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Rising numbers indicate looming cocaine epidemic

...come some time in the future." Cocaine temporarily induces a high but depletes the feel-good neurotransmitter dopamine, which in turn triggers a craving for more of the drug. It is this "drive for the drug," he said, that makes it more likely for someone who has used cocaine once to use it a second time. G...

Understanding Sleeping Sickness

...rn and eastern African countries. The infection it induces takes effect after a few weeks. More virulent than the chronic form, its development cycle is also more rapid and, consequently, clinical detection can be made earlier. However, it is increasingly recognized that the existence of these two forms, t...

Stay Healthy with Herbal Tea

...e feeling of being full. The large-leafed linden induces sweating while fennel, anis, kummel and camomile ease cramps. "People often combine four or six plants but no more than that," explains Peter Zizmann, president of the Bonn-based Professional Association of Alternative Medicine Practitioners. Com...

Curcumin –New Weapon Against Colorectal Cance

...s with curcumin finding that treatment of curcumin induces the death of cancer cells in a dose-responsive manner. In the United States, diagnosis of colorectal cancer was made in 70,651 men and 68,883 women in 2002 and 28,471 men and 28,132 women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

"Dynamic Energy Landscape" of enzyme in Catalysis

... of that hypothesis is that the binding of ligands induces a structural change that increases the complementary relationship between the ligand and the enzyme." As the study points out, most proteins do not have rigid molecular structures but are structurally heterogeneous; the motion and plasticity in th...

Study Finds Parkinson’s Cell Death Blocked by Stopping Inflammatory Facto

...pendent of the environmental toxin or trigger that induces its production in the midbrain, TNF is likely to be a common mediator of dopamine neuron death.” Tumor necrosis factor is necessary for a functioning immune system. Its effects include the local inflammation and redness around wounds, and the painf...

The IPU Want Morning After Pills To Be Made Available Over The Counter

...iewed it as 'abortifacient' that is a drug used to induces an abortion or miscarriage. It was further reported that the drug was approved for use in Ireland in November 2001, after elaborate consultations with medical and legal experts....

p53, the Guardian of Our Genome

... from reproducing until the DNA is repaired, or it induces cell death. About 36,000 papers were published till date and bringing together every two years an ever-widening community of scientists working on the frontiers of cancer research to share their latest findings on this gene. There is a rare conditi...

Protein Behind Food Allergies Identified

...ct, airways and skin, and in the most severe cases induces anaphylactic shock, an often fatal systemic reaction. These allergies are often characterised by abdominal pain, diarrhoea, vomiting, hives, swelling of the eyelids, face, lips and tongue, shortness of breath or wheezing and difficulty swallowing,...

Bone Marrow Cells Aid In Heart Repair

...searchers have discovered the distress signal that induces the mobilization //of specific repair cells from the bone marrow to the affected heart after an attack. While it has long been known that bone marrow cells have the ability to clear the dead tissue after a heart attack, what has not been known unti...

Adolescent Drug Users Turn Compulsive Addicts

...f the drug but now it is found that early exposure induces craving and turns teenagers to addicts. The study results were published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology. The researchers studied the effects of drugs on rats by exposing them to cannabis. Initially they were given a small amount of these dru...

Antibiotic Proved Protective against Heart Tissue Damage and Cell Death – Research Find

...tment with a clinically relevant dose of rapamycin induces a protective effect against heart attack injury and reduces programmed cell death. Researchers believe through the opening of the mitochondrial KATP channel of heart cells, rapamycin enables cells to maintain ATP levels. Mitochondria are cellular o...

Increased Rates of Heart Problems Due To Fear of losing one's Job

...y in their later part of life but losing one’s job induces a lot of stress resulting in numerous undesirable outcomes. He said that if a person is unemployed apart from the economic burden he has to face a lot of health consequences which exceeds his other expenditure. The people who suffered from ill hea...

Drug Abuse Tackles Body Builders' Breast Growth

...converts it into oestrogen, a female hormone ,and induces breasts growth in them. A survey conducted by the University of Glamorgan on 200 gym users found, that 22 per cent misused ,tamoxifen , to reverse breast growth.I n a similar survey carried out six years ago, less than 2 per cent were found to ...

New Breed Cats Marketed

...arched for natural variations in the cat gene that induces allergy-inducing properties and then promoted the desired trait through breeding. Hence these animals were not transgenic,in other words their genes remain unaltered. Leslie Lyons, assistant professor in the school of veterinary medicine at the Un...

Finnish research: Cysteine Chewing Gum as a cure for cancers of the mouth

... research group from NIH reported a mechanism that induces DNA-damage in those acetaldehyde concentrations that are found in the saliva after drinking of alcohol. It has been known already for decades that a harmless aminoacid l-cysteine is able to bind effectively acetaldehyde and thereby eliminate its toxi...

Meth Addiction On The Rise, US Health Authorities Concerned

...meth, as it is commonly known, is a stimulant that induces euphoria in its users. Discovered in 1919 and originally intended for the treatment of nasal decongestion, the drug is now being used by college students, athletes and truck drivers. Sadly, the drug is no longer used for its therapeutic benefit. So...

Receptor for H.pylori Identified in Stomach

...20% bind to gastric epithelial cells. This binding induces an immune response and alters the morphology and b...abolishes the inflammatory response that H. pylori induces in infected mice, suggesting that this receptor mediates H. pylori-induced injury in the stomach.’ ...

Bad Enzymes Found To Enable Brain Recovery Following Stroke

...vessel in the damaged brain region. In addition it induces cell growth, cell differentiation and movement of the cells. Stroke occurs due to a temporary loss of blood supply to the brain. This can occur either due to blockage of a blood vessel though blood clot or rupture of a blood vessel, supplying the b...

Deadly 'abortion pill' takes two more lives

...ain a pregnancy. The second medicine, misoprostol, induces contractions, terminating the pregnancy. "RU-486 is a deadly drug that is killing pregnant women. This drug should never have been approved, and it must be suspended immediately." Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc. said it wou...

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