News tagged with drug susceptibility


Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis found in California

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 13, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

In the first statewide study of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB) in the United States, California officials have identified 18 cases of the dangerous and difficult-to-treat disease between 1993 and 2006, and ...





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Cocaine: Perceived as a reward by the brain?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 5

Cocaine is one of the oldest drugs known to humans, and its abuse has become widespread since the end of the 19th century. At the same time, we know rather little about its effects on the human brain or the mechanisms that ...


New 'schizophrenia gene' prompts researchers to test potential drug target

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Johns Hopkins scientists report having used a commercially available drug to successfully "rescue" animal brain cells that they had intentionally damaged by manipulating a newly discovered gene that links susceptibility genes ...


Drug-proof zebrafish reveal secrets of addiction

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The effects of amphetamines on gene expression in zebrafish have been uncovered. This new study, published in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Biology, provides clues to the genetics that underlie susceptibility to add ...


The complexities of genetic susceptibility to tuberculosis revealed

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 28, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers working in Vietnam have identified a genetic variant that predisposes people to developing a lethal form of tuberculosis (TB), tuberculous meningitis, if they are infected with a strain of TB known as the Beijing ...


Cases of extensively drug-resistant TB declining each year in the US, but new cases still

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 11, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new report suggests that the number of cases of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) in the U.S. has declined in the past fifteen years, but new cases continue to be reported, according to the study published ...


Researchers discover gene variant associated with cocaine dependence, cocaine induced paranoia

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

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Yale University School of Medicine and the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, have discovered that variants in the α-endomannosidase (MANEA) ...


Bridging the divide

Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: Bridging the divide

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sufferers of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are being brought together in a major new study to determine the diseases? common genetic causes.


Gene with probable role in human susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis identified

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 09, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new gene that may confer susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis has been identified by Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) researchers and their collaborators in The Netherlands, Indonesia, United Kingdom, and the Russian ...


Drug rescues memory lost to Alzheimer's disease

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A drug similar to one used in clinical trials for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis has been found to rescue memory in mice exhibiting Alzheimer's symptoms.


Study finds genetic link to human herpes susceptibility

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 28, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

There’s a high probability that people who are prone to herpes simplex virus (HSV) outbreaks can inherit that susceptibility through their genes, University of Utah researchers report in a new study.



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