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Seaweed to fight Obesity!

... to fight flab. A protein called UCP1that causes breakdown of fat, seemed to be activated by fucoxanthin in obese animals. White adipose tissue that causes the thickening of the girth called "middle-age spread" contains this protein. Heart problems and diabetes are specifically linked with extra fat around t...

Early Statin Therapy for Patients Reduces Death, Cardiovascular Events

...f the 17,963 patients, three developed a dangerous breakdown of muscle fibers, known as rhabdomyolysis; some studies showed a slightly higher risk of hepatitis among individuals taking statins. “Use of intensive statin therapy is often avoided by clinicians owing to fear of increased adverse events due to the ...

More Stress, More Cancer

...tes cancer cells to produce two compounds that can breakdown the tissue around tumor cells. This enables the cells to move easily into the bloodstream and travel to other parts of the body leading to metastasis. A report in the latest issue of the journal, 'Cancer Research' suggests that Norepinephrine can a...

Link Shown Between Military Service And Risk For ALS

...S. Those with the disease experience a progressive breakdown of nerve cells that control the muscles, eventuall...th. Patients with the disease have a progressive breakdown of nerve cells which control the muscles. This eventually leads to paralysis and death. There are ao...

Can Our Body Manufacture A Pain Killer?

...ties in rats and cows. These proteins all stop the breakdown of natural morphine-like proteins that block pain pathways in the brain. However, drugs that act in a similar way have not progressed to the clinic, and there is no strong evidence that these proteins play a role in the physiological control of pain ...

People from Broken Homes Prone to Psychotic Illnesses

...sk of developing psychosis in adulthood. Family breakdown of this type was found to be more common in the African-Caribbean community (31 percent) than the white community (18 percent), said the study published in the journal Psychological Medicine. "These findings provide evidence that early social adve...

Millions with Arthritis May Benefit from Bone Loss Drug

... were also used to check for a marker of cartilage breakdown known as CTX-II. CTX-II is released in the blood...loss, but also that it was most likely slowing the breakdown of cartilage, too” says Bingham. Bingham emphasizes that X-rays failed to show any dramatic visib...

Blame Myelin for Many Neuropsychiatric Disorders

... through in vivo imaging of the brain to study the breakdown and growth of myelin. That will make it possible to directly test in humans the practical utility of the myelin-centered model of the human brain. Ultimately, it could foster the development of novel treatments, as well as aid in assessing the effi...

Germ - Chemo Combo Fights Cancer

...otherapy than is usually the case by improving the breakdown and dispersal of the chemotherapy’s fatty package at the tumor site. The investigators repeated experiments using two packaged chemotherapy drugs -- doxorubicin and irinotecan -- and observed similar tumor-killing effects of both when used in combi...

After Effects Of Chemotherapy Will Wane In Few Years :Says Research

...ot however pinpoint what was the reason for such a breakdown in normal cognitive abilities. Dr. Masatoshi Inagaki led the research that was conducted at the National Cancer Center Hospital East in Japan. The researchers compared the structure of brain in normal healthy individuals and the brain structure of p...

Health Care In Canada To Cost $148 Billion In 2006: Report

...country. In 2004, the most recent year for which a breakdown is available, per capita spending ranged from a low of $2,987 in Newfoundland and Labrador to a high of $3,072 in Alberta. RI...

Knee Osteoarthritis More Painful for Smokers: Study

...hritis - degenerative arthritis - is caused by the breakdown and loss of cartilage in one or more joints. Source-IANS...

Protein ‘Fingerprint’ in Spinal Fluid Could Spot Alzheimer’s Disese

...he panel were linked to synaptic dysfunction – the breakdown of communication between brain cells that occurs as Alzheimer’s disease progresses. “A subsequent validation group of 10 patients with suspected Alzheimer’s and 18 healthy and demented control subjects turned up similar results,” said Relkin. “Base...

Type 1 Diabetes Linked to Stimuli from Nervous System

... researchers that type I diabetes is caused due to breakdown in the immune system of the body.// The flawed response from the immune system was understood to be the reason behind the damage caused to islet cells in the pancreas where insulin is produced. A recent research conducted by Canadian scientists sugg...

Rheumatoid Arthritis Averted in Mice by Alcohol Intake

...hat is chief symptom in arthritis. Acetaldehyde, a breakdown product of alcohol, also showed some promise in prevention of rheumatoid arthritis. Yet, this compound is also toxic for the body if not used with caution, and within permissible doses. .This studies are only relevant to male mice. Experts opine tha...

A Study Finds VENs Devastated in FTD

...odegenerative condition, is characterized by early breakdown in social and emotional awareness and is accompanied by atrophy and dysfunction in the brain areas where VENs are located. A new study published in the December 2006 issue of Annals of Neurology. Led by William W. Seeley, M.D., of the Department o...

Missing Molecule Has Important Role in a Developmental Brain Abnormality

...VH. “We show that MEKK4 deficiency leads to both a breakdown in the lining of the fetal ventricles and abnormally high levels of Filamin-A within the proliferative areas,” Rakic said. Using advanced molecular methods, the researchers showed that the loss of MEKK4 can result in an excess of Filamin-A, and inhib...

Benefits of Carbon Monoxide

...ation and is produced naturally as a result of the breakdown of haemoglobin. This can be seen in the healing process of a bruise, where various colour changes indicate the degradation of haemoglobin and release of carbon monoxide. The slow release of carbon monoxide reduces blood pressure for someone who has a...

Enzyme Critical for Early Growth of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms

...sponse summons other enzymes to the aortic wall to breakdown its structural component, elastin. When the researchers blocked the action of CXCL2 in mice, neutrophils did not congregate at the aortic wall because there was no signal leading them there, and aneuryms did not grow in these mice. 'It's a miscon...

Genetic Test for Type II Diabetes Moves Closer

...ecreted by the pancreas to release energy from the breakdown of carbohydrates. The disease is frequently passed from generation to generation, and its rapidly increasing prevalence is thought to be due to environmental factors, such as increased availability of food and decreased necessity for exercise, act...

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