Animal research suggests perimenopause is a critical time for women's health
... should start pre-menopausally," he said. Kaplan's animal studies found that treating the estrogen-deficient...pause, and then beginning hormone therapy. He said animal research suggests that oral contraceptives can be effective in heart disease protection. However, t...TLR4 gene found to protect against tumor development
..., played a role in the development of cancer in an animal model. "What we found is the innate immune system, particularly TLR4, plays a critical role in protecting against the development of tumors and chronic inflammation," said Alison Bauer, Ph.D., of NIEHS and lead author on the paper. "It suggests th...Gatton livestock studies spurred a flu-fighter
...tial of more in-depth scientific studies. "Within animal husbandry we studied chemistry, biology, genetics, geology - a whole range of wonderful things," Professor von Itsztein said. "What it really did for me was open up the multi-disciplinary nature of science. The whole interplay of science was, for me...Mathematics used to discern immune response to infectious diseases
...se to infection. A combination of mathematical and animal models will be employed to test different vaccine and therapeutic strategies, including a novel approach that aims to enhance immune response through certain proteins called cytokines. "Mathematical modeling has tremendous potential to help improve t...New technique puts brain-imaging research on its head
... with their subjects to in vitro experiments or to animal models to learn even more about brain matter deformation. They have done experiments on humans with the head dropping forward, and plan to study different acceleration profiles, including rotations. "This method is a starting point that we hope wil...More funding needed to fight Australia's biggest killer
... including its potential for reducing the need for animal experimentation, it certainly is richly deserving of funding," Professor Garry Jennings, Director, Baker Heart Research Institute added. "So the news that NH&MRC is unable to support the ACBN initiative because of lack of funds is a major setback for...Doctors pioneer new area of cruelty free product development
...nting concerns about the ethics and limitations of animal use in laboratories, the Physicians Committee for ...ne (PCRM) announced today that it has developed an animal serum free diagnostic test used to measure insulin levels in diabetes patients. Linco Research, Inc....Eye cell implants improve motor symptoms for Parkinson patients
...se implants have ameliorated the motor deficits in animal models of Parkinson disease, according to background information in the article. (The retinal pigment epithelium is the pigment cell layer found in the inner layer of the retina of the eye.) Natividad P. Stover, M.D., of the University of Alabama at...Growth factor protects brain against damage from stroke
...from damage resulting from stroke, according to an animal study conducted by researchers at Morehouse School...project, Ford will test neuregulin-1 in additional animal models and conduct imaging studies to determine the optimal therapeutic window for the compound to b...New study finds anabolic steroids may be addictive
...nse. A computer recorded the number of times each animal used the active and inactive delivery mechanisms. Overall, the animals showed a marked preference for testosterone, nandrolone or drostanolone, engaging the active delivery mechanism twice as often as the control. However, not all steroids are rewa...Toward the future of cancer prevention
...has shown dramatic results in preventing cancer in animal studies, and has led to clinical studies at M. D. Anderson with patients that have pancreatic cancer or multiple myeloma. A trial with breast cancer patients is expected to begin in 2005. Patients in these trials take curcumin capsules daily. A ...Federal grant funds research on novel HIV therapy
...IV treatment. Encompassing basic science research, animal studies and clinical trials in adult patients, the... linkages among the basic science experiments, the animal model experiments to establish pharmacology responses and the human trials designed to assess safety...Role of nervous system in fatal heart rhythm under study
...ive fluorescent dye, injecting it into an isolated animal model and photographing the images at 1,000 frames... autonomic nervous system imbalance in an isolated animal heart. Then she photographs fluorescent images of the electrical activity while recording the heart'...Radiotherapy advance points way to noninvasive brain cancer treatment
...achine. De Stasio says the next steps will include animal and possibly human clinical trials. "If we do se... before it is known whether the treatment works in animal models, and likely another five to ten years before clinical trials and available treatments would e...Structure of viral harpoon protein reveals how viruses enter cells
...arainfluenza virus, this family includes human and animal pathogens such as mumps virus, measles virus, huma... (a common cause of pneumonia in children) and the animal pathogens canine distemper virus and rinderpest virus. In addition to these paramyxoviruses, there a...Understanding fatigue in chronic liver disease
...at it remains unknown whether the results from the animal study will translate to cholestasis in humans. One key message from the study is that a number of factors most likely affect the CNS leading to sickness behaviors. "Identifying the mediators involved is important not only to complete our understandi...Higher intake of vegetable protein associated with lower blood pressure levels
...the researchers noted a slight association between animal protein and high blood pressure, this link disappe...egetable protein than in those that contained more animal protein. Other dietary components of vegetables, such as magnesium, also may interact with amino ac...Anthroposophic lifestyle reduces risk of allergic disease in children
...vironmental exposure, history of infections, diet, animal contact, anthroposophic lifestyle and symptoms and diagnoses of allergic diseases was collected through a parental questionnaire. A blood sample was also collected from the children who resided in Austria, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and The Netherl...Statement on NIH research on obesity and type 2 diabetes
...esity and type 2 diabetes. Among this research are animal and human genetic and developmental studies, and research on nuclear receptors (one of which is already a target for diabetes treatment). In addition, NIH is pursuing research into how the intrauterine environment of a mother who is obese or has type...Journal of Alzheimer's Disease is devoted to metal ions and neurodegenerative diseases
...ir depletion or abnormal accumulation in human and animal tissues, mainly the brain, with consequent neurodegenerative phenomena," he writes in the foreword, dedicated to Professor Marino Nicolini. "In the last three decades abundant scientific literature has attributed an important role to metal ions in ne...