News tagged with glucocorticoids
Researchers study parenting behaviors of stressed-out birds
Imagine an environment filled with wind, storms, predators, noise, and limited food and shelter. Then imagine providing and caring for a tiny egg or peeping baby bird in those conditions. The tree ...
Feb 08, 2012 |
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Bird-brained? Birds' personalities are correlated with their hormone levels
Individuals of Great Tit vary in their levels of curiosity, with distinctions being made between "fast" and "slow" explorers. Mareike Stowe from University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna has now shown significant differences ...
Nov 29, 2010 |
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Side effects explained: Why common drugs can lead to broken bones
New research helps to explain why some commonly used drugs come with a serious downside: They up your odds of breaking a bone. The drugs in question, glucocorticoids (e.g. cortisone and prednisone) and the insulin sensitizer ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 08, 2010 |
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Do drug therapies raise risk of bladder cancer?
In her most recent study of possible triggers of cancer among northern New England residents, Dartmouth epidemiologist Margaret R. Karagas, Ph.D., and her team identified an enhanced risk to the bladders of patients taking ...
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Body's circadian rhythm tightly entwined with blood sugar control
Scientists have long struggled to understand the body's biological clock. Its tick-tock wakes us up, reminds us to eat and tells us when to go to bed. But what sets that circadian rhythm?
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 05, 2009 |
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Ratchet-like genetic mutations make evolution irreversible
(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Oregon research team has found that evolution can never go backwards, because the paths to the genes once present in our ancestors are forever blocked. The findings -- the ...
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Hormones found to affect gene activity
(PhysOrg.com) -- Intermittent signaling by steroid hormones can affect the way genes are expressed in rodents, according to research by scientists at the University of Bristol and the National Cancer Institute ...
Aug 19, 2009 |
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