Cancer treatment may cause learning problems in children
...ungsters had leukemia and were treatedwith central nervous system chemotherapy. Other cancers affected the r...ale. IQ scores of the kids who hadnot had central nervous system chemotherapy improved in four years from abaseline average of 110.3 to 123.9. This reflects ...How alcohol may harm your baby's brain
...cialabnormalities, growth retardation, and central nervous system problems. Children with FAS may have problems with learning, memory, attention span,problem solving, speech, learning and behavior. FAS is an irreversible,lifelong condition. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the pr......said. Neuroblastoma is a cancer of the sympathetic nervous system. The most commonsolid tumor, other than brain tumors, to occur in children, it rarely strikesadults, but affects one in 6,000 children under the age of five. It usually isfatal -- the long-term survival rate is only 15 percent. While cure rate...Use it or lose it applies to nervous system, scientists find
...n the brain. "Our study shows that activity in the nervous system has a surprisingly rapideffect on the structure of synapses" the structures where nerve cellscommunicate with their targets," says Jeff W. Lichtman, M.D., Ph.D., head of theresearch team. Lichtman is a professor of neurobiology at Washington ...A new ion channel involved in cell proliferation: evidence for its oncogenic potential
...ents contributing to the electricalexcitability in nervous tissue. In mammalians, however, these channels see...se cell proliferation when expressed outside ofthe nervous system. The detection of this ion channel outside of the nervous system and/or out oftime is hence a...Abstemious mice offer hint at molecular target for treating alcoholism
... sedation (depending on the signals) in thecentral nervous system. Alcohol and benzodiazepines, which latch o...moresignals of inhibition to flow into the central nervous system. The increased sensitivity to alcohol in the absence of PKCe was dramatized inthe animals' be...Cocaine acts on central nervous system, causing vessel constriction, rapid heartbeat
...edge of the mechanisms involved in the sympathetic nervous system'sreaction to cocaine may lead to developmen...o testwhether cocaine directly affects the central nervous system. The UT Southwesternresearchers reported their findings in a recent issue of Circulation. ...Sleep debt affects metabolic functions
... sleep debt, as wasthe activity of the sympathetic nervous system, which controls many of thebody's "involuntary" functions. The research was supported by a grant from the Research Network on Mind-BodyInteractions of the MacArthur Foundation, by a grant from the U.S. Air ForceOffice of Scientific Research, a...A growth factor reverses nerve damage in diabetic animals
...e with diabetes have some damage to the peripheral nervous system, which receives and sends messages to the h...can occur in the sympathetic part of the autonomic nervous system, a specialized portion of the nervous system that controls involuntary reflexes. Such damage ...UK College of Medicine researchers develop novel technologies to study neural genes
...enes that are active, or expressed, in the central nervous system (CNS). This work is being supported by two...ntal diseases and disorders. Many diseases of the nervous system (including mental illnesses, dementias and addictive disorders) are known, or thought, to res......oped the technique. Neurons are the cells of the nervous system that control behavior and moods. When a neuron receives a signal from the outside world or from another neuron, it has to have a way of "remembering" whether it has been stimulated previously. This is essential for the neuron to function pro...Researchers discover alcohol-sensitive membrane channel
...e family of ion channels that perform many central nervous system functions. Identification ofthe alcohol-sen... in regulating inhibitory responses in the central nervous system. They act by regulatingneuron-to-neuron communication and the rate of this information transf...Novel molecule blocks pain receptor system
...which is widely distributed throughout the central nervous system. Like other opiod receptors, ORL-1 was believed to play a key role in pain regulation. However, the natural compounds that activate ORL-1 are different than those that activate the opiod receptors, the researchers say. In 1995, scientists f......rks to keep dangerous chemicals out of the central nervous system. Unfortunately, this same barrier also can ...ry. OHSU scientists studied 74 people with central nervous system lymphomas who were treated with enhanced chemotherapy through blood-brain barrier disruption ...... is a chronic, debilitating disease of the central nervous system that, in its various stages, afflicts as many as 350,000 people in the U.S. The symptoms of MS result when a breakdown occurs in the myelin sheath that insulates the nerve fibers of the brain and spinal cord, resulting in patches of scar tiss...Bristol-Meyers Squibb submits NDA for new formulation of once daily videx(R)(didanosine)
...scular, metabolic and infectious diseases, central nervous system and dermatological disorders, and cancer. The Company is a leader in consumer medicines, orthopaedic devices, ostomy care, wound management, nutritional supplements, infant formulas, and hair and skin products.......including pain management, cardiovascular, central nervous system (CNS) and respiratory products. AstraZeneca was the principal sponsor of the HOT Study....Castagnolis discover compound in tobacco that may protect against Parkinson's disease
...y brain chemicals. Parkinson's disease, a central nervous system disorder, causes the gradual deterioration of neurons in the section of the brain that controls movement. The brains of patients with Parkinson's disease typically have less of a neurotransmitter called dopamine. Studies have shown that smoker......cientists conducting research in mice with central nervous system damage have found a way to enhance the immune system that resulted in nervous system repair in the mice. The study detailing the findings will be published in the Tuesday, June 6......clinical findings suggest that problems in central nervous system function could be a source of many of these...l Henry. "That's what we do -- affect the central nervous system. We affect segmental spinal cord reflexes. That has an immediate segmental response back to...