Abdominal in Biological News

Review of probiotic trial research finds only Bifantis able to claim efficacy for IBS symptoms

... significantly improve symptoms of IBS, including abdominal pain, bloating and bowel movement difficulty. ... a range of gastrointestinal issues including abdominal pain, bloating, constipation, diarrhea, gas and ... to build and maintain a natural defense against abdominal discomfort and episodic digestive upsets such as ...

Interventional treatment can be recommended as first-line treatment for 'silent killer'

... treatment that uses stent grafts to treat abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA), has low re-intervention ... news for patients, many of whom do not want major abdominal surgery," said Tarun Sabharwal, M.D., ... remarkable in my eyes that the 'silent killer,' abdominal aortic aneurysm, can be treated successfully by a ...

Athletes not spared from health risks of metabolic syndrome

... clinical symptoms that include excess fat in the abdominal area (as measured by waist circumference), ... to them?" Most research suggests that reducing abdominal fat is the best way to prevent disease in the ... "The bottom line is we're seeing more and more abdominal obesity. And these findings show that athletes ...

How alligators rock and roll

... silently by using their diaphragm, pelvic, abdominal and rib muscles to shift their lungs like ... that separates the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity in humans and other mammals. But in ... as the gator equivalent of six packs, abs or abdominal muscles. In most animals, these muscles help ...

New CPR promises better results by compressing abdomen, not Chest

... first new CPR alternative, called "only rhythmic abdominal compression," or OAC-CPR, which works by pushing ... the new procedure provides a breath for every abdominal compression because pushing on the abdomen ... CPR with the flow resulting from only abdominal compression CPR. Findings showed that using the ...

Research uncovers promising target to treat chronic abdominal pain

... linked to the way pain signals are sent to the brain led to a decrease in abdominal pain in a recent study in mice. Researchers say the finding suggests ... is irritable bowel syndrome, a disorder characterized by cramping, abdominal pain, bloating, constipation and diarrhea. Experts estimate IBS affects ...

Society of Interventional Radiology hosts 34th annual scientific meeting

... for release until Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 9 a.m. Eastern) abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Recommending Treatment for "Silent Killer" Abdominal ... a minimally invasive procedure that eliminates the need to undergo a large abdominal incision from surgery or to clamp the aorta, the main artery from the ...

Fighting obesity and illness with a novel approach to nutrition

... The syndrome's principal clinical manifestations are abdominal obesity and high levels of a type of blood fat called triglycerides which ... linseed on obese diabetics, the volunteers showed a partial loss of abdominal obesity and a reduction in their triglycerides levels. "Our ...

Scientists identify cell changes leading to impaired 'artificial kidney' function

... a process known as peritoneal dialysis (PD). Fluid is inserted into the abdominal cavity, and the blood vessel-rich cavity lining, the peritoneum, acts as a ... to revert back to their original state, as they normally existed in the abdominal cavity lining. These findings support further research on maintaining ...

Anti-tumor therapy with endoscopic ultrasound may fight cancer more safely and effectively

... surgery (NOTES®). This entails using the stomach as a window to the abdominal cavity rather than the skin. EUS could play an important role in helping surgeons gain safe access to the abdominal cavity as part of NOTES. EUS 2008 will be devoted to teaching current ...

Skin care: new research into scar-free healing

... but also for people who suffer organ tissue damage through illness or abdominal surgery. When skin is damaged a blood clot forms and cells underneath ... liver damage leads to fibrosis and liver failure, and after most abdominal surgeries scars can often lead to major complications. Tissue damage ...

Common allergy drug reduces obesity and diabetes in mice

... Medical School and Joslin Diabetes Center discovered that a class of immune system cells called regulatory T cells, or Tregs, were abundant in the abdominal fat tissue of normal-weight humans and mice, but were virtually absent in the same tissue from obese and diabetic humans and mice. Their numbers ...

UTMB study identifies women at risk of gaining excessive weight with injectable birth control

... little or no weight, the early gainers averaged weight gain of 24 pounds over three years. "DMPA-related weight gain is linked to increased abdominal fat, a known component of metabolic syndrome, which raises the risk of obesity-related conditions such as cardiovascular disease, stroke and ...

Tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology

... injections of L5 prior to infection greatly reduced rates of death and intra-abdominal administration of L5 increased antibacterial activity in the abdominal cavity. "In conclusion, we found that L5 induced the activation of the host immune responses and protected the mice from death due to infection," ...

Discovery raises new doubts about dinosaur-bird links

... lungs," Ruben said. "However, theropod dinosaurs had a moving femur and therefore could not have had a lung that worked like that in birds. Their abdominal air sac, if they had one, would have collapsed. That undercuts a critical piece of supporting evidence for the dinosaur-bird link. "A velociraptor ...

Babies born to native high-altitude mothers have decreased risk of low birth weight

... and 36 weeks of pregnancy, and three months post-partum. They also tracked fetal growth across pregnancy using ultrasound to measure fetal head and abdominal circumference, femur length and estimated fetal weight. The study found the following: At sea level, the changes in uterine artery size during ...

Olympus advances technology for laparo-endoscopic single-site surgery

... platform that now allows surgeons to perform minimally invasive single-site surgery through the umbilicus (belly button), which may result in less abdominal trauma, less post-operative pain, less internal/external scarring and improved recovery for patients. The platform, introduced at the annual Society ...

Oral contraceptives impair muscle gains in young women

... exercise physiologists. They performed a variety of exercises to include chest press, lat pull down, leg extension, triceps extension, arm curl and abdominal crunch. Exercise was done using standard exercise machines and each volunteer performed three sets of 6-10 repetitions per exercise at 75 percent of ...

Oral contraceptives impair muscle gains in young women

... exercise physiologists. They performed a variety of exercises to include chest press, lat pull down, leg extension, triceps extension, arm curl and abdominal crunch. Exercise was done using standard exercise machines and each volunteer performed three sets of 6-10 repetitions per exercise at 75 percent of ...

Researchers discover link between schizophrenia and diabetes

... Trials of Intervention Effectiveness Schizophrenia Trial showed the prevalence rate of metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors that include abdominal obesity, high lipid and cholesterol blood levels and insulin resistance, is more than 50 percent in women and about 37 percent in men with ...

Fireflies and jellyfish help illuminate quest for cause of infertility

... included the pituitary gland, the thymus an organ in the chest which helps protect against autoimmunity the spleen and inflammatory cells in the abdominal cavity. ...

Difference in fat storage may explain lower rate of liver disease in African-Americans

... however, have NAFLD, compared with 45 percent of Hispanics. Similarly, African-Americans are less likely to have high levels of triglycerides and abdominal fat both characteristics of insulin resistance when compared with Hispanics or Caucasians, even though overall rates of insulin resistance among ...

Novel veterinary procedure detecting life-threatening injuries touted

... maneuvers in emergent, critically ill, and high-risk patients," the authors conclude. "Veterinarians should consider making thoracic (TFAST) and abdominal (AFAST) FAST training not only part of the core competency, but also a standard of care in management of trauma and other high-risk patients in ...

Register now for the Society of Interventional Radiology's 34th Annual Scientific Meeting

... matter: AV fistulas and dialysis Seeing the promise of drug-eluting stents: critical limb ischemia Recommending treatment for "Silent Killer": abdominal aortic aneurysm Visit www.SIRmeeting.org to register online (free), view scientific abstracts and download a meeting schedule. Please contact ...

Scientists discover how deadly fungus protects itself

... the lungs and can spread throughout the body, including the brain. The resulting infection, called cryptococcosis, can cause chest pain, dry cough, abdominal swelling, headache, blurred vision, or confusion. The infection can be fatal, especially if not treated with antifungal medications. "It's a ...

Robo-surgery: As safe and capable as a human assistant in key-hole gallbladder removal

... that involves a surgeon and an assistant. In key-hole surgery, the surgeon sees inside the patient via a long camera introduced through a 1 cm abdominal cut. The camera guides the surgeon in using the surgical instruments introduced through other small cuts (ranging from 0.5 to 1 cm). The assistant's ...

Virtual reality: Keyhole surgeons training could help meet European working time directives

... time-consuming and costly, and surgeons have to develop new skills while working within the hour-limits set by European legislation. More and more abdominal surgery is now performed using laparoscopes instruments introduced into the patient's body through small incisions in the skin. This means that ...

Research yields new clues to how we locate objects in space

... display one in which the ultrasound image will appear within the object being scanned (known as an in situ image). In other words, during an abdominal ultrasound, the ultrasound image will actually appear inside the abdomen, floating at the location of the imaged data. They achieved this by mounting ...

New genetic markers for ulcerative colitis identified, researchers report in Nature Genetics

... inflammation and ulceration in the inner lining of the rectum and large intestine. The most common symptoms are diarrhea (oftentimes bloody) and abdominal pain. Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, another chronic gastrointestinal inflammatory disorder, are the two major forms of inflammatory bowel ...

Tips from the American Journal of Pathology

... findings are presented in the January 2009 issue of The American Journal of Pathology . Inflammation of the peritoneum is characterized by severe abdominal pain. This inflammation can be prevented by annexin A1, which inhibits the migration of inflammation-inducing white blood cells into the affected ...

Flowering plants speed post-surgery recovery

... the pain associated with recovery from surgery. Now, research has confirmed the beneficial effects of plants and flowers for patients recovering from abdominal surgery. A recent study by Seong-Hyun Park and Richard H. Mattson, researchers from the Department of Horticulture, Recreation and Forestry at ...

Researchers create new class of fluorescent dyes to detect reactive oxygen species in vivo

... the in vivo tests because of its higher emission wavelength of 760 nanometers. LPS-treated mice showed twofold greater fluorescence intensity in the abdominal area than those treated with saline. "Given their ability to detect reactive oxygen species in living cells, tissue samples and in vivo, we ...

Lack of vitamin D causes weight gain and stunts growth in girls

... Axis of the MUHC. "We found young women with vitamin D insufficiency were significantly heavier, with a higher body mass index and increased abdominal fat, than young women with normal levels." Vitamin D fosters growth, healthier weight The researchers examined 90 Caucasian and Hispanic girls ...

Apple or pear shape is not main culprit to heart woes -- it's liver fat

... marker for risk," says Klein, who also directs the Nutrition Support Service at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. "It appears liver fat is the real marker. abdominal fat probably has been cited in the past because it tends to track so closely with liver fat. But if you look at people where the two don't correspond ...

Collegiate Inventors Competition recognizes top student inventors

... Robert Allen) SurgyPack A Novel Means for Bowel Packing A device that can be inserted by a surgeon to keep the patient's intestines away from an abdominal surgery site. Greg Schroll, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Advisor: Alexander Slocum) Spherical Vehicle with Flywheel Momentum Storage ...

Guidelines urge physical activity during pregnancy

... call for women to avoid doing activities that involve lying on their back after the first trimester and activities with high risk of falling or abdominal trauma. During the postpartum period, regular physical activity continues to benefit a woman's overall health, according to Pivarnik's research, ...

Form of Crohn's disease traced to disabled gut cells

... bowel disorders. In 2002, epidemiologists estimated that it affected 400,000 to 600,000 patients in North America. Symptoms include diarrhea, abdominal pain, vomiting and weight loss. The condition can lead to partial or full intestinal blockages, which can require surgical treatment. Research ...

Robotic surgery lowers risk of a rare but serious complication of gastric bypass

... A gastrointestinal leak, which can occur when the small intestine is reconnected to a small pouch created in the stomach, often produces symptoms of abdominal and chest pain, shortness of breath, fever, nausea, vomiting and rarely death. In this five-year study, there were no deaths in either group, and the ...

US Air Force grant targets medical evacuation procedures

... but doesn't reach a field hospital to receive fluids for several hours. Hepatic ischemia reperfusion model represents a patient who needs serious abdominal surgery that requires re-establishing blood flow to a major organ. The scald/burn model corresponds to a blast burn wound from weapon fire. ...

Bisphenol A linked to metabolic syndrome in human tissue

... could be drawn. To conduct this study, the UC team collected fresh fat tissue from Cincinnati patients undergoing several types of breast or abdominal surgery. These samples included three types of fat tissue: breast, subcutaneous and visceral (around the organs). Tissue was immediately taken to ...