Evidence from animal studies suggests that oxytocin helps prepare a female's brain for motherhood.
Animal studies showed that squalamine controlled infections of yellow fever, Eastern equine encephalitis virus, and murine cytomegalovirus.
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The need-for-neurons theory is controversial and the evidence behind it circumstantial, based as it is solely on animal studies.
Animal studies have shown brain abnormalities persisting four years after amphetamine use stops.
There is growing evidence from human and animal studies that radiation damage can be passed from one generation to the next.
Olestra is the most tested food substance in history, having undergone more animal studies and human clinical trials than most prescription drugs.
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Animal studies have indicated STACs can restore the health and life prospects of obese mice and early-stage trials in humans are now underway.
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They added that some animal studies had suggested the amygdala changes could indicate changes in the brain or damage resulting from drug use.
Lantus is insulin that has been chemically altered to make it longer-acting, and a few animal studies had raised alarms about cancer risk.
Animal studies have shown that stress damages brain cells to the point where it can inhibit neurogenesis (the growth of new brain cells).
Friend used DNA chips to examine several potential medicines, some of which Merck had axed because animal studies showed risks of side effects.
Exactly why such stimulation works isn't known, experts say, but a similar procedure has been shown in animal studies to help improve learning and memory.
AN-1792 may be one more piece of evidence that promising animal studies do not always produce treatments for humans as quickly as one might hope.
Put differently, the animal studies are wrong 90% of the time.
The DNA chips, in combination with Rosetta's software, flagged the duds from the drugs as well as the animal studies, but more quickly and cheaply.
He notes that the results of animal studies have been mixed.
Animal studies have shown them to affect neurological and reproductive behaviour.
Earlier this month, Starpharma announced that animal studies at Johns Hopkins University showed that besides preventing HIV and genital herpes, VivaGel may be a potent contraceptive as well.
In fact, Arena last week withdrew its application to market Belvia in Europe after the European Medicines Agency pointed to potential cardiovascular risks and tumors found in animal studies.
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Recent animal studies have shown that stimulating the entorhinal cortex improved the growth of brain cells in adult mice and appeared to enhance memory for locations and spatial knowledge.
Through further experiments in human cells and animal studies the researchers found that a protein called NF-kB lured zinc into the immune cells that responded fastest to fight infection.
Both of those technologies for boosting memory and intelligence are in very early stages, in small animal studies only, and years (or possibly decades) away from wide use in humans.
Animal studies have suggested that animals at rest for prolonged periods of time show decreased ability to break down fat as a result of decreased enzymatic activity of certain lipases.
And Geron of Menlo Park, Calif. is performing animal studies on a variety of different cells derived from human embryonic stem cells, aiming to treat spinal cord injury, heart disease and diabetes.
It is true that the studies done on acupuncture have been a mixed bag with some showing clear effectiveness beyond placebo (many of these animal studies) and others showing lesser effectiveness within the placebo range.
Plus, if BPA was below the level of detection using the most advanced technology for determining the presence of such chemicals, all those animal studies claiming adverse effects based on much, much higher exposures were simply irrelevant to human health.
And Geron (nasdaq: GERN - news - people ) of Menlo Park, Calif. is performing animal studies on a variety of different cells derived from human embryonic stem cells, aiming to treat spinal cord injury, heart disease and diabetes.
Over the next decade animal studies at UCLA and elsewhere showed that macrophages are attracted to arteries when cholesterol lodged in the arteries gets chemically altered, or oxidized, so that the immune system suddenly spots it as foreign and goes on the attack.
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