sperm
How sperms are attracted to ovum?
Understanding how sperm are attracted to ovaries and eggs might lead to treatments for problems with human conception.
Although scientists are still trying to figure out the exact chemicals that urge such an attraction, sperm swim vigorously in the direction of extracts from various female reproductive organs, especially ovaries.
Scientists call this type of attraction chemotaxis.
"Defects in sperm chemotaxis may be a cause of infertility, and consequently, sperm chemotaxis could potentially be used as a diagnostic tool to determine sperm quality or as a therapeutic procedure in male infertility," said study co-author Stephen Jacobson.
mouse sperm cells, researchers at the University of Indiana, Bloomington
Understanding how sperm are attracted to ovaries and eggs might lead to treatments for problems with human conception.
Sperm on a treadmill
Although scientists are still trying to figure out the exact chemicals that urge such an attraction, sperm swim vigorously in the direction of extracts from various female reproductive organs, especially ovaries.
What is chemotaxis?
Scientists call this type of attraction chemotaxis.
"Defects in sperm chemotaxis may be a cause of infertility, and consequently, sperm chemotaxis could potentially be used as a diagnostic tool to determine sperm quality or as a therapeutic procedure in male infertility," said study co-author Stephen Jacobson.
mouse sperm cells, researchers at the University of Indiana, Bloomington
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Sexes differ in the way they respond to stress.
Women and men differ in mechanism of coping with stress.
Recent study published in the Journal of Physiology and Behavior Gert J.Ter Horst, Team at the University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands, "We conclude that the female brain has a different innate strategy to handle stress than the male brain and that female animal models are necessary for studying the underlying mechanisms and options for treatment."
Abstract
Women in the reproductive age are more vulnerable to develop affective disorders than men. This difference may attribute to anatomical differences, hormonal influences and environmental factors such as stress. However, the higher prevalence in women normalizes once menopause is established, suggesting that ovarian hormones may play an important role in the development of depression in women. Ovarian hormones such as estrogen can pass the brain-blood barrier and bind to cytoplasmatic estrogen receptor (ER)-alpha and ER-beta in different areas of the limbic system. During stress, estrogen can modulate the behavioral and neurobiological response depending on the concentrations of estrogen. In this review we present evidence for disparate effects of chronic stress on neuroplasticity and brain activity in male and female rats. Furthermore, we will demonstrate that effects of social support on coping with stress can be mimicked by social housing of rats and that this model can be used for identification of underlying neurobiological mechanisms, including behavior, phosphorylation of CREB and ERK1/2, and brain activity changes as measured with fos expression. Using cyclic administration of estrogen in ovariectomized female rats we could specifically address effects of different plasma estrogen levels and antidepressants on stress-induced neuroplasticity and activity changes. In this model we also studied effects of estrogen on recovery after chronic stress. We conclude that the female brain has a different innate strategy to handle stress than the male brain and that female animal models are necessary for studying the underlying mechanisms and options for treatment.
ScienceDirect - Physiology & Behavior : Sex differences in stress responses: Focus on ovarian hormones
Study Team
Gert J. Ter Horst, Romy Wichmanna, Marjolein Gerritsa, Christel Westenbroeka and Yanhua Lina
Dept. Neuroscience, Neuroimaging Center & Section Anatomy, University Medical Center Groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 2, PO Box 196, 9700 AD Groningen, The Netherlands
Received 9 December 2008;
revised 3 February 2009;
accepted 20 February 2009.
Available online 9 March 2009.
Accessed online 20 March 2009
Source
Sex differences in stress responses
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2009.02.036
Journal of Physiology and Behavior
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Sex in Animals and Human beings
by Henry Stanton (Excerpt)
Sex and the part it plays in human life cannot be ignored. In the case of animals sex plays a simpler and less complex rôle. It is a purely natural and instinctive function whose underlying purpose is the perpetuation of the species. It is not complicated by the many incidental phenomena which result, in man's case, from psychologic, economic, moral and religious causes. Climate, social conditions, individual modes of life and work, alcohol, wealth and poverty, and other factors affect sexual activity in human beings. Sexual love, which is practically unknown to the animals, is a special development of the sex urge in the human soul. The deeper purpose of the sex function in human beings, likewise, is procreation, the reproduction of species.
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Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric
For you have but mistook me all this while.
I live with bread like you, feel want,
Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus,
How can you say to me I am a king?
—Shakespeare, Richard II 3.2.174-177
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I'm Gay and You're Not:
Understanding Homosexuality Fears
OCD Takes Many Forms
Straight versus Gay people who have anxiety
Before such treatment, HOCD is all terror and rant. I am now going to type two imaginary rants. The first will be by a straight male who has HOCD. The second will be by an gay male who is in the closet but has no HOCD. Can you see the difference?
EXAMPLE
Diagnostic Puzzle
STRAIGHT MALE HOCD SUFFERER:
I know that I am gay, but I have only ever gotten hard with girls. This must be because I am in the closet, and I know that I'll suddenly get hard with guys once I come out. But the thought of being with another guy makes me sick. Damn, gay stuff is so disgusting! I'd never want some naked guy to touch me that way. But my mind tells me that this is what I want, and that I'll be O.K. with it once I come out because I am gay. But I'm not gay! But my mind tells me I am. Dammit, why won't my mind shut up? I do all this checking by looking at gay porn, and I still don't know what I am. But I just want to look at hot women instead. I have never been attracted to guys, but I know I am a gay guy. This anxiety is killing me. I can't even hear the word gay without becoming anxious.
GAY MALE IN THE CLOSET WITH NO HOCD:
I know that I am gay, and I have only ever gotten hard with guys. I am in the closet because I am afraid people will reject me, yet I have always wanted with everything in me to fall in love with another man who loves me back. That would be so beautiful. I was taught that gay stuff was disgusting, but when I think of being held by a man I get butterflies in my stomach. When I see a guy I like, it just feels right. The only anxiety I feel is over what others think of gays and how I think I'll be treated by straight people in power if they find out about me. I don't feel any anxiety when I think about how lucky gay guys who are out of the closet must be, and I wish I could be like them.
The second rant is what I would have said many years ago. The first rant is what I hear on the board. When I saw rants like the first one last November, I knew that I was not dealing with gay folks at all.
Source:
I'm Gay and You're Not:
Understanding Homosexuality Fears
OCD Takes Many Forms
http://www.brainphysics.com/yourenotgay2.php
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But Why Fear Being Gay?
Like any monster, mythical or otherwise, OCD strikes when a person is vulnerable, and it only stands to reason that an OCD sufferer who stresses over the opposite sex for whatever reason (a break up, an abusive partner, no dates, too many poor dates, and so on) might get hit with HOCD. Still, I know OCD folks with poor self-image and terrible track records on dating who have gotten HOCD, and others in the same situation who have not. The random element is also a factor here.
TREATMENT
Now that we are clear about what HOCD does, we need to talk about how it works once it hits. I am neither a health care professional nor a person with any skill in science; for this reason, my explanation is going to be in simple laymen terms. Imagine a parent whose child has not returned home at the appointed hour. The parent then hears about a fatal accident nearby, and he or she goes into panic mode full of what-ifs and dread. Worry for that child takes over all rational thought, and reason does little to quell the parent's anxiety. Suddenly, the child walks through the door unharmed or calls to apologize for being late. The parent may or may not start yelling or simply hug the child in relief, but his or her fears are immediately put to rest.
Not so the OCD sufferer. We are in that very state of panic 24/7, and it continues even after we have proof that our fear is unwarranted. Catastrophic thoughts gets stuck in our malfunctioning brains, and illogical thinking makes us find ways to keep 'proving' the worst and disputing evidence to the contrary. OCD sufferers who fear contamination from walls not cleaned a 'special' way, for example, act illogically--but to them the fear feels real. I know that I was being ludicrous when I spent the better part of my waking hours expecting to die in agony, along with all my loved ones, because of an imagined natural disaster that was on its way. It felt so real at the time; now I cannot imagine what I was thinking.
HOCD works the same way: Heterosexual sufferers feel that the gay thoughts are real even though, in their hearts, they know that they are straight. Since HOCD depends on terror and illogic, no amount of reassurance works for long. The sufferer has to let go of the thoughts with a "Yeah, whatever" attitude and, above all, not react to them emotionally. When OCD sufferers freak out, they strengthen the hold OCD has on them. Behavior therapy (whether initiated by professional behavior therapists or the sufferers themselves) is the way out of the OCD trap. Medication, which need not always be permanent, can be a godsend since it speeds up results and helps sufferers control their symptoms.
source:
http://www.brainphysics.com/yourenotgay.php
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I am Mark. I am gay man with obsessive compulsive disorder.
I turned 40 a week ago, and I have been out of the closet for almost two decades. In that time, I have helped other truly gay people come out of the closet. If I thought for a minute that even one of the straight HOCD sufferers on the board was gay, I would do the same for him or her. Yet, while I have done my best to help many on the board, I have helped no one come out of the closet.
The Mental Agony
As of this writing I have been bombarded by threads, private messages, e-mail, and instant messages by straight folks terrified that they are gay (and a very small number of gay and bisexual folks terrified that they, too, are not their real sexual orientation). My initial assessment of HOCD stands firm: Whatever HOCD tells the sufferer is a lie. I have had the wonderful experience of talking to people who had initially talked to me in HOCD mode but have since gone on medication and undergone behavior therapy; they now tell me that they are clearly heterosexual and don't know what they were thinking before. Yeah, well, I could have told them that. In fact, I did.
The only part of my initial assessment that has changed is my realization that HOCD is far more common in the OCD population than most people think. I don't think most OCD sufferers get it; I know I have never had it (although I could have gotten it and shudder at the thought). Nevertheless, it is sufficiently widespread to warrant more specialists in the field, more media exposure, and more understanding among therapists relatives, friends, and, especially, gay people who give the wrong advice. Before November 2004, I would have given the wrong advice, too.
So why do some OCD sufferers get HOCD when others do not? Who knows? Why did I have terrors about earthquakes and research them for close to two years when I never had, say, Harm OCD? Again, who knows? To a large degree, I believe, the mental daggers our OCD sends us are random. To a small degree, I also believe, they have something to do with what we fear most. In Harry Potter language, OCD has the same power as a Dementor: It fills us with our most unhappy thoughts and saps all happiness out of us. It is what a Boggart becomes, a manifestation of our worst fears. Of course, Harry learned to defeat Dementors and Boggarts.
Source:
Article Title:
I'm Gay and You're Not:
Understanding Homosexuality Fears
Am I Gay? Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Takes Many Forms
Website: http://www.brainphysics.com/yourenotgay.php
Accessed: April 06, 2009
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The Rules
Hello there! My name is Mark, and I am a gay male with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). I am writing for the benefit of heterosexual folks who hope to use this article to understand their fears about being gay (also known as gay OCD or HOCD). No worries, my friend: If you are trying to understand yourself or someone close to you who has HOCD, you are reading the right article.
Rule one: If you say you are heterosexual, then you are. Period.
Rule two: There are no other rules.
Thank you for taking the time to read and obey the rules. I am a teacher in my real life, and I always spell out the rules early on.
Now that we are coming at this from the same mindset, please bear with me as I walk you through HOCD.
What is Homosexual OCD?
In November 2004, real-life stress was playing havoc with my emotions and OCD. I had been off medication and out of therapy for years, and I needed a place where I could talk about personal issues. Searching under OCD and gay, I discovered the old BrainPhysics discussion board and decided to post. I thought I was joining a board full of gay people with OCD. Only ten minutes after I had started reading the most recent posts, however, I realized that something was wrong: The folks with gay fears were clearly not gay. It took another five minutes for me to figure out what HOCD was and why so many people had gay obsessions. "Well, duh!" I thought. "This is an OCD board. Of course they have false obsessions."
Before my own OCD was treated, I had suffered for years with obsessions about natural disasters, religion, my health, and being rejected. What I saw in the HOCD obsessions mirrored the anxiety, checking, illogical thinking, and broken record quality of everything I had experienced. HOCD felt real to its sufferers just as my own obsessions had felt real to me. Again, duh! OCD always feels real. If it did not, it would not be OCD. It plays with your mind, making you believe lies and doubt truth.
I would later learn that truly gay people may also get HOCD, but that they falsely fear that they are heterosexual. Bisexuals with HOCD have the false fear that they are attracted to only one sex, usually the one they are not currently involved with. These facts alone should help straight HOCD folks to see that they are indeed straight. HOCD is an illness, and who but a gay HOCD sufferer would fear being straight, the thing society prizes? Just as HOCD obsessing over being straight = gay in reality, HOCD obsessing over being gay = straight in reality. Straight folks with HOCD know deep down that they are not gay. But I am getting ahead of myself.
Obsessive thoughts of being homosexual that cause fear in person who is straight.
I turned 40 a week ago, and I have been out of the closet for almost two decades. In that time, I have helped other truly gay people come out of the closet. If I thought for a minute that even one of the straight HOCD sufferers on the board was gay, I would do the same for him or her. Yet, while I have done my best to help many on the board, I have helped no one come out of the closet.
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Kim Sharma (TOI photo)
Actress Kim Sharma tells about food and lot more that can arouse a woman for sex?
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HOW TO INCREASE SEXUAL DESIRE IN WOMEN _ Kim Sharma's version
Actress Kim Sharma has some ideas to share with people about the food that increase sexual desire in woman. URVASHI ASHAR has the write up done with comments from
Tanushree Poddar, author of
Click here to read Dr. Ashok Koparday's: Medical Information on
Actress Kim Sharma's
LIST OF APHRODISIACS
LIST OF APHRODISIACS
- kesar-badam ka doodh = Milk with saffron and almond,
- Oyster meat,
- cocoa,
- wine,
- honey,
- chocolate,
- vanilla,
- truffles,
- raspberries and
- strawberries
- scent of the food
- there’s a lot that you can do for yourself and your partner
- sexy dress,
- a great perfume,
- romantic music,
- scented candles,
- beautiful flowers,
- wine,
- strawberries covered with chocolate,
- oyster soup,
- tossed salad,
- garlic chicken parmesan,
- dessert wine followed by
- beautifully presented dessert,
- lick those luscious fingers.
Tanushree Poddar, author of You Are What you Eat
China the bird’s nest soup,>- Arabs consider the camel’s hump
- What does the leading Sexologist Dr. Ashok Koparday
say about BEST aphrodisiac?
The article below is posted verbatim from
THE TIMES OF INDIA
Sex on a platter
13 Mar 2009, 0800 hrs IST, URVASHI ASHAR , TNN
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Rewind. Way back in the age of Greek Gods and Goddesses, the ‘Venus’ of the Romans or the Goddess of Love and Sensuality was
Aphrodite.
That’s how foods that enhance sexual pleasure got their name — Aphrodisiacs. According to mythology, the Goddess of Love herself considered the amorous sparrows sacred, which is why sparrows were added to brews... However for the sexual desire to take flight, sparrows seem passé. The pills are in. But not many know that some herbs, veggies, fruits, nuts and grains can do the job for you, too.
Actress Kim Sharma, tells us, “The concept of aphrodisiacs isn’t new. It has been existent since time immemorial. And let’s not talk about western fads that have been ‘adopted’ by us. On the contrary, aphrodisiac foods have always been a part of Indian tradition and customs, and the recipes are being passed on gradually to the next generation. It’s another story that we aren’t aware about the ‘aphrodisiacal qualities’ about these things.”
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The actress further explains, “What do you think your grandmother or your mother-in-law is doing when she walks into your room with kesar-badam ka doodh? Well, she is doing more than just being nice to you. Milk with saffron and almond is aphrodisiacal and meant to up the libido. It’s a custom that has been followed over the years... The ‘love potions’ or the need to consume such foods may have arisen from the importance given to procreation then. To father a child was the mission of man; to take the race forward. It was a religious issue then and the potency of both the male and the female was of utmost importance.”
Some of the most common foods with aphrodisiacal characteristics are chocolate, ginger, ginseng, saffron, cardamom, garlic, pineapple, pomegranate, pine seeds, mustard, basil, dates, cherries, figs... “Oyster meat is supposed to be very rich in aphrodisiacal elements,” adds Kim, “And then there’s of course cocoa. You know, in some parts of the world, like Mexico, earlier prostitutes were paid in cocoa beans. Interesting na?”
TESTOSTERONE IS USED TO INCREASE SEXUAL DESIRE IN WOMEN. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON USE OF TESTOSTERONE CLICK HERE.Dr. Ashok Koparday
According to Tanushree Poddar,
author ofaphrodisiac foods are found all over the world, and every culture has their respective beliefs in the union of the male and female. While in China the bird’s nest soup is recommended to cure impotency, Arabs consider the camel’s hump to be the panacea of sexual inadequacy.
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Most foods reminiscent of the male or female sex organ are automatically considered to be those that boost the sexual drive — bananas, carrots, sea urchins, seeds, nuts, asparagus... “But augmenting sexual desire is not only about boring healthy things, it can be made interesting with wine, honey, chocolate, vanilla, truffles, raspberries and strawberries,” suggests Kim,
“Sometimes it’s the scent of the food that does the trick for you. And also more often than not there’s a lot that you can do for yourself and your partner ensuring a perfect end to a perfect date.”
Sensuous Sharma proposes, “A sexy dress, a great perfume, romantic music, scented candles, beautiful flowers, wine, strawberries covered with chocolate, oyster soup, tossed salad, garlic chicken parmesan, dessert wine followed by beautifully presented dessert. And yes, drop the fork and knife, and lick those luscious fingers... it’s ahem!”
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Newspaper:
Date: 13 Mar 2009,
Time: 0800 hrs IST,
Written by: URVASHI ASHAR , TNN
Accessed on March 11, 2009
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DO NOT CONSIDER THAT THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE written by URVASHI ASHAR as appeared in people's favorite newspaper THE TIMES OF INDIA IS VALIDATED BY DR. ASHOK KOPARDAY.
Click here to read Dr. Ashok Koparday's: Medical Information on
viagra-prevents-heart-failure
Can Sildenafil prevent heart attacks?
Uses of Viagra are two
1. Maintenance of Erection
2. Pulmonary Hypertension
The third use may be taking Sildenafil regularly to prevent hormonal damage to heart.
Can taking Sildenafil regularly be treatment for Heart Failure, Hypertrophy, Hypertension?
Dr. David Kass' Research Team will be starting clinical trial to see if Sildenafil can be effective in patients with heart failure.
In the words of Lead Researcher, Dr. David Kass, Professor of Medicine at John Hopkins:
"If you gave a drug like Viagra not just acutely, but chronically, you might be able to improve heart function and reduce the chronic stress response in patients with hypertrophy."
Viagra alters heart function when it is stimulated by hormonal stress
RESEARCH PREVIEW
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Viagra May Treat Heart Failure
The report appears in the Oct. 24 online edition of Circulation.
"Unlike what was previously thought, drugs like Viagra can in fact alter heart function," said lead researcher Dr. David Kass, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins. "It alters it particularly when the heart is stimulated by hormones."
1. Dr. David Kass, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins. Lead researcher
2. Rakesh C. Kukreja, a professor of medicine (opines; not a research team member)
Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center.
Can be useful in the treatment of hypertension, hypertrophy, heart failure
By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=55034
MONDAY, Oct. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Viagra ©, famous for improving men's sexual function, also appears to reduce the effects of hormonal stress on the heart by 50 percent, claims a report by researchers at Johns Hopkins University.
Viagra © (sildenafil) works by helping genital blood vessels expand to maintain an erection, but more recently, it has also been used as a treatment for pulmonary hypertension. However, the drug has been thought to have no direct effect on the heart.
"Unlike what was previously thought, drugs like Viagra can in fact alter heart function," said lead researcher Dr. David Kass, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins. "It alters it particularly when the heart is stimulated by hormones."
The report appears in the Oct. 24 online edition of Circulation.
Earlier research by Kass's team found that Viagra blocked the short-term effects of hormonal stress in the hearts of mice. They also found that, in mice, Viagra prevented and reversed the long-term cardiac effects of chronic high blood pressure.
In addition, Kass' group found that, in mice, Viagra reversed the negative effects on heart muscle weakened by heart failure and enlargement, a condition called hypertrophy.
"Viagra © puts a brake on the effect of dobutamine,"
David Kass noted that his group is starting a clinical trial to see if Viagra can be effective in patients with heart failure.
Rakesh C. Kukreja opines:
"This research may lead to the development of a new use of the drug in the treatment of diseases such as hypertension, hypertrophy and heart failure, where beta-adrenergic activity is enhanced following neurohormonal stimulation," said Rakesh C. Kukreja, a professor of medicine, physiology, biochemistry and emergency medicine and the Eric Lipman chair of cardiology at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center.
"These studies are complementary to the expanding new role of Viagra © and other relatively safe PDE-5A inhibitors as powerful cardioprotectants," he added.
SOURCES:
David Kass, M.D., professor, medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore;
Rakesh C. Kukreja, Ph.D, professor, medicine, physiology, biochemistry and emergency medicine,
Eric Lipman chair of cardiology, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond;
Hrayr S. Karagueuzian, Ph.D., senior research scientist, Division of Cardiology, Cedars-Siani Medical Center, Los Angeles;
Oct. 24, 2005, Circulation online
Copyright © 2005 ScoutNews LLC. All rights reserved.
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=55034
Uses of Viagra are two
1. Maintenance of Erection
2. Pulmonary Hypertension
The third use may be taking Sildenafil regularly to prevent hormonal damage to heart.
Dr. David Kass' Research Team will be starting clinical trial to see if Sildenafil can be effective in patients with heart failure.
Research study suggests: Viagra© taken regularly not only protects heart (studies done in mice) from stress due to hormones and hypertension, but improves heart function.
In the words of Lead Researcher, Dr. David Kass, Professor of Medicine at John Hopkins:
"If you gave a drug like Viagra not just acutely, but chronically, you might be able to improve heart function and reduce the chronic stress response in patients with hypertrophy."
Viagra alters heart function when it is stimulated by hormonal stress
RESEARCH PREVIEW
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Viagra May Treat Heart Failure
The report appears in the Oct. 24 online edition of Circulation.
"Unlike what was previously thought, drugs like Viagra can in fact alter heart function," said lead researcher Dr. David Kass, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins. "It alters it particularly when the heart is stimulated by hormones."
1. Dr. David Kass, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins. Lead researcher
2. Rakesh C. Kukreja, a professor of medicine (opines; not a research team member)
Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center.
Can be useful in the treatment of hypertension, hypertrophy, heart failure
By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=55034
MONDAY, Oct. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Viagra ©, famous for improving men's sexual function, also appears to reduce the effects of hormonal stress on the heart by 50 percent, claims a report by researchers at Johns Hopkins University.
Viagra © (sildenafil) works by helping genital blood vessels expand to maintain an erection, but more recently, it has also been used as a treatment for pulmonary hypertension. However, the drug has been thought to have no direct effect on the heart.
"Unlike what was previously thought, drugs like Viagra can in fact alter heart function," said lead researcher Dr. David Kass, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins. "It alters it particularly when the heart is stimulated by hormones."
The report appears in the Oct. 24 online edition of Circulation.
Earlier research by Kass's team found that Viagra blocked the short-term effects of hormonal stress in the hearts of mice. They also found that, in mice, Viagra prevented and reversed the long-term cardiac effects of chronic high blood pressure.
In addition, Kass' group found that, in mice, Viagra reversed the negative effects on heart muscle weakened by heart failure and enlargement, a condition called hypertrophy.
"Viagra © puts a brake on the effect of dobutamine,"
David Kass noted that his group is starting a clinical trial to see if Viagra can be effective in patients with heart failure.
Rakesh C. Kukreja opines:
"This research may lead to the development of a new use of the drug in the treatment of diseases such as hypertension, hypertrophy and heart failure, where beta-adrenergic activity is enhanced following neurohormonal stimulation," said Rakesh C. Kukreja, a professor of medicine, physiology, biochemistry and emergency medicine and the Eric Lipman chair of cardiology at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center.
"These studies are complementary to the expanding new role of Viagra © and other relatively safe PDE-5A inhibitors as powerful cardioprotectants," he added.
SOURCES:
David Kass, M.D., professor, medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore;
Rakesh C. Kukreja, Ph.D, professor, medicine, physiology, biochemistry and emergency medicine,
Eric Lipman chair of cardiology, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond;
Hrayr S. Karagueuzian, Ph.D., senior research scientist, Division of Cardiology, Cedars-Siani Medical Center, Los Angeles;
Oct. 24, 2005, Circulation online
Copyright © 2005 ScoutNews LLC. All rights reserved.
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=55034
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Amazing changes happen so that sexuality is fully expressed as child grows to become adult.
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The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage[4]
is that two people are incompatible; that is, one is male and the other female. Anna Quindlen
[3]
º MEN º WOMEN ºMEN WOMEN º PEOPLE º LIFE º LOVE
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"No man is rich enough to buy back his past."
"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account."
"Men become old, but they never become good."
-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”
"I delight in men over seventy, they always offer one the devotion of a lifetime. "
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"How many men there are in modern life who would like to see their past burning to white ashes before them!"
-- “An Ideal Husband”
"A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain."
-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”
"Nowadays all the married men live like bachelors and all the bachelors live like married men."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
"I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean."
-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”
"One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones."
-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”
"Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood."
-- “The Sphinx Without a Secret”
"It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing."
-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”
"I don't know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it!"
-- “An Ideal Husband”
"I don't think there is a woman in the world who would not be a little flattered if one made love to her. It is that which makes women so irresistibly adorable."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth, I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"Women give to men the very gold of their lives. But they invariably want it back in such very small change."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
"I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
"I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to."
-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”
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"People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately."
-- Letter from Paris, dated May 1900
"The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner of later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature."
-- “The Decay of Lying”
"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing."
-- “The Soul of Man Under Socialism”
"Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification."
-- “Lord Arthur Savile's Crime”
"It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
"Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it."
-- “Vera, of The Nihilists”
"The Book of Life begins with a man and woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"Life is never fair...And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."
-- “An Ideal Husband”
"You must not find symbols in everything you see. It makes life impossible."
-- “Salome”
"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."
-- “The Duchess of Padua”
"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."
-- “Lord Arthur Savile's Crime”
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"Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."
-- “An Ideal Husband”
"A kiss may ruin a human life."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
"Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
"Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
Source
[1]The Official Website
The Official Web Site of Oscar Wilde
[2]guy-sports.com
[3]Timeless Relationship Wisdom
http://historyofwit.blogspot.com/2005/04/timeless-relationship-wisdom.html
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[4]Oscars lining up - Flickr
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is that two people are incompatible; that is, one is male and the other female. Anna Quindlen
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º MEN º WOMEN ºMEN WOMEN º PEOPLE º LIFE º LOVE
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Men
"No man is rich enough to buy back his past."
"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account."
"Men become old, but they never become good."
-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”
"I delight in men over seventy, they always offer one the devotion of a lifetime. "
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"How many men there are in modern life who would like to see their past burning to white ashes before them!"
-- “An Ideal Husband”
"A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain."
-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”
"Nowadays all the married men live like bachelors and all the bachelors live like married men."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
"I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean."
-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”
Women
"One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones."
-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”
"Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood."
-- “The Sphinx Without a Secret”
"It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing."
-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”
"I don't know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it!"
-- “An Ideal Husband”
"I don't think there is a woman in the world who would not be a little flattered if one made love to her. It is that which makes women so irresistibly adorable."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth, I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"Women give to men the very gold of their lives. But they invariably want it back in such very small change."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
"I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
"I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to."
-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”
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Men Women
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- Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
- All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
- Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
- A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
- If we men married the woman we deserve, we should have a very tedious time of it.
- In married life three is company and two is none.
- A man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
- Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
- As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
- A woman will flirt with anyone in the world, so long as other women are looking on.
- She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
- A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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People
"People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately."
-- Letter from Paris, dated May 1900
"The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner of later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature."
-- “The Decay of Lying”
"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing."
-- “The Soul of Man Under Socialism”
"Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification."
-- “Lord Arthur Savile's Crime”
"It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
Born:16th October 1854, Died: on 30th November 30, 1900.
Full Name: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie
Parents: His mother Jane was a poet, while his father, Sir William Wilde, was prominent Irish surgeon. Both parents were prolific authors so it was no surprise that he inherited such literary talent.
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Life
"Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it."
-- “Vera, of The Nihilists”
"The Book of Life begins with a man and woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"Life is never fair...And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."
-- “An Ideal Husband”
"You must not find symbols in everything you see. It makes life impossible."
-- “Salome”
"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."
-- “The Duchess of Padua”
"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."
-- “Lord Arthur Savile's Crime”
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Love
"Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."
-- “An Ideal Husband”
"A kiss may ruin a human life."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
"Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
"Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
º MEN º WOMEN ºMEN WOMEN º PEOPLE º LIFE º LOVE
Source
[1]The Official Website
The Official Web Site of Oscar Wilde
[2]guy-sports.com
[3]Timeless Relationship Wisdom
http://historyofwit.blogspot.com/2005/04/timeless-relationship-wisdom.html
posted by Dorion Sagan
[4]Oscars lining up - Flickr
All rights reserved Anyone can see this photo
* Taken with a Sony DSC-N1.
More properties
* Taken on February 8, 2006
jclushlife's photostream
[5]Oscar statue Image credit copyright
WatchinDworldGoBy' s photostream
All rights reserved Anyone can see this photo
* Taken on September 2, 2008
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