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Reply to comment by ThrowAway1638497 in Sound Waves Trigger Anti-Cancer Immune Responses in Mice by dissolutewastrel
I have a cat that was used to test some iron based ones. I’m not sure if it ended up working well enough in that for. The cat didn’t have cancer, they were targeting reproductive tissue before spaying surgically to be able to examine the outcome in the tissue.
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Reply to comment by jpk195 in Sound Waves Trigger Anti-Cancer Immune Responses in Mice by dissolutewastrel
My favorite local tissue destruction idea is to tag iron nano particles with appropriate molecules to go stick to cancer cells, then stick the patient in an MRI machine. (Was it an MRI machine?) The particles heat up and kill the nearby cells, but the rest of the patient is unharmed.
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Reply to comment by ILikeToThinkOutloud in Study: Repeated psychological stress is linked with Irritable Bowel Syndrome-like symptoms by rustoo
What were your trigger foods, and are they just gone from your diet? Or did they actually stop triggering you?
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Reply to comment by katarh in Researchers have found that lab mice are more likely to survive a flu infection if they are fed grain-based foods rather than processed food: after being infected with influenza, all of those fed the highly processed diet died, all the other have recovered by giuliomagnifico
Mouse Mediterranean Diet?
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Reply to comment by Technical_Sir_9588 in New information about the role of a molecule found in chillis in reducing foot pain by healing damaged nerves. After three months, the team found that those who’d been treated with the capsaicin patch reported that their pain had reduced significantly, compared to those treated with standard care by Wagamaga
You should check out the recent research on the receptors TRPV1 and TRPA1, among others. They are best known as external environment sensors, as receptors for heat and capsaicin. In the last decade or so work has shown them to be present in the central nervous system as well. Which begs the question: what is the effect of activating these receptors in neurons and nerve cells? Because the brain isn't getting much direct exposure to hot sauce right?
I read one paper recently looking at capsaicin as an agonist against TRPV1 in mouse neurons in a model for Alzheimer's disease. They showed rescue of a number of metabolic defects seen in neuronal cells during this disease, including increased mitochondrial metabolism. This might indicate a refresh of mitochondria, or a general increase in energy production.
A bunch of research groups are working on receptors like these now, trying to see where they are being activated and by what. They may have applications like this paper, or more!