Sentences with phrase «tested known compounds»

«In fact, we tested known compounds and showed that two of them substantially reduced UBE3A activity in neurons.»

Not exact matches

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Who knows, there may even be useful compounds hidden away in alternative or traditional medicines that could be found through a good testing program.

Instead of systematically testing the effects of known compounds — the pharmaceutical industry's basic model for more than a century — scientists can now investigate backward, combing through genomic data to find links between specific genotypes and diseases and then screening drug data to identify therapeutic candidates.

Thinking that high concentrations of the corrosive NO might play a role in the nerve damage, Hilary Koprowski and his colleagues at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia tested in mice three compounds — uric acid, PTIO, and D609 — that are known to scavenge NO or inhibit its production.

Among the substances they tested was a synthetic, small - molecule compound known as PF - 04554787.

In France, the Nosopharm researchers tested the ODL compounds against bacterial pathogens, including many known to develop resistance.

The agency released data from these test wells in November that confirmed high levels of carcinogenic chemicals such as benzene, and a chemical compound called 2 Butoxyethanol, which is known to be used in fracking.

To test its model and lay the foundation for modeling increasingly complex material interactions, the team decided to simulate silicon dioxide (SiO2), a common, well - studied material, most well - known as the compound that forms quartz.

Because the team already knew that nitric oxide and GAPDH were involved in the process, they tested the ability of the compound CGP3466B, known to disrupt nitric oxide / GAPDH interactions, to halt cocaine - induced autophagy.

As far as we have tested in these experiments, we found that the CDDO compound had no known side effects.

Knowing of America's desperate search for new antimalarial drugs (by then, the U.S. government and Winthrop scientists had screened roughly 14,000 candidate compounds), French military doctors shipped samples back to the States for further testing.

I said before that we hope to deliver this compound as an eye drop, but for now we are testing it as an injection into the eye because we know that gets the compound where it needs to be and that is how the existing drugs are delivered.

One method that is being tested removes iron by means of a complex - forming compound, or chelate, known as EDMA (ethylenediiminobis (2 - hydroxy -4-methyl-phenyl) acetic acid).

«We know these foods are beneficial to health, and the 10 - minute method we developed, which can test for the presence of specific compounds linked to these vegetables, will help researchers quantify exactly how much of these molecules are being consumed,» says Marcin Dyba, research associate at Georgetown Lombardi.

I know a lot of compounding people think you should test salivary estrogen levels, but the normal level is so broad that it seems like a waste of money.»

A compound known as ellagic acid has already put these properties to test, and they may offer the clues the secret that lies behind red raspberries anti-cancer potency.

«My instinct is that it only makes sense to prevent children's exposure to chemicals known to affect the nervous system, and those include pesticides, solvents, many volatile organic compounds, metals, PCBs, and thousands of other poorly tested synthetic chemicals now in commerce.

«After field testing the modified silica, called Osorb, DOE's National Energy Technology Laboratory confirmed it can remove more than 99 percent of oil and grease from water, and more than 90 percent of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes — also known as BTEX — the volatile compounds that can poison drinking water.»