Publications by authors named "Tomoki Omata"
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- Research shows that our emotions and gut health are connected, which is seen in conditions like irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
- Scientists studied mice that were stressed to see how it affected their gut, and this stress caused changes like faster digestion and more pain.
- A traditional medicine helped improve these gut issues in the stressed mice, suggesting that stress-related depression can lead to IBS-like symptoms without any physical damage to the gut.
Disulfiram is an FDA approved drug for the treatment of alcoholism. The drug acts by inhibiting aldehyde dehydrogenase, an enzyme essential to alcohol metabolism. However, a recent study has demonstrated that disulfiram also potently inhibits the cytoplasmic protein FROUNT, a common regulator of chemokine receptor CCR2 and CCR5 signaling.
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