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Choice of Anesthesia in C-section

...c gas inhibits the mother's contractions. "It also suppresses the newborn and causes the mother to miss the birth of her child because she is unconscious," he added. "Regional anesthesia is preferable to general anesthesia except in rare circumstances -- for example, where obstetrical emergencies require immed...

Rescuing Injured Hearts by Enhancing Regeneration

... an enzyme known as p38 MAP kinase, which normally suppresses cardiomyocyte replication. [See: http://www.childrenshospital.org/newsroom /Site1339/mainpageS1339P1sublevel139.html] Engel and Keating (Keating is now at the Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research) now build on this finding. They studied 120 r...

New Angiogenesis Finding May Help Fight Cancer Growth

...ys. "We have discovered a new peptide that clearly suppresses angiogenesis via a novel multi-component mechanism," he says. "A key question is whether we can exploit it to develop therapeutics." Source-Newswise SRM...

Research Finds That Nicotine Hastens The Growth Of Lung Cancer

...to bind to a key protein called Rb, which normally suppresses tumors. Chellappan explained that this interference with the Rb protein's function could make the cancer spread faster. He further explained that 8 out of 10 tumors that were examined by his group had an abnormally high Raf-1 and Rb interactions. ,...

Site of Sleep Regulation Identified in Fruit Flies

...emory consolidation. In mammals, sleep deprivation suppresses the performance of learned tasks, and sleep permits memory consolidation. Distinct anatomical regions of adult mushroom bodies have been shown to be important for at least some forms of memory in fruit flies. In a paper also published last week in ...

Sanyo’s Electrolysed Water Technology Effective In Suppressing Bird Fl

...prietary electrolysed water technology effectively suppresses avian influenza viruses. // In joint research with Tottori University, a national university in south western Japan,Sanyo’s proprietary electrolysed water technology, ‘Disinfectant Element’ system and ‘Disinfectant Electrolysed Mist’ system was sho...

Effect Of Alcohol On Motor Skills

...the lead author on the paper. "Alcohol selectively suppresses the brain areas needed to incorporate new informat...h 6, 2006.The study found that alcohol selectively suppresses cognitive activity in the frontal and posterior parietal brain regions; these are regions most commo...

Alcoholism Drug Vivitrol Approved By FDA

...tely $185 billion annually in the U.S. Vivitrol suppresses alcohol dependence by binding to opioid receptors in the brain, resulting in the blockade of the neurotransmitters that are associated with alcohol dependence. This blockade may help patients reduce alcohol consumption although the exact mechanism re...

Gender Question Solved

...n male embryos that wipes out retinoic acid and so suppresses meiosis before birth, resulting in sperm productio...h is to be carried to figure out what triggers and suppresses meiosis. This would later help the researchers to improve fertility. Professor Koopman also said tha...

High Protein Sans Low Carb Diets Not Advisable For Pregnant Women

...ncreases blood pressure and blood sugar levels and suppresses the immune system. --Edited IANS...

Teenagers Get Hooked To Ecstasy

...clearly nothing more than a marketing ploy. MDMA suppresses the need to eat, sleep, or drink and, consequently, allows users to stay awake all night. These qualities make it appealing for teenagers and young professionals. The main reason being that it helps them to stay awake for longer and working later whi...

Frozen embryos stored in Britain

...embryos appeared to lead to changes in a gene that suppresses cancer. IVF procedures are very costly and every attempt cost about ￡3000 at a private clinic. ...

Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) Has An Answer Now!

...l stimulates a protein called SET, which, in turn, suppresses the phosphatase PP2A. PP2A acts otherwise as a tumour suppressor in the blast crisis, applying the brakes to growth signals stuck in the “on” position. When PP2A isn't working properly, cancer cells grow uncontrolled. Earlier studies by Perrotti sho...

Another Benefit For Human Health Attributed To Omega-3-Fats

... While high dose of fish oil and golden algae oil suppresses the growth of cancer, omega-6 fatty acid-rich food such as corn was excluded in D.H.’s diet as these fatty acids increase cancer growth. “We have good evidence for employing nutritional interventions to improve cancer treatment and patient well-bein...

Aspirin reduces skin cancer Risk

... is a cyto-oxygenase (COX) enzyme inhibitor, which suppresses the activity of this enzyme and its expression. The COX gene is gene coded which is important for the growth of blood vessels. Angiogenesis or new blood vessel is formed in cancer conditions in which there is an increased amount of blood vessels, whi...

Dengue fever in Delhi after the Monsoon

...blood vessels resulting in plasma leakage; disease suppresses the production of platelets that help in the clotting of blood. If the process continues unchecked, the volume of blood decreases due to leakage, the blood pressure drops and the platelet count reduces. Bleeding occurs in patients with severe shock s...

No heart attack risk for women taking birth control pills

... used very high doses of estrogen, a hormone which suppresses ovulation. The next generation of pills however lowered levels of estrogen and added forms of another hormone called progestin ( norgestrel or levonorgestrel). Progestins inhibit ovulation by suppressing a hormone in the pituitary gland and also caus...

Research Shows Carbon Monoxide Prevents Inflammations

...expression goes up, it reduces iNOS expression and suppresses a key-signaling pathway involved in the immune response. The scientists had studied two types of experimental mice – one group lacked the gene for the Hmox enzyme and was unable to synthesize carbon monoxide. Another group produced unusually high le...

Low immunity in people with multiple sclerosis may be genetical

...h suggests that lower expression of the FOXP3 gene suppresses the functions of the regulatory T cells. This leads to the body’s inability to control the inflammatory cells that in turn attack the nerve fibers. This leads to the increased incidence of multiple sclerosis disease on people. Reference: Journal of ...

Hope for Patients With HIV

...s of AIDS develop. New research shows a drug that suppresses the immune system can delay the onset of AIDS in patients with HIV.The drug prednisolone, taken without any antiviral therapy, postponed the loss of T-cells that leads to AIDS for two to 10 years in 50 percent of HIV patients. Patients were found to ...

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