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Grapefruit extract effective in stomach ulcer healing

...ing by using a combination of acetic acid (an acid compound used to induce experimental ulcers) with or without a COX-1 inhibitor (indomethacin, 2 mg/kg) and a COX-2 inhibitor (rofecoxib, 10 mg/kg). The experiments showed that GSE accelerated healing of ulcers involving COX-1 and COX-2 activity. Being acidi...

Gossypol helps in chemotherapy of neck and head cancer.

Gossypol, a compound present in cottonseed has been found be increase t...omprehensive Cancer Centre, discovered gossypol, a compound derived from a component of Chinese medicine. "Patients really benefit long-term by avoiding surger...

Arsenic May Have Been Responsible For The Madness Of King George III Of England

...urce of the arsenic; they found that the principal compound administered to the King during his illness was emetic tartar. Emetic tartar contains a substance called antimony, which can be contaminated with arsenic. The authors believe that the King’s medication was the source of the arsenic found in the hair ...

Wearing High Heels May Be Dangerous To Health

...alf muscles from triggering release of dopamine, a compound necessary for mental well-being. "During walking, synchronized stimuli from mechanoreceptors in the lower extremities increase activity in cerebellothalamo-cortico-cerebellar loops through their action on NMDA-receptors," Flensmark wrote in a recent...

Slowing Down The Progression Of Alzheimer’s Disease

...the late 1980s and initially sought to develop the compound as a pharmaceutical but over the last two years has changed its focus to the nutraceutical market and is now in discussions with partners to market Colostrinin for the 'maintenance of healthy mental function'. In a double-blind, placebo-controlled ...

Vitamin Supplements During Pregnancy to Boost Fetal Development

...lly prescribed folic acid supplements, a synthetic compound of folate, before conceiving and during the early months of pregnancy, to reduce the risk of birth defects involving the nervous system like spina bifida etc. An examination of the serum folate levels examined revealed that higher folate levels in w...

Sleep Apnea Related To Death And Loss Of Brain Cells

...urons. Researchers had given rats a cell specific compound targeted to kill half or more of the preB?tC neurons. The results showed that rats stopped breathing when they where in their first stage of sleep characterized by rapid eye movements. The rats were then forced to get up and this continued and increa...

Prostratin- Drug to eradicate HIV

...ollege, a strategy was developed - using a natural compound to flush the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) ou...le. Many researchers feel that the working of this compound is still to be confirmed and tested. According to him it's an approach that, in the clinical commun...

Breakthrough in cancer therapy

...on in the hair follicles. They did this by using a compound which blocks the activity of an enzyme, called CDK...on of cells through their natural lifecycle. The compound was applied directly to the scalp of the rats. When the rats were subsequently treated with two wide...

Nobel Prize for Medicine

...nduced in the genome of C. elegans by the chemical compound EMS (ethyl methane sulphonate). John Sulston extended Brenner’s work with C. elegans and developed techniques to study all cell divisions in the nematode, from the fertilized egg to the 959 cells in the adult organism. In a publication from 1976, Su...

Tear-free Onions

...atory-factor synthase was responsible for making a compound called propanthial S-oxide which causes crying. ...hiosulphinate was produced - thiosulphinate is the compound that gives fresh onions their flavour. The researchers claim that it may be possible to develop a ...

Exercise may be best defense against heart disease

...not determined by a single factor, but rather by a compound of behavioral, socioeconomic, genetic and clinical characteristics. The most practical outcome of the study was for a focus on increased energy expenditure rather than reduced caloric intake as the most productive behavioral strategy by which to ex...

Natural Sulfur Can Treat Pain From Osteoarthritis

...a, had found out that a naturally occurring sulfur compound supplement called methylsulfonylmethane (MSM) could relieve the knee pain for people suffering // from osteoarthritis. When the condition of osteoarthritis attacks the knee, the consequences can be significant. Pain can become so intense that for m...

Chocolate To Combat Cancer: So Indulge!

...ter at Georgetown University have discovered how a compound in chocolate // can stop the constant division of ...e of Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, found that the compound pentameric procyanidin inhibits cancer's progression by targeting and deactivating the proteins invo...

New Strategies For Effective Treatment Of Malaria

...existing treatment. Researchers have found a new compound which is more effective than quinine, which is used in malaria treatment. The new compound found was Artesunate, which is more effective than quinine; the new compound was derived from the an...

Sodium nitrite salt intake found to increases blood flow

...trite's accidentally when working with its related compound nitric oxide. Nitric oxide was known to improve blood flow by dilating blood vessels. Blood flow increased remarkably when Gladwin and Cannon injected sodium nitrite into healthy volunteers, they found that tiny doses of sodium nitrite almost tripl...

Fruits And Vegetables Have Arthritis Risk Reducing Property

...f reducing the risk of arthritis.// The beneficial compound in fruits and vegetables is carotenoid. The new study suggested that dietary carotenoids, the orange and yellow pigments responsible for the colon of some fruits and vegetables, can reduce inflammation around joints, due to their antioxidative prop...

Scientists Discover Ways To Block Virus From Attacking Cells

... suggest that RC2 offers great promise as the lead compound for new antiviral drugs to fight off HIV and herpes, as well. Unlike antibodies, however, defensins are not pathogen specific. In addition to blocking viruses, RC2 also kills several bacteria that are highly resistant to conventional antibiotics. T...

Neurobiology Provides Answers To Block Memory-Related Drug Cravings

...er handled following discovery of a novel chemical compound that blocks memory-related drug cravings. The find... is the finding that administering the inactivator compound immediately after recall of the cocaine-associated places also continued to blur memories of those p...

Green Beans for Cancer Prevention and Treatment.

... therapy drugs. Scientists as to develop inhibitor compound Inositol pentakisphosphate chemically so that requ...fragile and can be toxic, so an effective chemical compound of Inositol has to be developed which blocks the enzyme effectively. Dr Falasca said: "Our study s...

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