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Important substance in curry conciliate Inflamed Colon

... of the intestines. The spice contains curcumin, a compound thought to be a potent anti-inflammatory agent eff...e colitis was induced, in order to see whether the compound had a preventive effect, and 2 days after colitis was induced, to see whether the substance had heal...

Novel research on liver cancer

...astly cancer. In the study, researchers injected a compound called 3-bromopyruvate// directly into the artery that leads to the cancerous tumor. They say it did not adversely affect the healthy portion of the liver or surrounding cells. When they compared the effects of this treatment to a commonly used techn...

Effective therapy for Huntington's disease

...A), which is produced naturally in the liver. This compound is unusual in being able to penetrate the blood-brain barrier. The experiments showed how it protected the cells in the part of the brain affected by HD. This opens up the possibility of a cure for not just HD, but also other neurodegenerative disord...

Compound of Broccoli combats breast cancer

...ists from University of Illinois, confirmed that a compound modelled on a substance found in broccoli shows po...excessive. They have been working on a synthetic compound related to sulforaphane, called oxomate. They find this is far less toxic than sulforaphane, yet it ...

Useful Cancer drug stops tumour blood supply

...m an aggressive form of human breast cancer. The compound also kept new blood cells from forming in cancer-prone cultures of rat artery cells and prevented tumour formation in mice specially bred to develop breast cancer. The findings suggest that anti-angiogenesis can be achieved by reducing copper levels ...

Better diabetes treatment promises Vanadium

Researchers have observed that a compound may prove to be useful in the treatment of type II...insulin dependent diabetes mellitus by injecting a compound called streptozotocin. Reporting their findings in the Indian Journal of Experimental Biology, the s...

Ingredient in turmeric protects skin

A compound found in turmeric can protect the skin from burns ...y. A group of mice were given various doses of the compound and then exposed to a dose of radiation. Those given the higher doses had far fewer burns or blister...

Coenzyme Q10 may reduce risk of Parkinson's disease

The naturally occurring compound coenzyme Q10 is the first treatment to actually sl...end of the study. The researchers believe that the compound actually slows down the condition, but want to carry out brain imaging studies to confirm this....

Stem cells aid to cure brain cancer

...red the cells to produce interleukin-12, a natural compound which can kill glioma cells. In this study, the stem cells were injected into mice with brain tumours. The animals survived far longer than mice not given the cells and, what is more, they also showed long-term immunity to brain cancer, indicating th...

A new male contraceptive

...ced status of NB-DNJ in clinical application, this compound could be rapidly evaluated for its suitability as a male contraceptive."...

A Compilation of recent Diabetes Research articles

...oestrogens. Phytoestrogens are naturally occurring compound of plants, such as soybeans, or plant products, such as whole grain cereals, that act like estrogen in the body. The participants were put on this regime for 12 weeks. At the end of the 12 week period it was found that participants who received the d...

Wine drinkers may have reasons to cheer

...eloping dementia. The researchers believe that the compound flavanoid, found in wine, especially red wine, could be the key factor that produces the beneficial effect. These compounds help to minimise the damage caused to the body's tissues by charged particles called free radicals which are released when oxy...

AEterna's acquisition of Zentaris being followed up with its new product pipeline and clinical development strategy

...ug discovery unit, including a 100,000 proprietary compound library. Gilles Gagnon, President and COO at AEterna added that given the above five factors and and a portfolio of 12 products in development, the strategy for Neovastat will now strictly focus on the two ongoing Phase III studies in kidney cancer a...

Stroke victims have new hope with activated protein C

...t cells to survive. Researchers concluded that the compound which is working in a completely unexpected way could spur further research to help develop treatments that reduce the lifelong disability often associated with stroke....

New fertility drug development techniques by Organon

...o exploring the IVF cycle concluded that this oral compound could also play a role in other infertility indications or at other moments during and after an IVF cycle....

Vitamin D May Aid Breast Cancer Treatment

... synthetic, laboratory-made derivative of a parent compound -- in this case vitamin D -- that is genetically engineered by adding or removing certain chemical elements. In the instance of EB1089, it was necessary to modify vitamin D because "at the dose you need to give to have an effect on cancer, it could c...

Wearable Body Monitoring

...le body monitoring will be to health care what the compound microscope was to the biology of disease." Unobtrusive wearable body monitoring,is a simple device worn on the body, such as a band around the arm, which measures a number of physiological levels.This includes time spent lying down or sleeping, time ...

Valium hits 40 years old, anxiety-free

...version and in just a day, he got the results: The compound made animals relaxed and limp.// Sternbach had made the discovery that eventually led to Valium. It was approved for use in 1963 and became the country's most prescribed drug from 1969 to 1982. Valium also was referred to as a "doll" -- one of the p...

Tomatoes Might Inhibit the Development Of Prostate Cancer

A new study finds that lycopene is not the only compound in tomatoes that could prevent prostate cancer.Lycopene is a carotenoid in tomatoes that gives //them that familiar red color. Research has suggested lycopene could reduce the risk of prostate cancer. But it is unclear if lycopene itself is responsib...

Snail venom Found To Ease Pain In Cancer Victims

...drug ziconotide, a laboratory-made equivalent of a compound in the venom of the small Conus Magus cone snail, which lives in shallow tropical saltwater. The snail-venom research involved 111 patients ages 24 to 85 in the United States, Australia and the Netherlands. All were treated with a small, battery-ope...

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