Cellular - level changes to a part of the brain's reward system induced by chronic exposure to the psychoactive component of marijuana may contribute to the drug's pleasurable and potentially addictive qualities, suggests a study in
young mice published in JNeurosci.
Not exact matches
But new research
published in June in Nature Medicine suggests the drug might affect older users very differently than
young ones — at least in
mice.
Part of the problem, he says, is that the incidence of many human chronic diseases rises with age, yet many researchers prefer using
young mice because of the pressures of being
published and getting funding.
An experimental drug prevented learning deficits in
young mice exposed repeatedly to anesthesia, according to a study led by researchers from NYU Langone Medical Center and
published June 22 in Science Translational Medicine.
In 2005, Rando and his colleagues
published a study in Nature showing that stem cells in several tissues of older
mice, including muscle, seemed to act
younger after continued exposure to
younger mice's blood.
In a study
published June 27 in Cell Reports, a team led by Thomas Rando, MD, PhD, professor of neurology and neurological sciences and chief of the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System's neurology service, has identified characteristic differences in «histone signatures» between stem cells from the muscles of
young mice and old
mice.
The first study,
published in the journal Nature6, found that
young mice treated with low doses of common antibiotics gained 10 - 15 percent more fat than the untreated controls.
In 2012, Research
published by Dr Sinclair of Harvard stunned researchers by showing that short term supplementation with Nicotinamide Mono - Nucleotide (NMN) reversed many aspects of aging, making the cells of old
mice resemble those of much
younger mice, and greatly improving their health.
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