Marine snail study gives insights into human brain
...th funding from the Jacob Javits Award, Glanzman's laboratory will study topics including the role of protein sy...ranscription and protein synthesis," he said. "Our laboratory has evidence that for long-term memory, protein synthesis may occur at an earlier stage in memory fo...Sleep duration affects appetite-regulating hormones
...y recent studies showing that sleep deprivation in laboratory settings can cause a decrease in serum levels of l...respondents were recruited to sleep a night in the laboratory and undergo various tests. A number of participants were also asked to keep a sleep diary for 6 days...Lab study: Protein delivered via genetically engineered virus slowed glioblasoma multiforme growth
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...dy of 12 healthy, young male volunteers in a sleep laboratory found that restricting sleep to four hours per day was associated with changes in levels of two hormones that regulate appetite (Article, p. 846). When sleep deprived, the volunteers also reported feeling hungry, especially for calorie-dense foods wi...Sleep loss boosts appetite, may encourage weight gain
...on the brain. Since 1999, however, the Van Cauter laboratory has published a series of studies describing the metabolic and hormonal consequences of chronic partial sleep loss which is now common. Such studies include: A 1999 study showing that a significant sleep debt could trigger metabolic and endocrine...Two-fisted assault on dopamine transport system may be foundation of Parkinson's disease
...rons that produce other neurotransmitters. Feng's laboratory set out to answer the questions "Why?" and "How?" By studying the effects of rotenone on rat neurons, they discovered that one of the targets of the pesticide was microtubules intracellular highways for transporting various chemicals su...Methylphenidate improves attention, behavior of children surviving leukemia, brain tumors
..., director of the diagnostic and signal processing laboratory at St. Jude and co-principal investigator. "This study has shown that follow-up therapy with MPH might help resolve some of the serious side-effects of cancer treatment." Other authors of this paper are Raja B. Khan, Stuart Kaplan, Susan ...Herpes virus offers new hope in curing cancer
CINCINNATI - In laboratory studies at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, researchers have successfully treated the most common malignant abdominal tumor of childhood: neuroblastoma tumors. Researchers successfully treated the tumor in mouse models by administering ...Antibiotic rifampicin shows promise for fighting Parkinson's disease in lab tests
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...s part of metabolic syndrome. A new study from the laboratory of Mitch Lazar, MD, PhD, Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, has found that by simulating inflammation in human macrophages and patients levels of resistin substantiall...ESA at the world's largest medical exhibition
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...lliance and productivity of Professor Kohn and his laboratory staff will contribute substantially to the ultimate commercialization of our bioresorbable stents." REVA President Bob Schultz added, "We undertook a careful and exhaustive search for an ideal polymer to suit our product specifications for dura...Chronic back pain shrinks 'thinking parts' of the brain, study finds
...ocial behavior. Based on these results, Apkarian's laboratory group embarked on the brain atrophy study. It is possible that some of the observed decreased gray matter shown in this study reflects tissue shrinkage without substantial neuronal loss, suggesting that proper treatment would reverse this portion o...Were zoo workers infected with cancer-causing animal virus?
... part because it has been shown to cause cancer in laboratory animals, and some investigators have reported SV40 DNA in human tumors. The authors, Eric A. Engels and coworkers at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta,...Grant to study why teens smoke
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... brain cells when assaulted by oxidative stress in laboratory tests. Phytonutrients, such as phenolic acids and flavanoids, protect the apple against bacteria, viruses and fungi and provide the fruit's anti-oxidant and anti-cancer benefits. Quercetin is a major flavanoid in apples. Antioxidants help prevent ca...Chemoprevention backgrounder: Working for a future of cancer chemoprevention
..., which has demonstrated anti-cancer properties in laboratory and animal studies of lung, colon and breast cance...d and neck cancers," says Papadimitrakopoulou. New laboratory research has found that epigallocatechin gallate, a tannin with potent antioxidant activity, suppres......vision or "customized ablation" had its genesis in laboratory work in the early 1990s at the University of Roche... a degree previously unheard of. Using Williams' laboratory work as a road map to the intricacies of the inner eye, MacRae developed customized ablation, a cust...Stanford study reveals that cells linked to asthma and eczema also help cure deadly illness in mice
...edemeyer, MD, were postdoctoral fellows in Galli's laboratory during the study. "What we have uncovered in this study is a new role for the mast cell, which is to limit the amount of damage caused by endothelin-1, a molecule that is produced in high amounts by the body during severe sepsis, as well as in associ...