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Vitamin B12 can help in detecting cancers

... with radioactive vitamin B12. After three hours a gamma camera takes pictures of the body. Dr. Collins treated a patient with breast cancer and he says that, "The cancer stands out as a bright spot in the breast. It's very easy to detect." This is especially important in women with dense breasts whose can...

Antioxidants protect health tissue in people undergoing radiation therapy.

... megaterium organisms (taken for study) against of gamma radiation. The study offers hope for the development of better radioactive results and could be used to protect healthy tissue in people undergoing radiation therapy....

ATG useful in transplant patients as substitute for steroids

... Surgeons. Rabbit ATG is a purified, pasteurized, gamma immune globulin, obtained by immunization of rabbits with human thymocytes, which contains cytotoxic antibodies expressed on human T-lymphocytes. Steroids have been considered a key component of liver transplant treatment, even though they are associ...

Healthy Medicine Or Harmful Intoxicant?

... intoxicant with no legitimate medical use? GHB -- gamma hydroxy butyric acid -- hailed as a wonder drug for the first 30 years// of its career, has been blamed as an illegal killer for the past 12 years. Many blame GHB for thousands of deaths and emergency room visits, while others claim its unrivaled use...

Camera gives hope for detection of breast cancer

...nt and benign tumours, has been done on a standard gamma camera. The limitation of this kind of camera is t...able to detect more malignancies than the standard gamma camera. It was also more sensitive in the detection of small tumours, of less than one centimetre in...

New Treatment For People Allergic To Cats

... A protein found in cat saliva and dander, called gamma Feline domesticus causes the release of histamine in people allergic to cats. The latest innovation aims to activate the antibody that could stop the release of histamine on being associated with cats. The new treatment consists of a new protein co...

Reason for diabetes drug causing edema discovered

... called peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPAR). This is situated in the collecting duct of...rug as side effects. TZD works by activating PPAR gamma receptor that helps the body to use the insulin to increase metabolism and control blood glucose lev...

Radio-guided Neurosurgery for treatment of Brain cancer

Radio-guided Neurosurgery using a gamma probe for the treatment of brain cancer is the new...t in the darkness. By using the glow caused by the gamma probe the brain tumor is detected and removed effectively. Radioisotopes are elements such as carb...

An Under Estimation Of The Radiation Hazard With The Use Of Mobile Phones

...y is different than the ionizing radiation (X-ray, gamma rays), which can present a health risk at certain doses. At high enough levels, RF energy, too, can be harmful, because of its ability to heat living tissue to the point of causing biological damage. Controversial data has been obtained regarding the...

Occupational Exposure To Radiation Causes Chromosome Aberrations

...workers exposed to high doses of sparsely ionizing gamma rays. The rate of complex chromosome aberrations closely correlated with rates of bone marrow exposure to plutonium. SOURCE: Genes Chromosomes Cancer, September 2005....

Human Brain Continues To Evolve And Grow

...Brain cancer : Radio-guided Neurosurgery using a gamma probe for the treatment of brain canceris the new technology developed by doctors at The Manipal Institute of ... For More Information Read : www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=4704 ...

Primrose oil reduces Breast cancer cell growth

...ceptor. The research team had earlier found that gamma linolenic acid enhanced the action of tamoxifen and chemotherapy drugs against cancer cell. Adding to earlier work the researchers have found that supplementation of GLA along with Herceptin drug augmented the effect of both the drugs and increased t...

Excess Intake of Alcohol Results in Permanent DNA Damage.

...hours after drinking. The blood was 'blasted' with gamma radiation, then check for DNA damage. The researchers found that while drinking alcohol free red wine reduced DNA damage by 20 percent, alcohol tended to increase DNA damage. Complete red wine protected against damage relative to alcohol alone. A...

Vitamin E Can Lead To Heart Disease And Cancer

...chemical structure. Under laboratory conditions, gamma tocopherol was found to completely destroy animal ...e U.S where people tend to consume high amounts of gamma tocopherol. Quinones represent the end product of gamma tocopherol and alpha tocopherol metabolism...

Low Awareness Of Kawasaki Disease In Capital: Parents Form Support Group

... involves administration of purified antibodies or gamma globulin through intravenous route. Vineeta Gupta, a member of the support group said that they had to spend nearly Rs. 1,00,000 for their son’s treatment. The support group will serve the public in the provision of authentic clinical information r...

Lesser Know Facts about Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF)

...l therapies are in the pipeline such as interferon gamma 1-b, pirfenidone, imatinib mesylate, etanerrcept, and iloprost-listed alpha that may hold the key to life-saving treatments for the disease....

New Multi-Modal Contrast Agents, A Boon For Medical Imaging

... particles capture the neutrons and emit alpha and gamma rays, and that energy -- sent out from an accelerator -- is what can be used to kill cancer cells. ‘In looking at this, we both said, 'Holy … cow!' These little gadolinium particles capture neutrons at four times a greater rate than boron, and yet...

Mouse Model Demonstrates Immune System Reaction In Chlamydia Infection

...he T cells recruited to the genital mucosa secrete gamma interferon as they respond to Chlamydia infection....l of protective factors – such as the secretion of gamma interferon that we show occurs using our TCRtg tools." The goal of vaccines is to stimulate a resp...

Bacteria Killed By Radiation Serves As an Effective Source of Vaccine

...nia-San Diego School of Medicine it was found that gamma radiation// killed bacteria are very effective in inducing a protective immune response against the bacterial disease. The U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases also support these researches in their finding and said that these...

Discovery In "Bubble Boy" Disease Gene Therapy

... is set into action by a mutation in a gene called gamma C that obstructs the immune system from forming B ...erapy. In 2002, French researchers inserted normal gamma C genes into bone marrow stem cells removed from young children with the disease. The clinicians the...

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