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Use of cannabinoids could help post-traumatic stress disorder patients

Use of cannabinoids (marijuana) could assist in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder patients. This is exposed in a recent study carried out at the Learning and Memory Lab in the University of Haifa's Department ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Research shows rats have best bite of rodent world

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that mice and rats have evolved to gnaw with their front teeth and chew with their back teeth more successfully than rodents that 'specialise' in one or ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Scientists implant regenerated lung tissue in rats (w/ Video)

A Yale University-led team of scientists reports that it has achieved an important first step in regenerating fully functional lung tissue that can exchange gas, which is the key role of the lungs. Their paper appears in ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hypertensive rat genome sequence expected to uncover genetic basis of human hypertension

Chronic high blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is a serious health risk factor that afflicts more than 25% of all adults worldwide, but the molecular basis of the disease remains poorly understood. In a study published ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Apr 28, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Overfed rats may distort research results

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many laboratory animals are over-fed and under-excercised, and failing to recognize this may lead researchers to misinterpret the results of their experiments, according to a new study by ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Acetaminophen protects kidneys after muscle injury

Severe muscle injuries -- such as crush injuries suffered in earthquakes, car accidents and explosions, and muscle damage from excessive exercise or statin drug interactions - can cause life-threatening kidney damage. Treatment ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Rats move toward the food but do not eat

Scientists led a rat to the fatty food, but they couldn't make it eat. Using an animal model of binge eating, University of Missouri researchers discovered that deactivating the basolateral amygdala, a brain ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Research shows brain cells make clever connections

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Queensland research has revealed that growing nerve fibres may navigate by using a clever mathematical trick.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

New and unexpected mechanism identified how the brain responds to stress

Chronic stress takes a physical and emotional toll on our bodies and scientists are working on piecing together a medical puzzle to understand how we respond to stress at the cellular level in the brain. Being able to quickly ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Compound in Apples Inhibits E. coli O157:H7

A compound that is abundant in apples and strawberries inhibits the highly pathogenic E. coli O157:H7 biofilms while sparing a beneficial strain of E. coli that also forms biofilms in the human gut, according to a paper in ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

FDA-approved drug shows promise as alcoholism treatment

(PhysOrg.com) -- A medication commonly prescribed as a muscle relaxant shows promise as a potential treatment for alcoholism, based on a study in rats by researchers at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center and the ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 12, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists discover that a specific enzyme inhibitor may help control lung inflammation

All of us may be able to breathe a little easier now that scientists from Pennsylvania have found a new therapeutic target for controlling dangerous inflammation in the lungs. A new research report in the January 2011 issue ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Common diabetes drug may halt growth of cysts in polycystic kidney disease

Researchers report that a drug commonly used to treat diabetes may also retard the growth of fluid-filled cysts of the most common genetic disorder, polycystic kidney disease. PKD does not discriminate by ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 11, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Haptoglobin as an early serum biomarker of virus-induced type 1 diabetes in rats

Type 1 diabetes (T1D), formerly known as juvenile diabetes, is a multifactorial disease of complex etiology characterized by the autoimmune destruction of pancreatic beta cells. In addition to genetic susceptibility, it is ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Oct 26, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study shows how insulin stimulates fat cells to take in glucose

Using high-resolution microscopy, researchers at the National Institutes of Health have shown how insulin prompts fat cells to take in glucose in a rat model. The findings were reported in the Sept. 8 issue of the journal ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0