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Improved memory with mild electric stimulation

...ucted a study in which, they applied currents that mimic natural slow oscillating brain waves through electrodes attached to the scalp. 13 medical students who were involved in the study were made to learn a list of paired words in a standard memory test before they slept. Their brain was stimulated whil...

Whole Wheat, Wholesome for Pregnant Women and Their Offspring

...ns on the babies’ health. These results could well mimic the occurrence in humans, the researchers opined. According to the researchers, the daughters of women who consumed a high fat diet during pregnancy suffered a high risk of breast cancer. The link between dietary fiber and breast cancer, in humans...

Researchers explore medicine in space

...s, operating during an airplane flight designed to mimic weightlessness. However, only a local anesthetic was used. Doctors still need to understand the effects of general anesthesia, the method of sedation used in most surgeries. Prior to UF's study, the only real data showing how weightlessness affect...

Anti Atherosclerosis Therapies Linked to Leukemia

...he mice with myeloid proliferative disease closely mimic the asymptomatic early stages of CML, while the 15 percent with clear CML model the crisis, or "blast," stage of the disease. Source-Eurekalert LA...

Women Testing Negative for Familial Breast Cancer Gene Still at Increased Risk

...ue to other genetic variants (modifier genes) that mimic the physiological changes produced by that specific gene fault. Thirteen of 107 first degree relatives with breast cancer and a family history of BRCA genes tested negative for these genetic faults. On the basis of their findings, the authors ca...

Breast Cancer linked to Gene Risk

... due to other alterations, or modifier genes, that mimic the changes produced by the specific genetic fault. Evans said, "It is clear it is not the simple story of you either carry a high-risk gene or you don't. It is a spectrum of risks due to a whole host of genetic factors." He added, "Even when y...

Smoking Cessation Therapy May be Harmful for ICU Patients

...ers caution that, because of other conditions that mimic nicotine withdrawal in the critically ill, to may be difficult to make an accurate diagnosis. “Minimizing the effects of nicotine withdrawal in critically ill patients who smoke can present a significant challenge to the ICU team,” said Mark J. Ros...

Predicting the Dynamics of Clotting in Human Blood

...lows them to probe blood clotting on surfaces that mimic vascular damage on the micron scale, a unit of mea...cs of clotting." The ability of microfluidics to mimic the flow and geometry of human blood vessels also proved critical. "We had to use microfluidics to...

Study IDs Protein That Inhibits HIV From Growing In Cell Cultures

...w us to develop target-specific therapies that can mimic these effects and inhibit HIV. "Potentially thes...am will seek to develop small molecular drugs that mimic the inhibiting action. Stapleton noted that GBV-C is not toxic to T-cells and is not associated wi...

Insight Into Tanning Process Suggests Novel Way to Prevent Skin Cancer

...udy involved using a small molecule to essentially mimic the process that occurs when skin cells are struck by ultraviolet light from the sun," says the study's senior author, David E. Fisher, MD, PhD, director of the Melanoma Program at Dana-Farber and a professor in pediatrics at Children's Hospital Bost...

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

...fusion of LPS, a toxin from bacteria often used to mimic chronic inflammation of the central nervous system, and 6-hydroxydopamine, which kills cells by creating an overwhelming amount of reactive oxygen and nitrogen molecules. Cell death was measured by counting neurons in stained brain slices. When an ...

Center for Celiac Disease Opens

...nd stomach irritation are relatively vague and may mimic other disorders like inflammatory bowel disease or lactose intolerance, making it difficult to diagnose. In some cases symptoms may be so mild that they are overlooked entirely. If celiac disease is not diagnosed, patients may face problems with oste...

Cure for food allergies is less than a decade away

...n fool the immune system in such a way that we can mimic chronic exposure by taking microbial or parasitical factors and adding them, then we might be able to shorten the treatment," he said. There was a decrease in reactions by a factor of 10, with the modified versions of the allergens in apples produc...

Alternative therapy – an alternative to HRT

...er others.Oestrogenic compounds - plant forms that mimic the effect of the hormone oestrogen in the body- are found in some of the herbal remedies, which may affect women with breast cancer.'The herb black cohosh has been associated with liver toxicity and in one case a patient consequently needed a liver ...

A Serving of Exercise After That Saturated Fat

...sted the brachial artery because it is supposed to mimic the coronary arteries. Wallace said the artery responded better after the physical activity than it did before the high-fat meal. More research should be conducted, she said, involving older populations. Source-Newswise...

Researcher Hits Bulls-Eye for Antibiotic Target

...the other possibility would be to design a drug to mimic the protein, causing the bacteria to react as if it were starving even when in the presence of a plentiful nutrient supply, Sanders said. Such a signal exists in almost all living things because most organisms struggle to find food or nutrients and...

Bisphenol A (BPA) linked with breast cancer

... says Widlanski. "Unfortunately, we simply can't mimic long-term exposure to bisphenol A," he said, since...m. "So, we have to use a larger concentration to mimic the effects of long-term exposure," he said. "No one knows if that's a valid way to do that or not."...

Adult stem cells are sensitive to responses from the environment

... and Applied Science, soft microenvironments, that mimic the brain, guide the cells toward becoming neurons, stiffer microenvironments, that mimic muscle, guide the cells toward becoming muscle cells and comparatively rigid microenvironments guide...

Brain Swelling Key to Reducing Stroke Fatalities

...ide have shown that swelling in the brain seems to mimic a similar process in the skin, and may well be amenable to treatment with drugs, although these are yet to be developed. “This potentially provides the first new clinical pathway to reducing brain swelling in 50 years,” Ms Turner says. “It should i...

New Approach to Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer

...tubbornly low because symptoms are often vague and mimic other conditions, and the lack of a cost-effective, reliable test to diagnose this “silent killer” early, when it is most curable. A test is urgently needed that would rival the positive impact on survival that the Pap smear and mammography have had ...

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