Kemp AH, Williams LM. Interactions between BDNF Val66Met polymorphism and early life stress predict brain and arousal pathways to syndromal depression and anxiety. Molecular psychiatry 2009 Jan 20. [Epub ahead of print]

Ye P, Nadkarni MA, Simonian M, Hunter N. CD24 regulated gene expression and distribution of tight junction proteins is associated with altered barrier function in oral epithelial monolayers. BMC Cell Biology 2009 Jan 13;10:2.

Database on trial

The following database is currently on trial at the University of Sydney Library.

Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection - Trial ends 27th of February, 2009. You will need to login with your UniKey to obtain a password.

The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection contains over 900 online audio-visual seminar style talks, each especially commissioned from leading world experts. It is of interest across many disciplines and will appeal to researchers, lecturers, graduate students and advanced undergraduates in biomedical and life sciences.

The resource is organised into comprehensive animated audiovisual presentations and is regularly expanded and updated. To find talks matching your interests browse the series or use the search facility. A keyword search for 'dental' finds dental anatomy, dental implants, dental simulator, and dental stem cells.

Please try it out and let us know what you think using the Database Evaluation Form

Free online resource for educators and students

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) launched a free online science education resource for university faculty and students called Scitable. It is a free online resource for undergraduate educators and students. It’s built on a foundation of evidence-based, faculty-reviewed scientific overviews of key concepts compiled by the editorial staff of NPG. The first Scitable module is devoted to the study of genetics. Content is linked to cutting edge research published by other NPG publications, giving undergraduate students access to real-world scientific inquiry and experimentation.

Free online course in ethical aspects of human research

The US National Cancer Institute, and possibly the broader NIH now require all recipients of research grants to provide evidence that they have completed a "course" in ethical aspects of human research. Their free in-house course called Protecting Human Research Participants can be done on-line and will get you a certificate. This may come in handy for some researchers.

New books received this week

A synopsis of regional anatomy. / Colin Hinrichsen. Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Pub., c2008.

Description: This textbook offers concise and essential knowledge on the human anatomy. Unlike other textbooks on anatomy, this book is arranged in regions rather than in systems.As such, it is more consistent with the prevailing approaches to clinical examination and regional surgery.







Developmental neuropathology. / edited by: Jeffrey A. Golden, Brian N. Harding. Basel : International Society of Neuropathology, c2004.

Description: This book presents for the first time a dual approach to the wide range of disorders which affect the developing brain in pre- and post-natal life, stressing the genetic and molecular mechanisms.