News tagged with adenosine receptors

Prune juice not necessary: New research should make bowel movements easier

If you hate prune juice and chalky fiber supplements, just sit down and relax. Help is on the way. In a research report published online in The FASEB Journal, a team of researchers has discovered a new way to make it a l ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 5




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Coffee could offer key ingredient for new treatments for Parkinson's disease

Scientists from Heptares Therapeutics have used Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron facility, to understand the structure of a protein involved in Parkinson’s disease and other neurological ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 05, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Finding of long-sought drug target structure may expedite drug discovery

Researchers have solved the three-dimensional structure of a key biological receptor. The finding has the potential to speed drug discovery in many areas, from arthritis to respiratory disorders to wound healing, ...

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created Mar 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover new details about medically important protein family

Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have determined a new structure from a medically important superfamily of proteins. The structure should help instruct the design of a new kind of therapeutics for conditions ...

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created Mar 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Team illuminates cell pathway key to insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes

A research team, led by La Jolla Institute scientist Joel Linden, Ph.D., has shed new light on the problem of insulin resistance, and identified the key participants in a molecular pathway that holds therapeutic promise ...

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created Feb 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Non-dopaminergic drug preladenant reduces motor fluctuations in patients with Parkinson's disease

Preladenant, a non-dopaminergic medication, reduces off time in patients with Parkinson's disease receiving standard dopamine therapy, an international study led by the University of South Florida found.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Why do we sleep?

While we can more or less abstain from some basic biological urges—for food, drink, and sex—we can’t do the same for sleep. At some point, no matter how much espresso we drink, we just crash. ...

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created Feb 03, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (42) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Researchers identify genetic cause of new vascular disease

Clinical researchers at the National Institutes of Health's Undiagnosed Diseases Program (UDP) have identified the genetic cause of a rare and debilitating vascular disorder not previously explained in the medical literature. ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cells' energy factories linked to damaging inflammation

Scientists have discovered that molecules called reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced by the energy factories, or mitochondria, in cells, may play a role in a rare inherited disorder in which uncontrolled inflammation damages ...

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created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists find measles' natural nemesis

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have found that a known enzyme in cells protects against measles virus, likely by altering the virus's genetic material, RNA. Cells lacking the enzyme become highly vulnerable ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Potential chink in armor of African sleeping sickness parasite: It's social

Long considered a freewheeling loner, the Trypanosoma brucei parasite responsible for African sleeping sickness has revealed a totally unexpected social side, opening a potential chink in the behavioral armor of this and ot ...

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created Dec 13, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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