They have experimented with the following "antagonistic" conditions: high and low blood pressure, overactive and underactive thyroid conditions, leukemia (overproduction of .
It may turn out that some anxiety disorders are caused by an overactive amygdala (the accelerator) while others are caused by an underactive prefrontal cortex (call it the brake).
It shouldn't be surprising that many overfed, underactive kids lose the battle with their weight.
Startup RaNA Therapeutics developing novel medicine to turn on ‘silent’ genes A new class of medicines could give doctors the ability to awaken underperforming genes in patients who currently have no treatment options. Boston-area startup RaNA Therapeutics is developing a novel kind of medicine that can boost the activity of genes that may be silenced or underactive and thus cause disease. The medicine would use a [...]
July 30, 2013 - MedCity News