'Protecting virus' offers instant flu protection and converts flu infections into their own vaccines
... effective. Experiments so far show that a single dose of protecting virus can be given 6 weeks before an...ecting virus to them in their drinking water. One dose should protect a chicken for weeks. Flu is a major problem in the horse racing industry and in dome...Intravenous gene therapy protects normal tissue of mice during whole-body radiation
...tion would die within 30 days of receiving a large dose of radiation to the entire body. In the study, ...ontrol group of mice that received an initial 9 Gy dose of radiation there was 80 percent survival at 30 days compared to 93.3 percent survival during the s...LSD treatment for alcoholism gets new look
...the psychiatrists' research that indicate a single dose of the hallucinogenic drug LSD, provided in a clin...-half (the duration of the study) after taking one dose of LSD. The controlled trial also concluded that less than 25 per cent of alcoholics quit drinking f...Study highlights new and cheaper way to treat heroin addiction
...rd to deal with the stigma of having to take their dose ?sometimes every day ?in a pharmacy. It is also much cheaper." The study, the first of its kind in the world, assessed 235 people requiring treatment for opiate dependency in Edinburgh and found that dihydrocodeine was just as effective as methado......and 24 hours after the drug was given. The highest dose completely reversed the hypersensitivity caused by sciatica, with no adverse effects. Daily injections "produced a sustained analgesic effect," the researchers wrote. RgIA was such a potent pain reliever that "about 10 billionths of an ounce rever...Plant-derived molecules, genetic manipulation point to future chemoprevention methods
...to breast cancer were fed either a control diet, a dose of CDDO-ME, LG 100268, or a combination of the two. After 40 weeks, all the control mice developed tumors. However, only 12 percent of mice on the CDDO-ME diet and 29 percent of the mice fed with LG100268 developed tumors. Most significantly, no tum...Replacing insulin is top-ranked breakthrough foreseen for health in developing world
...patitis B vaccine that sells for only $US O.40 per dose as compared to imported vaccines which sell for $US 8-10 per dose." Leaders among developing countries in their level of regenerative medicine activity are India, China and Brazil. The authors say the study results represent a potential guide for...Adolescent but not adult hamsters are more aggressive on low dose of fluoxetine
...ttack. The adult hamsters treated with either dose of fluoxetine became generally more peaceful, atta...ore frequent and intense attacks, whereas the high dose only partly inhibited aggression. Neither set of juveniles responded as well as adults; one set (lo...A natural chemical found in strawberries boosts memory in healthy mice
... novel object. Indeed, mice administered a single dose of fisetin could better recall familiar objects. In fact, fisetin worked almost as well as rolipram, a substance known to enhance memory. Memory loss caused by neurodegenerative disease occurs due to loss of neurons, a situation very different fro...Brain protein improves stroke symptoms in rats, even when injected after 3 days
...his model, the animals were injected with a single dose of G-CSF at 60µg/kg body weight four hours after the stroke. The researchers demonstrate that the size of the affected area is reduced by 34.5% in the rats that received G-CSF four hours after the stroke. The second model was used to assess the e...Gene therapy for hereditary lung disease advances
...nd then to try to begin to see if we could get the dose into a range where we would begin to replace the missing protein in the blood," said Terence Flotte, M.D., a pediatrician, geneticist and microbiologist with UF's College of Medicine and a member of the Powell Gene Therapy Center and the UF Genetics ...Mars mission Risk 29: Scientists research ways to reduce radiation-induced brain damage
...ne the human brain's maximum safe cosmic radiation dose and to decipher precisely how radiation causes cog... To help determine the brain's maximum acceptable dose of solar and cosmic radiation, Britten's team must replicate the type of radiation astronauts will b...Highly concentrated botulinum preparation for cosmetic injections can result in severe illness
...eived doses 2,857 times the estimated human lethal dose by injection. Pretreatment serum toxin levels in 3 of the 4 case-patients were equivalent to 21 to 43 times the estimated human lethal dose; pretreatment serum from the fourth epidemiologically linked case-patient was not available. A 100-µg vial of ...Pilot study successful in taming allergic reactions to food
...mall pilot study. “Participants who took a daily dose of egg product over the two-year study period were...-thousandth of an egg -- and then we increased the dose every 30 minutes for eight hours in order to determine the highest dose that each subject could tole...Bird flu vaccine additive may stretch supply
...ignificantly better, and as low as one-quarter the dose worked very well. And a single dose of the adjuvanted vaccine was as good as two doses of the vaccine without the adjuvant." This sugges...H9N2 avian flu vaccine paired with adjuvant provokes strong human immune response at low doses
...crograms of H9N2 flu virus contained in the lowest dose vaccine tested in this trial. Furthermore, he adds, a single dose of the adjuvanted H9N2 vaccine was as good as two doses of the vaccine without adjuvant. Currentl...... populations in monkeys that had received a lethal dose of radiation, they found that they were better at reconstituting the monkeys' immune and blood systems. HSCs are found in small numbers in the bone marrow, the peripheral blood, and in cord blood, which is harvested from the umbilical cord at birt...MRSA vaccine shows promise in mouse study
...ted with one of these proteins and injected with a dose of a laboratory strain of the bacteria calculated to kill 50 percent of the mice, were still alive one week later. When they vaccinated the mice using the combined vaccine, however, all of the mice survived. Although unvaccinated mice had clear e...Combination therapy shows promising results in patients with advanced lung cancer
...ger trials of combination therapies utilizing this dose will now be required." The biology of an individu...e first to determine the safest and most effective dose of Celebrex to use in lung cancer. Previously, doses were based on studies done in colon cancer pati...... is delivered to the tumour. This would reduce the dose required and significantly decrease toxic effects on other parts of the body. ...