Federal grant funds research on novel HIV therapy
...system," said Dr. Douglas, "and we are testing the hypothesis that interfering with substance P receptors may reduce neurological injury from HIV infection." Project 3, led by Andrew A. Lackner, Ph.D., D.V.M., director of the Tulane National Primate Research Center, will test whether NK-1R antagonists are safe...Pular antidepressants boost brain growth, Hopkins scientists report
...s to grow," Koliatsos said. "For the patient, this hypothesis provides more tangible evidence of a real effect in the brain," he added. In the Hopkins study, Koliatsos and his team gave either the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor fluoxetine (Prozac), the selective serotonin reuptake enhancer tianeptine (a...Insulin levels and resistance linked to risk of pancreatic cancer
...-up time. "In conclusion, our results support the hypothesis that higher insulin concentrations and insulin resistance may be a mechanism that explains the associations between diabetes mellitus, higher glucose concentration, and pancreatic cancer observed in previous studies. Although based solely on male smo...Cataract surgery rates and costs related to physician reimbursement methods
...ent methodology than other procedures supports the hypothesis that elective procedures are more responsive to physician incentives than non-elective procedures." "As enthusiasm for linking physician reimbursement to the quality of care grows, more health plans will likely use quality standards to reward physici...Pneumonia hospitalization rates on the rise for older adults
...se hospitalized for pneumonia supports our primary hypothesis that an increase in the prevalence of underlying conditions that predispose individuals to pneumonia might partially account for the increase in rates of pneumonia hospitalization among patients aged 65 to 84 years. Our findings suggest that efforts ...Animal research suggests perimenopause is a critical time for women's health
... Kaplan said the findings were consistent with the hypothesis that estrogen inhibits the development of vessel disease, but may be ineffective if the disease already exists. "Applied to women, this lifetime study suggests that having an estrogen deficiency in the pre-menopausal years predicts a higher rate of ...UCLA imaging study of children with autism finds broken mirror neuron system
... emotion centers of the brain, consistent with the hypothesis that this mirroring mechanism may play a crucial role for understanding how others feel and for empathizing with them. All of the children rehearsed the tasks prior to the fMRI scans to assure researchers they could perform the tasks. Both groups per...The role of Type II Collagen in rheumatoid arthritis
...ification of CII creates a CII autoantigen." This hypothesis has important implications for the further study and enhanced understanding of the pathology of RA a complex autoimmune disease....JCI table of contents: December 1, 2005
...holas Pike writes, "this elegant studysupports the hypothesis that immune cells in the skin are the most likely source of arachidonic acid and prostaglandins." Furthermore, this study should help researchers develop therapeutics that can achieve the same beneficial cholesterol-lowering effects of nicotinic acid...The heat is on: Why some cholesterol-lowering drugs cause hot flashes
...holas Pike writes, "this elegant studysupports the hypothesis that immune cells in the skin are the most likely source of arachidonic acid and prostaglandins." Furthermore, this study should help researchers develop therapeutics that can achieve the same beneficial cholesterol-lowering effects of nicotinic acid...Young women who smoke higher risk of breask cancer
... study of postmenopausal women, which supports the hypothesis that women who smoke cigarettes before first full-term pregnancy have a 20 percent increased risk of breast cancer compared with women who began smoking after the birth of their first child or were never smokers. The study is a strong indicator of th...Increasing role of acetaminophen in acute liver failure in the United States
...tients with intentional overdoses. To examine this hypothesis the researchers conducted a prospective study of patients presenting with acute liver disease to any of 22 academic centers participating in the Acute Liver Failure Study Group. Of 662 consecutive patients over a six-year period between 1998 and 2003...Bacterium present in eyes with 'wet' age-related macular degeneration
...mmune and inflammatory responses of the body. "Our hypothesis is that C. pneumoniae may be the key link between CFH and AMD," Kalayoglu said. "That is, patients with CFH variations may be particularly susceptible to the damaging effects of chronic infection, and an infectious organism like C. pneumoniae may be ...Ads for SSRI antidepressants are misleading, say researchers
...iterature it is openly admitted that the serotonin hypothesis remains unconfirmed and that there is "a growing body of medical literature casting doubt on the serotonin hypothesis," which is not reflected in the consumer ads. For instance, the widely televised animated Zoloft (setraline) commercials have drama...Avoid the hookah and save your teeth
... the most susceptible tissues," said Krebs. "This hypothesis will be further tested by investigating the periodontal bone height levels of various tobacco smokers in the presently studied population."...New study suggests the stomach not the heart offers greater lie detection accuracy
...cant increase in gastric arrhythmia. To test their hypothesis that the gastrointestinal tract is uniquely sensitive to mental stress because of the communication between the central nervous system and the enteric nervous system, researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch recruited sixteen healthy vol...Preventing pneumonia in children helps prevent pneumonia in older adults
...accine was available. "Several factors support the hypothesis that the declines in invasive disease reported here likely occurred because of decreased community transmission of vaccine-type pneumococci from young children, many of whom have received PCV-7. Studies of pneumococcal carriage indicate that conjugat...Mayo Clinic Cancer Center finds possible genetic link to pancreatic cancer
... 26-fold, which led Mayo Clinic researchers to the hypothesis that mutations in the gene that carries cystic fibrosis may be directly linked to a higher risk for pancreatic cancer. From October 2000 to April 2004, pancreatic cancer patients seen at Mayo Clinic were recruited for the study -- 75 percent of all ...Patients have increased hospitalization rate after gastric bypass surgery
...al hernia repair and gastric revision. "A working hypothesis in our study was that use of health care services should likewise improve, namely that inpatient care should decrease after RYGB. However, we found significant and sustained increases in the rates of hospital admission for morbidly obese patients aft...Infertility researchers identify one gene's critical role in the human embryo implantation process
...pecifically during the window of implantation. My hypothesis is that this particular gene, for a yet-to-be-uncovered reason, is abnormally expressed in women with endometriosis which results in the embryo not being able to find the appropriate place to bind to the endometrium leading to a failure or defect in ...