Smoking Cessation

Because of the addictive properties of components of cigarettes, giving up the habit of smoking is often very hard. It is often required however for health reasons. There is a lot of publicity of...

HRT patches may treat prostate cancer

Oestrogen skin patches used to control menopausal symptoms in women may provide a safe alternative therapy for prostate cancer, research has shown.

Trying to quit smoking? Patches, drugs help: study

(Reuters) - Trying to stop smoking? Smokers have considerably more success when they use nicotine patches or prescription medications than when they try to go it alone, an international study found....

Pharmaceutical Research: Induction and Inhibition of Crystallization in Drug-in-Adhesive-Type Transdermal Patches

Type: Original PaperPurposeTo screen crystallization inhibitors, perform accelerated stability testing and predict saturation solubility of levonorgestrel in drug-in-adhesive patches.MethodsDifferenti...

Hangover patches removed from sale after MHRA steps in

Bytox hangover prevention patches have been removed from sale by UK internet retailer Firebox.com, in response to an urgent notice...

From microns to centimeters: Researchers invent new tissue engineering tool

Imagine a machine that makes layered, substantial patches of engineered tissue -- tissue that could be used as grafts for burn victims or vascular patches. Sounds like science fiction? According to en...

Plasticity of TH17 cells in Peyer's patches is responsible for the induction of T cell–dependent IgA responses

IgA is essential in the maintenance of mucosal host defense and intestinal homeostasis. Stockinger and colleagues show that TH17 cells acquire a follicular helper T cell phenotype in Peyer's patches a...

Researcher details creation of innovative cardiac patches that utilize nanotechnology

On January 30, 2013 ACS Nano published a study by Ali Khademhosseini, PhD, MASc, a researcher in the division of biomedical engineering at Brigham and Women's Hospital, detailing the creation of innov...

Storks, cabbage patches, and the birds and the bees: Our broken sex education system

In the fields of gender, sexuality, and sexual health research, it's a no-brainer that sex education should start early, and that sex should be discussed often – both in schools and at home. But ins...

Physical Properties of Gum Karaya-Starch-Essential Oil Patches.

Essential oils are used in foods, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals. Despite the recent marketing of novel essential-oil-containing patches, there is no information on their production, constituents, or...

Induction and Inhibition of Crystallization in Drug-in-Adhesive-Type Transdermal Patches.

PURPOSE: To screen crystallization inhibitors, perform accelerated stability testing and predict saturation solubility of levonorgestrel in drug-in-adhesive patches. METHODS: Differential scanning cal...

M cell-depletion blocks oral prion disease pathogenesis.

Many prion diseases are orally acquired. Our data show that after oral exposure, early prion replication upon follicular dendritic cells (FDC) in Peyer's patches is obligatory for the efficient spread...

Clonal reproduction and natural variation of Populus canescens patches.

Trees growing in their natural habitat represent a valuable resource for elucidating mechanisms of adaptation to environmental constraints. Along the Erqis river, there are various Populus forests, wh...

Nerve Growth Factor Induces Axonal Filopodia through Localized Microdomains of Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase Activity That Drive the Formation of Cytoskeletal Precursors to Filopodia.

The initiation of axonal filopodia is the first step in the formation of collateral branches and synaptic structures. In sensory neurons, nerve growth factor (NGF) promotes the formation of axonal fil...