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Common Indian Herbs can Help to Prevent Cancer

...arma, cancer begins when free radicals in the body alter a cell's genetic makeup, causing the cell to divide more frequently than it should. Mint and tulsi have large amounts of enzymes that have the ability to destroy these free radicals. Although every plant contains some enzyme or the other, some I...

CD86 Found On B Cells Boosts Immune Response

...ry, however, strongly suggest the CD86 protein did alter the behavior of the B cell. She and her research team showed that B cells produce much more antibody when CD86 interacts with its T-cell protein than occurs when that interaction is missing. For this study, Sanders and Kin used two groups of laborato...

New Research Suggests That Obesity Strikes Faster Growing Kids

...birth-weight, seasonality, and deprivation did not alter their findings. Dr Buchan added: "We have shown a strong relationship between child growth and obesity. The next research challenge is to work out exactly how this happens. 'We are looking at some deeper relationships between child growth and obesi...

The Dengue Virus Unplugged

...of the dengue genome with minor changes that would alter its structures. The mutated RNAs were then inserted into mosquito cells or hamster cells to see if the viral RNA would be copied. To their surprise, the scientists found that the stem-loop or SLA sequence is essential for viral replication. Change...

Study Finds That Food Wrappers Could Be A Source For Health Risks

... draw a firm conclusion, but advised people not to alter their eating habits. br>...

Fat Metabolism Of Heart Muscles Affected By High Blood Pressure

...less energy efficient. Normally heart muscle will alter between using fats and carbohydrates as fuel depending on availability. But at times of the day when blood glucose is low -- such as when a person hasn't eaten in a while -- hypertrophic hearts can't switch to burning fatty acids as normal hearts wou...

Bitter Pill: Thrills That Kill

...ily Intervention Family intervention is known to alter bad habits and behavior and is a reliable technique for alcohol or drug addiction, especially when all other strategies have failed. Family members or friends of an addict could resort to the intervention process to enable the person willfully accept...

The Bovine DNA Sequence Unplugged

...alue of the difference even in one pair, which can alter the productivity of the animal. Dr Brian Dalrymple, head of bioinformatics livestock research at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, said, “We can use this data to identify those genes that are involved in impor...

A Human Brain Gene Could Hold Clues On The Evolution Of Brain Capacity

... the overall function of the molecule, but somehow alter its interactions with its binding partners. Those differences may have something to do with what makes our brain different from a chimp's." Ongoing investigations may lead to more definitive findings about the function of HAR1, she said. Haussler n...

Brain Regulation Present Even In Spineless Creatures

...as to how the far more complex human brain acts to alter behaviors, he said. One of the goals of his research at the Institute of Neuroscience at the University of Oregon is to understand the intricacies of brain signaling that allow people, such as athletes, to repeat and adjust tasks they perform repeate...

Nanotechnology – to detect and treat ovarian cance

...l surface and within the cell, in ways that do not alter the behavior of those molecules. One area of research involves developing a screening test that would not require removal of the ovary for biopsy. Collaborating with Dr. Rong Wang, an associate professor at Illinois Institute of Technology, the re...

Alpha-blockers call for modification in cataract surgery

...egorized as an alpha-blocker can allow surgeons to alter their technique during the cataract surgery and avoid complications seen in such patients. However, according to representatives from these medical associations said that there is no proof that these drugs can cause any long-term harm or vision los...

fMRI Prior to surgery Could Help In Outcome Of Tumor Surgery

...e brain areas preoperative brain could effectively alter the outcome of tumor surgery. A study that is to appear in the September issue of Radiology, states that by systematically mapping the motor// and language areas of the brain with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), could help the surgeons...

Anger exacerbates lung deterioration

...ma and other illness also. Negative emotions can alter biological process, may affect the immune system and cause chronic inflammation, according to Dr. Wright and her team. "Stress-related factors are known to depress the immune function and increase susceptibility to or exacerbate a host of diseases ...

A Glass of Orange Juice To Keep Recurrence Of Kidney Stones At Bay

...that the components that accompany the citrate can alter the effectiveness of the juice in decreasing the risk of developing new kidney stones. Kidney stones develop when the urine is too concentrated, causing minerals and other chemicals in the urine to bind together. Over time, these crystals combine a...

Risk Of Colorectal Polyps Recurrence Can Be Controlled By Rofecoxib

... exactly how non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs alter pathways that lead to cancer. 'Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States1, so it is important to aggressively research and develop potential chemo preventive agents to help patients who are at the highest ri...

Lowering Contrast Material Injection in Aged Patients is Cost-effective and can Offset Risks

A new study has found that it is better to alter the dosage of senior patients undergoing multi-detector CT examination of the pancreas //and biliary region, by bringing it down by 10%. This would lower the cost of the examination as well as the risk of complications. This study was conducted by th...

Information about future risks imperative to heart attack patients

...that there is no room for doubt, inspiring them to alter their habits and accept beneficial treatment options SV...

Environmental Toxin Causes Heritable Adult-Onset Diseases

...n permanently reprogram a heritable trait also may alter our concept of evolutionary biology. Traditional evolutionary theory maintains that the environment is primarily a backdrop on which selection takes place, and that differences between individuals arise from random mutations in the DNA. The work by S...

Cancer cell behavior during Metastasis – New finding

...vior and don't necessarily need a gene mutation to alter their behavior," said Sebastian Oltean, M.D., Ph.D., research associate and first author of the journal article. "Alterations in gene splicing can be much more subtle in nature but still have a major impact on the cancer cell and can be targets of th...

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