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Tag: Clinical Pharmacology

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1 August 2022

Strategies of locusts being used for new active substances

The hormone systems of insects and humans have quite a lot in common. This fascinating research finding is now being used in biomedicine as a basis for new drugs with low side effects. The biochemist Christian Gruber has investigated locust hormones in an international basic research project. Continue reading “Strategies of locusts being used for new active substances”

Projects

19 March 2018

Doubts about the effectiveness of cannabis against cancer

In a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, a team of researchers from Graz investigated the role played by the body’s receptors for cannabinoids in the case of colon cancer. They have been able to show that some of these receptors can promote cancer. Continue reading “Doubts about the effectiveness of cannabis against cancer”

Projects

28 September 2015

News from the field of fear and anxiety research

The targeted modulation of gene activity and cellular signaling pathways could provide a new approach to the treatment of fear and anxiety states according to the recent findings of a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF. Continue reading “News from the field of fear and anxiety research”

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