Treatment Of Brain Aneurysms By A New Non-Surgical Approach
...cedure. "Our results are encouraging because they demonstrate that devices like the intracranial stent will continue to not only improve our ability to treat challenging wide-necked aneurysms without opening the skull but also to have a significant impact on re-treatment rates" said Lopes, one of the experts in...Walnuts a source of the Anti –oxidant Hormone Melatoni
...lso increased. Thus researchers say that studies demonstrate that walnuts contain melatonin and that it is absorbed when it is eaten, and it is found to improves our ability to resist oxidative stress caused by toxic molecules called free radicals. Although it is not clear how many walnuts humans would need t...Optical Imaging Added To Ultrasound To Improve Imaging Of Breast Cancer
...n compared with benign lesions, the findings which demonstrate that the technique has great potential for distinguishing malignant and benign masses to reduce benign biopsies in a non-invasive way. In the study, 65 patients with a total of 81 breast lesions were examined with ultrasound and optical tomography....Common, cheaper drugs could be used to treat hypertension
...ssure drug that could be expensive to patients who demonstrate resistance to treatment or in whom standard therapy does not restore a normal blood pressure. The new studies throws light on the fact that these cheap, yet effective medicines could be prescribed as an alternative form of treatment in such individ...Breast milk promotes cavity formation in babies
...nd her colleague Dr. William H. Bowen used rats to demonstrate that breast milk had a potential to cause tooth decay faster than cow's milk. Baby mice did develop cavities and dental erosion when they were fed sweet liquids like soda and honey-sweetened water. Human milk did slow down the process of cavity forma...Swiss Researchers Isolate Hair-Raising Stem Cells
... true stem cells by using rat whisker follicles to demonstrate the inherent ability of these cells to differentiate into hair follicles. The Swiss researchers first isolated stem cells from rat whisker follicles labeled them and cultured them for 140 generations. These cells were injected into the skin of newbor...Milk from cloned cows and meat safe to use: But at what cost?
...nsible enough if long term studies are taken up to demonstrate the benefits before such foods can rock the international food market....Gold Nanoparticles: Agents For Noninvasive Cancer Therapy
... Cancer Letters // (Available online 28 September) demonstrate the efficiency of gold nanospheres as photothermal agent by selectively delivering gold nanoparticles to oral carcinoma cells that overexpress EGFR, a clinically related cancer biomarker, and discuss the potential of using this selective technique in...Conditioning preferences in children
...rence for the cartoon characters. These findings demonstrate that preferences to novel stimuli can be conditioned in children and result from associations formed between the stimulus and a stimulus possessing positive or negative valence....Repeated checking causes memory distrust
...to be published in Behaviour Research and Therapy, demonstrate that repeated relevant checking leads to memory distrust. That is, when participants were asked to repeatedly check a stove, their memory confidence, vividness and detail significantly declined both compared to pre-test scores following only one chec...Lower doses of oral contraceptives helpful in treating acne
... data from clinical trials of various designs that demonstrate the efficacy of OCs in treating acne, with a focus...e studies beginning in the 1980s were the first to demonstrate objective and subjective reductions in the incidence of acne, severity of existing acne and seborrhe...Bifidogenic Growth Stimulator: A Non-Toxic Way To Treat Ulcerative Colitis
...authors warn that controlled studies are needed to demonstrate its efficacy in the treatment of this disorder....Whole-body hypothermia reduces risk of death in Encephalopathy in infants
...re hypoxic–ischemic encephalopathy. These findings demonstrate the safety and effectiveness of whole-body cooling in reducing the risk of death or disability among infants with moderate or severe encephalopaty....Citrinin, a fungal toxin, induces apoptosis via mitochondrial pathway
...mbined morphological and biochemical techniques to demonstrate that CTN, a frequently found mycotoxin in food and feed, induced apoptosis in HL-60 cells through the intrinsic pathway, and oxidative stress was not directly involved in the apoptotic process....Systemic Corticosteroid Therapy can be used for treating all types of Infectious Mononucleosis
...se consequences of SCT in IM, our review failed to demonstrate any such trend.” Source: News wie...A New Technique For Prediction Of Adult Height
...Journal of Pediatrics was designed to validate and demonstrate how adult height can be predicted by using reference values obtained from maturity and sex-specific cumulative height velocity curves. For the study, serial height measurements were taken on 224 boys and 120 girls. Individuals were classified as ear...Researchers Identify Sipa 1 Gene, Responsible For Cancer Metastasis
...sociated with metastatic progression. The results demonstrate 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...Breast feeding can prevent HIV infection transmission
... DC-SIGN nor inhibit viral transfer. These results demonstrate that protein associated Lewis X is necessary and sufficient to interact with DC-SIGN and block the interaction of DC-SIGN and HIV. The identification of a factor in human milk that can block HIV-1 transmission, the ability of the factor to inhibit ...MRI Shows Emotional Changes During Menstrual Cycle
...dulated across the menstrual cycle. The data also demonstrate that menstrual cycle phase is an important consideration in further studies attempting to elucidate the neural substrates of affective representation. Thus, the authors stress that emotion-controlling brain activity increased premenstrually, and tha...Fluorescent markers to distinguish Trypanosoma brucei strains causing Sleeping Sickness
...re monitored in culture, tsetse flies and mice, to demonstrate stability of marker _expression. The use of fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) allowed rapid and accurate identification of parasite strains labelled with different markers. Cell counts by FACS were virtually identical to counts by traditio...