Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Friend Jokes Animated

The youngest member of Mensa


Sometimes you can find the perfect remedy to a wrong in a detail that, besides being practically negligible, it has been overlooked for years and years.
Specifically I refer to research conducted by the team at Newcastle University have just demonstrated that a drug used to treat cancer (or TSA Trichostatin) can stop labor contractions and thus could prevent preterm labor, the leading cause of death in children in the developed world. Noting

preterm birth rates on the rise, there are 50,000 a year in the United Kingdom, and several drugs are used to try to prevent this disease but most have serious side effects, a new treatment is needed urgently.
The researchers obtained permission to take samples of the muscles of women while they were undergoing cesarean section at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle.
thus exposed muscle to the drug Trichostatin and measured the effects on spontaneous contractions and those induced by the drug, oxytocin. Thus found that, on average, the contractions were reduced by 46% for spontaneous and 54% in the oxytocin-induced.
itself deputy director of research at Action Medical Research, which funded the study, said, "This project has highlighted some of the molecular pathways that regulate uterine contractions and thus may be related to premature birth."
"could have a role in the prevention of premature birth, find a new treatment for preterm birth would be a great step forward. "
Absolutely ... And we hope, of course, so be it.


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