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Estrogen Found To Protect the Colon Against Cancer

...volved soy protein and genistein, an estrogen-like compound found in soy. Diet four had Novasoy, a commercial product that contains a mixture of soy-derived compounds including genistein. Diet five contained estrone, a naturally occurring human estrogen. To their surprise, researchers found while all the so...

More Causes of Bladder Cancer Identified

...rm in the blood after exposure to the carcinogenic compound arylamine. Arylamine is known to exist in cigarettes, permanent hair dyes, and other environmental sources. In all but one of the nine levels measured, researchers found higher levels in smokers than in nonsmokers, and the levels of all nine adducts...

New Compound Could Strengthen The Effect Of Chemotherapy

Researchers say their discovery of a new compound known as SP-4-84 could improve chemotherapy when u...-84 made camptothecin 75-times more effective. The compound sensitizes cancer cells to chemotherapeutics by blocking the cancer cell's ability to survive the da...

Preventing Colon Cancer With Estrogen

...volved soy protein and genistein, an estrogen-like compound found in soy. Diet four had Novasoy, a commercial product that contains a mixture of soy-derived compounds including genistein. Diet five contained estrone, a naturally occurring human estrogen. Researchers observed that the diet containing estrone...

Preventing Colon Cancer With Estrogen

...volved soy protein and genistein, an estrogen-like compound found in soy. Diet four had Novasoy, a commercial product that contains a mixture of soy-derived compounds including genistein. Diet five contained estrone, a naturally occurring human estrogen. Researchers observed that the diet containing estrone...

Breathing Cancer Causing Compounds During Pregnancy Found To Affect Offspring

...near hotspots for the non-methane volatile organic compound 1,3-butadiene and carbon monoxide. Some other substances were particulate matter, nitrogen oxides (which come from the burning of oils, particularly engine oils), other non-methane volatile organic compounds besides 1,3-butadiene (such as benzene and...

Carrots Found To Reduce Cancer Risk

Latest research reveals that a compound in carrots may reduce the risk of developing cance...at fight cancer hence researchers investigated the compound after a previous study suggested it could prevent the development of cancer. Researchers divided 24...

Treating Latent Herpes With Licorice

...ed on findings of a recent study researchers say a compound found in licorice is showing promise as a treatmen...udy researchers tested the ability of the licorice compound glycyrrhizic acid ( GA ) to kill cells infected with the latent form of the herpes virus that causes...

Soluble Ingredient Can Make Fatty Fast Foods Healthier

...ccording to Dr. Yokoyama of the research team, the compound appears to slow down the absorption of fats in the...vels from affecting the digestive system. Also the compound helps the fat being deposited in the adipose tissues. In eating oily fast foods, the body tends to d...

Breast cancer risk not increased by acrylamide

... that there is no association between acrylamide a compound found in // baked and fried food -- and breast cancer. More than 43,000 women were studied which also included 667 breast cancer patients. The participants had their average daily intake of acrylamide monitored. No evidence of an increased risk of b...

Onions to prevent osteoporosis

... of// osteoporosis. Researchers have identified a compound in onions, a peptide called GPCS that seems to prevent the bone disease. The study had involved segregation of bone cells of newborn mice that were treated with parathyroid hormone to simulate a situation of osteoporosis. These cells were later expos...

Research unearths how caffeine prevents us from sleeping

...rain cells become overworked and tired, a chemical compound called adenosine sends impulses to the brain cells to shutdown and sleep sets in. Caffeine, present in the tea or coffee we drink, stops the secretion of adenosine and people remain to stay awake. Increased neural activity cause the adenosine to slo...

Tobacco smoke increases the levels of Cox 2.

...en linked with the rising levels //of the chemical compound called Cox 2. Cox 2 is a cellular protein that had been related to onset and development of cancer. The tobacco smoke had also been related to rise in production of two proteins that start an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) function that can ...

Compound from cottonseed for neck and head cancers

A chemical compound derived from the cottonseed oil had showed promise...ehensive Cancer Center had found that the chemical compound called gossypol regulates the protein called Bcl-xL, which is found over-expressed in the cancer cel...

New drug for mental alertness

... any over stimulations. The new drug is made of a compound called CX717, and it is a member of a new class of drugs called ampakines. This drug had showed effectiveness in increasing memeory, alertness, increasing the reaction time and problm solving skills of healthy people who sleep less. The drug was gi...

People with low birth weight may help themselves in diabetes

...health of the mother, multiple fetuses etc can all compound the problem of babies being born with low birth weights....

Body compounds can protect you against pain

...rchers of the study had also discovered a chemical compound that can block the breakdown of the compound called 2-AG, and may be used to as a treatment for pain. The newly discovered pain anecdote is curre...

15 Anti-SARS Drugs Identified By China-Europe Team of Researchers

...e group in the Journal of Virology showed one such compound called Cinanserin can stop the SARS virus from replicating. Interestingly cinanserin, was approved in the United States for clinical use in the 1960s to treat schizophrenia and other psychopathic diseases. Shen one of the researchers said that: ‘cina...

Simple Urine Test Can Help To Monitor Disfiguring Birthmarks

... of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF), another compound that promotes angiogenesis. Increased urine levels of MMPs and bFGF correlated with both the extent and progression of vascular anomalies. The new findings suggest, for the first time, that angiogenesis also plays a role in the progression of vascula...

FDA gives “black box warning” against three asthma drus

... manufactured by Glaxosmithkline, which contains a compound Salmeterol. Novartis manufacturers the drug Foradil which contains a different long-acting beta-agonist. The U.S. Advisory panel has advised Novartis that they should carry the warnings as mentioned by GlaxosmithKline in their drug Adavir and Sereven...

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