Study demonstrates Cenestin reduces sleep disturbances/night sweats in post-menopausal women
...aking Cenestin experienced an improvement in sleep latency and total sleep time, falling asleep faster and sleeping for a longer period of time. "When estrogen levels in a woman's body decrease, their difficulties with sleep increase," said Dr. Scharf, whose data was presented at the 15th Annual Meeting o...Licorice licks herpes virus infection
.... In particular, progress in treating herpesvirus latency has lagged behind. Appearing in the March 1 print... that it is possible to interfere with herpesvirus latency by inhibiting the expression of Kaposi sarcomaassociated herpes virus (KSHV) latent genes. KSHV is ...JCI table of contents March 1, 2005
.... In particular, progress in treating herpesvirus latency has lagged behind. Appearing in the March 1 print... that it is possible to interfere with herpesvirus latency by inhibiting the expression of Kaposi sarcomaassociated herpes virus (KSHV) latent genes. KSHV is ...Random gene expression may drive HIV into hiding
...er groups studying the molecular mechanisms of HIV latency were coming at it from a deterministic point of vi...luctuations in viral gene expression can influence latency in a bacterial virus, Weinberger wanted to see if the same process could be at work in HIV. No one h...Mouse model reveals that oncoprotein induces abnormal preleukemic blood cell progenitors
... expressing CBFB-SMMHC developed AML with a median latency of approximately five months, with the time of disease onset varying with the number of abnormal cells in the bone marrow. Interestingly, additional studies showed that the blood stem cell precursors that expressed CBFB-SMMHC were maintained at norma...Stopping the clock: Genetics of tumor latency in skin cancer
...ein degradation signals that directly affect tumor latency in a mouse model of human skin cancer. Their paper...s that Gli protein accumulation contributes to the latency of Shh-dependent tumor formation, and that the modulation of Gli protein stability may thus represen...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...ut the non- Sry sex chromosome genes. In tests of latency to aggression and in parenting behavior (pup retrieval) the sex chromosome complement, as well as gonadal steroids, influenced behavior. Although gonadal males, those with Sry with either the XX or XY - sex complement behaved similarly, other gene...News Tips from The Journal of Neuroscience
...rate, providing tonic inhibition to LGN, and short latency (∼25 ms) transient responses to visual stimu... neurons increased with the attentional shift, but latency and duration remained the same. The authors suggest that TRN neurons facilitate visual detection and...Ritalin packs punch by elevating norepinephrine, suppressing nerve signal transmissions
...om the periphery to the brain. Suppressed the long latency phase of the brain's neuronal response to whisker-related sensory stimuli. Suppression of the sensory neuronal response in this way is believed to help filter extraneous stimuli, Waterhouse explained. With the extraneous stimuli out of the way, the i...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...stimulus location to some degree, whereas relative latency better indicated location. The authors next asked ...nce was the major determinant of behavior, whereas latency difference had a smaller effect. 4. A Case of Rescue by Neural Stem Cells Jianxue Li, Jaime Im...HIV exploits competition among T cells
...ses. The second phase is a long period of clinical latency that can last up to 10 years. In this phase, a sma..."As a result, HIV remained in a state of permanent latency and was never able to escape the immune system's grasp to develop into AIDS."...Carnegie Mellon study reveals that odor discrimination is linked to the timing at which neurons fire
...sage is relayed. "Our results indicate that the latency period before a single granule cell fires is assoc...pecific granule cells reliably fired with the same latency when they receive input from certain populations of mitral cells. Input from one group of mitral cel...One gene 90 percent responsible for making common parasite dangerous
...at affect other important characteristics, such as latency and transmissibility," he says....A simple feedback resistor switch keeps latent HIV from awakening
...their potential for positive feedback and maintain latency by successively modifying and dissipating, or introducing a resistor into, the main activator of transcription. HIV's transcriptional activator, the Tat gene, is encoded in the HIV genome. Once Tat is transcribed, it can rapidly increase transcript...Eye movement tasks can be used to assess fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
...rs, and short-latency express saccades (very short latency eye movements). "We found that FASD children had much longer reaction times defined as the time required to initiate eye movement both towards and away from the peripheral visual target," said Reynolds. "FASD children also made a greater number......ing and location features of auditory stimuli. The latency to fire after a stimulus is thought to be particularly important, based on studies in anesthetized animals in which the precise spike timing is preserved or even improved between the IC and AI. But Ter-Mikaelian et al. report rather different results...