New study shows hope for treating inhalant abuse
...en associated with heart, liver, kidney, and brain damage -- and can even result in sudden death. The Brookhaven Lab study demonstrates that animals previously trained to expect toluene in a given location spent far less time "seeking" toluene in that location after being treated with GVG than animals tr...Cigarette smoke causes breaks in DNA and defects to a cell's chromosomes, Pitt study finds
...eaks are considered the most mutagenic type of DNA damage because the broken ends can fuse to other chromosomes in the cell. Chromosome fusion is detrimental to normal chromosome segregation, which in turn leads to genetic imbalances," explained Dr. Saunders, associate professor of biological sciences, Univ...Cancer vaccine based on pathogenic listeria bacteria shows promise targeting metastases
...n of liver cells, thus dramatically lowering liver damage by the vaccine strain. Cerus plans to use this doubly attenuated listeria strain as a platform for various types of cancer vaccines. In fact, Cook said, as long as an antigen can be found that stimulates an immune system attack against a cancer, that...Cardiac arrest may hinder ability to learn certain tasks
...ctim stops breathing can either kill or seriously damage neurons, the primary cells of the nervous system. The neurons that do survive a heart attack may undergo major structural changes that can affect learning, memory and other behaviors, said Courtney DeVries, the study's lead author and an assistant pr...Veterans with Gulf War syndrome have damage in specific, primitive portion of nervous system
...edical Center at Dallas researchers have uncovered damage in a specific, primitive portion of the nervous sy...yndrome. UT Southwestern researchers report that damage to the parasympathetic nervous system may account for nearly half of the typical symptoms including...Enzyme maintaining chromosome ends is linked to bone cancer recurrence, decreased survival
.... These telomeres protect the chromosome ends from damage that otherwise would trigger apoptosis--the cell's self-destruct program. Most cancers activate telomerase to maintain telomeres in order to protect their chromosomes and ensure the cells survive and multiply. However, a minority of cancers use a p...University of Alberta researcher looks for clues to mysterious disease
...yzing genes that are responsible for repairing DNA damage that offer insights into human diseases like cance... A-T protein (ATM) is fundamental to repairing DNA damage so she and her research team are studying ATM mutants, which behave as cells do when they are damage...New way to protect brain from stroke damage
...ed in the Sept. 17 issue of Cell, links brain cell damage to a rise in brain acidity following the oxygen de...a tarantula spider--exhibited a reduction in brain damage from ischemia. Mice lacking a functional copy of the ASIC gene were similarly resistant to stroke da...Joslin researchers clarify mechanisms for beta-cell formation
..., strokes, blindness, kidney failure, blood vessel damage and nerve damage. ...Blue marlin in gulf have high mercury levels, A&M study shows
...s of mercury on living organisms range from kidney damage to reproductive failure and birth defects.The issue of elevated mercury content in seafood has received a great deal of public awareness in Gulf Coast states in recent years and several articles have focused on the possibility that oil and gas platfo...New research suggests early diet may play key role in protecting against childhood leukaemia
...romatic hydrocarbons, radiation induced chromosome damage and it can prevent the formation of harmful hetero...tamin C, an antioxidant that may prevent oxidative damage to DNA, thus protecting against carcinogenesis. Bananas are rich in potassium, the anti-carcinogenic...Joslin Diabetes Center adds first affiliate in California at Irvine Medical Center
...iety of heart diseases, as well as stave off heart damage that is common among diabetes patients. "Over 1.5 million people in California have diabetes, and statistically, a third of them don't know they have the disease," said Dr. John W. Hare, director of Joslin's Affiliated Centers Program. "We look for...The search for a kinder, gentler chemotherapy
...ction of healthy cells responsible for much of the damage caused by traditional chemotherapy. The research i...u could use smaller doses and avoid the collateral damage that occurs during traditional chemotherapy," said Lyon. Now that they've gotten cancer cells to tak...NJIT professor receives Presidential Award for breakthrough research with adult stem cells
...ring from spinal cord injuries, bone and cartilage damage and related diseases. Treena Livingston Arinzeh, PhD, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at NJIT, received the 2003 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) today during a ceremony at the White House. The awar...Snakehead in your inbox? Welcome to the nonindigenous Aquatic Species Alert System
...etection and response are critical in reducing the damage caused when nonindigenous species become invasive," said Fuller. "Waterways, lakes, and oceans are particularly vulnerable because underwater surveillance is certainly more difficult than monitoring land. We anticipate that this tool will be quite u...Sandia experiments may reduce possibility of future water wars
...t has to be filtered in arid areas to prevent crop damage because it is too intense. The challenge is to create reliable, effective materials to use that part of the spectrum the plant is not interested in using to produce power that can be put on a grid as well as operate the greenhouse." Commercial intere...Long-term effects of carbon monoxide poisoning are an autoimmune reaction
... 40,000 people treated in the U.S. annually. Brain damage occurs days to weeks later in half of the patien...e 50 percent or more of patients who develop brain damage following severe CO poisoning may do so, in large part, due to an autoimmune reaction. The body simp...Broken arms and collateral damage: clues to predator-driven evolution
...e intended targets of the predators that inflicted damage upon them, and that their broken arms were simply "collateral damage." Crinoids, Baumiller explained, play host to a variety of other organisms that take up residence on various parts of their bodies, and the predators were probably going after those...Diabodies act as guided missiles targeted to mammary tumor growth
...ry tumor cells, the radiation causes intracellular damage that probably triggers p53 driven apoptosis." The mammary tumor cells contained the normally functioning p53 tumor suppressor gene, while the p53-null ovarian tumor cells used in the studies lacked the protective action of that apoptosis-inducing gen...Chernobyl study: Risk of thyroid cancer rises with radiation dose
... Chernobyl survivors and are investigating how the damage caused to DNA by radiation influences the risk of developing thyroid cancer. This work is part of Fred Hutchinson's Global Health Initiative, which focuses on international collaboration to understand and solve some of the most widespread health prob...