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Role of zinc in development

...This sort of diet contains lots of phytates, which bind iron and zinc, making it difficult for the blood to absorb them. Scientists now believe that zinc deficiency could be as common as iron deficiency, which affects half of all pregnant women in developing countries. Remarking on dietary necessity of z...

Snake venom a treatment for digestive disease

... site had a chemical structure that may be able to bind with the proteins in the laboratory, indicating that the prokineticins could control muscle cells' movement through a receptor. The researchers now are working on further characterizing the potential receptors which could be the site at which the p...

Caffeine can induce epilepsy in newborns

...he researchers believe that the caffeine molecules bind to receptors in the cells, blocking the action of a chemical called adenosine which plays an important role in handling stress. During stressful episodes such as oxygen starvation, adenosine protects the nerve circuits from uncontrolled activity. ...

Ultrasound helps stroke treatment

...clot to open up more surface that the tPA can then bind to and penetrate," he said. The pilot study enrolled 40 patients, average age 65. Thirty-seven percent had complete clearance of clots, called recanalization, within two hours of treatment initiation and "70 percent had a partial clearance of clots,...

Likely reason which makes analgesics work against Alzheimer's

...his marker to find out that the analgesics tend to bind themselves to these plaques in the brain and at times even prevent them from forming. This new research, apart from providing evidence for the protective effect of anti-inflammatory pain-killers has also brought to light the benefits of using FDDNP t...

Gold to be used for cancer detection

... The father and son research team had been able to bind the gold nanoparticles to the antibodies for cancer cells, a process that will make the tracing of cancer cells much easier. Often cancer cells have a protein called epidermal growth factor receptor (EFGR) over their surface. This protein is not pre...

Acrolein may be the key to halting spinal cord damage

...tive diseases as well. "Hypertension drugs, which bind to acrolein and detoxify it, are already under study for their added potential to promote liver health," Shi said. "We would like to see whether they also could be modified to treat the conditions we are interested in." Further research will be nece...

PET Scan find the Area of Brain Responsible for Anorexia Nervosa

.... Researchers used a harmless molecule designed to bind to the dopamine D2 and D3 receptors that lie on the membrane surface of neurons. Ten women who had recovered from anorexia nervosa for more than a year were studied, as were 12 normal female subjects. Because malnourishment affects brain chemistry, t...

Soya Found To Affect Women's Ability To Conceive: Professor

...as lost special docking molecules that allow it to bind to the egg," she said. The findings could have significant implications for vegetarians, as many non-meat products contain soya. Fraser said it was not a question of avoiding soya products entirely. "But it might be best for a woman to avoid them...

Researchers Discover Protein That Causes Malaria

... identify precisely which parts of the RII surface bind to glycophorin A, the researchers determined the a...such altered versions of the RII protein failed to bind to red blood cells, confirming the idea that drugs or vaccines that block the RII interaction, glyca...

A Mirror Miracle!

...ill in the pores of the mirror with chemicals that bind to specific cancer markers, these markers would leach into tissues around the implant and bind to the chemicals in the mirror's pores to give desirable effects....

New contact lens materials

...genic bacteria, such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, to bind to the corneal surface cells and potentially initiate infection.The most significant and devastating clinical complications among contact-lens wearers have been corneal ulcerationand infection, which can lead to permanent visual loss. He said that ...

Natural formula for protection against vision loss

...tte one smokes, are highly reactive molecules that bind to and destroy body components. The eyes have been found to be more vulnerable to free radical attacks as a result of their dependence on light to function properly. While light enables vision, paradoxically, it also creates additional free radicals ...

MRI with nanoparticles highly sensitive in detecting prostate cancer metastases

... by binding to lymphatic cells. The particles only bind to normal cells, so it is the areas that do not "light up" on MRI that are suspicious for malignancy. MRI with magnetic nanoparticles "is very likely going to change the way cancers can be staged," say senior doctors. "In the study 25% of patients c...

When it comes to health, all chocolates not the same.

...chocolate. He said it's possible that antioxidants bind with milk proteins making absorption more difficult.Scientists who did not contribute to the research said the protective aspects of flavonoids in chocolate have not been proven. "I guess this means to be healthy you should eat chocolate with red wi...

Researchers Identified Process That Aids Spread Of Alzheimer’s’ Diseae

...nd harmless. Meanwhile, nicastrin would be free to bind all the other essential proteins that it works on. Sourc: Newswise...

Initiation Of New Study To Help Children With Sickle Cell Anaemia

...ions of Desferal, an iron chelator (molecules that bind to metals so they can be eliminated from the body), are painful and inconvenient, often prompting children to forego the injection, since iron buildup does not initially cause the child discomfort, but the injections always do. In an attempt to inc...

Women With Anorexia Have Altered Brain Activity

...PET). The researchers injected a molecule that can bind to a serotonin receptor in much the same way that serotonin does into specific areas of the women’s brains and used PET scans to measure the extent of the molecule-receptor binding. This molecule-receptor binding served as a marker for alterations of...

Smoking Hazardous To The Enzymes System In Lungs

...emical, which sends out signals to the scanner, to bind to MAOA and found there was less of it in the lungs of the smokers. It's possible this is linked to why people with depression, and other mental illnesses, often feel compelled to smoke. It may also contribute to the effect smoking has on blood press...

Scientists Find Way To Stop Infection Of Implants

...e if the vancomycin on the powder, or beads, could bind to its natural target. The tests proved that the vancomycin was bound and active. Finally, they added bacteria and showed that titanium beads with vancomycin on the surface killed the bacteria. When the beads were exposed to more bacteria, the vanco...

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