by American Heart Association Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain People who have had a heart attack may be slightly less likely than people in the general population to develop Parkinson’s disease later in life, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access, peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart...
by King’s College London Antiarrhythmic and ECG effects of OCT2013 versus lidocaine in rat Langendorff hearts. (a,e) Incidence of ventricular fibrillation (VF), (b,f) heart rate, (c,g) PR and (d,h) QT90 intervals during 30 min of regional ischaemia in hearts perfused with Krebs, OCT2013 or lidocaine. (a–d) Perfusion with test solution started 10 min before coronary ligation (onset of...
by The North American Menopause Society Credit: Laura Tiitto/public domain Both men and women are more likely to lose their hair with age. Women also have the added risk associated with declines in estrogen levels during the menopause transition. A new study sought to identify the prevalence of female pattern hair loss (FPHL), hair characteristics,...
by European Society of Cardiology Graphical abstract showing the worldwide prevalence of statin intolerance and risk factors/conditions that affect or do not affect the risk of statin intolerance. Credit: European Heart Journal As many as one in two patients stop taking statins, reduce the dose or take them irregularly because they believe the cholesterol-lowering drugs cause...
by Birkbeck University of London Cryo-tomography of perforin prepores.(A) Overview of a typical cryotomogram of liposomes with attached perforin prepores. Prepore assemblies are highlighted with arrows. (B) Close-up view of prepores attached to the lipid bilayers. (C) Manual docking of soluble perforin monomer (purple, PDB code 3NSJ) into the 3D volume of a perforin prepore...
by Clarkson University Figure 1. A principal component analysis (PCA) for the 20 survey subjects. (A) clearly shows two distinct clusters: left blue and right red. (B) shows the average ± SD for each trait. MF, ME, PF, and PE were not significantly different between the two clusters. Credit: DOI: 10.3390/nu14030466 Clarkson University Associate Professor...
by American Chemical Society A virus-like particle (Qβ-OSP conjugate) displaying a polysaccharide from Vibrio cholerae bacteria generates a strong, long-lasting immune response in mice. Credit: Adapted from ACS Infectious Diseases 2022, DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.1c00585 Cholera, a diarrheal disease caused by the highly transmissible bacteria Vibrio cholerae, kills tens of thousands of people each year worldwide. Current vaccines last only...
(HealthDay)—Sleep disturbance is highly prevalent among patients with psoriasis and is associated with pruritus, anxiety, and depression, according to a study published online Jan. 12 in the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology. Elvan Sahin, from the Universitätsmedizin Berlin, and colleagues examined sleep characteristics and factors associated with sleep disturbance in a cross-sectional...
by Texas Biomedical Research Institute Lung tissue of animals with TB that started cART two weeks post SIV infection (left) versus at four weeks post SIV infection (right). There are far fewer green spots on the left, which indicate fewer macrophages are dying and latent TB is kept more under control, thanks to starting cART...
FEBRUARY 15TH, 2022 ALICE FERNG EXCLUSIVE, OTC, PSYCHIATRY A quick way to soothe your nerves sounds too good to be true. There are many methods and techniques used for achieving this “calm” that include breath work, visualization, meditation, and other individualized activities. However, what intrigued us was that there is a device on the market, the developers...
