Study describes brain changes during learning
...ections. The research also provides a model to study the relationship between learning and synaptic activity. For example, the model may be used to study whether synaptic connections get stronger or weaker when you contin...New discovery may revolutionize treatment for pain related to surgery, illness and injury
...configured to deliver the drug gabapentin in a rat model of neuropathic pain to selected dorsal-root ganglia by axonal transport after injection into tissue supplied by the target nerves. "This very complex design achieves something that, previously, was not thought possible," Filler said. "The way it wo...Iowa project links rural areas cross-state to top-notch medical advice
...he lives of children with disabilities." "The Iowa model might be replicated in other states with good results," observes Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA). "Telemedicine puts technology to work to improve the delivery of health care," says Harkin. "It links patients and their doctors in rural or remote hospital......ne at UCSF. The research draws on a well-respected model of cardiac health disease in the U.S., known as th...l known health risk factors for heart disease. The model has been validated by comparing predicted mortality against actual mortality and has been shown to p...Imperial statistician estimates size of French BSE epidemic
...ic incidence of BSE in France using a birth-cohort model with validated parameter estimates obtained from back-calculation analysis of the British BSE epidemic. Allowing for under-reporting, the results indicate that the risk of infection with the agent for BSE dropped dramatically from 1988 to 1991. Dr Do......IH initiative aims to target proteins from various model organisms, including the fruit fly, yeast, roundworm and certain human proteins. The consortium will use both X-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to determine protein structures. Knowing the molecular structure o...O.R. model could reduce high death rate among kidney dialysis patients by up to 20%
An operations research model for centers that treat kidney dialysis patients co...ssures to contain the rising expense. The authors' model addresses the need of two groups: physicians who prescribe dialysis for patients and kidney dialysis...Early treatment of blinding eye disease in infants can prevent severe vision loss
...tablished the value of an improved risk assessment model to more accurately identify those infants who are ... high-risk infants early in the disease. The risk model assessed birthweight, ethnicity, being a single or multiple birth baby, gestational age, ophthalmic ...Estrogen has antitumor activity in hormone therapy-resistant breast tumors
...both alone and in various combinations, in a mouse model of tamoxifen-stimulated human breast cancer. The researchers found that low levels of estradiol caused tamoxifen-resistant breast tumors to regress, apparently by increasing apoptosis (cell suicide) through decreased expression of Her2/neu and NF-&#...Deaf children who get cochlear implants earliest get the biggest language boost, large study finds
...st results from 101 children who received the same model of cochlear implant at UMHS between the ages of 2 and 14 years. The group's size and the identical management of the patients make the study's results more relevant than those of past studies of the implanted electronic hearing devices. The children ......is hoped that the 4 Sight approach will serve as a model for communities around the country. Utilizing existing patient databases within the expansive University of Pennsylvania Health System, accurate targeting of diabetic patients has led to a current enrollment in the program of 470 patients. The 4...Groups urge Bush: rethink natural hazards approach
... for all disasters systematic and uniform; use the model of aviation accidents for natural disasters,where each incident prompts analysis, recommendations forchange, and follow-through; work cooperatively with other nations to reduce vulnerabilityto hazards; and take hazard experience into account when ma...Mouse provides clues about chronic pain
...rs, provided Zhuo and colleagues with a ready-made model for exploring NR2Bs role in the forebrain. The researchers prepared brain slices from the anterior cingulate cortex and the insular cortex of both normal and NR2B mice. They also examined spinal cord slices from both strains. The spinal cord slices ......d, for the first time, scientists now have a mouse model for prostate cancer in which the tumors have the s...aboratory at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, having this model will lead to better methods for testing potential new drugs to fight the disease. These mutations...Hand size counts in safe handgun use
...ition of employment was to qualify with a specific model of handgun and that the handgun in question was too large for safe operation. In each case it was found that the handgun was too large for the plaintiff to position her hand in the proper firing position (to be described next), and neither handgun co......ams thatshifted from an inpatient to a residential model were less effective, especially in the areas of substance abuseand violent behavior." The most consistent change affecting the American health care system in the last decade, Rosenheck said, isthe reduction in the availability of inpatient hospital ...Altered mice provide model of rare childhood disease, NIH and Georgetown researchers find
...onal Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Having the animal model will enable scientists to study the underlying mec...ding of how arrhythmias are precipitated. This new model should enable us to study the mechanisms responsible for triggering potentially lethal cardiac arrhy...Study: Ripped aortas kill often, but new knowledge may aid survival
...eatment fared to allow doctors to make an accurate model of patient survival that could guide future treatment of this type of dissection. That kind of decision-making prediction, though, may indeed be possible for patients found to have Type A dissection, according to results presented by Mehta. The ...Researchers build on discovery of potent potential antibiotic
...not cause human disease, but can serve as a useful model for pathogenic organisms. Because the A. aeolicus enzyme is active only at high temperatures, the researchers could introduce substrates to the crystallized enzyme at lower temperatures without causing a complete reaction. The enzyme---which is ver...Brain's efforts to save itself during Alzheimer's may backfire
...s with Alzheimers. "These mice are an example of a model of at least part of the Alzheimers syndrome," Mufs...d how to block it." Now that the transgenic mouse model may be used to test treatments for Alzheimers, researchers are trying to determine what happens if m...