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Gene knockout may cheer up mice

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Removing the PKCI/HINT1 gene from mice has an anti-depressant-like and anxiolytic-like effect. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience applied a battery of behavioral tests to the PKCI/HINT1 knocko ...


'Feel-good' hormone serotonin regulates blood sugar concentration

'Feel-good' hormone serotonin regulates blood sugar concentration

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Diabetes is the most prevalent metabolic disease in developed countries and one that engenders - in addition to its high fatality - enormous health care costs. The physiological meaning of ...


New cause of osteoporosis: Mutation in a miroRNA

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Many biological processes are controlled by small molecules known as microRNAs, which work by suppressing the expression of specific sets of genes. Xiang-Hang Luo and colleagues, at Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South ...


Squeak, squeak -- can you hear me now?

Squeak, squeak -- can you hear me now?

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

What do you get when you cross a mouse with poor hearing and a mouse with even worse hearing? Ironically, a new strain of mice with "golden ears" - mice that have outstanding hearing as they age.


Forget all about it: Traumatic memories can be erased

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

It is well known that fear memories are permanent. However, a recent paper in Science, evaluated by three Faculty Members for F1000, reports an extraordinary finding that supports the use of a drug to control recollections of tra ...


FDA-approved drugs eliminate, prevent cervical cancer in mice

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health have eliminated cervical cancer in mice with two FDA-approved drugs currently used to treat breast cancer and osteoporosis.


Can charcoal fight heart disease in kidney patients?

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Charcoal may provide a new approach to managing the high rate of heart disease in patients with advanced kidney disease, according to preliminary research being presented at the American Society of Nephrology's 42nd Annual ...


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Early life stress has effects at the molecular level

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of mice suggests that stress and trauma in early life can have an impact on the genes and result in behavioral problems later in life.


Interstitial macrophages: immune cells that prevent asthma

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The continual presence in the air of the microbe-derived molecule LPS promotes asthma in some individuals. What prevents inhalation of LPS from promoting asthma in most individuals is not well understood. However, researchers ...


Study shows neural stem cells in mice affected by gene associated with longevity

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A gene associated with longevity in roundworms and humans has been shown to affect the function of stem cells that generate new neurons in the adult brain, according to researchers at the Stanford University ...



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