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Citrinin, a fungal toxin, induces apoptosis via mitochondrial pathway

...e Sciences, Taiwan have combined morphological and biochemical techniques to demonstrate that CTN, a frequently found mycotoxin in food and feed, induced apoptosis in HL-60 cells through the intrinsic pathway, and oxidative stress was not directly involved in the apoptotic process....

Weight gain intimately linked to prostate cancer

... They found that 18 percent of the group went into biochemical failure. Of these it was found that men who were o... the time of diagnosis were more likely to develop biochemical failure. Fast weight gainers from the age of 25 were found to have aggressive cancers sooner than sl...

Prostate cancer recurrence attributed to obesity and rate of weight gain

...recurrence. These patients are also more prone for biochemical failure, characterized by elevated PSA levels, following treatment. PSA, or prostate specific antigen, is a protein produced almost exclusively by the prostate. It is a screening marker, measured in blood, that when elevated to over four nanograms p...

Chest Pain Can Be Identified By New Tracer Chemical 30 Hours After Pain Relief

... radioisotopes to produce images of blood flow and biochemical functions in the heart and other organs//. What makes the procedure so valuable is that it is possible to obtain the required information without disturbing the normal bodily functions. Ever since the introduction of nuclear medicine in diagnosis, ...

Blood Test To Detect Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease/Mad Cow Disease

...archers have taken a different approach of using a biochemical techniques to amplify the quantity of prions in diseased blood millions of times, making them easier to detect. Scientists believe the BSE epidemic of the 1980s could have exposed millions of people in the UK and Europe to infectious prions. “We want...

Olive oil can do more good than just adding taste to your dish

...n olive oil is oleocanthal, which affects the same biochemical pathway as ibuprofen and other medicines. They all inhibit the activity of cyclo-oxygenase, or COX enzymes. It is believed that the finding can explain the well-known health benefits of the Mediterranean diet. The Mediterranean diet, of which olive...

Red haired withstand to pain more than blond headed

...in pains. The main aim of the study is to find the biochemical pathways that can be used to develop better ways of combating pain. “People would be interested in the possibility of developing new anesthetics or co-anesthetics, Jackson said. He said,” “Treatment for chronic pain is difficult, for example pain fro...

Learning process to be regulated by altering brain protein

Identification of a new biochemical switch that affects how neurons fire in a part of the brain associated with learning could pave way for better understanding of schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease. // A protein named “ Reelin”, an important component of the nervous system has be...

Researchers Develop Device For Detecting Atherosclerotic Plaques

..., they provide information about the molecular and biochemical status of the tissue. Time resolution adds a greater degree of specificity, measuring not only the wavelength of the emission but the time that molecules remain in the excited state before returning to the ground state. This information is valuable ...

Platelets May Be The Source Of Gene Regulations

...isease. When blood platelets are activated through biochemical signals in response to injury, the IL-1? pre-mRNA is processed into the mature mRNA and then directs production of the critical inflammatory protein. Finding that platelets can splice the IL-1? pre-mRNA was completely unexpected and emerged while t...

Primates reveal a new dimension to human genome

...ind is that primates resemble humans more in their biochemical and physical attributes. Thus even though the mouse may be very good model for the study of human genome sequence there are still common attributes shared by non-human primates which gives scope for a better study. The phylogenetic shadowing process ...

Toxin Identified For Alzheimer’s Diseas

...nd schizophrenia. Quinolinic acid is a part of the biochemical pathway also known as kynurenine pathway. Researchers feel that there are several drugs, which are currently being tested in the laboratories, which can block these neural pathways. The researchers however maintain that quinolinic acid is not the c...

Wound healing affected by Psychological stress

...Researchers have demonstrated that it results from biochemical imbalances in the brain. For more information read: http://www.medindia.com/patients/ patientinfo/depression_about.htm ...

Ultrasounds To Detect Changes In Heart Motions

...nal Ultrasound Research Unit study the mechanical, biochemical and electrical aspects of these transitions which occur between phases of relaxation -- when the heart ventricles fill with a volume of blood -- and contraction -- when the heart ejects most of the blood volume into body circulation. Recently advan...

Re –growing Brain cells destroyed by Parkinson’s disease

...h physician Dr. James Parkinson and the associated biochemical changes in the brain of patients were identified in the 1960s. Although some genes were identified only recently, others still remain a mystery. In a study done recently it was seen that a drug previously used to relieve the symptoms of Parkinson’s...

Biochemical Markers Might Help Predict Heart Problems

...ecialists. Hence they feel the // need to identify biochemical markers that might indicate which patients are at greatest risk and how severe their heart disease might be. Troponin I is a protein present only in heart cells. TNI blood concentration is a well-established marker of heart muscle injury that is us...

Brain Enzyme Found To Regulate Weight

...e directly on appetite signaling at the end of the biochemical pathway in the brain. However researchers say clinical trials on human patients will take years to complete....

Screening Newborns Questioned

New research shows screening newborns for biochemical genetic disorders may improve a child’s outcome //...n conducted a study to determine how screening for biochemical genetic disorders affects newborns and their families. Researchers interviewed more than 250 mother...

Childhood Sunburn Can Lead to Skin Cancer Later

...developed, Rigel says, they don't have the kind of biochemical defense mechanism that normally helps an adult's b... the recently discovered Rb pathway -- a series of biochemical signals that can sense when damage occurs in a skin cell and immediately shut down its ability to du...

Gene glitches connecting pot with Schizophrenia

...ogenic properties of marijuana, are connected to a biochemical found abundantly in the brain. The chemical, called cannabinoid receptor protein, studs the surfaces of brain cells and latches onto the active chemical within marijuana known as THC. These sites are where marijuana acts on the brain.Ujike and his t...

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