Sentences with phrase «manipulated by drugs»

The opioid system is usually manipulated by drugs to trigger pain relief, but turmeric's ability to activate the system provides a natural (and side symptom - free) option for pain relief.

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The article described how an internal investigation conducted by a company executive, Dinesh Thakur, who went on to become a whistleblower, reported appalling deceit: Ranbaxy scientists substituted cheaper, lower - quality ingredients in place of better ingredients, manipulated test parameters, and even bought brand - name drugs and used them in place of their own generics to win FDA approval.

It's extraordinarily powerful because in pharmacology, you have the ability — by giving a drug — to manipulate [the brain using] that biochemical substance.

Nevertheless, Nayernia remains optimistic about manipulating stem cells to treat infertility, and says a positive outcome could help many men, including those whose sperm stem cells have been destroyed by potent anti-cancer drugs.

But they think that by looking at some of the chemical basis of, you know, weight loss and / or weight gain, then by manipulating it — and they also look for the genes involved in these chemical signals — then they can possibly translate that into drugs for humans or just understanding better the mechanism of weight loss and weight gain.

«By tuning the surface properties and pore size of the MSRs, and therefore controlling the introduction and release of various proteins and drugs, we can manipulate the immune system to treat multiple diseases.»

«We were able to develop this very novel method to go to a single neuron and manipulate how it computes» by using drugs to block neurotransmitters at the level of a single nerve cell in a frog brain, and then measuring what happens to that neuron in response to frog calls, Alluri says.

The work should be significant for pharmaceutical companies that design drugs through painstaking processes and at great cost by eliminating some of the trial and error in identifying new sites on proteins that could be more easily manipulated to treat disease, said Rice biological physicist José Onuchic.

After decades of work by scientists around the globe, researchers have genetically manipulated yeast to synthesize thebaine, an opiate substance that can be used to create many opioid drugs, and hydrocodone, a common semi-synthetic opioid drug.

Long - term goal of the project will be to visualize and manipulate tau expression also in a systemic context (organotypic slice preparations, mouse brain) by affecting the function of tau mRNA - containing neuronal granules as a potential drug target for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.

Researchers are also finding ways to manipulate mAbs to make them even more powerful, and to craft them to work in combination with other drugs — for example, by delivering cancer - killing drugs directly to a tumor.

Researchers might also be able to inhibit prostate cancer's spread by designing drugs that manipulate the sarcosine pathway.

Scientists have already used a drug called rapamycin, as well as manipulated a gene, to extend the life of mice by 10 per cent to 30 per cent.

By manipulating breath — in some sense, the body's greatest natural drug — we're able to shift our internal landscape.

Ranbaxy's scientists also made it known to Thankur that it frequently substituted ingredients in medications for less expensive, low quality ingredients in order to manage production costs, as well as manipulated testing parameters by substituting brand - name drugs for their own drugs in order to accomplish better testing results.