News tagged with inhibition
Short-term benefits seen with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for focal hand dystonia
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is being increasingly explored as a therapeutic tool for movement disorders associated with deficient inhibition throughout the central nervous system. This includes treatment ...
Neuroscience
Apr 09, 2013 |
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Autophagy-addicted breast cancers killed by anti-malaria drug, chloroquine
The process of autophagy cleans cells – they wrap up the bad stuff and then dispose of it. And so it stands to reason that inhibiting autophagy would make cancer cells less able to cleanse themselves of chemotherapy and ...
Cancer
Apr 08, 2013 |
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Obesity without the health problems? There could be a way
Obesity is linked to the widespread epidemics of diabetes and heart disease that plague society, but a lesser-known fact is that the weight can also lead to autoimmune disease. Now, researchers have new information about ...
Overweight and Obesity
Apr 04, 2013 |
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Sildenafil for heart failure does not result in significant improvement in exercise capacity
Among patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (a measure of heart function), administration of sildenafil (commercially known as Viagra) for 24 weeks, compared with placebo, did not result in significant ...
Cardiology
Mar 11, 2013 |
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BRAF inhibitor treatment causes melanoma cells to shift how they produce energy
A multi-institutional study has revealed that BRAF-positive metastatic malignant melanomas develop resistance to treatment with drugs targeting the BRAF/MEK growth pathway through a major change in metabolism. The findings, ...
Cancer
Mar 08, 2013 |
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Local therapy followed by treatment with EGFR TKI is well tolerated
Local therapy is not commonly utilized in metastatic lung cancer. Researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center investigated the efficacy of local therapy with continued EGFR TKI therapy specifically in patients with ...
Cancer
Feb 22, 2013 |
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New insight into RASopathy-associated lymphatic defects
The RAS pathway is a cellular signaling pathway that regulates growth and development in humans. RASopathies are a group of diseases characterized by defects in RAS signaling.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 08, 2013 |
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Treatment targeting PI3K may delay resistance to anti-HER2 therapy in breast cancer patients
Patients with HER2-positive breast cancer being treated with anti-HER2 therapy may be able to prevent or delay resistance to the therapy with the addition of a phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase inhibitor to their treatment regimens.
Cancer
Jan 23, 2013 |
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Hard-to-treat Myc-driven cancers may be susceptible to drug already used in clinic
Drugs that are used in the clinic to treat some forms of breast and kidney cancer and that work by inhibiting the signaling molecule mTORC1 might have utility in treating some of the more than 15 percent of human cancers ...
Cancer
Dec 14, 2012 |
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Infertility: How can the ovulation function be restored?
One of the most frequent is the existence of tumours that induce an over-secretion of this hormone. These women present with chronic infertility due to anovulation. Thanks to the work of the Inserm researchers from unit 693 ...
Medical research
Oct 17, 2012 |
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Overcoming memories that trigger cocaine relapse
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) have identified mechanisms in the brain responsible for regulating cocaine-seeking behavior, providing an avenue for drug development that could greatly reduce ...
Neuroscience
Oct 17, 2012 |
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Alpha wave blocks your mind for distraction, but not continuously
Alpha waves were long ignored, but gained interest of brain researchers recently. Electrical activity of groups of brain cells results in brain waves with different amplitudes. The so called alpha wave, a slow brain wave ...
Neuroscience
Oct 09, 2012 |
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Combination of targeted treatment drugs delays resistance in melanoma patients
Combined treatment with two drugs targeting different points in the same growth-factor pathway delayed the development of treatment resistance in patients with BRAF-positive metastatic malignant melanoma. The results of a ...
Cancer
Sep 29, 2012 |
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Eye-tracking test could facilitate earlier Alzheimer's diagnoses
With the steady increase in the life expectancy of Europe's population, researchers estimate that the number of people affected by age-related diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, will increase dramatically in the next ...
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Sep 18, 2012 |
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New drug has potential to treat broader range of cancers
(Medical Xpress)—ImmuNext, founded by scientists at King's College London, has announced a research and drug development agreement with Janssen Biotech Inc to develop a new cancer drug to trigger the ...
Cancer
Sep 10, 2012 |
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Inhibitor
Something that restrains, blocks, or suppresses.
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