News tagged with receptor antagonist
Scientists discover new genetic immune disorder in children
Jun 04, 2009 |
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Your immune system plays an important function in your health—it protects you against viruses, bacteria, and other toxins that can cause disease. In autoinflammatory diseases, however, the immune system goes awry, causing ...
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Researchers explore the antidepressant effects of ketamine
Feb 21, 2008 |
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Drug treatments for depression can take many weeks for the beneficial effects to emerge. The excruciating and disabling nature of depression highlights the urgency of developing treatments that act more rapidly. Ketamine, ...
Recommended treatment for heart failure often underused
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Less than one-third of patients hospitalized for heart failure and participating in a quality improvement registry received a guideline-recommended treatment of heart failure, aldosterone antagonist therapy, according to ...
Glutamate: Too much of a good thing in schizophrenia?
Oct 27, 2008 |
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Is schizophrenia a disorder of glutamate hyperactivity or hypoactivity? While the predominant hypothesis for many years was that schizophrenia was a glutamate deficit disorder, there is growing evidence of glutamate hyperactivity ...
New treatment mechanisms for schizophrenia
Jan 08, 2008 |
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The field of schizophrenia research has come alive with many exciting new potential approaches to treatment. From the introduction of chlorpromazine to the current day, all treatments approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...
Do antidepressants enhance immune function?
Medicine & Health / Medications
May 08, 2008 |
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Infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which leads to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), is an epidemic of global concern. According to the most recent estimates, released in November 2007, by the Joint ...
Cannabinoid-blocking weight-loss drug might fight alcoholic fatty liver
Mar 04, 2008 |
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The cannabinoid receptors best known for delivering the psychological effects of marijuana also explain the connection between chronic alcohol use and a buildup of fat in the liver, according to a report in the March issue ...
Effects of aspirin and folic acid on inflammation markers for colorectal adenomas
Oct 12, 2009 |
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Unexpectedly, inflammation markers do not appear to be involved with the chemopreventative effect of aspirin on colorectal adenomas, according to a brief communication published online October 12 in the Journal of the Na ...
PPAR-g agonists have potential therapeutic role in gastric carcinoma?
Aug 26, 2009 |
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Recently, the potential of PPAR-γ as a target for the prevention and treatment of cancer has been widely studied. However, the potential therapeutic role of PPAR-γ agonists has been questioned, based on contradictory ...
Defeating nicotine's double role in lung cancer
Jun 08, 2009 |
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A lung cancer treatment that inhibits nicotine receptors was shown to double survival time in mice, according to Italian researchers.
Promising new drug being evaluated as possible treatment option for fragile X syndrome
Jan 07, 2009 |
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A pilot trial of an oral drug therapy called fenobam has shown promising initial results and could be a potential new treatment option for adult patients with Fragile X syndrome (FXS). Findings of the open label, single-dose ...
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