News Release 18-Sep-2024 Neuroscience Peer-Reviewed PublicationRuhr-University Bochum image: Dirk Jancke (left) and Ruxandra Barzan from the Bochum research team Credit: RUB, Kramer In the jungle of serotonin receptors Receptors mediate the transmission of information between nerve cells. The release of serotonin alters nerve cell activities throughout the brain. At least 14 types of serotonergic receptors...
Medscape Medical News Sari Harrar August 09, 2024 A surprising therapy is showing promise for chronic pain, vision loss, and muscle recovery, among other conditions. It’s not a pill, an injection, or surgery. It’s light. Yes, light. The thing that appears when you open the curtains, flip a switch, or strike a match. Light illuminates...
by Homa Warren, Baylor College of Medicine Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainDriving at night might present more hazards than daytime driving. Nighttime blurriness is common, and bright headlights often lead to glares, halos around headlights and starbursts, which makes vision extremely challenging. A Baylor College of Medicine ophthalmologist explains the risks of nighttime driving. “One of the...
Machines are currently learning how to identify cancer cells with the help of manipulated light. This approach may help remove the pressure off our hard-pressed health services and reduce waiting times for anxious patients. According to the Norwegian Cancer Society, the results of tissue biopsies, which carry the information about the presence or absence of cancer, normally take...
Experimentation helped demystify, legitimize, and simplify medical uses for long-known but little-understood light therapy. Can light help a wound heal faster? Alleviate pain? Prevent loss of eyesight? Although decades of studies indicate it can – including extensive research funded by NASA – the mounting evidence hasn’t always drawn the attention that might be expected for such...
Experimentation helped demystify, legitimize, and simplify medical uses for long-known but little-understood light therapy. Can light help a wound heal faster? Alleviate pain? Prevent loss of eyesight? Multi Radiance Medical’s line of light-therapy devices, combining LED and super-pulsed laser light, includes products specially designed for use on animals. Credit: Iker Asteinza Castro/Animal Home Veterinary Hospital Although...
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI IMAGE: JIAJIE DIAO, PHD, WORKS IN HIS LAB. CREDIT: PHOTO/COLLEEN KELLEY/UC MARKETING + BRAND. New research from the University of Cincinnati shows early indications that light can be used as a treatment for certain diseases, including cancer. Researchers from UC, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University at Buffalo published the...
1,2-dichloropropane (1,2-DCP) is a solvent used in the printing industry. It was linked to cholangiocarcinoma in 2013, when printing company employees exposed to 1,2-DCP were diagnosed with the cancer. To understand the genes influencing cholangiocarcinoma development, scientists examined gene expression profiles in co-cultured cholangiocytes and macrophages exposed to 1,2-DCP. They found DNA repair genes in...
Imagine the brain as a giant switchboard covered with thousands of buttons, knobs, dials, and levers that control aspects of our thought, emotions, behavior, and memory. (You can think of the movie Inside Out, if you like). For more than a century, neuroscientists have been methodically flipping these switches on and off, alone or in combination, to try...
A chemist at The University of Texas at Arlington is developing a cancer medication that uses light to target and destroys tumor cells in a process known as photodynamic therapy (PDT). Sherri McFarland, professor of chemistry, and her team of researchers have developed a chemical compound containing the transition metal ruthenium. When ruthenium absorbs light,...
