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Need More And Better Drugs To Tackle Stoke

...ti-inflammatory drug to prevent the killing of the nerve cells after a stroke. Activase coupled with ultrasound is also very effective at dissolving clots. Magnetic resonance images (MRIs) can also be used to identify those patients who can be brought back to normalcy after the three-hour window period. ...

Weizmann Institute of Science says Immune Cells Could Help Maintain Brain Function

...amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) as well as the nerve degeneration after a stroke or trauma. The team demonstrated this in lab mice by starving one set of mice of T-cells and other important immune cells. In these mice, a less number of new cells were formed. T cells could hold the key to the formation ...

Understanding “The Brain

...ng of the objects around us. The study using the nerve cells present in the visual cortex of the macaque monkeys shows that neurons present at the higher-level initially respond to a visual stimulus. It signals to all the related neurons that can comprehend the particular stimulus or related stimulus. F...

Protein Found to Be Essential For Maintaining Nerve Health

...ital role in maintaining the overall health of the nerve cell. The protein called Staufen2, appears to p... found that if this protein was blocked out from a nerve cell, it lost a number of synapses. Synapses are the impulses that connect one nerve cell to the oth...

Gene for Schizophrenia identified

...involved in the transmission of signal between the nerve cells. When experiment was conducted in humans using drugs that blocked the signal it results in a psychotic state similar to schizophrenia. Hence the researcher Dr. Robert Greene, a professor of psychiatry conclude by saying that the mice model an...

Mumbai To Get Emergency Ambulance Service

...The project is estimated at US$ 3 million, and its nerve center will be the Hinduja Hospital. The annual recurring cost of the project will be Rs.40 million. Seven other hospitals and four medical colleges will initially be a part of the network, which has the blessings of the Maharashtra Government, ac...

Ataxia: a problematic disease's gene deciphered

...an important role in the maintaining the health of nerve cells. As mentioned about its historical implication, it has been discovered in an individual who happens to be 11-generation family descended from the grandparents of President Abraham Lincoln. The scientific implication could be that the Presiden...

Respirator Can Improve Quality Of Life Of Motor Neurone Disease Patients

...uffering from Motor Neurone Disease (MND), a fatal nerve disease could be improved substantially by the use of a simple ventilator and facemask//. Patients suffering from Motor Neurone Disease (MND) could benefit from the new technique called non-invasive ventilation (NIV). It works by helping people wit...

Sex Spell Lasts Two Years Graduating To 'Cuddles' Companionship

...ts on whether nascent stages of romance encourages nerve growth, necessitated by the need to record novel experiences in the brain.Ofcourse, this area is yet to be explored and more research is necessary to make any conclusive statements. Apprehension also abounds among researchers, if the identification ...

Combination of Schizophrenia drugs not beneficial

...n the brain neurotransmitters leading to damage in nerve cells leading to problems in message transmission between brain cells and other cells of the body. Researchers feel that instead of combining two antipsychotic drugs which has been found to have no considerable difference in treatment to mono drug ...

Children Run Type 2 Diabetes Risk

...s at an early age may result in complications like nerve damage, kidney failure and heart disease at later stages. The problem has to be tackled immediately to avoid large-scale health complications in the country at a later stage. The survey picked on one child in the case of families which had several ch...

Depression plays a vital role in Diabetes

...heart disease, stroke, blindness, kidney problems, nerve damage, teeth and gum disease, decreased sexual function and amputation if the blood sugar is not brought under control. Cathy Nonas, director of the obesity and diabetes program at North General Hospital, in New York City said that a proper diet,...

Human Complexity Can Be Attributed To Regulatory Sequence

...ill help us to create new classes of treatment for nerve disorders and heart failures. These sequences ar...o found near the genes that direct the building of nerve cells and blood vessels, suggesting they may be involved in diseases affecting those tissues as well...

New 'PPUD Syndrome' Prevalent Among Indian Doctors In Britain

...ht. Muskoskeletal deformities: For example, 11th nerve palsy, resulting in drooping of the shoulders; seventh nerve palsy, resulting in expressionless face and inability to smile; disturbed gait; and kyphosis, with i...

Task Learning Made Simple By Taking Short Breaks

...r whiskers. As the rats ran along the track, the nerve cells fired in a very specific sequence. This is not surprising, because certain cells in this region are known to be triggered when an animal passes through a particular spot in a space. But researchers were taken aback by what they saw when the ra...

Mystery behind Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Unraveled

...me is a neurological disorder caused by continuous nerve injury affecting small fibers which has the abilit...ol in Boston, did sensory testing and quantitative nerve assessment. They tested 18 patients on the affected and unaffected sites who suffer from complex r...

Glaucoma Could Cause Vision Loss In 60 Million People By 2010

...due to raised intra-ocular pressure and consequent nerve damage. In some cases, the disease may be seen in cases of normal eye pressure as well. Lack of proper awareness about the disease and the availability of a reliable screening test to detect the disease at an early stage can account for an increase...

Nerve Stimulator for Depression Though Not Effective Was Given Approval

...ch has to be surgically implanted called the vagus nerve stimulator was approved by a top federal medical o...urrent treatment-resistant depression. The vagus nerve stimulator is surgically implanted in the upper chest, and its wires are threaded into the neck. Bat...

Want to memorise better for the exams: stay hungry!!!

...e mechanism is by way of an increase the number of nerve connections in the area of the brain where new mem... gene had 25% fewer 'synaptic' connections between nerve cells in this area. "The study provides evidence that ghrelin may control higher brain functions a...

Aluminium and Iron Could Play a Vital Role in Multiple Sclerosis

...une cells destroy the myelin sheath that surrounds nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord. // The myelin is very essential in transmitting the impulses across the body. Scientists at Keele University, Staffordshire, compared the levels of the metals aluminium and iron in the urine of people with MS and...

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(Date:7/25/2008)...y 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Sagent Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,..., today announced that it,has launched amiodarone ...icated for the treatment and prophylaxis of freque...namically unstable ventricular,tachycardia -- a po...agent,s amiodarone HCl injection will be available...
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(Date:7/23/2008)...ndards and Technology (NIST) have developed a tech...ns in protein-based pharmaceuticals. This first sy...ch scientists can be assured that their instrument...n aggregates, a major concern because of its impac...anufacturing. , Proteins, a main constituent of ...
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