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Fruit fly study identifies gene mutation that regulates sensitivity to alcohol

...a) exposed to alcohol. Ordinarily, at low doses of alcohol fruit flies increase their activity, while high do...found some fruit flies were much more resistant to alcohol sedation. These flies continued to move about much longer than typical fruit flies exposed to the sa...

LSD treatment for alcoholism gets new look

...riginal studies--many of whom had not had a sip of alcohol since their single LSD experience 40 years earlier. According to one study conducted in 1962, 65 per cent of the alcoholics in the experiment stopped drinking for at least a year-and-a-half (the duration of the study) after taking one dose of LSD...

BC catalyst discovery promises faster, cheaper drug production

...h extremely high selectivity, a silicon atom to an alcohol group so that only one enantiomer is formed. Other...ways ?if not the most effective way ?to protect an alcohol from undesired reactions while a molecule is being modified somewhere else," Prof. Snapper said. Be...

Developing uses for sugar-cane bagasse: Biotechnology applied to the paper industry

... ethanol per m3 (concentration equivalent to 3° of alcohol in the liquid phase), laccase production increased, to a maximum level (90 U per g of dry bagasse support). This amounts to 45 times the yield obtained without ethanol. Moreover, it appeared that little or no ethanol introduced was consumed by the fu...

The first tree genome is published: Poplar holds promise as renewable bioenergy resource

...own into sugars that in turn can be fermented into alcohol and distilled to yield fuel-quality ethanol and other liquid fuels. Poplar is the most complex genome to be sequenced and assembled by a single public sequencing facility and only the third plant to date to have its genome completely sequenced and...

Brains can recover from alcoholic damage but patients should stop drinking as soon as possible

...changed over six to seven weeks of abstinence from alcohol in 15 alcohol dependent patients (ten men, five women). The researchers from Germany, the UK, Switzerland and Ita...

Spike in testicular cancer is focus

...ne lifetime occupational history, tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption and dietary information. “Recent studies show that environmental exposures may affect development of testicular cancer,?said Zheng. “Determining risk factors that lead to testicular cancer, however is complicated because genetic suscept...

Smoking changes brain chemistry

... well as in cases of substance abuse, particularly alcohol dependence. Choline concentrations in the ACC were slightly lower in the smokers compared with the nonsmokers, and lower still in the female smokers compared with the male smokers. Choline is significantly involved in cell membrane metabolism...

US infant mortality rate fails to improve

...sk of serious birth defects; abstain from drinking alcohol during pregnancy and see their doctors to help manage chronic health conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and obesity. "Infant Mortality Statistics from the 2003 Period Linked Birth/Infant Death Data Set" was published in Vol. 54, No. 16 of ...

Green tea and the 'Asian Paradox'

...udies, also can improve gastrointestinal function, alcohol metabolism, kidney, liver and pancreatic function, protect skin and eyes and alleviate arthritis. Tea has been used in managing and preventing allergies, diabetes, bacterial and viral infections, cavities, reduce or cure diseases with an inflammatory...

Producing bio-ethanol from agricultural waste a step closer

... the most attractive alternatives is bio-ethanol - alcohol produced from agricultural crops. At present, bio-ethanol is only made from sugars derived from corncobs, sugar beets, grain and sugarcane, with the help of baker's yeast. A great number of by-products result from the cultivation of these crops, such...

Innovative method for creating a human cytomegalovirus vaccine outlined

...ause of serious disability as Down syndrome, fetal alcohol syndrome, or neural tube defects. Because of the dangers posed by the virus to infants, the Institute of Medicine has declared that development of a CMV vaccine should be one of the highest priorities for vaccine makers. Now, in a new study in the ...

UCSD researchers develop 'smart petri dish'

...other," says Sailor. "You're not supposed to drink alcohol when taking acetaminophen, because the combination of the two is much more toxic to your liver than either drug individually. This is known as an adverse drug-drug interaction and it is very expensive and time-consuming to screen a new drug candidat...

Finding paves way for better treatment of autoimmune disease

A signaling molecule with an affinity for alcohol has yielded a rapid, inexpensive way to make large... because of the negative health effects of regular alcohol consumption. Dr. Iwashima and his colleagues believe the best way to optimize cell percentages is...

New research examines genetics of successful aging

... variety of lifestyle factors, such as smoking and alcohol consumption, with the goal of eventually exploring the interactive effects of genes and lifestyle on successful aging. The study identified nine genetic regions that were associated with successful aging, some of which affected men or women, but no...

Cycles of cell death, proliferation key to liver cancer

...iruses, and exposure to toxic chemicals, including alcohol ¡V all of which cause chronic liver injury and inflammation. Although not common in the United States., the incidence of HCC is on an upward trajectory, with little hope for treatment or cure through chemotherapy, radiation or other traditional canc...

New HIV study identifies high-risk subgroups of adolescents

...ealth issues and other high-risk behaviors such as alcohol and drug use, school problems, delinquency and suicide attempts. However, this is one of the first studies to show that not all high-risk adolescents have the same types of risk behaviors, and therefore some are at higher risk for HIV than others. Th...

Don't hold your breath: Carp can manage without oxygen for months

...ertebrate, and it makes tranquilizers and produces alcohol when oxygen supplies are limited. These mechanisms allow the fish to survive for days or even months without oxygen depending on the temperature, whilst still maintaining physical activity. ...

Variation in bitter-taste receptor gene increases risk for alcoholism

...he tongue is associated with an increased risk for alcohol dependence.The research team studied DNA samples f...people with that variant had a lower risk of being alcohol dependent," Goate says. Goate hopes to replicate these findings in human taste tests, to verify th...

Morning grogginess more debilitating than sleep deprivation, according to CU-Boulder study

...usly been shown to be comparable to the effects of alcohol intoxication, he said. The study appears in the Jan. 11 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Study authors included Wright and Adam Wertz of CU-Boulder's integrative physiology department and Joseph Ronda and Charles Czeisler o...

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