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New Treatment for Alzheimer's Disease

...e do have the potential to prevent the memory loss characteristic of Alzheimer's disease....

Debating The Link Between Sex Hormones And Multiple Sclerosis

...scans to measure for inflammation and brain damage characteristic of the disease. Results showed women with MS were significantly more likely than the healthy women in the study to have especially low levels of the male hormone testosterone. Brain scans showed these women also had the highest amounts of brain infl...

Is Man’s Aggression Linked To His Finger

Aggression is traditionally thought of as a characteristic trait of man. Often it is mistaken for manliness //and other socially acceptable attributes of man. But can it be linked to the size of the fingers in a man’s hand?A recent study in the current issue of Biological Psychology says just that. Finger ...

Stroke In The Right-Brain Can Remain Undiagnosed

...rebrovascular events are frequently accompanied by characteristic neurological deficits, depending on the side of the brain the lesion occurs. People with events on the left side of the brain may have difficulty with speech, while people with events on the right side of the brain might have awareness deficits. This...

Tear-free Onions

...o develop a tear-free onion that still retains its characteristic flavour and high nutritional value by decreasing the activity of the lachrymatory-factor synthase....

Cannabinoids drug for inflammatory bowel

...ncreased CB2 receptors are found in colonic tissue characteristic of inflammatory bowel disease. They found that the Cannabinoids helps in wound healing of the surface by CB1 related receptor mechanism. "Cannabinoids, which we make ourselves, as well as synthetic Cannabinoids, can promote wound healing in the gut...

New Information On Virus Goes Against The Age-Old Theory

... will provide a quantitative method that derives a characteristic profile or fingerprint from the IIS of any host-virus system. If their method can achieve results in hours instead of days, their techniques could be used in clinical and field settings to quickly identify known viruses, or to map unknown viruses to ...

Brain Chemical Identified For Drug Dependent Behavior

...rexin may be a factor in modulating reward-seeking characteristic of substance abuse. The findings help to better identify neural pathways involved in drug abuse, craving and relapse, which may ultimately help scientists find more effective therapies. This study is published online for the August issue of the jou...

Lymph Cell Growth In Eyes Related To Macrophages

... abnormal blood vessels. It is this leaking fluid, characteristic of diabetic retinopathy that can permanently damage the retina and vision. The team is now researching the same process in skin wounds and cancer. Source: Newswise ...

Human Brain Continues To Evolve And Grow

...ur studies indicate the trend that is the defining characteristic of human evolution -- the growth of brain size and complexity -- is likely still going on," "Meanwhile, our environment and the skills we need to survive in it are changing ... I would expect the human brain, which has done well by us so far, will ...

RNA Nanotechnology To Rescue Cancer Patients In Future

...odel lymphocytes in laboratory experiments. "One characteristic of cancer cells is that they do not stop growing, which is one reason tumors develop," said Guo, a senior researcher. "Once inside, the siRNA essentially instructs the cells to 'stop not stopping.' The nanoparticles had done their work on the breast ...

Block Immune System Chemical For Treating Asthma

...the high levels of TNF alpha in severe disease are characteristic of more chronic disease that is resistant to steroid treatment, rather than a feature of the disease itself. Source: Newswise ...

Synthetic protein found to relieve arthritis symptoms in animal model

...AD, might play a role in easing or comforting pain characteristic of rheumatoid arthritis is an incidental discovery. The original work was carried out on a very rare autoimmune disease called autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome (ALPS). Previously, it has been shown that PLAD blocks a cell surface receptor an...

Cannabinoids - Antidepressant And Inflammatory Bowel Disease Treatment

...ncreased CB2 receptors are found in colonic tissue characteristic of inflammatory bowel disease. They found that the Cannabinoids helps in wound healing of the surface by CB1 related receptor mechanism. "Cannabinoids, which we make ourselves, as well as synthetic Cannabinoids, can promote wound healing in the gu...

Age-Dependent Alterations Not Specific For Alzheimers Disease

...years) and 22 late-onset sporadic AD patients. A characteristic pattern of oscillations in the microcirculatory bl...r reactivity decreases with aging, and there is no characteristic difference in the different flow motion patterns examined for AD patients. Data from this study in...

MRI can predict risk of cardiac arrhythmia by identification of scar tissue

...that the five patients who tested positive had the characteristic scar pattern, ranging from 26 percent to 75 percen...ential application is in the identification of the characteristic scar pattern that could potentially improve existing procedures to ablate, or burn off, regions of t...

Bronchiolo-alveolar Carcinoma Shows Sonographic Pattern Of Pneumonia

...ients with BAC investigated, which are known to be characteristic for pneumonic or obstructive pulmonary lesions. Th...tigated. This flow pattern is also described to be characteristic for pneumonic or obstructive pulmonary lesions and is a well-known flow pattern of pulmonary arterie...

Breakthrough In New Vaccine For Malaria

...to twice as many. "This type of immune response, characteristic of immune adults living in malaria-endemic regions, requires, under natural conditions, 10 to 15 years of daily exposure to billions of infected red blood cells," Druilhe notes. Malaria - a parasite carried by certain mosquitoes - sickens more than...

Possible Viral Cause Of Kawasaki Disease Identified

...n bodies consisting of proteins and nucleic acids, characteristic of an infectious agent such as a virus. Findings from the study suggest a single respiratory viral cause or closely related viral mediators as causing Kawasaki disease, entering through the respiratory route, infecting bronchi and leading to the for...

Teenage Mental Problems Could Be The Result Of Stress During Early Life

...freezing" behavior in response to fearful stimuli, characteristic of increased anxiety in humans. An in-depth analysis of animal behavior will probably serve to highlight the influence of stress on predicting the behavioral pattern of an individual. It is not known at the present regarding the increase in the exp...

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