Sentences with phrase «human drugs like»

Human drugs like NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs), antihistamines, antidepressants and diabetic medications can all cause seizures in pets.

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More common and larger - scale cyber-attacks (from Sony pictures to Spanish renewable energy companies) are yet another example of this unprecedented «communication» flow; just as growth of the dark web has allowed for more effective connections in illegal activities — drug trade, human trafficking, and the like.
She points to a few issues on which there's a «clear path,» like stamping out tuberculosis in Inuit communities, which she says is a matter of putting in place «the X-ray machines and the human resources and the drugs and the housing.»
Some, like St. Augustine, have argued that many apparently antireligious activities — including drunkenness, carousing, promiscuous sex, harsh athletic training, committed political activism, incessant material consumption, and drug addiction — actually represent deeply driven human religious longings and searching, which happen to be misdirected quests for the true religious good.
Sure lets talk about «binder's of women» anything but the real issues like the human rights violations when we drop bombs on cities with unchecked drone power, spying on our own citizens, still waging war on our own population calling it a war on drugs and turning us into a gulag state.
To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....
Postwar Nazi Germany is full of drug - taking young Nazis, implicitly just like us that way, it makes them more human.
I remember feeling like a total bad ass for just giving birth to you sans drugs, and feeling overwhelmed by the prospect of caring for your tiny human self.
We know these human bond substitutes as addictions... to substances like alcohol or drugs, social media, gambling, shopping, and any number of other compulsions.
Since sudden withdrawal of power, like the abrupt withdrawal from drugs, produces uncontrollable cravings, those who possess power, especially absolute power, are highly unlikely to give it up willingly, smoothly and without human and material loss.
Nichols believes that when the initial dose of Flatliners failed to produce the ecstasy - like euphoria the human drug users were expecting, they upped their dosage — and kept upping it until it killed them.
The new drug - like compounds discovered by Vogel and her co-authors offer hope that using a computer - generated P - gp model, explained here http://bit.ly/1LVmR7a, developed to accurately mimic the physical, chemical and biological functions of the protein in the human body, will speed up the drug discovery process and work in real life as well.
«We've been targeting human cells with therapeutics that modulate the way the cell makes lipids, and we like to target the human cell because it isn't likely to mutate and become resistant to the drug.
The drug - like compounds can be modified and developed into medicines that target a protein in the human body that is responsible for chemotherapy resistance in cancers, said biochemist Pia D. Vogel, lead author on the scientific paper reporting the discovery.
Like drug - addicted humans, they also had fewer receptors for the reward chemical dopamine (Nature Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1038 / nn.2519).
«Computational models like this one might one day be able to predict the clinical course of a disease or injury, as well as make it possible to do less expensive testing of experimental drugs and interventions to see whether they are worth pursuing with human trials,» he said.
Next, researchers would like to study how the two - drug approach works in humans, although no clinical trials have yet been designed or scheduled.
Moreover, epalrestat, a drug that inhibits AKR1B1 and is approved in Japan to treat peripheral neuropathies associated with diabetes, was similarly able to block the growth and metastasis of human basal - like breast cancer cells.
Ideally, this helps researchers design drug compounds that perform similar functions but retain attributes needed for successful medicines, like nontoxicity and the ability to travel through the human body.
What I especially like about working for UKHTB is that it offers a new challenge and is pioneering in an area that has the potential to benefit human health through the enhanced development of new drugs and diagnostic tools.
«We found that the more complex, dynamic culturing conditions (like those used in this project) are necessary to accurately predict renal drug toxicity in human systems,» said Sakolish.
The team's screen yielded 53 drugs that block Ebola virus - like particles from entering human cells.
Because human T cells don't have as many of these brakes, our cells are a hundred times more aggressive than those of chimps when faced with drugs like TGN1412, which work by triggering the immune system.
«Human - like nose can sniff out contamination in drinking water: New technology could be used to detect drugs at airports, test food quality and develop perfumes.»
In recent research published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Saint Louis University investigators report catching integrase, the part of retroviruses like HIV that is responsible for insertion of the viral DNA into human cell DNA, in the presence of a drug designed to thwart it.
«The findings of adverse effects of BPA in human tissue are highly relevant and should encourage agencies like the Food & Drug Administration to re-evaluate their policies in the near future.»
Developing drugs that modulate genes like Rev - Erbα could therefore help protect human hearts during surgery.
A technique that involves genetically engineering brain cells so that they fire in the presence of certain drugs has been used to treat an epilepsy - like condition in rats, and it could soon be trialled in humans.
Others speculated that, like the malaria drug chloroquine, artemisinin frustrates the removal of haem, a toxic byproduct formed during the parasite's consumption of human hemoglobin.
Substance use disorders of highly addictive opioids like heroin, fentanyl and oxycodone continue to skyrocket in the U.S. Intravenous opioid use disorders are a major contributor to the drug overdoses that are the leading cause of injury death in the United States, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Anderson and Valerie Grum - Tokars, a junior structural biologist on the team, developed a three - dimensional structure of human p38 MAPK, enabling the chemists to design and synthesize novel drug - like small molecules that would disable it.
Because the Ebola virus - like particles used for screening different drugs in this study were not fully infectious, Level 4 was not required.The viral mini-genome generated modifies the Ebola virus to produce virus - like particles that are no longer harmful to humans.
«Based on our findings, we are highly motivated to bring a drug - like derivative of JQ1 forward as a new type of heart failure drug for humans,» Haldar says.
Further research on how serotonin works in the human brain is needed, according to study author Dr. Toru Takumi, a senior team leader at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan, to determine whether drugs like fluoxetine could offer similar potential to treat humans with ASD.
Ross says that because the hyperactivity and decreased anxiety might be interpreted as «mania - like» symptoms, the researchers fed the mice either lithium or valproic acid (an anti-seizure drug, also used to treat mania) over a two week period, as is often done in human therapeutic trials.
Like other parts of the GI tract grown by the researchers, the human colon organoids also create a potential new platform for testing new drugs before the start of clinical trials.
Tiny machines like nanorockets are ideal candidates for drug delivery in the human body.
He says HGS was getting «diminishing returns» from its investment in TIGR since Venter had steered his outfit into sequencing organisms of little medical importance, and into human genome sequencing, also of limited value for a company like HGS that is interested in genes as drug targets (not untranslated DNA that makes up most of the genome).
It is exciting that there is now evidence that brown fat can be useful in treating obesity in adult humans, and that it can be activated by cold exposure or a drug like mirabegron (18 April, p 32).
In response to similar concerns about human studies, the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2007 mandated that researchers conducting human clinical trials preregister the details in an online database like ClinicalTrials.gov.
Promote human clinical trials of repurposed drugs, in collaboration with medical centers (like UC San Francisco) and pharmaceutical companies in the US and abroad.
Genetically engineered mice now act as robust engines for the generation of diverse repertoires of affinity - matured, fully - human variable regions with intrinsic drug - like properties necessary for successful development including high potency, specificity, manufacturability, solubility and low risk of immunogenicity.
With such knowledge, it may be possible to stimulate these nerve cells by artificial means, for example by selective nicotine - like drugs, to improve memory and learning in humans.
How would this development (and whatever drug or therapy they devise for humans) move from the lab and into trials, without it taking decades, like the author here proposes?
In recent years, researchers have developed so - called «senolytic» drugs that wipe out senescent cells in aging mice and mouse models of age - related disease, exploiting the high dependence of these cells on specific biochemical survival pathways.9, 10 In these studies, senolytic drugs have restored exercise capacity9 and formation of new blood and immune precursor cells11 in aging mice to near youthful norms, and prevented or treated mouse models of diseases of aging like osteoarthritis, 12 fibrotic lung disease, 13 hair loss, 14 atherosclerosis, 15,16 and age - related diseases of the heart itself.9 UNITY Biotechnology is leading a growing charge toward the clinic, with human clinical trials expected to begin in 2019.
A striking example of this is MPP +, a well - established neurotoxin that specifically attacks the SNc dopaminergic neurons in lab mice, monkeys — and in humans: MPP +'s parent compound, MPTP, has caused numerous cases of Parkinson's - like syndrome in young people exposed to it in underground drug labs, or via contaminated street drugs.1
Of note today: An evaluation of multi-site human microbiome temporal stability over six months; The impacts of 1,000 non-antibiotic drugs on the in vitro gut microbiome; Caspase - 1 might modulate the relationship between stress, the gut microbiome, inflammation and depressive - like behaviour in mice; And the impact of warming on the Antarctic soil microbiome
When researchers like Gan find potential new drugs, it's useful to test them on human cells to increase the chances that they will benefit patients.
«Artificial sweeteners have positive reinforcing effects — meaning humans will work for it, like for other foods, alcohol, and even drugs of abuse,» he says.
«Human milk is a body fluid like saliva, blood, or semen, so it can transmit infectious diseases,» says Keim — including HIV and hepatitis C and B. «Human milk can also carry with it any drugs or pharmaceuticals that donor might be taking,» she adds.
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