Can exercise before diving prevent decompression sickness?
...inding may form the basis for a novel approach for preventing serious decompression sickness....Migraine mouse provides insight into neurobiology of devastating headaches
...romising model for testing new treatments aimed at preventing migraine by reducing hyperexcitability and preventing CSD. Arn M.J.M. van den Maagdenberg, Daniela Pietrobon, Tommaso Pizzorusso, Simon Kaja, Ludo A.M. Br...Scientists urge caution when releasing engineered organisms into environment
...r natural relatives. Another key recommendation is preventing the release of GEOs with unwanted or potentially dangerous traits that could spread to natural populations, as strict confinement of these organisms is often impossible following their large-scale release. "We're looking toward a future with far more...Study examines whether giving good bacteria reduces infections
...mune system component that gobbles up invaders and preventing diarrhea. "We know very well that the source of sepsis in these patients, 50 to 70 percent of the time, is their own intestines," Dr. Martindale says. "The question is, 'Why?' Why do bacteria from our own intestines that normally live with us in a ni...Tony Hunter and Raymond N. DuBois awarded Landon-AACR Prizes for Cancer Research
...n cancer and the potential for COX-2 inhibition in preventing and treating cancers. Dr. DuBois was the first to report the link between COX-2 and colon cancer, which set in motion later work that defined potential mechanisms and chemopreventive strategies to inhibit this enzyme's activity. Dr. DuBois performed ...New map predicts where wolves will attack
...ld greatly reduce needless killing of wildlife, by preventing human/wildlife conflicts in the first place," he said....Experimental Biology 2004 - Translating the Genome
...nto new approaches to understanding, treating, and preventing diseases. Translation also is a metaphor for the meeting itself. Recognized worldwide for its interdisciplinary approach, the annual Experimental Biology is designed to make it easy for scientists to step outside the boundaries of their own fields ...JCI table of contents, 16 February 2004
...ated apolipoprotein APOE play an important role in preventing atherosclerotic disease. This protective role is associated with the ability to modulate plasma lipid levels, but recent evidence also suggests that APOE and HDL are able to stop the proliferation of aortic smooth muscle cells, which have been implic...Approved drug blocks deadly anthrax toxin
...e metabolite of adefovir also blocks edema factor, preventing it from interfering with the host's immune response and eradicating its toxic effects. Next, using the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory, Tang's team was able to determine the precise structure of the active form of the drug bound...New study may explain how fats damage neurons in Alzheimer's patients
...ry. "For the moment, the implications are more for preventing Alzheimer's than for improving outcomes," said Mattson, Chief of NIA's Laboratory of Neurosciences. Mattson joined other researchers on a panel at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Seattle for a discussion of ways to slow down the onset of Alzheimer's, wh...Planning effective bioterror responses
...iotic policy. One of the most important factors in preventing disease is getting antibiotics quickly to persons who were exposed, he said. In 2001, many people did not receive antibiotics until more than nine days after exposure to anthrax spores, and many did not take the antibiotics for the full 60 days, acc...Study of dyslexic brain finds three word forms responsible for reading success
...his research also has educational significance for preventing and treating reading disabilities. Language has multiple components, each of which has a different biological basis and must be orchestrated in very specific ways in instructional interventions for students who are at-risk biologically for dyslexia....'Bat saliva' drug and new MRI techniques offer hope for acute stroke treatment
...o, show that the drug desmoteplase is effective in preventing brain damage from stroke if administered between three and nine hours after symptoms begin. The University of Wisconsin Medical School is one of the test sites for the ongoing twin U.S. study, DEDAS (Dose Escalation study of Desmoteplase in Acute isc...Substances found in blood may predict development of preeclampsia
...The soluble Flt-1 (sFlt-1) binds to VEGF and PlGF, preventing them from acting on the cells that line the inside...However, the finding does raise the possibility of preventing and treating preeclampsia through the design of drugs that bind to sFlt-1, Dr. Levine said. Similar...House dust mite project aims to reduce asthma
...development. It could lead to dramatic progress in preventing these conditions and reduce the estimated 700 million a year spent in the UK on treating them. The technique uses a computer model to assess how modifying a domestic environment can reduce numbers of house dust mites in beds, carpets and elsewhere. ...Lots of low-fat food is better than small portions of high-fat food
... than smaller portions of normal high-fat food for preventing diabetes in obese people. Mice put on a low-fat diet were more sensitive to insulin than mice that received the same amount of energy in the form of high-fat food. Martin Muurling put obese mice on different diets in which the total energy intake and...New MS research shows remarkable findings
...at blocking this enzyme has a remarkable effect in preventing disease and relapses." MS, an autoimmune disease of the nervous system, affects approximately 35,000 young adults in Canada. It is twice as prevalent in females. MS is an inflammatory disease in which the body's own immune system attacks the insula...A joint effort against the Oriental boil
...ke to launch a health policy initiative focused on preventing the disease. However, the professor from Lbeck concedes that other priorities exist in the region that is plagued by terrorist attacks (e.g., gunshot wounds are a bigger problem than leishmaniasis). Since 1995 the DFG has funded a special programme ...Pacifying bacteria prevents lethal post-op infections
... a buffer between the bowel wall and the microbes, preventing them from attaching, the first step to crossing the barrier. The researchers tested the approach by performing major surgery on mice, then introducing Pseudomonas into the bowel, a model that kills all the mice within two days. One treatment with PEG...Activation of receptor ups development of precancerous intestinal polyps
...stine. The findings suggest a new strategy for preventing colorectal cancer by blocking activation of this receptor. However, they also raise caution about an increased risk of colorectal cancer among people who take drugs that activate this receptor. Such drugs are currently in clinical developme...