Sentences with phrase «drug treatments»

«That will tell us which proteins to target with new drug treatments.»

Brenneman benefited from her colleagues» support during the 2 years she was weakened by chemotherapy and drug treatments.

The DSM - 5 proposals have also attracted criticism from psychologists, who tend to favour counselling over the drug treatments that dominate modern psychiatry.

The findings, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could provide a way to evaluate drug treatments aimed at easing or preventing sickle cell crisis, also known as vaso - occlusion.

The main reason for advanced - stage ovarian cancer, they say, is an out of control protein CD44, which enables cancerous tumors to proliferate and become resistant to conventional drug treatments.

Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent of all brain disorders, and yet there's been little progress in drug treatments for anxiety in more than 50 years.

This could allow new targeted drug treatments that work differently than those used now.»

«Drug treatments for schizophrenia have barely changed over the past few decades, as they still target dopamine receptors,» says study co-author Dr Andrew McQuillin, head of the UCL Molecular Psychiatry team that first discovered GRM3.

The research group has found that this technology allows scientists to inactivate critical biological phenomena, including cell migration and cell division, by using only lights, and without the assistance of chemical drug treatments or genetic modification.

Researchers say they will study ways to reverse or prevent damage, perhaps through diet, nutritional supplements or drug treatments designed to block the genetic switches.

Just about everything we know about drug treatments for psychiatric disorders we learned from mice, and yet no medication on the market today is perfect.

She adds that it is also unclear why distinct patterns of these sites are observed in different cell types and under different drug treatments.

Such low concentrations are increasingly found in natural habitats or in patients during drug treatments.

This way, we were able to evaluate some factors which, beyond the motor symptoms and drug treatments, might play a role in this problem.»

The findings could help direct more successful clinical testing of new drug treatments, which have traditionally had disappointing results.

In a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Sangeeta Bhatia of MIT and Charles Rice of Rockefeller University describe using microfabricated cell cultures to sustain hepatitis B virus in human liver cells, allowing them to study immune responses and drug treatments.

Most poor countries can not afford the «short course» drug treatments that can be completed in six months.

A system based on tailored DNA - devices could help to avoid unnecessary drug treatments, since programmed DNA - nanorobots could detect various agents from the blood stream, and immediately start the battle against disease.

With this understanding, we'll be better able to predict how variations in a protein might lead to changes in phenotype, which — when we're talking about variations associated with dysfunction and disease — will be crucial for figuring out how drug treatments might differ among individuals.

Laboratory fruit flies are used for quick screening of candidate drug treatments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Given the progressive nature of MS, the debilitating nature of fatigue, and the lack of effective fatigue drug treatments that work for the majority, such findings are encouraging and important.

The researchers then exposed cells from each of these lines to a panel of 31 different drug treatments — including 23 chemotherapy compounds approved by the FDA for breast and ovarian cancers, six targeted cancer drugs, and two common drug combinations.

Since small, early - stage cancers are the most responsive to drug treatments, screening is an important aspect of follow - up care for breast cancer patients, and early detection is critical in tailoring appropriate and effective therapeutic interventions.

Professor Elkington highlights that more research is needed to investigate the hypothesis but if it is proved, the discovery could have major implications for the design of new vaccines and drug treatments.

Detection of dementia at the earliest stages has become a worldwide priority, because drug treatments, prevention strategies and other interventions will likely be more effective very early in the disease process, before extensive brain damage has occurred.

A new insight into immune cells by scientists at The University of Manchester could lead to more effective drug treatments.

The interaction between academia and pharma is hugely beneficial and we hope it will lead to more effective drug treatments.»

Especially for people with a very high blood serum IgE level, who are constrained in their everyday lives and work, despite drug treatments, this new technique could offer a new quality of life.

«Gambling distortions like the «near - miss» effect may be amenable to both psychological therapies for problem gambling, and also by drug treatments that may act on the underlying brain systems.

This is an important step in developing drug treatments that target certain genes or certain products derived from the intestinal bacteria.

For 6 years, I was the chief scientific officer of a foundation that researched drug treatments for benign but deforming tumors that could become malignant.

There are currently no vaccines or specific drug treatments for chikungunya.

The discovery of an unexpected biochemical link within tumor cells should lead to clinical trials for experimental drug treatments that indirectly target myc and that already are being evaluated in human studies, the researchers said.

Although this sheds a light on gender differences in viral loads, Quinn adds that the best point at which to start anti-HIV drug treatments is generally still unknown.

«It's possible that this is part of a new wave of drug treatments that are actually designed to address the immune defect,» says Phan.

The new findings, says Peri, implicate the calcium waves as potential targets for drug treatments.

Furthermore, there are no differences between the major political party affiliation groups on views about the use of animals in research, the safety of eating genetically modified (GM) foods and whether to allow access to experimental drug treatments before those treatments have been shown to be safe and effective.

But scientists have devised drug treatments to address individual mutations.

Revealing the precise structure of the serotonin transporter holds tremendous promise for the development of life - changing drug treatments for these diseases,» said Eric Gouaux, Ph.D., senior scientist in the Vollum Institute at OHSU, National Academy of Sciences member, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

The more accurate the structure, the better scientists can use it to create effective drug treatments without side effects.

African Americans are less supportive than either whites or Hispanics of allowing access to experimental drug treatments before such treatments have been shown to be safe and effective.

The finding, reported in July, shifts the focus of depression's source from neuron function to metabolism, which could lead to more effective diagnosis and drug treatments, Flint says.

Understanding these side effects could open the door to new drug treatments.

Additionally, using organs - on - chips for testing avoids unnecessarily exposing patients to drug treatments that might be ineffective or have harmful side effects, Urban added.

The organs - on - chips can then be used to test the efficacy of drug treatments on a particular organ.

And for those unlucky enough to descend from miserable or withholding grandparents, emerging drug treatments could reset not just mood, but the epigenetic changes themselves.

Cancer researchers have long observed the value of treating patients with combinations of anti-cancer drugs that work better than single drug treatments.

With the soaring costs of some new drug treatments do you worry that most of these immunotherapies will be beyond the financial reach of all but the very rich?

Therefore we believe that anti-VEGF treatment is a logical target for new drug treatments that could help enhance the effect of better lens design and placement, to prevent secondary cataract.»

In several chapters focusing on drug treatments, he explores what we know about the physical underpinnings of anxiety.