Infant pain may have long-term effects
Newborn infants who are exposed to a series of painful and stressful treatmentsdis...f thebrain." In humans, premature infants who were exposed to - multiple noxious stimuli- inthe neonatal intensive care unit were less sensitive and responsive...Pain, itself, elicits pain relief, and does so through 'reward' pathway
...a, or pain relief, when electrically stimulated or exposed to narcoticpainkillers, the finding provides the first physiological evidence that painitself elicits analgesia. It also provides a surprising twist on the perceived workings of the neuralcircuitry associated with gratification, said the lead autho...The highest-achieving children who were exposed to the Head Startprogram before entering elementary school are thriving academically and sociallyat the end of the third grade, but data from a new national study createsworries that their future success may be tempered by their luke-warm attitudetow...Why prostate cancer homes to bone
...siveness. Laboratory examination showedthat cells exposed to osteonectin increased their production of enzymes thatallow the cells to burrow not only into the Matrigel membrane, but also into thetissues that they home to. Osteonectin also induced enzyme activity in breastcancer cells, another type of cancer...9th European Congress on Lung Disease
...cive tothe disorder, and are some individuals more exposed than others? What are themain risk factors and how much of a problem is absenteeism in differentcountries? These are the kind of questions the best European and Americanspecialists will be trying to answer. The 9th ERS annual meeting will also be foc...UNC AIDS vaccine researchers awarded $12 million federal grant
... antigens. Then when theindividual is subsequently exposed to the real pathogen, they're immune." According to Johnston, the VRP vaccine targets cells in lymph nodes, thecritical tissue of the immune system. "The vector will produce the immunizingprotein in the heart of the immune system. And we think some o...Brain chemical mellows male mice, but makes mouse moms tough
...itproduced little reaction in the male mice." When exposed to the attacks andbites of normal females, males either fought back or fled. To see if the genetic alteration had affected other aspects of maternalbehavior, Gammie and Nelson gave mice from both groups a "pup retrieval" testimmediately after exposur...Alcohol consumption triggers free-radical damage in the body
...dant stress.Interestingly, despite having not been exposed to alcohol for a minimum of twoweeks - and in most cases longer - prior to the assessment, these patientsexhibited levels of the markers that were about ten times higher than those seenin controls. And patients admitted to the emergency room with acu...UNC-CH nutrition expert says nation should regulate some diet supplements
... to ingredients at doses they wouldnormally not be exposed to, demonstration of safety could mean it would takeyears rather than weeks to introduce new products, and some products might neverbe introduced, Zeisel said. "This seems a reasonable cost to protect the public health," he said. Haza...Parents serve as models for adolescents' health behavior
... University, Ames. "Adolescents who are constantly exposed to parents' health-risk behavior, suchas poor eating habits, smoking, and drinking will tend to emulate their parents'behavior," said K.A.S. Wickrama, PhD, head of the study. Wickrama and colleagues interviewed 330 white mid-western adolescents and t...UCSF finding could lead to a new class of painkillers
...an. When they applied the seaweed compound in rats exposed to stimulation, the animals exhibited pain. But wh...tor. When the factor was injected into normal rats exposed to stimulation, the animals experienced heightened pain. But when the factor was injected in animals...Revived drug prevents malaria, skirts drug resistance
... volunteers received a placebo drug. All werethen exposed to and bitten by five mosquitoes heavily infected with the malariaparasite. "If you plan to expose people to falciparum malaria, especially on anoutpatient basis," says Shapiro, "you'd better know what you're doing. We carefully screened for volunte...Camelford water contamination did lead to cerebral function damage
Disturbance of cerebral function in people exposed to drinking water contaminated with aluminium sulp...of the Camelford water incident People who were exposed to the contaminated water at Camelford in Cornwall, suffered damage to their cerebral function, argu...University Of Wisconsin to launch center to study how emotions affect health
...s aretypically held in lower social regard and are exposed to more stressful lifeconditions that may make it harder for them to feel happy and in control oftheir lives. This study will take stock of social influences on the mind, tapping informationfrom three large national studies: The National Survey of Fa......e people and injection drug users who mayhave been exposed to HIV. Treatment includes HIV testing, risk-redu...rug intervention. The project enrolled 436 persons exposed to HIV and provided services foralmost 500 HIV exposures between October, 1997 and April, 1999. Aft...... ensure that airways are relaxed eachtime they are exposed to stimuli, such as a protein used to create a mod...cells in their lungsconstricted significantly when exposed to airway stimuli, according to theresearch. In comparison, mice deficient in another type of T cel......he medication and the physicianconsultation but be exposed to uncertainties about the prescribing physician,the appropriateness of the prescription and the actual medications they'regetting. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials, in an accompanying editorial,describe how a patient in the U.S. traditi......al stress which occurs, forinstance, when they are exposed to ultrasound waves in water. Different formsof stress such as protein damage and disturbances in their cell membrane causedifferent amounts of light to be emitted. In addition to understanding howultrasound-induced bubbles can damage these bacteri...... for an elective caesarian. Midwives, however are exposed to both traumatic and uncomplicated deliveries and also deal with women who have had caesarians post-operatively, write the authors. This, they say, makes the aware of the difficulties a woman has in nursing her child after a caesarian section in co......uppressed the action of PKR ina group of cells and exposed them to encephalitis-causing virus (EMCV). This isa virulent -- that is, rapidly spreading -- virus that normally takes overcellular machinery to make new copies of itself. When the host cell mounts adefense, programming its own death through apoptos...