"Pharmacological agents" refers to substances or chemicals that are used as medicines to treat diseases or ailments. They have specific effects on the body and are designed to help improve health or relieve symptoms. These agents can be in the form of pills, injections, creams, or other types of treatments.
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Curcumin, the ingredient in turmeric that is responsible for its golden colour, is thought to be the primary
pharmacological agent in turmeric, and has important antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and healing properties.
Ninety - five per cent of all tested
pharmacological agents for treating brain disorders fail, because they can not cross the blood - brain barrier.
However, because it has a very short half - life in the body, of about five minutes, «most people believe that the way to utilise the TGF beta - 1 response therapeutically is to find ways of inducing it locally using
other pharmacological agents», he says.
In the research, Rieger treated the zebrafish
with pharmacological agents that reduce MMP - 13 activity, with the result that skin defects were improved and chemotherapy - induced nerve damage was reversed.
There are several drugs that obviously do increase milk supply, and of course it is reasonable to assume that some plants and herbs might contain
similar pharmacological agents.
New avenues of research could include the effects of reducing environmental stress, as well as
whether pharmacological agents might be able to reverse the genetic alternations in vulnerable children before the disorder develops.
The proteins
pump pharmacological agents from the «brain side» to the «blood side» in the same way as in the human blood - brain barrier.
If we can combine a beneficial substance which the brain needs with a so - called «absorber protein», we will in the long term be able to
smuggle pharmacological agents across the blood - brain barrier.»
To solve this problem, researchers from the groups of Zack Z. Wang (Johns Hopkins) and Linzhao Cheng (Johns Hopkins) have sought to create a robust and efficient means to generate expandable MK progenitors from hiPSCs using Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-
approved pharmacological agents [3].
«With the
appropriate pharmacological agent, it could be likely that we could prevent the heart damage often seen in some forms of muscular dystrophy,» said Campbell.
Ideally, treating pharmacologists would be blind to concurrent psychosocial treatments, and the effects of CFF - CBT or other novel treatments could be distinguished from the impact of
specific pharmacological agents or dosing strategies.
Freitas et al (2011) performed a systematic search of all studies using non-invasive stimulation in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and reviewed all 29 identified articles; 24 focused on measures of motor cortical reactivity and (local) plasticity and functional connectivity, with 8 of these studies assessing also effects
of pharmacological agents, and 5 studies focused on the enhancement of cognitive function in AD.
When Botelho applied Decamethonium bromide,
a pharmacological agent capable of paralyzing embryonic musculature, the result was a non-opposable toe with a straight, non-twisted base identical to that of their dinosaur ancestors.
«We could use resveratrol to suppress inflammation or develop resveratrol derivatives that could be
pharmacological agents to suppress inflammation using the same strategy.»
More research is needed to explore rosemary's potential benefits as
a pharmacological agent — but in the meantime, it's an attractive option for good old - fashioned aromatherapy.
This finding opens up the question whether intermittent fasting alone or in combination with
a pharmacological agent could serve as a useful new therapeutic approach for treating pain.
Bisson also suggested the future for PTSD treatment research must include well - designed trials and an exploration of combination treatments — particularly involving both psychotherapy and
pharmacological agents.
Pharmacological agents are often prescribed based for specific symptoms shown by individual patients.
Several pharmacological trials have shown that
pharmacological agents can attenuate and modify such attentional bias.