Alzheimer's disease center seeks patients for new drug studies
...r everybody." The cause of Alzheimer's is still a mystery although researchers have made progress in understanding the role played by genes. The new generation of medications target various sections of the brain that degenerate during the course of the disease. Alzheimer's disease affects approximately 4 m...Allergy-producing cells are also 'do-gooders,' helping stave off infections
...e scientists' discovery also appears to clear up a mystery about thefunction of the CD48 protein. Although CD48 was discovered more than 10 yearsago as a protein that appears on the surface of some white blood cells such asmast cells, its biological role has not been clearly defined. In their exper...Study reveals how brain controls eating in normal rats
...es wrong in animal models for obese people. It's a mystery and another story about why overweight or obese people can retain hearty appetites in the midst of so much leptin flowing through their veins. Elias is now an assistant professor of anatomy at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Elmquist is also ...Hard liquor, not beer or wine, may explain trends in cirrhosis mortality
...ntists have noted a new clue to an epidemiological mystery surrounding thelink between alcohol and cirrhosis. Although cirrhosis has long been associatedwith heavy drinking, US cirrhosis mortality trends have not always correspondedwell with the nation's total alcohol consumption including beer, wine, and h...How to spot drugs that misfire
... in cell division. This explains the long-standing mystery of why oestrogen affects cell division. "It's been doing this for years, and no one knew why," says Dahiyat. The new technique allows millions of different proteins to be generated, each one tagged to the gene that made it. So far Xencor has onl...Researchers identify promising target to slow Alzheimer's
...rovides yet another clue in unraveling the complex mystery of Alzheimer's. A growing number of factors have been associated with the disease, including stress, prior head injury, viruses, genes and abnormal concentrations of metal ions in the brain, including aluminum, zinc, copper, iron, mercury and lead. ...Free radicals mediate arsenic's harmful effects
...rsenic induces human cancer has been somewhat of a mystery for two reasons. First, arsenic is an oddball among human carcinogens in that it has not been shown to cause cancer in laboratory animals. Second, laboratory research on the mutagenic effect of arsenic in mammalian cells has turned up nothing. This h...Failure at nonconscious goals explains negative 'mystery moods'
...ou're put into this negative, mystery mood." Chartrand discussed...onconscious goal you don't know why you're in this mystery mood and you're more likely to stereotype others to help enhance ...Research explains possible origin of Parkinson's tremors
...uld help solve a long-standing mystery in the medical community. Loss of the neurotransmitter dopamine is generally believed to be the cause of Parkinson's, but exactly how that loss leads to tremors is unknow...130-year-old mysteries solved: how nitroglycerin works; why patients develop tolerance
...dle, they have also shed light on the second major mystery surrounding nitroglycerin -- whypatients eventually develop a tolerance to the drug's effects. Shortly after heart patients take nitroglycerin, the blood vessels supplying the heart musclerelax, allowing oxygen-rich blood to nourish the heart and re...Mad hatters, seafood jubilees, & Pfiesteria Files
"Mad hatters" source of mercury mystery Ever wonder where the term "mad as a hatter" came from? Mercury, once used extensively in the hat making process, caused a brain illness in many hatters. And though the hatmaking industry is gone from one town, mercury may still exist in the soi...Lingering cognitive impairment may be linked to coronary bypass surgery
... research program might shed light on this medical mystery -- especially once researchers settle on valid statistical approaches. Researchers in the field are fairly certain that persistent, long-lasting cognitive effects not caused by anesthesia. In addition, the UNC Wilmington researchers urge investigat...Columbia neurobiology fellow wins major career award from 2002 Burroughs Wellcome funding program
...o different stages of my career and to unravel the mystery of exactly how the brain translates the recognition of a sensory stimulus into a behavioral response, using the Drosophila gustatory system as a model." "We couldn't be more pleased to hear of Dr. Scott's award," said Dr. Axel. "Dr. Scott is an exc...'Glutaid' on the horizon? Study may someday spell relief for people on gluten-free diets
...e the disorder at all. "That's a major unanswered mystery about the disease that hopefully will be answered in the next few years," Khosla said....Pain may come with gain in childhood exercise
... of cells and are commonly linked to diseases. The mystery we need to solve is how much exercise is too much, and how much of these changes in signal levels are a normal product of development." Cooper's team reported in the Pediatrics study that after 11 healthy teenage boys had a 90-minute strenuous wrestl...Single protein is key in response to bacterial, viral infections
... transducer protein. Dr. Beutler's team found this mystery protein through a technique called forward genetics. Genetic mutations are randomly introduced into strains of mice. A sensitive screening mechanism allows the researchers to pick out any mice that, by chance, show interesting characteristics, such a...Emory scientists contribute to study of key regulatory protein in neurodegeneration
...resemble detectives poring over a crime scene in a mystery novel. They have identified a couple of suspicious individualsproteins that form disruptive tangles and knots in the brain. The detectives can piece together how the crime was committed, but they still have questions about some characters standing ...First relapsing fever outbreak in Montana identified
...Montana, we are gratified to have helped solve the mystery of this outbreak and to have identified a focus of...gnized and treated promptly with antibiotics." The mystery presented itself between July and August 2002, when five of 20 people became ill during or after vis...Mayo Clinic study shows melatonin helps alleviate violent sleep disorder symptoms
...tonin is effective for some RBD patients remains a mystery to the researchers. "Melatonin is a naturally-occurring hormone that all of us has -- it rises at night and has sleep-promoting effects," says Dr. Boeve. "It has been shown to be helpful in jet lag. Although we were hopeful that melatonin would be ...Vision-producing cells fail 'taste-test,' treat key light-detecting molecules identically
...ide comparison is the quest to solve a fundamental mystery of vision: how rods and cones have such different sensitivities to light despite using very similar processes to detect it. Rods function in near darkness, while rarer cones function in bright light, providing vibrant color vision. In each cell type...