Researchers have found a mechanism that links epigenetic changes to translational control during fear memory reconsolidation — several particular epigenetic changes in the hippocampus of the rat brain control downstream regulation of translation in brain neurons, acting through a gene called Pten.
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Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: New Breathing Tube Used During Cardiac Arrest Could Save Thousands
A study comparing two breathing tubes used by paramedics during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest shows that the King laryngeal tube was superior to the more commonly used endotracheal tube, according to findings of the Pragmatic Airway Resuscitation Trial.
Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Researchers Propose New Method for Secure, Speech-Based Two-Factor Authentication
“Listening-Watch” a program utilizing wearable devices and speech for two-factor authentication, thwarts potential mobile device attacks while requiring minimal effort from the user.
Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Infectious Disease Experts Who Can Discuss Measles Outbreaks
Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Fad Diets or Lifestyle Changes — Where Do Three Popular Weight-Reduction Plans Fit In?
Ketogenic, Whole30 and paleo diets aren’t convenience diets — they can cause challenges for eating out and cause a strain on your wallet — but they do provide whole food solutions.
Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: R21 Grant Will Explore New Options for Tobacco Cessation
Tobacco-related disease is especially prevalent among African-American men. This grant provides more multidisciplinary opportunities for UAB faculty to provide solutions for tobacco cessation. Preliminary data shows that 39.9 percent of African-American men between 19 and 30 years of age in rural Alabama counties smoke cigarettes.
Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: How to Stop a Bully: A Guide for Students, Parents and Teachers
Doctoral student Jonathan Adams offers tips to identify and address bullying based on psychology research.
Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Blood Stored Longer May Be Less Safe for Patients with Massive Blood Loss and Shock
Using a mouse model, researchers have found mechanistic links between older stored red blood cell transfusions and subsequent bacterial pneumonia. This may reveal new approaches to improve safety of stored red blood cell transfusions. The key player is free heme, released from broken blood cells.
Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: MRI Can Help Detect Prostate Cancer, Reduce Unnecessary Biopsies
In a collaborative, multi-institutional study published by JAMA Oncology, researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of Chicago, and National Cancer Institute determined that MRI-based prediction models can help reduce unnecessary biopsies in suspected prostate cancer patients and help improve personalized risk stratification.
Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Survivors of Blood or Marrow Transplantation Are Likely to Experience Cognitive Impairment
Allogeneic blood or marrow transplantation recipients are at a significantly higher risk of cognitive impairment in the years post-transplantation, according to a study published in Journal of Clinical Oncology. Published by Noha Sharafeldin, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D., instructor in UAB’s Institute for Cancer Outcomes and Survivorship and Division of Hematology and Oncology, this study helps add a missing piece to a long-unsolved puzzle about post-transplant effects on recipients, specifically that vul…
Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Placebo Pills Prescribed Honestly Help Cancer Survivors Manage Symptoms
Fatigue in cancer survivors is significantly reduced by placebo pill, even when it is known it is a fake pill.
Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Big-Data Helps Define the Burden of Sarcoidosis
Nirav Patel, M.D. Physician-scientists from the University of Alabama at Birmingham using “big-data” recently summarized in the Journal of the American Heart Association the prevalence of cardiovascular manifestations, rates of defibrillator placement (ICD) and predictors of in-hospital mortality in sarcoidosis — a disorder that affects multiple organs.
Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Advances in Fabricating Nanocrystalline Diamonds to Study Materials Under Extreme Conditions
A new study finds that the manufacturing process of novel, nanocrystalline-diamond micro-anvils that can produce a pressure nearly two times greater than that found at the center of the Earth has proved to be “remarkably consistent” and demonstrates “a high level of reproducibility in fabrication.”
Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Microcapsules Gain a New Power — Scavenging Reactive Oxygen Species
Stable, biocompatible microcapsules have gained a new power — the ability to scavenge reactive oxygen species. This may aid microcapsule survival in the body as the tiny polymer capsules carry a drug or other biomolecules, or find use in antioxidant therapy or industrial applications.
Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Enzyme Inhibitor Combined with Chemotherapy Delays Glioblastoma Growth
In animal experiments, a human-derived glioblastoma significantly regressed when treated with the combination of an experimental enzyme inhibitor and the standard glioblastoma chemotherapy drug, temozolomide.
Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Unintended Consequences Are the Result of Decreasing Opioid Prescriptions Written by Health Care Providers
Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Breakthrough Study Shows How Plants Sense the World
Researchers have created the first network map for 200 of the membrane proteins that help plants sense microbes or other stresses. The map shows how a few key proteins act as master nodes critical for network integrity, and the map also reveals unknown interactions.
Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Can Stem Cell Exosome Therapy Reduce Fatal Heart Disease in Diabetes?
Researchers have data that diabetes impairs removal of dead heart-muscle cells by macrophages after heart attacks, and that exosomes can improve this removal. Impaired removal may be the reason diabetes increases the risk for cardiovascular disease, including heart failure.
Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: World Record Kidney Chain Extends with Inspired Organ Donors
Tyler Williamson went to TEDx Birmingham’s 2017 event in March expecting to be inspired and to network and make new connections with fellow attendees. What the 27-year-old did not anticipate was that inspiration would lead him to volunteer to become a living kidney donor just seven months later.
Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Exercise and Cognitive Training May Be Most Effective in Reducing MCI, an Alzheimer’s Disease Pre-Cursor
Clinicians should recommend exercise and cognitive training for patients with mild cognitive impairment — a common precursor of Alzheimer’s type dementia — according to new guidelines published online in Neurology(r).