News tagged with neurotoxins


Subcutaneous Fat

Removing wrinkles with RHAMM

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hollywood stars of a certain age take note: Research at Berkeley Lab suggests that a protein linked to the spread of several major human cancers may also hold great potential for the elimination of wrinkles ...


Researchers identify a cell type that limits stroke damage

Medicine & Health / Research

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

A research team including Serge Rivest of University Laval's Faculty of Medicine has demonstrated the existence of a type of cells that limits brain damage after a stroke. The study was recently published in the online version ...





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Molecular structure reveals how botulinum toxin attaches to nerve cells

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 13, 2006 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

[B]May lead to new therapeutics[/B] Botulism is a life-threatening disease caused by exposure to botulinum neurotoxins, which are among the most potent toxins known. These neurotoxins are produced by Clostridium botulinum, a b ...


Ring closure as warning: New reagent for the detection of organophosphate neurotoxins with an extremely fast response

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Soman, Tabun, and Sarin (which has already been used in terrorist attacks) are chemical weapons that attack the nervous system. When inhaled, these extremely toxic organophosphates can lead to death within ...


Compounds show significant promise against potential bioweapon toxins

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 06, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Because of the high cost and limited applicability of currently available treatments, the newly identified compounds have the potential to fill the existing therapy gap and to provide protection against a bioterrorism attack ...


Scientists reveal structure of new botulism nerve toxin subtype

Scientists reveal structure of new botulism nerve toxin subtype

Biology /

created Dec 22, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have determined the atomic-level structure of a third subtype of botulinum neurotoxin — a deadly toxin produced ...


Researcher working on destruction of chemical weapons

Chemistry /

created Sep 24, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

America's war on terror includes fighting the dark side of deadly chemical agents, and Texas A&M University chemist Dr. Frank Raushel is helping with the fight by developing an enzyme that might neutralize one such chemical ...


Genetic analysis reveals secrets of scorpion venom

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Transcriptomic tests have uncovered the protein composition of venom from the Scorpiops jendeki scorpion. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Genomics have carried out the first ever venom analysis in this arach ...


Toxic algae closes some Italian beaches

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 01, 2006 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Swimming has been banned along sections of the Italian coastline because of blooms of toxic algae, a report said Tuesday.


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Killer algae a key player in mass extinctions

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 4

Algae, not asteroids, were the key to the end of the dinosaurs, say two Clemson University researchers. Geologist James W. Castle and ecotoxicologist John H. Rodgers have published findings that toxin producing ...


By shutting down inflammation, agent reverses damage from spinal cord injury in preclinical studies

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have been able to speed recovery and substantially reduce damage resulting from spinal cord injury in preclinical studies.


Cause of mussel poisoning identified

Cause of mussel poisoning identified

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The origin of the neurotoxin azaspiracid has finally been identified after a search for more than a decade. The azaspiracid toxin group can cause severe poisoning in human consumers of mussels after being ...



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