Lack of inhibition strengthens nicotine addiction
... brain tissue from rats, demonstrated how nicotine extends the duration of these rewards. In previous work, McGehee's team showed that nicotine produces pleasure by attaching to the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor found on certain nerve cells. In response to nicotine, these nerve cells release a chemical s...Statin drugs may lower risk of Alzheimers
...ersity School of Medicine. This study confirms and extends previous reports and is the largest study on this topic in the U.S., Green said. It is also the first to include a large number of African-American families. Researchers studied 2,581 people from more than 800 families, enrolled over six years at 15 ...UCSF, UC Davis establish joint pediatric heart center
...UCSF/UC Davis Pediatric Heart Center in Sacramento extends the reach of the Pediatric Heart Center at UCSF Childrens Hospital in San Francisco, which is nationally regarded for discoveries and advanced treatments for congenital heart defects. A joint program of UCSF Medical Center and UC Davis Health System,...Type 1 diabetes safely arrested with short-term use of new drug
...Type 1 diabetes indefinitely, but it significantly extends the period during which patients continue to produce their own insulin, which is likely to reduce complications and improve their overall prognosis. Further testing and development of the new therapy is planned in a multi-center clinical trial of...NYU Medical Center selects Siemens as strategic partner
...ing studies. "This strategic partnership agreement extends our long-term relationship with NYU Medical Center, and demonstrates that Siemens Medical Solutions has the unique capability to provide not only imaging equipment and service, but integrated information technology solutions that are necessary to sup...New gene therapy protocol: First successful treatment for 'bubble babies'
...l Center, the significance of this new development extends beyond those immediately affected by SCID and has the potential to be equally effective in curing similar genetic diseases, such as Gaucher's and other diseases caused by enzyme deficiency. "The concept can be applied to all genetic diseases where t...UCLA AIDS Institute scientists show antiretroviral drugs can eradicate AIDS epidemic
...es an effective prevention tool," Blower said. "It extends the lives of HIV-infected individuals who take it. It also decreases the number of new infections in the community. The eventual outcome is epidemic eradication." "It's sort of like having a vaccine out there," she said. "Although the drugs can't cur...Drug improves survival in primary pulmonary hypertension patients
...e tolerance. Doctors have known that epoprostenol extends PPH survival, but its longer-term benefits had not been clearly defined. "We now have clear evidence of the effectiveness of epoprostenol in treating this rare, fatal disease. Awareness needs to be raised among clinicians seeing patients with symp...New overview adds more evidence for safety of third generation Pill
... third generation OCs versus second generation OCs extends from 0.43 to 0.62, all statistically significant. They believe that 0.44 is the most rigorous estimate because the synthesis incorporates only the studies least affected by any possible bias or design problems. Four different permutations and combina...New procedure kills liver tumors without surgery
...atal tumors. For some, it is a cure; for others it extends the length and quality of life. While surgery is still the accepted method for removing liver tumors, doctors say RFA is proving to be a successful alternative because it can be done quickly, with little pain and minimal recovery time, and as often ...Researchers track elusive brain tumor cells in mice with neural stem cells modified to deliver IL-12
... benefit," according to the authors. "This further extends the scope of neural stem cell therapy to include their use as vehicles for protein delivery to in vivo glioma, and therefore represents a promising new treatment modality for malignant brain tumors."...Young blacks, Hispanics more prone to stroke than young whites
...likely to occur in Hispanics versus whites. "This extends our observations of the race-ethnic disparities in stroke risk to younger people where a stroke can be more devastating," says Ralph L. Sacco, M.D., principal investigator of the Northern Manhattan Stroke Study (NOMASS). They also looked at type of...An anti-nicotine drug reduces the rewarding effects of alcohol
...verage as a control condition. "Clearly this study extends our findings," said Kranzler, a professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Connecticut Health Center, "and provides another step in linking pre-clinical, animal findings with the effects of alcohol in humans. The study sample is ...Is a picture worth a thousand words? Not for young children
...that this auditory preference extends to preschoolers with an average age of 4 years. "Adults generally prefer visual information if they have the choice. But if you want to get the attention of young children, sounds are ge...Solving the mystery of musical harmony
...iological basis of music perception. The work also extends to hearing the theoretical framework about brain organization that Purves and his colleagues developed in earlier work on visual perception. Those studies of vision led to the idea that evolution -- as well as individual experience during development...Abdominal fat, a contributor to heart disease risk, is related to alcohol drinking pattern
.... Abdominal height is the amount that the abdomen extends above the torso when a person lies on his or her back and has been correlated highly with abdominal fat stores. The type of alcohol consumed appeared to contribute differently to the accumulation of abdominal fat, findings showed. Wine drinkers show...Imaging study reveals effect of smoking on peripheral organs
...r enzymes in the body, and we see that this effect extends far beyond the lungs." "The ground-breaking findings by Joanna Fowler's group at Brookhaven National Laboratory on the systemic effects of tobacco smoking are the result of years of investment by the Office of Science in the fundamental sciences of r...'Good' chemical, neurons in brain elevated among exercise addicts
...ore BDNF." In a study Rhodes also co-authored that extends these findings, to be published in the October edition of the American Psychological Association journal Behavioral Neuroscience, scientists demonstrated that not only do the mice display more of this "good" BDNF chemical in the hippocampus, they gro...Repeated alcohol detoxifications can impair cognitive function
... findings of neurocognitive changes in alcoholics, extends those findings to individuals with mild to moderate alcoholism, and demonstrates a relationship of those changes to multiple withdrawals. "Results from this study support previous findings of impaired frontal-lobe function in alcoholics," said Theo...UCSF vascular surgeons develop new technique to repair aortic arch aneurysm
...stentgraft, which spans part of the main aorta and extends into the main arteries supplying each leg. Today, many stentgrafts are modeled on this Y-shaped graft and are used to treat abdominal aortic aneurysms. Other investigational stentgrafts contain fenestrations (or holes) to accommodate arteries that ...