Cdk5 Kinase: An essential protein UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA About 40% of the affected patients with Huntington’s disease -a neurodegenerative pathology- show depression symptoms, even in early stages before the apparition of the typical motor symptoms of the disease. An altered function of Cdk5 kinase -an essential enzyme in several cell signalling pathways- could explain the physiopathology of the depressive-like behaviour in Huntington’s disease, according to...
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Synthetic CBD may be a safe treatment for seizures
By Catharine Paddock PhD Fact checked by Paula Field A nonintoxicating form of cannabidiol that chemists can make from inexpensive non-cannabis ingredients can treat seizures just as effectively as herbal cannabidiol, according to recent research in rats. The chemical structure of the synthetic cannabidiol (CBD), which has the name 8,9-dihydrocannabidiol (H2CBD), is similar to that of the CBD that...
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Blood stem cells produced in vast quantities in the lab
A glue ingredient was the secret to getting the mouse cellsto multiply outside the body. Researchers have managed to grow large numbers of blood-forming stem cells in the lab using a surprisingly simple ingredient found in glue. And when injected into mice, the cells started producing key components of blood. “The finding is very unexpected and...
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Body parts respond to day and night independently from brain, studies show
by University of California, Irvine Can your liver sense when you’re staring at a television screen or cellphone late at night? Apparently so, and when such activity is detected, the organ can throw your circadian rhythms out of whack, leaving you more susceptible to health problems. That’s one of the takeaways from two new studies by...
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Changes to immune genes link paternal smoking with childhood asthma
Children exposed to paternal tobacco smoking before birth are more likely to develop asthma — and associated changes to immune genes predict the level of risk FRONTIERS Children exposed to paternal tobacco smoking before birth are more likely to develop asthma – and associated changes to immune genes predict the level of risk. These are the findings of a new study of Taiwanese families, whose lifestyle...
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Coffee not as bad for heart and circulatory system as previously thought
Coffee does not stiffen your arteries BRITISH HEART FOUNDATION Drinking coffee might keep us up at night, but new research has given us a reason to sleep easy knowing that the popular drink isn’t as bad for our arteries as some previous studies would suggest. The research from Queen Mary University of London has shown that drinking coffee, including in people who drink up to...
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Doctors Remove Huge Clump of Hair In Stomach Of 16-Year-Old Girl With Rapunzel Syndrome
By Allan Adamson Tech Times Doctors in Russia have removed a huge clump of hair that accumulated in the stomach of a teenager with Rapunzel syndrome. Hairball Removed From Teen’s Stomach The unnamed 16-year-old girl had been chewing her own hair over the past 10 years and these collected in her stomach. Doctors removed the hairball weighing over 1 pound or about 454 grams during...
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Sleeping with the TV on may make you gain weight
By ASSOCIATED PRESS ADOBE CHICAGO — Dozing off to late-night TV or sleeping with other lights on may mix up your metabolism and lead to weight gain and even obesity, provocative but preliminary U.S. research suggests. The National Institutes of Health study published Monday isn’t proof, but it bolsters evidence suggesting that too much exposure to light at...
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Smartphone relaxation app helps some manage migraine
NYU LANGONE HEALTH / NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Migraine sufferers who used a smartphone-based relaxation technique at least twice a week experienced on average four fewer headache days per month, a new study shows. Developed in part by researchers at NYU School of Medicine, the app, called RELAXaHEAD, guides patients through progressive muscle relaxation, or PMR. In this form of behavioral...
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Red and white meats are equally bad for cholesterol
UCSF CHORI study also shows that saturated fats raise low density lipoproteins (LDLs) by the same amount, regardless of meat type UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – SAN FRANCISCO Contrary to popular belief, consuming red meat and white meat such as poultry, have equal effects on blood cholesterol levels, according to a study published today in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The study,...