News tagged with swim bladder


Listening to the song of the toadfish

Listening to the song of the toadfish (w/Audio)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Professor Roger Bland is listening in on one of the noisier creatures in San Francisco Bay, using physics to analyze the mating song of the toadfish. While fish don't have vocal chords, they ...


Researchers study acoustic communication in deep-sea fish

Biology /

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

An international research team studying sound production in deep-sea fishes has found that cusk-eels use several sets of muscles to produce sound that plays a prominent role in male mating calls.





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Bladder cells feel stretch

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Japanese research group led by Prof. Makoto Tominaga and Dr. Takaaki Sokabe (National Institute for Physiological Sciences: NIPS), and Prof. Masayuki Takeda, Dr. Isao Araki and Dr. Tsutomu Mochizuki (Yamanashi Univ.), found ...


Frankincense oil -- a wise man's remedy for bladder cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Originating from Africa, India, and the Middle East, frankincense oil has been found to have many medicinal benefits. Now, an enriched extract of the Somalian Frankincense herb Boswellia carteri has been shown to kill off ...


New discovery raises doubts about current bladder treatment

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System have found that one of the genes commonly thought to promote the growth and spread of some types of cancers is in fact beneficial in bladder cancer - a major discovery ...


New hope for sufferers of overactive bladder

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sufferers of overactive bladder have been given hope of a more effective treatment following a breakthrough by UNSW medical researchers.


More intense bladder cancer treatment does not improve survival

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Despite enduring more invasive tests and medical procedures, patients who were treated aggressively for early stage bladder cancer had no better survival than patients who were treated less aggressively. Further, the aggressively ...


New staging technique might save bladders in some bladder cancer patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Pathologists today reported encouraging results from a new technique to increase the accuracy of staging bladder cancer tumors that could reduce the need to remove bladders from some patients.


New investigational treatment for bladder cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of researchers, led by Columbia University Medical Center faculty, has identified a new investigational therapy for the treatment of bladder cancer. The discovery was made using a new research model, using mice, which ...


Researchers investigate high-risk populations for bladder-cancer screenings

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new study by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers sheds light on the challenges involved in identifying which high-risk population would benefit most from bladder-cancer screening.


Variation in prostate stem cell antigen gene raises bladder cancer risk

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Aug 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Researchers have pinpointed a specific gene variation that causes increased risk of urinary bladder cancer, according to a scientific team led by The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.


Scientists find cells responsible for bladder cancer's spread

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Johns Hopkins scientists have tracked down a powerful set of cells in bladder tumors that seem to be primarily responsible for the cancer's growth and spread using a technique that takes advantage of similarities between ...



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