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Promising results from study of glutamatergic agents for mood and anxiety disorders
Date: Oct-09-2013Glutamergic agents may one day be used as a novel treatment for mood and anxiety disorders, new research presented at the 26th ECNP Congress suggests. "Our results suggest the glutamatergic system is a truly viable target for antidepressant Profug development," says Professor Gerard Sanacora, from the Yale School of Medicine, Connecticut, US...
Targeting epigenetic regulation could impact Alzheimer's disease
Date: Oct-09-2013Increasing evidence suggests that epigenetic regulation is associated with the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and targeting it may one day lead to novel diagnostic and therapeutic strategies, research suggests. Scientists at The School for Mental Health and Neuroscience at Maastricht University, the Netherlands, have been performing parallel studies in mice and men to investigate the role of epigenetic mechanisms in ageing and AD. "We have shown that ageing in mice is associated with a variety of epigenetic changes in the brain," explained Dr van den Hove, who led the research...
Some bat-infecting malaria pathogens are close cousins to those in rodents
Date: Oct-09-2013Researchers have discovered a surprising diversity of malaria parasites in West African bats as well as new evidence of evolutionary jumps to rodent hosts. Led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History, the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, and the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, the new study reveals that two bat-infecting parasites are closely related to parasites in rodents that are commonly used to model human malaria in laboratory studies. The results will be published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
As bacteria become increasingly resistant, new more effective antimicrobials might rise from old
Date: Oct-09-2013By tinkering with their chemical structures, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have essentially re-invented a class of popular antimicrobial drugs, restoring and in some cases, expanding or improving, their effectiveness against drug-resistant pathogens in animal models...
New decision-making model helps women with early-stage breast cancer decide on most appropriate treatment
Date: Oct-09-2013Women with early-stage breast cancer in one breast are increasingly opting to undergo a more aggressive operation to remove both breasts called contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM). Rates of double mastectomies have more than doubled over the last decade for women with early-stage cancer, but for women with cancer in one breast, having the healthy breast removed may not provide a survival benefit, according to new research findings presented at the 2013 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons...
For our collective happiness its people that count
Date: Oct-09-2013Swedish soccer star Zlatan is associated with happiness, but not iPhones. A new study at the Sahlgrenska Academy and Lund University suggests that our collective picture of what makes us happy is more about relationships, and less about things. News articles published online by Swedish dailies during 2010 were analyzed in the study. By analyzing which words most often occurred in the same articles as the Swedish word for happiness, the researchers could pinpoint our collective happiness...
Venous narrowing not linked to MS
Date: Oct-09-2013There is no association between MS (multiple sclerosis) and venous narrowing, specifically the narrowing of the veins from the brain to the heart (extracranial veins), researchers reported in The Lancet. Canadian scientists found no statistically significant difference between venous narrowing rates in patients with MS compared to other people without MS, including siblings. These findings challenge a controversial theory that MS is linked to CCSVI (chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency). In 2009, Dr...
The human body favors nanodiscs over nanorods
Date: Oct-09-2013For years scientists have been working to fundamentally understand how nanoparticles move throughout the human body. One big unanswered question is how the shape of nanoparticles affects their entry into cells. Now researchers have discovered that under typical culture conditions, mammalian cells prefer disc-shaped nanoparticles over those shaped like rods...
Babies learn to anticipate touch in the womb
Date: Oct-09-2013Babies learn how to anticipate touch while in the womb, according to new research by Durham and Lancaster universities. Using 4-d scans psychologists found, for the first time, that fetuses were able to predict, rather than react to, their own hand movements towards their mouths as they entered the later stages of gestation compared to earlier in a pregnancy...
Improving nutritional status before bladder cancer surgery improves outcomes
Date: Oct-09-2013Patients with bladder cancer are two times more likely to have complications after a radical cystectomy procedure if they have a biomarker for poor nutritional status before the operation, according to study findings presented at the 2013 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons. Surgeons from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, identified a potentially modifiable risk factor for such postsurgical problems: a low preoperative level of albumin, a marker of the protein level in the blood. David C...
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