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...orn’s health including perinatal death, markers of brain damage and serious lung and bowel complications, mothers treated with nitroglycerin had significantly healthier babies. Graeme N. Smith, MD, PhD, states, "Our team is very excited about these findings. It is estimated that it costs the Canadian he...Improving outcomes in premature births
...orn’s health including perinatal death, markers of brain damage and serious lung and bowel complications, mothers treated with nitroglycerin had significantly healthier babies. Graeme N. Smith, MD, PhD, states, "Our team is very excited about these findings. It is estimated that it costs the Canadian he...Blocking immune cell action increases Alzheimer's-associated protein deposits
...s with Alzheimer's disease, appears to protect the brain from damage in early stages of the devastating neu...lzheimer's disease has not been clear. Within the brain and central nervous system, the inflammatory process is controlled by immune cells called microglia,...Light-based probe 'sees' early cancers in first tests on human tissue
...s start in the epithelium. It may be, for example, brain cancer that causes a patient's death, but that cancer might have originated in the colon or other site of epithelial tissue," said Adam Wax, professor of biomedical engineering. "Being able to detect pre-cancer in epithelial tissues would therefore h...Bacterial response to oxidation studied as toxin barometer
...a bacteria biosensor prototype and correlations to brain tissue damage. Many environmental toxins in wat...nski, who is focused on neuroscience, particularly brain injury and aging, and nanotechnology ( http://nanoneuro.vcom.vt.edu/ ). “We wanted to see if the...The influence of the menstrual cycle on the female brain
...ychiatric and neurological pathologies. The human brain has a recompense system that predicts different ty...ofrontal cortex. 3. Dopaminergic system: all the brain structures innervated by dopaminergic neurons. 4. Follicular phase: the first part of the menstru...MIT: Pulsing light silences overactive neurons
...edia Lab have invented a way to reversibly silence brain cells using pulses of yellow light, offering the p... research could lead to the development of optical brain prosthetics to control neurons, eliminating the need for irreversible surgery. "In the future, co...Smokers quit after damage to brain region
Smokers with a damaged insula ?a region in the brain linked to emotion and feelings ?quit smoking easil...owa. "This is the first study of its kind to use brain lesions to study a drug addiction in humans," Naqvi said. In the 1990s, Antonio Damasio proposed t...Stem cell therapy shows promise for rescuing deteriorating vision
... researcher David Gamm, says the cells - formative brain cells that arise in early development - show "some...es and live independently. The finding that the brain cells protected the cells in the eye was a surprise, according to Raymond D. Lund, an author of the ...New insights into autoimmunity and depression
...e.wiley.com/journal/arthritis ), shed light on the brain pathways of depression in general and in central n...sponse to stress. It also highlighted areas of the brain associated with the sense of smell. These findings provide a novel line of research into the mech...Brain tissue reveals possible genetic trigger for schizophrenia
...ent of schizophrenia. In studying the postmortem brain tissue of adults who had been diagnosed with schiz... resume. Using postmortem prefrontal cortical brain tissue of people with schizophrenia and persons who had no psychiatric illness, the researchers foun...UCLA: How does your brain respond when you think about gambling or taking risks?
...in Mapping Center, where researchers studied their brain activity; the technique uses magnetic fields to spot active brain areas by telltale increases in blood oxygen. For each question, the participants answered whether...Does a peptide affect the heart's response to social isolation?
...the effects of oxytocin, a peptide produced by the brain that regulates social behavior, has found that it can prevent detrimental cardiac responses in adult female animals exposed to social isolation. The findings may provide further insight into how these mechanisms affect humans. The study was conduct...Genes and genius: Researchers confirm association between gene and intelligence
...at a gene that activates signaling pathways in the brain influences one kind of intelligence. They have con...udy. "It's a gene that's involved in some kinds of brain processing, and specific alterations in the gene appear to influence IQ. But this single gene isn't ...When smell cells fail they call in stem cell reserves
...y nerve cells in the body to run directly from the brain to the outside world, olfactory cells are under constant assault from harsh chemicals that one might happen to catch a whiff of by accident, risking damage or death. To figure out how the olfactory system repairs severely damaged nerve cells, Ree...Major link in brain-obesity puzzle found
A single protein in brain cells may act as a linchpin in the body’s weight-r... called SH2B1, and specifically on its activity in brain cells. Using a variety of genetic, diet and hormone techniques, they were able to show that the ...Brain works more chaotically than previously thought
The brain appears to process information more chaotically th...they explode fundamental notions about the way our brain works. Moreover, they might contribute to the development of new medical drugs. The study is due to ...New research shows why too much memory may be a bad thing
...eurogenesis, in the hippocampus, the region of the brain responsible for learning and memory. Results of the study, conducted with mice, found that the absence of neurogenesis in the hippocampus improves working memory, a specific form of short-term memory that relates to the ability to store task-speci...Music genes and musical geniuses
... music is read, interpreted and appreciated by our brain enables us to understand many things about the workings of the mind ?adds Maria Majno, Executive Director of the Fondazione Pierfranco e Luisa Mariani. For example, it opens the way to research certain pathologic conditions or track and even modify c...MIT bioengineer advances survival, promise of adult stem cells
...ective tissues, and neural stem cells develop into brain tissue. Those stem cells hold great promise for treatment of injuries and some diseases, says MIT professor of biological engineering Linda Griffith. Griffith is the senior author of a recent study showing that when presented in the right physi...Other Tagsmucus 2mucus 3slowing 2slowing 3slowing 4slowing 5slowing 6stuff 2stuff 3consumers 2consumers 3consumers 4consumers 5consumers 6consumers 7consumers 8consumers 9consumers 10desire 2desire 3desire 4desire 5desire 6desire 7desire 8desire 9efficiency 2efficiency 3efficiency 4efficiency 5cytokines 2Other Contentsteratogentendonitistendonitistendonitistendinitiselbowelbowelbowelbowelbowtennistennistetanustetanustenosynovitis
(Date:12/4/2009)... This release is available in German . , A n...f Ageing could help to understand the positive eff...ious evidence from different organisms (fruit flie...creases longevity, but with a potential negative s...fruit fly reproduces less frequently with a reduce...
(Date:12/3/2009)..., Our ability to learn new information and adapt ... retain lifelong memories, appears to lie in the m...ording to a new study by NYU Langone Medicine Cent... week in the journal Nature . , The scientists... physiology and neuroscience at NYU School of Medi...
(Date:12/3/2009)..., ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Most scientists believe that...ls that signal each other to emit toxins. The sign...y bacteria must be present to start the process. ,...ned that the very first stage of staph infection, ... form, occurs in a single cell and that this indiv...
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(Date:12/4/2009).../ -- The National Cancer Institute has awarded a $...inson Cancer Research Center to become the nation,...Contact Center. ,, The move will create 60 new ...e size of its current CIS workforce - once the con...heduled for March 15, 2010. The Seattle CIS center...
(Date:12/4/2009)...progress has been made over the last 15 years in t...treat epilepsy and its complications. Yet this pr... of the 50 million people around the world, includ... United States who have the disorder, , Accordin...merican Epilepsy Society (AES), there is an enormo...
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