Scientists build on case connecting inflammatory disease and depression
...tigating whether SSRI treatment could be used in a preventative manner if it were possible to identify in advance those vulnerable patients." Since the 1980s, medical professionals have observed that patients treated with cytokines experience a greater occurrence of depression. Until recently, the mechanisms of ...Satellites are tracing Europe's forest fire scars
...re to help identify additional areas at risk where preventative measures should be prioritised. And overlaying burn scar maps with a chart of forest biomass has the potential to highlight zones where new blazes would burn the fiercest. Once such relatively fixed environmental elements, known as static risks, are ...APS awards more than $140,000 to minority students of physiology
...ity of NEC in neonatal rats. There is currently no preventative treatment for NEC, so by better understanding the mechanisms of how EGF protects the intestine, this research may provide the basis for future therapeutic strategies for the treatment of human NEC. Alfredo Garcia III Wright State University Throug...Lycopene slows human prostate tumour growth in mice and combined with vitamin E is even better
...ecessary to optimise the treatment. And before any preventative trials could even be considered it would be essential to verify the compound's potential to really prevent the development of cancer in a mouse model. "However, our data fit in with the general picture that lycopene and vitamin E may have chemopreve...