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- 1691: Bridging Technology And Academ
- ... before actually going to a library, searching can be done from a remote site, such as a home personal computer, or a campus computer laboratory. This adds a convenient dimension to library use, particularly for literature reviews and citation analysis. Reference works are also a popular resource on the Web. Full-text, keyword searchable versions of thesauruses and dictionaries are maintained at various sites. Another category of Internet social science resources ...
- 1692: Migraines
- ... chemicals that nerve cells (neurons) use to communicate messages to each other. Receptors are special areas that receive these chemical messages. The key neurotransmitter in migraine is called serotonin (often referred to in the scientific literature as 5-HT or 5-hydroxytryptophan). If something interferes with the normal functioning (production, release, receptor docking, and/or re-uptake) of serotonin, that disrupts the normal functioning of the nervous system and can lead ...
- 1693: Mental Illness
- ... surgical procedure of creating a hole in the skull. Scientists believe that this procedure was done in order to let out the evil spirits which doctors thought possessed the mentally ill of this time. The literature of ancient Greece also contains evidence of the belief that evil spirits or demons controlled the mentally ill. Not only the Greeks believed in the evil spirit theory, writings from the early Babylonian, Egyptian, and ...
- 1694: Mexican Grey Wolf
- ... own conclusions. A widely held claim has also been that cannabis lowers male testosterone levels. This theory has been challenged by several studies that found no correlation at all. Marijuana and Health, also, after reviewing literature at that time, concluded that "Due to conflicting and incomplete evidence, it is not possible to conclude at the present time whether marijuana smoking has a significant effect upon gonadotropic and testosterone concentrations in humans ...
- 1695: AROMTHERAPY
- ... using incense, perfumes and cosmetics for thousands of years. Herbs and spices have been used in cooking for a long time, but their use has often been linked to both religious and medicinal purposes. Indian literature, dating from around 2000BC mentions the use of cinnamon, ginger, myrrh, coriander and sandalwood. The Chinese have a long tradition of alternative medicine. Aromatherapy is just one of a number of treatments which include acupuncture ...
- 1696: Marijuana And Its Effects On Humans
- ... own conclusions. A widely held claim has also been that cannabis lowers male testosterone levels. This theory has been challenged by several studies that found no correlation at all. Marijuana and Health, also, after reviewing literature at that time, concluded that "Due to conflicting and incomplete evidence, it is not possible to conclude at the present time whether marijuana smoking has a significant effect upon gonadotropic and testosterone concentrations in humans ...
- 1697: Lyme Disease
- ... shaped bacterium or spirochete (which was later named Borrelia burgdorferi) were responsible for the outbreak of arthritis in Lyme. In Europe, a skin rash similar to that of Lyme disease had been described in medical literature dating back to the turn of the century. Lyme disease may have spread from Europe to the United States in the early 1900s but only recently became common enough to be detected. The ticks most ...
- 1698: Leprechaunism
- ... 41: 411-15, 1992. Bajaj et al. Biochim Biophys Acta 916:220-26, 1987 Cantani, A.; Ziruolo, M. G.; Tacconi, M. L. : A rare polydysmorphic syndrome: Leprechaunism--review of forty-nine cases reported in the literature. Ann. Genet. 30: 221-227, 1987. PubMed ID : 3322162 Donohue, W. L. : Dysendocrinism. Journal of Pediatrics 32: 739-748, 1948. Drugge R, Huntley A: The Electronic Textbook of Dermatology. Online. Internet: http://www.telemedicine.org ...
- 1699: Iron Increases Heart Disease
- ... in people who are much younger for various reasons. This disease remains the number one cause of hospitalization and death in the adult population in western society (McCance and Huether, 1994). The purpose of this literature review is to investigate research dealing with the subject of increased serum iron levels and the prevalence of CAD. Medical journals were primarily used for research data due to the nature of the subject and ...
- 1700: History Of Cell Membrane
- In the early stages of the twentieth century, little was known about cell membranes. Until the early 1950s, the biological cell membrane was rarely mentioned in scientific literature. It was recognised that something was probably there, but hardly anything about it was known. Considering the lack of technical equipment available a century ago, scientists such as Charles Overton and Edwin Gorter were not ...
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