Researchers Uncover Clues About Gateway To The Brain
... also was the protein thatprevented the agent from crossing this second gateway. "The fact that you seethe compound in the choroid plexus -- but not in the cerebrospinal fluid -- toldus there must be a barrier there holding the compound back from reaching thebrain," he says. He looked at the epithelial cell l...National Survey: Leg Crossing Is Taboo But Women Indulge Anyway
...nastatGreat American Cross-Out TM . "Leg crossing has become second nature for many women, but they ...egHealth Awareness Week (May 23 - 29). Leg crossing is a matter of routine rather than manners for women, 72percent of whom say they do it out of habit,...Scientists provide first detailed maps of wiring circuitry in the living human brain
...tween the two sides of the brain. One group of the crossing fibers wentforward and to the top of the brain, wh...s camevery close together to run side-by-side when crossing to the other side of thebrain, but their wires did not intermix. Next, the researchers trace...Pathway may provide target for treating chronic pain
...te. For example, opioid drugs prevent signals from crossing synapses,preventing patients from feeling pain. Silent synapses provide a second network of junctions that normally are notused, but through which pain signals can travel to the brain. Their existencewas suggested more than 20 years ago but, un...UI study: first-generation antihistamine has more impact than alcohol on driving performance
...nimum following distance, steering instability and crossing into the left lane," he said. "These results suggest that people should carefully read warning labels on all medications. Even if you do not feel drowsy after taking an antihistamine or alcohol, you may be impaired." The investigators studied 40 li...Purdue 'stealth compounds' attack cancer cells
...ey carry a negative charge that prevents them from crossing the cell's membrane." Many current therapies instead deliver precursor compounds that the cell then uses to "build" nucleotides. Borch and his group have developed a way to hide the negative charge, creating a "stealth compound" with specially de...New dental anesthetic promises better pain control for patients
...event toxins in the blood from crossing into the brain, it does not allow drug molecules to reach either. "Dental surgeons are taught that if patients have not been effectively numbed, it's because of an inaccurate injection - ...Scientific symposium focuses on nutritional beverages, August 26-28
...ing the flavor chemistry of hybrid wines formed by crossing varieties of French and American grapes. He will describe his groups efforts to make a better-tasting hybrid wine. (The paper on this research, AGFD 15, will be presented at 2:05 p.m., Sunday, August 26, at McCormick Place South, Room S504D, Level...Say two prayers and call me in the morning
... be part of patient care. This can be done without crossing ethical lines, without opening Pandora's box." Family practitioners, neurologists, internists and surgeons participated in the study. The sample was 80 percent male and 20 percent female. Some of the physicians reported they did not discuss spiritua...Post-genomic technique provides real-time, multiscale look at protein life cycles in living cells
...blished in Science. Both compounds are capable of crossing the plasma membrane of living cells to quickly reach the protein genetically engineered to contain the small binding domain. Then, upon binding, the compounds turn brightly fluorescent. FlAsH fluoresces green, whereas ReAsH glows red. To distingui...Lasers light way to 3-D imaging in Purdue lab
...e to Purdue a decade ago from Bell Labs. When two crossing laser beams are shined onto the film, holographic images are created. "This is holographic film that is adaptive, constantly changing and adjusting and moving in real time," Nolte said. "It's not a static hologram like you might see on the cover of a...Leg maneuver may prevent fainting
DALLAS, Sept. 3 A combination of leg crossing and muscle tensing may help prevent fainting, prov..., but results have been inconsistent. "Leg muscle crossing and tensing should be part of an intense nonpharmacological regimen for patients with vasovagal fain...Brain anticipates events to learn routines
...e they do something routine, like driving a car or crossing the street. "Our study gives us some clues of how we make use of our experiences to change specific signals in the brain," Ghose said. "The results are a window into how we represent time. They tell us how accurately we know when things are going to ...Marked crosswalks may pose risk to older pedestrians
...d. Yet many pedestrian deaths involve older adults crossing the street at urban intersections. Could the prese...ears to be yes, at least for an older adult who is crossing the street at an intersection that lacks a traffic signal or stop sign, according to researchers at ...New advance in fuel cell technology may help power medical implants
... external circuit, and combined with positive ions crossing the ion-conducting membrane and oxygen. Conventional fuel cells run on either hydrogen gas or liquid methanol but more recently, prototype fuel cells have been shown to run on more exotic fuels such as glucose or formate. In theory, fuels cell are am...Airbag to keep windsurfer safe on 8000 km voyage
...ience in rough waters during Le Gouvello's earlier crossing of the Mediterranean in July 2002 showed how tough it was for her to recover the board single-handed: "It was very difficult for me to get up again," she said. The airbag used on this trip has a conventional inflation mechanism. For future versions t...Evidence that neurons prune only 'twigs' to rewire themselves
...hts into these diseases." For example, he said, by crossing mouse strains that show epilepsy with the fluorescently tagged strain, it would be possible to study in detail alterations in dendritic wiring that might contribute to the disorder....Lesser amount of patching effective for treating lazy eye in children
...condition that decreases vision, most often due to crossing of the eyes or having one eye with uncorrected refractive error (i.e. farsightedness, astigmatism or high nearsightedness). After four months, the improvement in visual acuity in the six-hour group was nearly identical to the improvement in the full-...Bushmeat poses threat of simian retrovirus transmission to humans
... "Our findings show that retroviruses are actively crossing into human populations, and demonstrate that people in central Africa are currently infected with SFV. Contact with non-human primates, such as happens during hunting and butchering, can play a part in the emergence of human retroviruses and the redu...Time-reversal acoustics research promises medical breakthroughs
...veral TRA focusing systems. The interaction of the crossing beams allows three-dimensional, nonlinear acoustic images of an object inside a human body or a material structure. Dr. Sutin, originally from Russia, conducted experiments in Paris with the worldwide leader in the field of time-reversed acoustics, ...