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Poultry Vaccine against Avian Flu

...he vaccine against Newcastle disease. This vaccine acts as a vector and protects the bird from both the disease. The role of the H5 protein is that it acts as a hemagglutinin binding the avian influenza virus to the cells it infects. The birds were inocula...

Prozac Unplugged

...tudied by researchers, in the manner with which it acts in the brain. Researchers from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory// in Long Island, New York, have found that the drug causes the production of immature brain cells. This could pave the way for the birth of new treatment measures for depression, and...

Cure For Cervical Cancer Found

...cervical cancer across the world by two-thirds. It acts against the HPV 16, 18, 6 and 11 strains....

In-Vivo Gene Therapy Technique to Cure XSCID in Basset Pups

... Infectious Disease introduced a retro virus which acts as a vector for the correct gene of XSCID. The results of their study were presented in the journal Blood. In humans; XSCID affects one in 100,000 boys, resulting from the inheritance of a faulty gene on one of the mother's X-chromosomes. It often...

PI-103 Effective against Brain Cancer

...of brain cancer. // The compound called the PI-103 acts as a potent drug candidate against lethal brain tu...nase family alone – and uncertainty about how each acts in the body – has stalled progress. Broad spectrum drugs that inhibit many related kinases inevitabl...

C-Myc Gene Essential for Immune System Function

...myc, which is known primarily as an oncogene, that acts downstream of the IL-15 signaling pathway to regulate T memory cell homeostasis.’ According to Dr. MacDonald, the study is basic research that may have implications for therapies of the future. ‘Understanding how immune memory works might allow us ...

Sensory Input Necessary During "Critical Periods" Of Brain Development

...eral common set genes, they found that this kinase acts as a relay, regulating these genes in response to ...rture, our experience of the world via our senses, acts through nature, sets of genes, to alter brain circuits." These discoveries may lead to new ways of ...

Burn Away Calories In Your Garden

...Experts also say that being close to Mother Nature acts as a soothing balm on your nerves and is good for mental health. "You're out in nature, which is a very soothing location. You can turn on whatever music you want. It's a good way to break away from the daily rigor we all go through," Roth said. Re...

Researchers Have Found New Methods To Treat Parkinson’s Diseas

..., both research groups show that the PINK1 protein acts upstream of Parkin, another protein linked to the sporadic forms of Parkinson's. These two proteins appear to act in a common pathway involved in maintaining mitochondrial function. "We found that when you remove PINK 1, the animals are alive, but ...

Drug Approved to Curb Alcohol Dependency

...dealing with their alcohol addiction. Naltrexone acts on opiate receptors while acamprosate has its effect on a neurotransmitter. They both have been approved by Food and Drug Administration approval. Naltrexone, made by Alkermes Inc. as an injectable form, to be taken monthly, will be marketed by Ceph...

Carboplatin, Lung cancer drug may be useful in treating breast tumor

.... This genetically tailored chemotherapy treatment acts in a much more focused manner than standard chemotherap.”...

Reliability of Pacemakers and Defibrillators to be Improved

...uring malfunctioning of an implanted defibrillator acts up. Data on 533 patients who underwent replacement surgery found that 43 of them had complications in the following three months. Two patients died of infections after surgery. The somewhat unpredictability of pacemakers and defibrillators first be...

Effective Vaccine for Leishmaniasis in the Pipeline

...tic material of the flu viruses. The virosome also acts as an adjuvant, boosting the immune response of the vaccine. The antigen is a synthetic carbohydrate similar to substances on the surface of the leishmaniasis bacteria. Seeberger’s group is planning to test the vaccine on animals. WHO assigned a high...

The Combo Treatment Is Effective to Treat Type 1 Diabetes in Mice

...nasal proinsulin peptides were also injected. This acts like a vaccine thereby triggering the production of a cell that specifically protects beta cells. A team led by Matthias von Herrath was able to stop the immune systems in most of the mice from destroying their own beta cells by using the combination...

Mouse Models To Determine The Cause Of Aggressive Leukemia

...t of Genetics and Tumor Cell Biology said that Arf acts as a safeguard against the cancer-causing effects of Bcr-Abl. The St. Jude team found that Arf is not inactivated in CML patients who respond to imatinib. But in case of ALL Arf gene is lost frequently and imatinib treatment is far less effective. Th...

A Protein May Help In Weight Loss Treatment

...have discovered a process by which a small protein acts directly within muscles to increase the body's met...er, Dr. Greg Steinberg reveals how a small protein acts directly within muscles to increase the body's metabolism to burn fat while at the same time suppres...

Novel method conceived, to achieve genome-wide gene silencing.

...a protein called SUMO holds on to the histones and acts to repress transcription of genes, and it does so at many different sites across the genome. While several other histone-related mechanisms have been identified for activating genes in yeast, this is the first one recognized as repressing gene transc...

New Lung Cancer Drug Launched By Roche Pharmaceutical

...growth. The drug blocks the tumour cell growth. It acts by inhibiting the activity of a specific enzyme, tyrosine kinase, which is part of the human epidermal growth receptor (EGFR). Regarding the registration of the drug in the country, they have applied to the government for registration and expect it...

Stress Can Cause Hair loss at 16

...life. Stress increases glucocorticoid levels. That acts like a male hormone and causes the thinning of hair," Mumbai-based Sonal Shah said. "Initially, we used to see this beginning around 35 but now it has come down to as low as 16 and 18," Shah told IANS on the sidelines of a seminar on hair styling a...

Skin Patch Offers Relief to Patients with Parkinson's disease

...patient consumes called the dopamine agonist. This acts directly on the dopamine receptors in the brain. But now this latest technique contains a new dopamine agonist, called rotigotine, and delivers a continuous dose of the drug over 24 hours, so patients only having to change the patch once a day. R...

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