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Preventing Age-Related Mental Decline By Consuming Vitamin B

...line in spatial copying, whereas high homocysteine concentration appeared to be linked to recall memory decline. In conclusion researchers say that the new study is important since it looks at the effects of the nutrients over time, rather than just at one given moment. ...

Old is gold– proved yet another tim

... is structurally similar to chloroquine. The right concentration and combination of Primaquine and Chloroquine has been found to be effective on chloroquine-resistant parasites. It is believed that that the drug combination would work better as chloroquine would be prevented from leaking out by a parallel action ...

Chloroquine and Primaquine combination Malarial drug for resistant parasites.

...allized form to kill the parasite and an effective concentration of the drug has to accumulate in the digestive tract of the parasite in order to kill it. Due to indiscriminate abuse of Chloroquine the parasite has started to produce resistance to the drug, the parasit e can effectively neutralize the drug by deve...

Fruits and vegetables found to interact with drugs in a dangerous way

...ract with drugs. This interaction can increase the concentration of drugs in the bloodstream and enhance their potency, which can result in toxicity. While most people know to ask their pharmacists about possible interactions between medicines, many don't realize they should also be asking about the food interact...

A Novel Method For Measuring Interstitial Fluid Pressure In Cancer Tissues

...r cells are therefore exposed to a lower effective concentration of therapeutic agents than normal cells, reducing treatment efficiency. Decreasing tumor IFP can thus improve drug delivery into the tumor. There are several techniques described for IFP measurements, however, all of these require experience to use ...

Tigecycline – New Generation Tetracycline With Broad Spectrum Antibacterial Activit

... in 800 adult patients. Tigecycline was given in a concentration of 100 mg intravenous initial dose followed by 50 mg every 12 hours which was compared with vancomycin 1 g intravenously every 12 hours/aztreonam 2 g intravenously every 12 hours for 5–14 days. Study II: Tigecycline was tested in patients with com...

Fish Oil supplementation reduces physical aggression in school children’

... bread, sausages and spaghetti which contains high concentration of DHA-rich fish oil. The children’s were tested f...pplementation which may be due to an increased DHA concentration in these children’s. Source: Journal of Nutrition Biochemisry...

Detrimental Effect Of Chronic Alcoholism On Male Fertility

...and feminization phenotype. A reduction in sperm concentration and in the percentage of spermatozoa with normal morphology has been detected in chronic alcoholics and in smokers. Alcohol causes a significant decrease in the number of spermatozoa with normal morphology and an increase in irreversible tail defects...

Aspirin May Protect Against Hyperglycemia With Diabetes

...ucose-induced changes in intracellular calcium ion concentration and NO release. To elucidate the mechanism of action of aspirin, the effect of the drug on high concentration glucose-induced increased levels of ROS was investigated. For these purposes, human endothelial cell...

Researchers Identify Sipa 1 Gene, Responsible For Cancer Metastasis

...e that Sipa1, as determined by its overall protein concentration and/or its availability to inactivate RAP1, modulates metastatic progression. Additional studies are required to verify this and to investigate another potential gene close to Sipa 1 that might also contribute to the Mtes1 locus. Source: Nature Rev...

The potent anti-leukemia activity of Berbamine

... apoptotic cells after treatment with berbamine at concentration of 16 ì g/ml for 48 h, suggesting that the growth inhibition of berbamine for leukemia cells is caused by apoptosis of leukemia cells. Results also suggest that berbamine-induced apoptosis is mediated via caspase-3-dependent pathway. Another import...

High concentration of heavy metals in Herbal medicines

... and the inhaled air. The recent reports of high concentration of heavy metals in ayurvedic or herbal preparations have raised much concern and controversy. According to a study that has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), one of five Ayurvedic herbal medical products (HMP...

Leptin and inflammatory cytokines in women with pre-eclampsia

...eal, Cadiz, Spain to compare maternal serum leptin concentration in women with pre-eclampsia and women with normal pregnancy, and to evaluate the relationships between leptin and several inflammatory cytokines. The study appears in the December issue of British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Leptin is a ...

The Relation Between Pregnancy And Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate

...gnancy. Also, both gestational age and haemoglobin concentration significantly influence ESR//. The erythrocyte se...mine the effect of gestational age and haemoglobin concentration on ESR. More than a thousand healthy pregnant women attending for routine outpatient antenatal visi...

Selenium linked to osteoarthritis

...es." Researchers feel that difference in selenium concentration in the diet occurs due to difference in selenium concentration in vegetables, which occurs due to cultivation of vegetables in soil without much selenium. The rese...

Mode Of Action Of The Anti-Convulsant Valproate

...R and ER antagonist bioactivity but at the highest concentration tested it did antagonize PR activity. The authors writing in the journal Steroids (available online 13 September 2005) conclude that valproate is a non-steroidal antagonist for human AR and PR but not ER. Valproate’s androgen and progesterone antag...

Olive Oil Found To Preserve Cardiovascular Health by Improving Function

...he cardiovascular health as well owing to the high concentration of phenolic compounds//. Researchers from Spain...e oil devoid of phenol related compounds. The high concentration of phenolic compounds normally found in olive oil is believed to possess antioxidant, anti-inflammat...

Untied Kingdom to supplement folic acid in flour

...emia. Supplementation of folic acid in flour at a concentration of 240 mcg for every 100g of flour helps in reducing birth defects such as neural tube defects in new born babies a report from Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy (FOPA) reports....

Olive oil protects the heart

... blood vessels and also increased the Nitric oxide concentration in the blood. Blood vessel dilation helps in reducing the risk of heart attacks and the Nitric oxide has the capacity to scavenge the free radicals which helps in reducing the risk of developing diseases. Medindia on Chest pain: Chest pain is ...

Child specific HIV drugs and laboratory tests should be developed

... the drugs available for the adults may be of more concentration to children’s which may cause drug toxicity to chi...ld develop anti-retroviral drugs with optimum drug concentration for treatment of HIV in children’s. br>...

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