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Liver Cancer More Prevalent in Males

...n males do, and that production of this protein is suppressed by estrogen, may point the way to therapies to red...interesting that liver inflammation is so markedly suppressed by estrogens. It raises the possibility that organs not usually associated with gender differences...

Anti-smoking Drug Could Help Treat Alcoholism: Study

...ious levels. "Chronic treatment with varenicline suppressed the ethanol consumption without any subsequent rebound increase in drinking," it said. This finding "suggests that varenicline may serve as a therapeutic treatment to reduce alcohol consumption in alcoholic subjects." The study was published in t...

Insights into Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia

... Importantly, disruption of RXR-dependent pathways suppressed RARA fusion-mediated transformation. The authors also suggest that disruption of homotetramers into homodimers may be sufficient to abrogate the transformation ability of RARA fusion proteins. "These findings not only identify the key elements and...

Insulin Sensitizer- Energy Conserving Signal to Brain

... and food intake are stimulated during fasting and suppressed after refeeding, they said. In addition to this short-term regulation of food intake and energy expenditure by adiponectin and leptin, these two adipokines may also participate in the long-term regulation of energy homeostasis. The fundamental role...

Flavonoids In Orange Juice Make It A Healthy Drink, Despite The Sugar

...samples showed that neither fructose nor vitamin C suppressed the oxygen free radicals. However the two types of flavonoids in orange juice -- hesperetin and naringenin -- inhibited ROS generation by 52 percent and 77 percent, respectively. "Our data are relevant to patients with diabetes," said Dandona,"bec...

Europe's Last Dancing Bears Sheltered After Years of Abuse

... habitat as their natural instincts have long been suppressed by captivity....

Diabetes Drug Dramatically Boosts Potency of Platinum Chemotherapy

...The experiments showed that the PPAR-gamma ligands suppressed the activity of metallothioneine genes, which are believed to trigger the development of cancer cells resistance to platinum chemotherapy. "Our finding that PPAR-gamma activation dramatically increases the efficacy of carboplatin, potentially causi...

VA Should Revise Its Methods for Evaluating PTSD in Ex-military Personnel

...t as a relapsing condition or flare up after being suppressed and undiagnosed. Aging, loss of mental acuity, the death of friends or spouses, and other factors can trigger or exacerbate symptoms as well. Standardized tests can be a useful part of an assessment, but they are no substitute for a thorough clinical...

High-fat and Sugary Diet Severely Damage Liver and Other Vital Organs

...wanted. Researchers found that fructose actually suppressed the fullness, unlike fiber-rich foods, which make one feel full quickly. "We had a feeling we'd see evidence of fatty liver disease by the end of the study. But we were surprised to find how severe the damage was and how quickly it occurred. It too...

Gay Film Festival Begins in Delhi

...curious It has became an issue because it has been suppressed for a long time. The people were always there, but nobody actually came out to speak on this," claimed Swapanpriya, a visitor to the gay fest. "I can go ahead and confess that I am bi-curious, the films are amazing, the films have opened my mind,...

New Therapeutic Approach for Autoimmune and Inflammatory Diseases

...hey would have through normal body processes. This suppressed the formation of pro-inflammatory T cells in the intestines of the mice, demonstrating that increases in retinoic acid reduced inflammation. In another approach, designed to test how reducing retinoic acid would affect inflammation, the team used a...

Gender Linked to Development of Skin Cancer

... be lethal in some patients, especially those with suppressed immune systems, including transplant recipients or people who are HIV-positive. Many studies have shown that the risk of squamous cell carcinoma increases with greater exposure to the sun. For years, investigators assumed that lifestyle had a lot t...

Gender Linked to Development of Skin Cancer

... be lethal in some patients, especially those with suppressed immune systems, including transplant recipients or people who are HIV-positive. Many studies have shown that the risk of squamous cell carcinoma increases with greater exposure to the sun. For years, investigators assumed that lifestyle had a lot t...

Happy Marriage-a Best Stress Buster

...ions such as nursing, in which emotions have to be suppressed during working hours, the study says. The break-up of a marriage, however, has the opposite effect, with women who divorce being 50 percent more likely to develop heart disease in later life than those who stay married. Stressed-out parents who ...

The Science of Happiness

...ciated with negative emotions, seems to be largely suppressed in them. Although the human mind is like a trouble- making monkey, it is highly malleable . Human existence can, therefore, be greatly brightened by incorporating minimal changes into the thought processes that controls the way one understands and...

Lactococcus Strain may Offer End to Food Allergies

...anaphylaxis (severe allergic response) in mice and suppressed the production of an antibody capable of initiating the most powerful immune reactions. "These findings open interesting potential options in human beings for the prevention of allergies elicited through sensitization in the gut," wrote the authors ...

New Study: Pine Bark Significantly Reduces Endometriosis

...lapse of symptoms occurred. "As expected, Gn-RHa suppressed menstruation during treatment, whereas no influence on menstrual cycles was observed in the Pycnogenol group. Gn-RHa lowered estrogen levels drastically and in contrast, the estrogen levels of the Pycnogenol group showed no systematic changes over th...

Green Tea and COX-2 Inhibitors Combine to Slow Growth of Prostate Cancer

...within the cell samples. Together, EGCG and NS-398 suppressed cell growth by an additional 15 to 28 percent. The researchers repeated the experiment in mouse models of prostate cancer, using celecoxib and an oral suspension of the decaffeinated green tea polyphenol. By using pharmacy-grade celecoxib and actua...

Crushed Garlic Has Health Benefits

...ooking uncrushed garlic for six minutes completely suppressed the anti-clotting properties, the researchers added. Galmarini's team tried crushing the garlic by putting it through a garlic-press before cooking. That helped preserve the compounds, although they still lost much of their anti-clotting effects aft...

Low Pitch Therapy for ‘ringing in the Ears

...a low-pitched sound applied by a simple MP3 player suppressed and provided temporary relief from the high-pitch ...plied to the patient through a regular MP3 player, suppressed the high-pitched ringing after about 90 seconds and provided what the patient described as a high-le...

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