Sentences with phrase «altered by drug»

When the brain is altered by drug use, it requires more drugs just to function at a basic level.

The ones with minds altered by the words of jesus warning the ones with minds altered by drugs.

Evidence is now emerging from multiple sources that gut flora may actually be permanently altered by drugs or, at the very least, the damage persists for several years.

Not exact matches

The mystics often seek to experience God through altered states of consciousness, generally induced by trance or meditation instead of drugs.

If your religious leader has not warned you of God's word banning Christians from using mind - altering pharmakia drugs, you are being misled and also have child abusers in your church being known of by your leaders and kept secret from the police.

Some drugs acts potently with the presence of fat while there are also some whose actions are altered by the presence of fat.

By understanding why your teenager is abusing drugs, you can alter that abuse more easily.

It is a big step toward the goal of pain science, which is to zero in on the brain region or regions altered by chronic pain and devise a treatment (a drug or maybe electrical stimulation) that can correct the malfunctioning neurons in that zone.

Treatment implications might include the potential utility of medications to alter the body's immune response by blocking inflammation, or providing drugs that enhance basal ganglia function, he says.

The drug lowers blood pressure by altering the flow of calcium molecules in and out of cells.

As it can take weeks to grow human cells into intact differentiated and functional tissues within Organ Chips, such as those that mimic the lung and intestine, and researchers seek to understand how drugs, toxins or other perturbations alter tissue structure and function, the team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering led by Donald Ingber has been searching for ways to non-invasively monitor the health and maturity of cells cultured within these microfluidic devices over extended times.

«They've done this by altering their genetic make - up; transferring drug - resistant genes between one another; and creating biofilms, which are multicellular communities where bacteria can be a thousand-fold more resistant to antibiotics.»

They found the altered parasite was significantly less susceptible, requiring 32 % more drug to be killed by artemisinin.

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The team is already performing additional studies on the molecules that are altered by J147's effect on the mitochondrial ATP synthase - which could themselves be new drug targets.

There is no cure, but people with the disease can avoid flare - ups by taking anti-inflammatory drugs and altering diet.

«Current antiretroviral drugs target HIV's proteins,» says James Stivers, Ph.D., a professor of pharmacology and molecular sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, «but those proteins are moving targets because they are often altered by mutations.

New studies — prompted by a renewed interest in potential applications of psychedelic drugs for understanding the brain or even treating some psychiatric diseases — suggest that far - reaching changes in brain connectivity contribute to the altered states of consciousness and other effects of an acid trip.

Although bacteria have a seemingly limitless capacity to alter their genes by swapping bits of DNA between strains, this mechanism doesn't seem enough to account for the swift pace of change and the high variability of E. coli and other strains.Thomas Cebula of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wondered if this rapid evolution is being driven by microbes capable of much faster - than - normal variation.

Researcher Lindsay R. Wilkinson, an assistant professor of sociology in Baylor University's College of Arts & Sciences, drew on 5,205 respondents from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to examine the effect of financial strain on the mental health and use of mood - altering drugs by older adults.

Although we already knew that antibiotics — which, by definition, kill bacteria — can dramatically alter the gut microbiome, the team found that antihistamines, hormonal contraceptives and anti-inflammatory drugs also appear to have an effect.

Neuroscientists believe that consciousness emerges from the material stuff of the brain primarily because even very small changes to your brain (say, by drugs or disease) can powerfully alter your subjective experiences.

«Understanding how the drugs work gives us the opportunity to investigate new treatments, for example by using combination therapies, or altering the dosage and timing of treatment to prevent drug resistance from emerging,» Dr Glaser said.

New research suggests the bacteria that cause tuberculosis alter their metabolism to combat exposure to antimicrobials, and that these metabolic «escape pathways» might be neutralized by new drugs to shorten the troublesome duration of therapy.

«Secret alter ego of well - known protein fights leaky blood vessels: Surprise discovery of a new pathway governed by Notch signaling protein opens door for better drug development.»

Rao and her team hope that pinpointing the importance of this trafficking mechanism in autism spectrum disorders may lead to the development of new drugs for autism that alter endosomal pH. As the use of genomic data becomes increasingly commonplace in the future, the step-wise strategy devised by her team can be used to screen gene variants and identify at - risk patients, she says.

«Altered states of consciousness are viewed by governments as negative if achieved through drugs,» says Richard Glen Boire, a lawyer and founder of the California - based Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics.

The team found they could replicate the healing abilities of the engineered mice by giving nongenetically altered ones drugs that help activate certain metabolic processes — the same pathway Lin28a stimulates — revving up and energizing cells as if they were much younger.

«We can attach different drugs to the nanoparticles, and by changing the chemistry of the bond linking the drug to the nanoparticle, we can alter the release rate of the drug to be faster or slower,» says Andrew Clark, a graduate student in Davis's lab and the study's first author.

Recent past honorees include Julian Adams of Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Alfred Goldberg of Harvard Medical School and Kenneth Anderson and Paul Richardson, both of Dana - Farber Cancer Institute, for the development of bortezomib, a drug that has altered the lives of hundreds of thousands of people with multiple myeloma; Alain Carpentier of Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou in Paris and Robert S. Langer of MIT for innovations in bioengineering; and the work of Harald zur Hausen and Lutz Gissmann of the German Cancer Research Center on human papillomavirus (HPV) and cancer of the cervix, which was recognized by the WAFP prior to their receiving the Nobel Prize.

The team is already performing additional studies on the molecules that are altered by J147's effect on the mitochondrial ATP synthase — which could themselves be new drug targets.

By comparing the regulatory networks of pathologic conditions, I expect to gain new insights into the central question: how do regulatory networks instruct cellular behavior under diseased condition and can we discover drugs that can alter these regulatory networks.

Recombinant human antithrombin, the first ever therapeutic protein from genetically altered goats, have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)[20].

That collection of organisms strongly influences human health by, for example, producing anti-inflammatory factors, inactivating drugs, and altering the course of disease.

In 2013, a noncancer drug that works by altering epigenetic status gained FDA approval.

These findings may point us towards a means of addressing these risks by altering our lifestyle or by helping to identify targets for new drugs.

«Some manufacturers have made it more difficult for the FDA to detect undeclared ingredients in their products by creating pharmaceutical analogues — they take the formula for an approved prescription drug and alter a few molecules, which makes the drug undetectable but basically creates a new prescription - strength drug that hasn't been tested by anyone.»

These are chemically altered hormones sold by the major drug companies.

«Traditional Treatments» means synthetic chemically altered hormones sold by the drug companies.

If you are on immunosuppressing drugs remember that «IS treatment alters innate antimicrobial defenses and disrupts the gut microbiota, which leads to overgrowth of indigenous E. coli and facilitates colonization by opportunistic pathogens.»

The best thing about the benefits of doing yoga is to feel holistically healed, not by the effect of some mood altering chemical drug, but simply with an invigoration from within.

Terry Gilliam's hallucinatory 1998 adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's classic of gonzo journalism stars Johnny Depp as Thompson's alter ego Raoul Duke and Benicio De Toro (thrillingly and terrifying unencumbered by any behavioral boundaries) as Dr. Gonzo in the drug - fueled carnival atmosphere of Las Vegas, circa 1971.

As well, a mind - altering drug administered by the criminals causes victims to experience panic and wildly distorted hallucinations.

We have entered a post-genomic era in which we yearn to create some kind of bio-scientifically engineered paradise where all sentient life can languish in some bovine stupor, in some chemically altered pseudo reality stage - managed by transnational psychotropic drug dealers who offer to chemically separate us from the emotional squalor of our Precambrian brain through a vast array of designer lifestyle drugs, where we sit in uninterrupted epiphanic bliss at the feet of a statue of a Quarter Pounder in some prosaic cobblestone courtyard at a secluded Ronald McDonald House next to an 18 - hole golf course, or in some kind of edenic trans - human extended epiphany in a university seminar room overflowing with just the correct mixture of a Leibnizian optimism and Nietzschean Dionysian pessimism.

Set in a dystopian 1960's, this action / adventure survival game will have players trying to escape their colorful, oppressive society by refusing to take mind - altering drugs.

The spiritistic seance Avantgarde of Almost Complete Blindness, curated by the artist ensemble Boring Drug starts with a performance by experimental musician Sebastian Buczek and his alter ego Jan G. Lee.

Anger's later films continued to be influenced by his sexuality, the criminalization of queer desire, and his experience with mind - altering drugs like cannabis, LSD and peyote.

This class of drugs works by altering the function of normal kidneys so that excess sugar is excreted in the patient's urine.

These drugs treat diabetes by altering kidney function to stop reabsorption of glucose into the patient's blood stream.

Within the last ten years, have any children used, except as legally prescribed by a physician, tranquilizers, barbiturates or other sedatives; marijuana, cocaine, hallucinogens or other mood - altering drugs; heroin, methadone or other narcotics; amphetamines or other stimulants; or any other illegal or controlled substances?