Hypothyroidism clearly linked to mood swings
.... Once the blood levels of thyroid hormone reach a normal rangecalled euthyroidlethargy and depression often lift. However, in some patients, the depression persists, which means that successful therapy must address depression directly. In this study, 10 patients with hypothyroidism underwent a cerebral 1...Depiction of findings selected as '2007 Image of the Year' by Society for Nuclear Medicine
...n MAO A level and aggressive personality traits in normal individuals, said Nelly Alia-Klein, an assistant scientist at Brookhaven Labs Center for Translational Neuroimaging, who presented her work at the societys 54th annual meeting in Washington, D.C. If this model of understanding is tested with individu...... experiment, Gould and his team added chemicals to normal human cells that force nearby proteins together in...biology, which can yield a better understanding of normal human biology as well as identify new avenues in the fight against human disease. ...Women up to age 30 at risk for bone loss, study finds
... groups of women with regular menstrual cycles and normal body fat over five days. Participants exercised for nearly two hours each day. One group ranged in age from 18 to 23 years, and the other was aged 26 to 32. Scientists know that bone formation continues in adulthood, as old bone is continually being ...PET accurately identifies esophageal cancer patients' positive responses to chemotherapy
...Cancer cells metabolize sugar at higher rates than normal cells, and the radiopharmaceutical is taken up in higher concentrations to cancerous areas. PET scans show where FDG is by tracking photons given off by the radioactive tracer. PET scanning provides information at a molecular levelnot available throu...SNM recognizes R. Edward Coleman with 2007 Georg Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Award
...herapy, radiation therapy and surgery on tumor and normal tissue metabolism. A Fellow of both the American College of Radiology and the American College of Chest Physicians, Coleman received his medical degree in 1968 from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo., where he completed...Genomic signatures identify targeted therapies for lung cancer
...looking at a tumor what exactly triggered the once normal cells to turn cancerous. New tests developed by researchers at Duke University can determine the precise patterns among thousands of genes to identify the cascade of events, or pathways, that led to the cancer. These "genomic signatures" will g...Gene therapy delivery of nerve growth factors reverses erectile dysfunction in animal model
...er of two nerve growth factors were able to regain normal function after four weeks, according to a study conducted by University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers. These findings are being presented at the 10th annual meeting of the American Society of Gene Therapy, which is convening May 30 to ...JCI table of contents -- June 1, 2007
...eractions. The study demonstrates a clear role for normal levels of adiponectin in the regulation of leukocyte-endothelium interactions in mice. The data also suggest that gAd may serve as a potential pharmacological treatment of abnormal endothelial dysfunction occurring in pathological conditions associat...Cellular message movement captured on video
...g molecules may attach to paxillin and disturb the normal adhesion and growth factor signaling steps require...of these processes, we can not only understand how normal cells function, but we can also look at diseased cells to see why they sometimes dont move properly ...Dietary vitamin B6, B12 and folate, may decrease pancreatic cancer risk among lean people
...studies and found that people who were at or below normal body weight decreased their risk for developing pa...elatively rare but quite deadly, should maintain a normal weight and eat their fruit and vegetables, said the studys lead investigator, Eva Schernhammer, M.D...Cells re-energize to come back from the brink of death
...ude study was conducted in culture dishes in which normal cells were exposed to cancer drugs or other agents that triggered apoptosis. The researchers then blocked apoptosis in order to study CICD. The GAPDH response appears to represent a basic, reproducible event. But in order to verify that hypothesis, w...Cold Spring Harbor Protocols features methods to understand embryos, clones, stem cells
...and can be used to understand processes underlying normal development, cellular reprogramming, and even even... its associated proteins, as it would exist in its normal cellular environment). It specifies how to harvest native chromatin from a variety of cell types, f...Yin and yang -- Balance could play key role in progression of Alzheimer's disease
...wo peptides, AB42 and AB40, must be in balance for normal function," said Chunyu Wang, lead researcher and assistant professor of biology at Rensselaer. "They are like the Yin and Yang in Taiji, an ancient Chinese philosophy. When the peptides are produced in the correct proportions, the brain is healthy; b...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...ositive fibers to laminae I and II, similar to the normal pattern. Both groups recovered nociceptive function. 3. Mapping the Unpredictable in Mice and Humans 4Cyril Herry, Dominik R. Bach, Fabrizio Esposito, Francesco Di Salle, Walter J. Perrig, Klaus Scheffler, Andreas Lthi, and Erich Seifritz The el...New research shows sharks use their noses and bodies to locate smells
..., streptomycin, an antibiotic, interferes with the normal function of motion sensitive "hair cells," the receptor cells of the lateral line. At high doses it has been known to cause hearing and equilibrium problems in humans, senses that are also based on hair cells. Sharks with their lateral lines intac...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- May 23, 2007
...or the heart's production of the energy needed for normal contraction. The changes, which involved a loss of CL followed by changes in the remaining CL, occurred as early as 5 days after rats became diabetic through administration of a compound that impairs insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. Researc...Departure to cold water corals and other 'hot spots'
...n Seas Observatory NETwork). In addition their the normal program, experiments will be carried out with the help of QUEST in order to investigate the deep-sea under natural conditions during which samples will also be taken. The investigation at the cold water corals, the mud volcano and the "garden hou...Story ideas from the Journal of Biological Chemistry
...because tau proteins do not aggregate easily under normal conditions. To address this problem, Jeff Kuret and colleagues have developed drug-like chemicals that cross cell membranes and drive efficient tau aggregation over a period of days. They noticed that when tau proteins within cells were treated wit......reviously known role of disrupting the host cell's normal structure, which interferes with the cell's innate ability to engulf and destroy invading bacteria. "The question now becomes, why is Gaq targeted by YpkA"" ...