Month: March 2012

MADRID, 26 (EUROPA PRESS) Researchers of the Autonomous University of Madrid have shown that resveratrol, a natural polyphenol with high-powered antioxidant found in various foods and plants, protects against the neurotoxic effects of sclerosis lateral amiotrófica (ELA), a serious degenerative disease that originates in motor neurons. The study, published in ' Brain Research ', has been developed by scientists of Institute Teófilo Hernando of the drug r & d, attached to the University. His research have also observed that the drug currently used in the therapy of this disease, the Riluzole, not only does not display Neuroprotective effects but may antagonize the beneficial effects of resveratrol. It has been postulated the existence of a toxic factor in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients of ELA as responsible for neuronal damage. However, studies are not yet clear in this regard, that the conclusions drawn are different depending on the number of samples tested, the neuronal lineage and the studied species. The researchers conducted various experiments to study the effect of CSF on cultivation of rat motor cortex neurons. As part of his study, incubated for 24 hours these neural crops with CSF from ALS patients and compared them with the effect caused by the CSF of healthy controls. In this way, noted that about 75 per cent of the CSF from ALS patients were significantly toxic to motor neurons of rat....

TOLEDO, 26 (EUROPA PRESS) The Secretary of organization of the PSOE in Castilla – La Mancha, Spain, Jesús Fernández Vaquero, deemed “reasonable” minimum services in the general strike to be “generous” in the field of health or school transport. Questions from the media at press conference, Fernandez cowboy considers that take into account areas such as those mentioned or meet the needs of people who live far away or in the outskirts “is benefit to citizens”. Although it said ignored the specific minimum services for the strike from next Thursday, the Socialist Deputy has always been supporter of the agreement rather than the conflict for the establishment of minimum...

CARACAS (Reuters) – the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, fulfill its promise of rest after the treatment of radiotherapy which is being subjected to fight cancer, said on Monday the Minister of health, Eugenia Sader, thereby compelling him to lower the rate of activity in full electoral campaign. Chávez began Saturday in Cuba, which will require five cycles and treatment side effects could limit its presence in day-to-day politics and in his career for re-election in elections in October, which could be the hardest that faced since that came to power in 1999. Sader “He promised that he would make his resting and we are confident that it will meet”, said in an interview with the State channel VTV. “The patient of which you speak, our Commander, is a disciplined patient” added. From the first surgical intervention that was submitted in June of last year to remove a cancerous tumor the size of a baseball, the Socialist leader of 57 years tried to put the brakes on his busy agenda full of tours and extensive speeches. Despite to himself said that it was will to comply with the order to rest, many times acknowledged that his daughters scolded it for breaking breaks and lunch hours. After a second operation in February of this year, by a small tumor that marked the recurrence of cancer, the retired military assured that...