Recently added articles from Drug Week:
'Moonlighting' molecules discovered.
Nov 20, 2009 ... Since the completion of the human genome sequence, a question has baffled researchers studying gene control: How is it that humans, being far more complex than the lowly yeast, do not proportionally contain in our genome significantly more gene-control proteins? Now, a ...
New discoveries in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Nov 20, 2009 ... The study, entitled "Moonlighting Proteins HAL3 and VHS3 Form a Heteromeric PPCDC with YKL088w in Yeast CoA Biosynthesis" and published in Nature Chemical Biology, was carried out by researchers of the UAB Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the University of Stellenbosch, ...
New therapy gives hope for very severe depression.
Nov 20, 2009 ... This press release is available in German. Thanks to a new method there is a reason for hope for patients with very severe depression. Physicians at the University Clinics of Bonn and Cologne have treated ten patients with deep brain stimulation. This involved implanting electrodes in the ...
Stress-induced changes in brain circuitry linked to cocaine relapse.
Nov 20, 2009 ... Stress-evoked changes in circuits that regulate serotonin in certain parts of the brain can precipitate a low mood and a relapse in cocaine-seeking, based on mouse studies published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (see also University of Washington) ....
Recent studies by N. Sucunza and co-authors add new data to acromegaly findings.
Nov 20, 2009 ... According to a study from Spain, "Two adipokines highly expressed in fat mass, adiponectin with antiinflammatory and antiatherogenic properties and visfatin with an insulin-mimetic effect, are potential contributors to bone metabolism. In acromegaly, data on adiponectin are contradictory, ...