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A Novel Device System To Reduce Blood Pressure

...ations. "The Rheos System is a novel device that activates the carotid baroreflex, the body's own system for regulating blood pressure," Bisognano said. "We are pleased with the clinical results to date and look forward to expanding the clinical evaluation of the Rheos System. New approaches to the widesprea...

Swelling of Prostate Gland Prevented with New drug

...give one of the estrogen selective drugs that only activates a particular type of estrogen receptor, beta, you can prevent the hyperplasia from developing.” The drug was found to stop the development of the illness and improve the health of the animals which had existing BPH. Risbridger added, “Ideally, w...

Innovative treatment for Skin Cancer

...hotodynamic therapy (PDT). In this, a light source activates a photosensitive drug that kills the cancerous cells. PDT has several advantages over surgery. There is no scarring of the skin, pain is less as a lower level of light is used and there is no need for hospitalization. Photobiologist Professor Fer...

Cell Wall of Pneumonia Bacteria Can Cause Brain and Heart Damage

... (PAF) is an immune system signaling molecule that activates certain white blood cells. It normally binds to PAFr on the cell lining. The St. Jude team demonstrated that phosphorylcholine, a molecule on the bacteria’s cell wall, resembles PAF and exploits this similarity to bind to PAFr. The researchers demo...

Eating Strawberries may boost memory

... identification of a safe, orally active drug that activates memory-associated pathways and enhances memory," s..., Japan, extended the study and found that fisetin activates the same signaling pathway in rat hippocampal tissues and also induces LTP. Next, they tested fise...

Fermented Milk offers protection against allergies in infants

...sease. But, when allergens are involved, Ig E also activates cells releasing histamines. Histamine causes allergic responses like inflammation and constriction of airways. Ji-Ruei Liu and his team from the National Formosa University conducted a study on mice. These mice were fed with the milk drink. After ...

New Garlic Product Mimics Garlic to Perfection

...garlic mixes with stomach acid. In fact, Garli-Eze activates in stomach acid yet doesn't use an 'enteric coating', which typically employs a mix of synthetic chemicals designed to protect the capsule contents from stomach acid. Garli-Eze is the first commercial garlic product to perform like fresh, raw garlic....

Food Makers Pressurized to Reduce Salt

...s the binding and textural properties of proteins, activates proteins to increase water-binding activity, helps with the formation of stable batters with fat, and also extends shelf-life with its anti-microbacterial effects. WASH chairman as well as chairman of the Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH) ...

Anti-allergy vaccine based on 'hygiene hypothesis'

...s on mycobacteria. This drug called CYT003 – QbG10 activates the immune system to attack potentially larger threats like mycobacteria, a group of bacteria found in soil and water that are come across rarely these days due to modern cleanliness. In this manner, the immune system is deceived and made to forget t...

Genetic Link To High Blood Pressure

...led smooth muscle myosin light chain kinase, which activates myosin, in their hypertensive rats than in closely related rats that do not develop hypertension. They also found that there was more of the kinase's messenger RNA, the genetic message the cell uses to make the kinase. "This told us that whatever w...

Study Finds Parkinson’s Cell Death Blocked by Stopping Inflammatory Facto

...ng around joints in rheumatoid arthritis. TNF also activates other cells – including cells in the brain called microglia – that eat bacteria and other pathogens. While the results point in a direction for treating neurodegenerative diseases with anti-inflammatories, a few problems will need to be addressed b...

Researchers Identify Key Step in Cocaine-Induced Heart Enlargement, Sudden Death

... Dr. Henning and his colleagues found that cocaine activates the enzyme calmodulin kinase II (CaMK), which increases calcium within the heart muscle cells. The increase in calcium appears to be a key step in prompting the accumulation of primitive fetal proteins not normally found in adult heart muscle cells –...

Protein rich diet reduces hunger?

...e investigators report that consuming more protein activates and enhances the quantity of peptide YY (PYY), a hormone that actually curbs hunger. Study leader Rachel Batterham, of University College London, said “We’ve now found that increasing the protein content of the diet augments the body's own PYY, he...

Study States That CNS Could Regulate Arthritis

...ion in the central nervous system, which, in turn, activates spinal p38. By blocking this pathway only in the spinal cord, they observed the same benefit that was normally achieved by treating the entire body with much higher doses. The novel mechanism could have therapeutic implications related to the desig...

Stress Could Have A Notable Effect In Quickening The Progression Of Alzheimer's disease

...his drug, which, like the stress hormone cortisol, activates glucocorticoid receptors, might have some effect on plaques and tangles, it was surprising to find that such large increases were induced in relatively young mice,' said James L. McGaugh, research professor of neurobiology and behaviour and co-author...

Feedback Loop Governing Ovarian Development Unraveled

... receptors on the intermingled cells. That docking activates the intermingled cells and is important for their survival. Spitz acts a bit like a volume control dial. Once it docks onto the EGF receptors, the intermingled cells send a signal to the primordial germ cells to stop growing. Increased EGF signali...

New Technique Developed To Help Fight The Problem Of Alcohol Abuse

...ive drinkers encounter drink-related stimuli, this activates automatic thought processes which stimulate them to want a drink and to actually take a drink. Hence the simple consequence of helping excessive drinkers pay less attention to alcohol in their environment is that they gain more confidence in their ab...

Gene Responsible For Mammary Gland Function, When Mutated Results in Leukemias

...n of a gene) called the SRE, Morris said. SRF then activates a group of specific genes that cooperate to perform a particular function. The group of genes activated by SRF depends on which member of the MKL1 family binds to the SRF protein. This MKL1-linked SRF pathway is one of two such cellular signaling ...

Serotonin the Answer for Anti-Obesity Treatment

...erotonin levels in the brain, found that serotonin activates some neurons and melanocortin-4 receptors, or MC4R...ucleus, or ARC. In the ARC, drug-induced serotonin activates brain cells called pro-opiomelanocortin neurons, or POMC, which in turn release a hormone that acts ...

Bone Marrow Cells Aid In Heart Repair

... much like a lock and key -- the "turned on" c-kit activates the bone marrow cells to migrate to the heart to help stimulate new blood vessel growth. In the study, mice with defective c-kit bone marrow cells, could not mobilize these cells to race towards the injured site and regenerate the injured heart. Th...

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