Postdoctoral thesis

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ON DISTURBANCES IN CALCIUM-PHOSPHATE TURNOVER AND OSTEOPATHY FOLLOWING TOTAL GASTRECTOMY WITH SPECIAL REGARD TO THE ROLE OF VITAMIN D AND THE MAINTENANCE OF THE DUODENAL PASSAGE

Silesian School of Medicine, Katowice, 1999, ISBN 83-87114-42-1 (156 pages)

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Reviewers:	Prof. Dr. med. Anna Dziedzic-Gocławska	Warszawa
	Prof. Dr. med. Marek Krawczyk	Warszawa
	Prof. Dr. med. Andrzej Więcek	Katowice

Admission to the degree of a Ph.D. in the field of medicine - surgery : June, 21st 2000

The experimental study was carried out in the Division of Experimental Surgery & Hormone Laboratory, Department of Surgery, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

Some results presented in the post-doctoral thesis were published in:

Wojtyczka A., Rümenapf G., Bergé B., Schwille P.O., Erben R., Hohenberger W.: Triad of high 1,25(OH)₂D, normal PTH, and low 25OHD in gastrectomized rats with osteopathy - a search for its origin. In: Vitamin D. Chemistry, Biology and Clinical Applications of the Steroid Hormone. Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Vitamin D. Strasbourg, France - May 24-29, 1997A.W.Norman, R.Bouillon, M.Thomasset (Eds.) University of California, Riverside 1997, 879-880

Wojtyczka A., Górka Z., Macyszyn-Bierzyńska G., Rümenapf G, Jonderko K., Schwille P.O..: Gastrectomy in the rat using two modifications of oesophago-jejunal anastomosis -General status, local histological changes and relationships with bone density. Eur. Surg. Res. 1999; 31: 497-507.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

I would like to express my sincere thanks to the following:

• my teacher and master, Professor Zygmunt Górka, the first Head of the Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery at the Silesian Academy of Medicine, for his generous help and creative guidance at all stages of my work,
  
• Professor Paul Otto Schwille, Head of the Division of Experimental Surgery and Hormone Laboratory at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg for his comprehensive help and goodwill shown to me in the course of my work on this research project,
  
• Doctor Grażyna Bierzyńska-Macyszyn for evaluating the histological specimens,
  
• my German colleagues and friends PD Dr. Gerhard Rümenapf, Dr. Heike Gepp, Dr. Ursula Pauser, Dr. Matthias Schreiber, Dr Bernd Bergé, as well as Mrs. Karin Schwille and Mrs. Brigitte Schreiber for their support without which the accomplishment of this project would have been impossible,
  
• Catholic Academic Exchange-Service (KAAD) for the scholarship and financing my stay in Erlangen,
  
• everyone who was helpful to me throughout the research and writing of this thesis.