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1 posted on 05/17/2006 10:24:48 PM PDT by neverdem

del shannon knows...

2 posted on 05/17/2006 10:27:22 PM PDT by kinoxi

Those must be some really happy mice on drugs (what, with all the experiments and the lab they are stuck in)

3 posted on 05/17/2006 10:30:26 PM PDT by Panerai

Interesting. Thanks!

4 posted on 05/17/2006 10:31:43 PM PDT by patriciaruth (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1562436/posts)

I don't know, but my sister-in-law is weird, whether she's on Prozac or off...

5 posted on 05/17/2006 10:33:21 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)

"Subsequent testing in mice allowed to live for a month after fluoxetine treatment showed a similar increase in the overall number of neurons." Yeah, can't let those little buggers live long enough to take over the experiment ... shades of Algernon's Revenge!

6 posted on 05/17/2006 10:34:10 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)

Hope at last, my two surviving neurons might settle down and breed . . .

7 posted on 05/17/2006 10:42:10 PM PDT by dighton

To: El Gato; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Robert A. Cook, PE; lepton; LadyDoc; jb6; tiamat; PGalt; Dianna; ...

Jill Stanek: The biggest boobs You need to check the pic in comment# 21.

Death's Waiting List

Microbes Convert Wastewater into Useable Electricity For anyone that's interested, I linked what I believe is the original, actual article on that thread.

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8 posted on 05/17/2006 10:50:46 PM PDT by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)

I think if we want the whole truth we need to ask the expert: TOM CRUISE

scarcasm

14 posted on 05/18/2006 4:08:26 AM PDT by cobaltblu

Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't Prozac also encourage suicide? If so, is it really a "success"?

15 posted on 05/18/2006 4:26:37 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) !)

16 posted on 05/18/2006 5:17:39 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Dig deeper, more ammo.)

1: Pak J Pharm Sci. 1999 Jul;12(2):11-6. Related Articles, Links

Inhibition of rat liver tryptophan pyrrolase activity by fluoxetine.

Bano S, Morgan CJ, Badawy AA, Buckland PR, Guffin PM.

Cardiff Community Health Care NHS Trust, Biomedical Research Laboratory, Witchurch Hospital, Cardiff CF4 7XB, UK.

The present study has demonstrated the effectiveness of acute administration of fluoxetine to inhibit rat liver tryptophan pyrrolase activity. The maximum inhibition of basal liver tryptophan pyrrolase activity at 2 h after administration was observed with 1 mg/kg dose for the total enzyme and apoenzyme activities and that significant inhibition of these two activities was evident with a dose of the drug as small as 0.5 mg/kg. Serum free tryptophan concentrations were also increased using 10 mg/kg dose of fluoxetine. In view of the role of tryptophan depletion and thus 5-HT in pathophysiology of depression, it is strongly suggested that the inhibition of liver tryptophan pyrrolase activity may be a major mechanism of antidepressant action.

PMID: 16414828 [PubMed]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search&DB=pubmed

I wonder if they ever take into account what impact this has on their little mice studies?

19 posted on 05/18/2006 6:28:14 AM PDT by oxcart (Journalism (Sic))

To: neverdem; All

Who paid for this little smoke and mirrors study? I could never find it in the PDF doc.

20 posted on 05/18/2006 6:47:09 AM PDT by oxcart (Journalism (Sic))

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