Alcohol may compound its damaging effects through frontocerebellar circuitry
... Sullivan used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to derive regional brain measures from 25 nonamnesic alcoholic men. Control data were obtained from an age-matched group of 51 men. Previous results had revealed significant volume deficits among the alcoholics in the cerebellar hemispheres and vermis, pons,...Synthetic marijuana compound reduces agitation, improves appetite in Alzheimer's patients
...a predictive factor of mortality. Weight loss may derive from the deterioration of patients' cognitive abilities, resulting in an inability to recognize hunger and thirst. "It's important to look at all the aspects of Alzheimer's disease that contribute to quality of life for patients, family members and c...Identifying depression in preschoolers
...f this study is that depressed children just don't derive pleasure from the same things as a typical 3- to 5-year-old child," says principal investigator Joan L. Luby, M.D., assistant professor of child psychiatry and director of the Early Emotional Development Program at the School of Medicine. "They're le...JCI table of contents, November 4, 2002
...und healing andchronic fibrosis and are thought to derive from local fibroblasts inresponse to TGF-beta signaling. Screening for genes that were upregulatedduring smooth muscle myogenesis, Lucia Schuger and colleagues identifiedp311, encoding a protein without functional domains suggested by sequencehomolog...Smoking may change type of lymphoma into more lethal form of cancer
...ed follicular lymphomas and examining tumor DNA to derive information about the frequency and spectrum of p53 mutations that are present in smokers and nonsmokers. They also are studying transformed lymphomas from both smokers and nonsmokers for the presence of microsatellite instability. "If indeed smoki...Starzl Institute researchers to develop cell-based strategy for tranplant tolerance
...t infusion of these dendritic cell subtypes, which derive from lymphoid tissue or blood, allowed for prolonged survival in a mouse heart transplant model, even without the use of drugs to control rejection. In contrast, the better-known myeloid dendritic cells accelerated the rejection response. According ...New overview adds more evidence for safety of third generation Pill
...used the well-established method of Petitti**** to derive pooled estimates. They concluded that the recent studies consistently demonstrated the increasing safety of both types of Pill - and the third generation Pills in particular - as far as heart attack risks are concerned. Lead investigator Professor Wa...Beta-blockers improve outcomes of bypass surgery
...ts who are on beta-blockers prior to surgery would derive the protective benefit, while those not taking the drug could receive it shortly before surgery. "Early in my surgical training at Duke, we'd take patients off beta-blockers for a while before surgery, and now we're finding that they have a protecti...Cancer patients' loss of taste, smell compromises treatment
...t this study because it improves the pleasure they derive from food and it can positively impact performance status."...Psychologists hunt for new ways to detect precursors to Alzheimer's Disease
...peculate that the ApoE-attention link may possibly derive from altered transmission of acetylcholine, a key brain chemical, to the brains posterior parietal cortex. This multi-function area helps manage spatial attention (shifting attention to different locations in the visual field), which is disrupted in...Smoking prevention programs may miss minority teens
...hypothesized that the variations in peer influence derive from cultural differences. Asian American and African American teens come from collectivist cultural backgrounds, in which the teens bond with his or her parents is considered very important and rebelliousness is not tolerated. In contrast, white tee...Protein predicts prognosis for breast cancer patients
...E-cadherin. "The additional information we can now derive from tumor biomarkers such as E-cadherin, nm23 and microvessel counts should begin to allow us to tailor therapy according to individual tumor types," added Samuel Hellman, M.D., A.N. Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor of radiation and cellular...Depression, anxiety and stress can hinder diabetic's ability to control blood sugar
...rence," said McGrady. "These participants did not derive benefit from atreatment where no specific psychotherapy or pharmacological therapy for theemotional symptoms was provided." Other researchers have found that treatment with cognitive behavioral therapy(CBT) or serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepress......bile, and phlegm-the imbalances whichfundamentally derive from the three mental afflictions of attachment, hatred anddelusion. In the Tibetan medical model of treatment for breast cancer, theprescribed therapy consists of herbal compounds designed to treat a woman'sindividual "humors" that are out of balanc...Answers To Access, Adherence And Tolerance Of Protease Inhibitors
...n't able to stick with the medications, they can't derive the benefits, suchas increased survival and improved quality of life, that we've been led toexpect." The take-home lesson is to optimize treatment regimens for individualpatients and to closely manage side effects and toxicity, Stone says. Despite th......lls of living organisms. Traditional methods that derive information from longer DNA strandsinclude linear and circular dichroism, viscometry and sedimentation.These methods are generally reliable when ligands bind by conventionalintercalative or minor groove modes, but are unreliable for mixed andnon-clas...