Tag: "accelerates" at medical news

Sensible Diet, Exercise and Weight Control Increases Longevity

...o much insulin overactivates Irs2 in the brain and accelerates disease progression. Thus, insulin resistance and higher insulin levels might be the environmental influences that promote these diseases, he said....

New, Less Painful Wound Treatment for Pediatric Patients

...udy senior author Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye. The system accelerates wound contraction, decreases wound and tissue swelling, increases local microcirculation, provides a closed, moist healing environment and stimulates the formation of granulation tissue, an important indicator of healing tissue. Ninety-three perce...

New, Less Painful Wound Treatment for Pediatric Patients

...dy senior author Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye. “The system accelerates wound contraction, decreases wound and tissue swelling, increases local microcirculation, provides a closed, moist healing environment and stimulates the formation of granulation tissue, an important indicator of healing tissue.” Ninety-three perc...

Inflammation can Lead to Cancer

...id arthritis. "We already know that inflammation accelerates skin, cervical and colon cancer, and most likely also lung and breast cancer," she said. "If we confirm that what we've discovered in the mice studies also occurs in human cancers, we may soon be in a good position to slow this cancer process using d...

Carriers With Alzheimer's High Risk Gene Type Age Normally Until the Disease Strikes

...through an additional, as-yet-unknown process that accelerates or intensifies normal changes, pushing them into the range of disease. Jorm provides an analogy. "In general, hair becomes thinner with age," he says. "However, there are some people who have an additional hereditary factor that makes them bald at an...

Researchers Study Effects Of Fat Around The Heart

...re exploring whether fat stored around the heart// accelerates the development of atherosclerosis. As people gain weight, fat can accumulate in the abdomen, as well as around the heart and other organs. The study will explore the hypothesis that fat around the arteries in the heart contributes to inflammation a...

Newly Cloned Wheat Gene May Boosts Foods' Nutrient Contents – Says A Researc

...ed GPC-B1 for its effect on Grain Protein Content, accelerates grain maturity and increases grain protein and micronutrient content by 10 to 15 percent in the wheat varieties studied so far. To prove that this gene produced all these effects, the researchers created genetically modified wheat lines with reduced ...

Stress brings about early onset of puberty

...izing the physical and emotional changes in youth, accelerates their stress and results in poor physical and mental health. According to them, there has been a steady decline in the onset of puberty in the last 150 years that has dropped 3 years in the last one century alone. Better nutrition and several publi...

Cause of ‘Down Syndrome’ cannot be pinned down to maternal age aloe

...and it might explain why the rate of Down Syndrome accelerates with increasing maternal age.These findings have important implications for the prevention of abnormal fetal development. The authors conclude that “clearly, identification of the relaxation control mechanisms and therapeutic restoration of a string...

Psoriasis raises risk for heart attack

...mune system is responsible for this condition that accelerates the skin cell growth cycle, causing the skin cells to shed too rapidly and form visible, red plaques. Some patients develop a type of arthritis causing stiffness and swelling in the joints. Psoriasis can be treated with medication and exposure to l...

Curcumin –New Weapon Against Colorectal Cance

...body. IL-8 is a potent inflammatory protein which accelerates the growth and spread of a variety of human cancer cells, including colorectal and pancreatic tumor cells. According to the researchers curcumin reduces IL-8 production by inhibiting the signals neurotensin needs to have an effect on IL-8 production....

HIV Treatment Needs Re-Evaluation

...earlier helps restore the guts immune response and accelerates recovery. The scientists observed that in patients receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) within weeks of exposure the recovery of the gut immune system was better than in patients with chronic infection. ...

Doubts About In UteroTransmission Of Senile Amyloidosis

...shown that injecting fibrils into susceptible mice accelerates disease onset. That led researchers guided by Dr. Xiaoying Fu to ask whether pups born to affected mothers also display accelerated disease. Using a mouse strain that carries a mutation for senile amyloidosis, Dr. Fu's group injected female mice wi...

Why All the Fuss about Folic Acid?

... resulting damage to the nervous system and infact accelerates it....

Novel Technique For Identification And Treatment Of Neurodegenerative Diseases

...ed on equipment called synchrotron, (a device that accelerates electrons to produce high intensity X-rays). The equipment has numerous applications in the physics related experiments. The researchers from University of Florida incorporated lenses and mirrors to the usual set up to enable analysis of brain tissue...

Ward Off Aging With A Low-Calorie Nutritional Diet

...and, calorie restriction coupled with malnutrition accelerates aging and causes severe diseases. "Therefore, eating half a hamburger, half a bag of French fries and half a can of soft drink is not healthy caloric restriction and is harmful," he said. The caloric restriction model requires a strict diet regim...

Genetic Expressions Can Influence The Process Of Aging

...have discovered that the loss of a gene called p63 accelerates the process of aging. Similar versions of the gene are present in many organisms, including humans // . Drawing parallels from mice, the researchers had concluded that the p63 gene is likely to play a fundamental biological role in aging-related pro...

Weight Loss An Indicator Of Dementia In The Elderly

...ore the onset of // definite dementia symptoms and accelerates by the time of diagnosis. Weight loss in the elderly is common and may be associated with various diseases including Alzheimer's. This has been documented in people who already have dementia. For the study researchers analyzed data on nearly 2,000 J...

Cut your puff's

It is well perceived that smoking accelerates the risk of heart disease, but now researchers say that every cigarette has the inherent capacity for the development of a heart attack.This is because each cigarette appears to have a startling - and almost immediate impact on the cardiovascular sys...

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