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Last Updated: 2006-12-12 13:00:02 -0400 (Reuters Health)
SYDNEY - Toxin from a deadly sea snail found on Australia's Great Barrier Reef could revolutionize the treatment of chronic pain, scientists from the University of Queensland said on Tuesday.
"These snails hunt things like fish and other snails and they sting them and they inject a really potent venom that paralyses the prey," said Jenny Ekberg, a research fellow at the university."One of the components of the venom blocks the pain receptors which means it will block the pain response," Ekberg told Reuters. "We tested it on animals and found that it was very efficient (at blocking pain)," she added.
A future drug developed from the toxin from the conus marmoreus marine snail could be highly successful as a pain killer for people who suffered side effects from conventional treatments such as morphine.
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"Normal pain (relief) drugs such as morphine have a lot of side effects such as drowsiness, nausea and vision disturbances because they are not very specific," said Ekberg. "This toxin targets only pain, it doesn't affect anything else."
The toxin is currently very expensive to produce as scientists must extract it from the sea snail which measures just 6 cm (2 inches).
"What we are trying to do now is to synthesize it chemically or artificially and that is going to reduce the cost enormously," said Ekberg.
Research was currently in the animal testing phase, but Ekberg said she was hopeful of starting human trials in about a year.
Last Updated: 2006-12-12 11:22:02 -0400 (Reuters Health)
WASHINGTON - Obese men often experience a sharp decline in testosterone levels while obese girls show much higher levels of the sex hormone than girls of normal weight, according to scientific research released on Monday.
Two separate studies published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism could indicate increased health risks for both grown men and teen-age girls who are obese.
Testosterone is the primary sex hormone for men, though it is found in women as well. It helps maintain muscle mass and bone density and keeps sex drive and physical energy at healthy levels.
Testosterone levels naturally decline as men age. But those who put on weight -- as little as 30 pounds (13.6 kg) for a 6-foot man -- lost as much testosterone as if they had aged 10 years, scientists at the New England Research Institutes found.
Those who experienced a traumatic event, such as the loss of a wife, experienced a similar drop in testosterone levels.
The scientists based their findings on a study that tracked 1,667 men.
Obese girls going through puberty had the opposite problem, a separate study found.
Researchers at the University of Virginia and several other universities found that obese girls had two to nine times the levels of testosterone as girls of normal weight.
That could impair reproductive health, lead to undesirable side effects like excess hair growth, and put them at greater risk for diabetes, they said.
