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Clot-busting drug helps revive cardiac arrest patients

...ugh to leave the hospital. The patients who were treated with tenecteplase had been receiving ACLS measures for a mean of 30 minutes and received a mean of eight doses of standard medications. "The study supports the use of fibrinolytic drugs in select cases of cardiac arrest where patients don't respond...

Gene therapy prevents the onset of diabetic symptoms in mice

...s of both seedlings and mature sugar maples in the treated plot. Future research will explore the relationship between mycorrhizae and acid rain. Though pollution-control legislation has helped reduce sulphuric acid by one-third since its high point in the 1960s, nitric acid from automobiles has not signi...

Acid rain causing decline in sugar maples, say researchers

...s of both seedlings and mature sugar maples in the treated plot. Future research will explore the relationship between mycorrhizae and acid rain. Though pollution-control legislation has helped reduce sulphuric acid by one-third since its high point in the 1960s, nitric acid from automobiles has not signi...

Unique soybean lines hold promise for producing allergy-free soybeans

... from the UI-based collection. Seeds were crushed, treated and placed on a membrane for screening. A second screening using stronger antibodies and protein gels was done to confirm the absence of P34 in the two domestic lines, Joseph said. After the two lines were isolated, seeds were sent to the Danforth C...

Orange, grapefruit juice for breakfast builds bones in rats

... life as usual. The others were castrated and then treated in one of three ways: no additional diet change; diet included orange juice; or, diet included grapefruit juice. Castration was necessary, the researchers said, because the hormone testosterone is known to reduce antioxidants. "This is a problem w...

'Smart' genetic therapy helps the body to heal itself

..., we enrolled ten parents of SMA patients who were treated with valproate for four months. We saw that valp... blood. Based on this data, 20 SMA patients were treated with valproate by their local doctors. 7 of these patients showed increased SMN2 levels in their b...

Gardenia fruit compound starting point for diabetes therapy

...cells taken from normal mice secreted insulin when treated with the extract, they found, whereas the cells of mice lacking UCP2 did not. The results suggested that the extract worked through its effects on the UCP2 enzyme. "When I first saw the results, I was in disbelief," Lowell said. "I didn't think we c...

Study identifies substances in grapefruit juice that interact dangerously with some drugs

...acists to avoid grapefruit juice if they are being treated with certain medications, including some drugs that control blood pressure or lower cholesterol. Studies have shown that grapefruit juice can cause more of these drugs to enter the blood stream, resulting in undesirable and even dangerous side effect...

Dopamine drug leads to new neurons and recovery of function in rat model of Parkinson's

...ain 2 and 4 months following the treatment. Rats treated with 7-OH-DPAT had more than twice as many prolife...ng cells in the substantia nigra as rats that were treated with saline, the researchers found. Many of the newly generated cells appeared to develop into matu...

Activation of microRNA inhibits cancer gene in human cancer cells

...tin remodeling. Cancer cells and normal cells were treated with chromatin-remodeling drugs to simultaneously inhibit DNA methylation and histone deacetylation. A subset of miRNAs was upregulated in the cancer cells but not the normal cells. Importantly, miR-127, which is downregulated in 75% of the human can...

Hope I die before I get old?

...y, Lacey says, and affect the way older people are treated as well as the public policies that affect them. That's why research on the beliefs that fuel those one-size-fits-all depictions of older people is important, she explains. The study is one of the first ever to examine the ability of individuals to ...

Compound in dairy products targets diabetes

...commonly found in dairy products have successfully treated diabetes in mice, according to a researcher at Pen.... "And compared to the synthetic drugs used to treated this disease, CLA does not cause weight gain and may in fact decrease overall body fat," says Vanden...

A sweet solution for Alzheimer's disease?

...n Alzheimer's-like disease. When the researchers treated these mice with scyllo-inositol, all of the animal...conferred these benefits not only if the mice were treated when they were very young and disease-free, but also if they were treated after the onset of disease...

Sperm created in the laboratory from embryonic stem cells produce viable progeny

...tionality of the ES-derived sperm. ES cells were treated with specific factors know to direct sperm production and screened for characteristics associated with primordial and spermatagonial stem cells. The researchers demonstrated that these cells could be further differentiated into mature sperm in the la...

Pitt phage hunter takes on tuberculosis

...ould be to develop drugs that would allow TB to be treated over a much shorter period of time," he added. "Shortening the treatment would lead not only to more effective and simple control of the disease, but also would cut down on the development of drug-resistant organisms." ...

New bird flu drug promises to beat the problem of resistance

...from a group of eight Vietnamese bird flu patients treated with Tamiflu (also known as Oseltamivir), two pati... virus developed resistance in one in six children treated with Tamiflu for ordinary forms of flu. Although acting upon the same target on the influenza viru...

Researchers unveil strategy for creating actively-programmed anti-cancer molecules

...ers," notes Sinha. The results showed those mice treated with the new compound developed significantly fewer metastases than those treated with other similar compounds or the antibody alone. These results, the study noted, were a "signific...

New compound reduces stroke damage

...in an animal model of stroke when the animals were treated with this lead compound." Fischer and his colleagues found that their compound protected the rats' neurons and also caused neural stem cell proliferation and neuronal differentiation. Diseased animals with motor behavior deficits also showed improve...

First-ever genomic test predicts which lung cancer patients need chemotherapy to live

...can identify this group of patients so they can be treated accordingly." The upcoming trial is the first to use a genomic test to select treatment options for individual lung cancer patients, said David Harpole, M.D., a professor of thoracic surgery at Duke and principal investigator of the upcoming clinic...

Combined treatment extends life expectancy for lung cancer patients

... researchers looked retrospectively at 41 patients treated over seven years with thermal ablation (RFA or mic.... By the end of this study, 24 percent of patients treated with ablation and radiation had recurrences at an average of 44 months. While there was an increased...

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