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Up a little on the left... now, over to the right... Scientists find a source of nonallergic itch
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Scratching below the surface of a troublesome sensation that's equal parts tingle-tickle-prickle, sensory scientists from Johns Hopkins have discovered in mice a molecular basis for nonallergic itch.
New Way To Predict Drug Side Effects
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Predicting the side-effects of a drug is not simple task. The human body has more than 1,500 molecules that are known to be involved in various diseases, and often a drug designed to hit one of these targets will also hit ...
Use of acid-suppressive medications associated with increased risk of hospital-acquired pneumonia
May 26, 2009 |
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Hospitalized patients who receive acid-suppressive medications such as a proton-pump inhibitor have a 30 percent increased odds of developing pneumonia while in the hospital, according to a study in the May ...
Novel study finds proton channels inhibit the release of histamine during allergic reactions
Jul 29, 2008 |
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Inhibiting the proton currents in basophils, a rare type of white blood cell, can stop the release of histamine and could provide a new target for allergy and asthma drugs according to a new study by researchers at Rush University ...
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'Feel-good' hormone serotonin regulates blood sugar concentration
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Researchers identify itch-specific neurons in mice, hope for better treatments
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Historically, many scientists have regarded itching as just a less intense version of pain. They have spent decades searching for itch-specific nerve cells to explain how the brain perceives itch differently from pain, but ...
The use of wooden casks or steel tanks for Chardonnay influences its fermentative aroma
Apr 30, 2009 |
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After analysing different points of the process of the transformation of grape juice to wine, Ms Ana González Marco concluded that the type of container (wooden cask or steel tank) employed notably influences the fermentative ...
Sublingual immunotherapy for inhalant allergies deserves deeper consideration
Apr 29, 2009 |
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Sublingual immunotherapy for the treatment of allergy symptoms caused by a wide variety of environmental inhalants has been effectively used in Europe. It should be employed to further treatment of allergies in the United ...
Scientists mine drugs database for new diabetes treatment
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Feb 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council have harnessed a new drug discovery tool to identify a new player in the body's insulin secretion process. This ...
Of Mice and Peanuts: A new mouse model for peanut allergy
Jan 12, 2009 |
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Chicago researchers report the development of a new mouse model for food allergy that mimics symptoms generated during a human allergic reaction to peanuts. The animal model provides a new research tool that will be invaluable ...
Lab test for allergy scoops national award
Nov 26, 2008 |
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Scientists who have developed a new technique that can test for up to 5,000 different allergens from just one drop of blood have scooped a prestigious national award which encourages innovation in healthcare technologies.
In mice, anxiety is linked to immune system
Oct 27, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the first study ever to genetically link the immune system to normal behavior, scientists at Rockefeller and Columbia universities show that mast cells, known as the pharmacologic bombshells of the immune ...
Multi-tasking molecule holds key to allergic reactions
Aug 07, 2008 |
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As the summer approaches most of us rejoice, reach for the sunscreen and head outdoors. But an ever-growing number of people reach for tissue instead as pollen leaves eyes watering, noses running and spirits dwindling. Hay ...
Hayfever hope
Jun 03, 2008 |
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With the peak grass pollen season approaching, scientists can reveal that a daily dose of probiotic can change the immune status of people with hay fever.
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