Sentences with phrase «have the therapeutic effect of»

Not in a clinical sense, although it may have the therapeutic effect of making us forget about how trivial our problems are - as compared to a mob boss with free - floating anxiety.

Not exact matches

From Peirce's claim that we can make our ideas clear by considering their conceivable practical effects, to James's notion of truth's cash value in experiential terms, to Dewey's own view of the practical character of reality, the message seems to be that philosophy has more to offer than a therapeutic stance toward social issues and a rhetorical presentation of new suggestions.

As a physics teacher, I teach the therapeutic effects of gamma radiation in radiotherapy, along with the associated dangers (radiation can cause cells to become cancerous as well as kill cells that are already cancerous), but a common misconception among students is that cancer cells are rather like viruses or bacteria, a sort of alien cell that has entered the body, growing out of control with little relation to the surrounding cells.

These phytochemicals and amino acids have a range of therapeutic effects.

It's a very different, slow way of life that's able to offer a shift of perspective, and it had a very lasting, therapeutic effect on me.

With Rachel's Remedy I know at least one aspect of my care plan has just been made easier and that the product will stay warm, feel comfortable and produce the therapeutic effect that mother needs.

Enriched with natural skin strengthening vitamins, the oil helps maintains healthy moisturised soft skin and the essential oils - which are renowned for their sedative therapeutic effects - have the added bonus of making your baby smell gorgeous too!

«We have discovered a small molecule compound that shows a profound and prolonged effect on autism - like social deficits without obvious side effects, while many currently used compounds for treating a variety of psychiatric diseases have failed to exhibit the therapeutic efficacy for this core symptom of autism,» said Zhen Yan, PhD, professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB, and senior author on the paper.

For decades there has been some belief that pregnancy has an adverse effect on the course of melanoma, increasing the risk of its development, ability to spread throughout the body, and recurrence, said study coauthor Mark Faries, MD, FACS, who was director of therapeutic immunology at the John Wayne Cancer Institute, Santa Monica, Calif. at the time the study was conducted.

Researchers at Nagoya University have been studying the therapeutic effect of T cells, vital disease - fighting components in our body's immune system, for fighting cancer.

Delays can have cascading and devastating effects on the development of a therapeutic.

Bacteria that produce a therapeutic compound in the gut inhibit weight gain, insulin resistance and other adverse effects of a high - fat diet in mice, Vanderbilt University investigators have discovered.

«Imaging of the joint could help evaluate the mechanism of a drug's therapeutic effect, and if a process turns out to be mediated by more than one chemoattractant, understanding the mechanism would allow the rational design of combination therapies to completely shut down critical steps in the process.»

«Psychiatry has long struggled with the fact that, while lithium is highly effective for treating bipolar disorder, the narrow therapeutic window and side effect profile often makes lithium both difficult and sometimes dangerous to work with clinically,» said Todd Gould, MD, of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland, an expert in the mechanisms of lithium and the neurobiology of bipolar disorder.

The team is pursuing further work on Del - 1 to see if they can identify a subunit of the protein that could have the same therapeutic effect.

«That's a very important point, because many of the current therapeutic agents being used for lupus have significant side effects.

The conclusion: Ginkgo biloba «appears to be a safe and effective alternative to the current therapeutic alternatives for the treatment of dementia» and has fewer side effects than Tacrine, a popular prescription medicine for the condition.

The patient expects a therapeutic benefit, and this kind of expectation actually has an effect on the brain and the body.

«We provide proof - of - concept that the telomerase based treatment -LRB-...) has a therapeutic effect on the type of aplastic anemia caused by short telomeres,» the authors state in an article in the journal Blood, with Christian Bär among them as the first author, as well as Juan Manuel Povedano.

«It suggests that lithium could have its well - known therapeutic effect on patients with bipolar disorder by changing the stability of spines in the brain.»

The researchers also speculate that because the effects of eye contact on human cognition seem to be in general positive, eye contact may have therapeutic potential.

When Oudhoff applied human saliva to skin - cell cultures scratched by a needle, however, he found that the concentrations of growth factors were too low to have any therapeutic effect.

A team of researchers led by biophysicists at the University of Washington have come one step closer to designing tailor - made drug molecules that are more precise and carry fewer side effects than most existing therapeutic compounds.

Dr Jaberzadeh said the technique had exciting implications for a whole host of conditions in which «enhancement of the brain excitability» has a therapeutic effect.

«We've never seen such a dramatic therapeutic effect,» says Xiao Xiao, head of the research team.

«It's probably premature to run large trials without evidence that they have a therapeutic effect that [we] understand,» cautions Arnold Kriegstein, director of the Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at the University of California, San Francisco.

Because chronic hyperglycemia... potentially predicts a poor therapeutic effect of aerobic exercise on glycemic control and fitness, using exercise to treat patients with poorly controlled T2DM may have limited chances of a successful outcome,» the study concludes.

By examining the importance of regulatory T cells in anti-inflammation we have found a potential therapeutic effect of IL - 10 producing intestinal macrophages for IBD patients.

[32 - 34] And recently, emerging evidence has pointed to an important indirect role played by senescent cells (specifically, senescent glial cells) in PD, contributing to the dysfunctional neuroinflammation and SN DA neuron loss in PD, [35] and researchers are now reporting the salutary effects of their therapeutic clearance.

«It has long been hypothesized that focused attention practice improves attentional control while open monitoring promotes emotional non-reactivity — two aspects of mindfulness thought to contribute its therapeutic effects,» says study lead and corresponding author Willoughby Britton, PhD, an assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior.

We're using this advanced biomarker imaging endpoints as part of our way to detect whether the therapeutic is having a positive effect early in the trial.

Even if glcosepane's low tissue burden in rats means that cleaving it will not have dramatic rejuvenating effects in these animals (which is a reasonable prediction, but might be happily disproven in the event), its high prevalence in aging and diabetic human collagen, and its implication in the complications of diabetes, will make the mere demonstration of a candidate's ability to cleave glucosepane crosslinks in vivo a sufficient proof - of - concept to spur further work to move it down the therapeutic pipeline into human testing.

There are a wide range of therapeutic treatments [1], although none have shown any more than modest clinical effects [2].

In two other studies that assessed the therapeutic effect of VPA on experimental colitis or experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, the investigators showed that VPA was effective and safe up to 400 mg / kg / d (28, 29).

Researchers at Vanderbilt University have inhibited weight gain, insulin resistance and various other negative health effects of a high - fat diet in mice by modifying bacteria to produce a therapeutic compound in the gut.

In fact, the FDA has recommended that newer technologies be employed as soon they become available, to reduce the possibility of very serious off - target effects of therapeutic antibodies that bind to antigens in non-target tissues.

This means that patients don't learn if they've benefitted until after leaving the operating room, an unfortunate reality that ensures some patients will endure the toxic effects of chemotherapy without any therapeutic advantage.

â $ œWe have solved a major obstacle of using anti-miRNA as a therapeutic by being able to do a targeted delivery to only inflamed endothelial cells while all other tissues examined, including liver, lung, kidney, blood cells, spleen, etc showed no detectable side - effects, â $ Jo says.

«The profound protective effects of progranulin against both amyloid - beta deposits and cell toxicity have important therapeutic implications,» said senior author Li Gan, PhD, an associate investigator at Gladstone and associate professor of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco.

«We do think this has some therapeutic relevance, where an inhibitors of this enzyme would have effects on the cells we identified that tend to overexpress this enzyme,» says Sabatini, who is also a biology professor at MIT.

The goal is to test if targeting the vitamin D receptor will unlock the potential of immunotherapies to kill pancreatic cancer tumor cells and potentially establish a therapeutic combination for controlling advanced pancreatic cancer, extending patient survival, and reducing patient side effects.

Inserm Unit U919, directed by Prof. Denis Vivien («Serine Proteases and Physiopathology of the Neurovascular Unit») has developed an antibody with potential therapeutic effects against multiple sclerosis.

«We provide proof - of - concept that the telomerase based treatment -LRB-...) has a therapeutic effect on the type of aplastic anaemia caused by short telomeres,» the authors state in an article in the journal Blood, with Christian Bär among them as the first author, as well as Juan Manuel Povedano.

Although it is uncertain how much brain progranulin would need to increase for a therapeutic effect, reaching the lower limit of normal, which is commonly defined as the fifth percentile of the control group (2 SDs below the control group mean), is a reasonable estimate.

Because the fly modeled the key features of the human disease, researchers can now screen proteins and molecules quickly to see which might have therapeutic effects.

Myelosuppression is a well - established side effect of current AML therapies, with prolonged events leading to an increased risk of infections and death.44 Consequently, therapies that preferentially kill leukemic cells over normal bone marrow cells are urgently required, and the overexpression of CD123 on AML leukemic stem cells and blasts compared with normal hematopoietic cells contributes to its attractiveness as a therapeutic target in this disease.6, 45 However, severe myelosuppression and myeloablation have emerged for some investigational CD123 - targeted treatment modalities.

Science says there's nothing quite like the therapeutic effects of some vitamin D and nature — and Mainei's preferred method of relaxation proves the same.

In an online survey of more 3,545 knitters, by Betsan Corkhill, a UK - based knitting therapist who has done research on the therapeutic effects of knitting, more than half of respondents reported that knitting left them feeling «very happy.»

But over the past couple of years, Epsom salt baths have enjoyed a resurgence, with high - end spas offering float sessions inside sensory deprivation tanks and celebs like Gwyneth Paltrow and Hannah Bronfman revealing they swear by their therapeutic effects.

In recent years, the scientific studies of yoga have increased substantially and many clinical trials have been designed to assess its therapeutic effects and benefits.