Posted by utopizen on December 30, 2004, at 2:51:16
In reply to Mice Study May Help Human Depression, posted by jerrympls on December 29, 2004, at 23:58:07
Okay...Not to get your hopes down, but to say that this is questionable as a news story is, um, an understandment.
Mice stress tests for depression and other disorders have been around for decades. Pretty much all of them claim to find some special, novel protein to use as a drug target zone in the brain.
It's sort of the reason why we will never get a cure for mental illnesses-- this is the only way we've ever finding drugs.
Luckily, Valium's inventor found the drug by testing it on himself while at Roche. This isn't done anymore. Now we're more "advanced," and use mice. Note the news never corrects itself 10 years later, when this all leads everyone off path and the theory is trashed.
I want Peter Jennings to finally report a follow-up to his reports from '92 claiming a "cure" for HIV was discovered in primates. Yes, it was discovered in primates. And everyone suggests that means something... why?
why again? it means we'll lose billions of dollars to misguided research with too many variables.
It's research running in circles, chasing nothing but the cheese (cash) by confusing the public through its mazework.
> ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Mice whose brains lack a specific protein react differently to stress than other mice, possibly offering a clue into the source of human depression, researchers at Washington University said in a study released Monday.
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> The St. Louis researchers, using genetically engineered mice, found they developed an imbalance in a hormone involved in stress response. During stressful situations, those mice behave as if they are depressed.
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> FULL ARTICLE
> http://nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Depression-Study.html
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