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Brain Cell Repair Loss disclosed

...medical scientists thought nerve cell surroundings released streams of growth-stifling proteins that kept neurons from repairing themselves. "A lot of evidence suggests this is true," Barres said. "But we wondered, 'Is that all? Are there other problems? What about the neurons themselves?'" Barres and lead r...

No heart attack risk for women taking birth control pills

...in comparison to second-generation pills. A study released in early 2002 which was carried out at University Medical Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands showed that women taking no pills showed a rate equivalent to 30 strokes per 100,000 compared to about 60 strokes per 100,000 for women taking second or thir...

An Enzyme That Turns a One –time Experience into a long-time Memor

...ess. Researchers say norepinephrine is a chemical released in the brain during emotional or exciting situations. For the study, the scientists collected data from the mouse brain to see how norepinephrine plays a role in memories. Their research suggests the enzyme protein kinase C plays a fundamental role i...

A Diet High In Fat Could Lead To An Over Indulgence In Snacks

...holecystokinin (CCK) on two groups of rats. CCK is released in the small intestine in the presence of fat or protein, triggering the activation of nerves to send ‘stop eating’ signals to the brain. Over a 20-day period, one group was fed a long-term high-fat diet, and the other a long-term low-fat diet with a...

SNUPPY – Woo Suk Hwang reveals World’s first dog cloe

...vulated egg cells, those which have naturally been released from the ovaries into the fallopian tubes. Snuppy is the latest mammal to be cloned after sheep, mice, cats, rats, cows, goats, pigs, horses, rabbits and a mule. Inherited diseases such as malformed hip joints are a serious problem in purebred dogs ...

Influence of Celebrities on Breast Cancer Awareness

...ons of toxic substances that never existed are now released into the environment. Yet only 3 percent of the 75,000 chemicals in use have been tested for safety. These toxic time bombs are found in our water, air and soil. Women who live near toxic waste dumps have 6.5 times the incidence of breast cancer. Th...

Good News For Those Of You Suffering From Rheumatoid Arthritis

...lining tissue of the joint. Inflammatory chemicals released by the immune cells cause swelling and damage to cartilage and bone. Adalimumab works by preventing a protein called tumor necrosis factor (TNF) from signaling the release of joint-damaging substances. Adalimumab is approved for the treatment of mo...

Watch Out! Pollution hazard from E-waste recycling in India & China

... all the more alarming is that toxic chemicals are released during each stage of the recycling process into the workplace and in many cases into the surrounding environment. Concentrations of lead in dust samples collected from some workshops in China were hundreds of times higher than typical levels of hous...

Nanocells cancer combination therapy acts as chemotherapy as well as anti-angiogenic drug

...e chemotherapy drugs in the inner balloon are then released slowly as prolonged exposure of the tumour to chem...mour are cut," he elucidated. "If both drugs are released simultaneously, it becomes a simple combination therapy and though such a combination did show some ...

The Sale Of Expired Drugs In A Hospital In Chandigarh

...tion from the hospital authorities. In a statement released by the Joint Director (CGHS), Dr Subhash Chandra said: “There may be some error and we will try to improve the system” and he tried to douse the fire by saying that it was the inability of the new dispensary to cope with the rush of patients that mig...

Cholesterol Can Cause Burst Arteries

...the cholesterol crystals and other debris material released by the plaque rupture into the bloodstream that activates the clotting mechanism. Researchers had compared the crystallization of the cholesterol to putting a plastic bottle of water into a freezer. Over time the water freezes and expands, pushing i...

Sodium nitrite salt intake found to increases blood flow

...rite interacts with hemoglobin in a way that it is released only where it is required. Scientists at the National Institute of Health, NIH are studying the effect of sodium nitrite in diseases caused by low oxygen; they are recruiting human volunteers to test the effect of sodium nitrite in the treatment of...

Is your house safe enough to protect against asthma attacks?

... respiratory symptoms. Endotoxins are substances released by micro-organisms when there the membrane surrounding it ruptures or disintegrates. Because bacteria can be found everywhere in the home, the likelihood of their release is high. Once released, endotoxins can cause inflammation of the airways and le...

Scientists Concerned Over Increasing Malfunction Of Heart Devices

... and 2002. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released // a study at a meeting with physicians and heart-device manufacturers recently, which found that 4,225 defibrillators had failed between 2000 and 2003. Same number of defibrillators failed in the previous 10 years, reports online edition of The Wash...

Defect In Cardiac Cells Lead To Heart Failures

... a large storage site within each muscle cell. The released calcium activates the muscle cell’s contractile ma...also located in the walls of the SR, then suck the released calcium back into the SR to prepare for the next contraction. Source: Newswise ...

Indians Are More Prone To Lifestyle Diseases

... risk of lifestyle diseases, a blood sample survey released here shows. The survey, based on blood samples of 535 women and 735 men, has revealed that Indians// are more prone to diseases such as heart ailments, asthma, cancers, nervous and circulatory disorders, diabetes, hypertension and obesity. The surv...

Strategies to prevent the rising tide of the epidemic of chronic diseases

The Lancet Early Online Publication, released on the 5th of October, which comprises of a Series of four papers about chronic diseases, has a comprehensive report on the threat of chronic diseases in India. In an article, co-authored // by Union Health Minister Dr Anbumani Ramadoss, the need to ...

Water fluoridation and tooth decay

...l and rendering it insoluble to the acids that are released as a result of the fermentation of sugars including glucose, sucrose and lactose. In fact dentists recommend that kids should be given fluoride therapy at certain ages when molars are erupting into the oral cavity. Fluoride toothpastes are also recom...

Infants must be put to sleep in separate beds to prevent SIDS

... It is indeed a coincidence that the news has been released just during SIDS awareness month (October). The research further points out that babies who sleep in an adult bed face a 40 % more risk of suffocation than their counterparts who sleep in standard cribs. The condition is also found to be more commo...

Malaria To Be Tackled By Genetically Modified Mosquitoes

...hese genetically modified mosquitoes could soon be released into the wild in an attempt to combat malaria that is currently responsible for thousands of deaths every year in India. A similar attempt was made in India in 1970s and had collapsed following accusation of biological warfare. Andrea Crisanti, th...

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