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Tag: "cells" at medical news

Hormone Deficiency Results In Miscarriage

...as ligand (FasL) that keeps maternal immune system cells from attacking the embryo. Without CRH, these cells would go after the embryo as if it were a virus or other foreign invader. Indeed, half of the geneti...

Acne may protect against infections

... central response in fighting infection.// These cells specialise in fighting bacteria and viruses. However, they can also be mobilised to attack some types of tumour cell. Dr Anne Eady, of the Skin Research Centre at the University of Leeds, said there was evidence that certain skin cancers are less com...

Beer does good

...found antioxidants, like those in beers, protected cells in the eye which, if damaged, lead to an increase ...ed that high glucose levels damage key elements of cells called the mitochondria. These are mini-organs which are responsible for converting glucose// into t...

Creating brain cells from bone marrow

...rchers have recently found a way of creating brain cells out of bone marrow cells which opens up the possibility of grafts for Parkinson's disease. At the Peterson Medical College sc...

Chlamydia toxin- a secret killer

...the pathogen produces a toxin that helps it invade cells and cause these chronic health problems.// Now, at last, the suspect toxin has been found by completing the Chlamydia genome. The toxin turns out to be similar to those that cause botulism, tetanus, and gangrene. Armed with this information, resear...

A need for new stem cell lines

...se mutations may cause certain problems too. Stem cells are unspecialized cells that can become any cell type with// specialized functions. They can be gleaned from several sources...

Cardiac diseases develop early

...ulin resistance is a condition in which the body's cells are less responsive to insulin,the hormone that helps the body's tissues absorb nourishment (glucose). Unlike diabetes, in which the body cannot create enough insulin, people with insulin resistance have plenty of insulin but their bodies do not use...

A Chinese herb kills cancer cells

...h is basically used to treat malaria, kills cancer cells too using a similar mechanism. The drug artemisini...work with cancer cells. For it's known that cancer cells often have much higher iron concentrations that healthy cells. Professor Henry and his team pumped...

Radiofrequency Energy Cooks Tumors Without Surgery

...can be treated by overlapping treatments. The dead cells are not removed, but become scar tissue and eventually shrink. Radiofrequency energy is electromagnetic and non-ionizing in nature, similar to microwave energy. Researchers have used RFA throughout the human body, including the liver, kidney, adren...

The cancer-fighting gene

...es on how the crucial protein effectively prevents cells from becoming cancerous.// The protein is enormous in size and scope, with a chain of some 1,863 amino acids that comprises a complex, three-dimensional structure.Scientists have been focusing their investigations on the two ends of the protein, th...

Women more susceptible to brain damage from ecstasy

...eep and sex. The drug also appears to damage brain cells that transmit nerve signals. // In a study, scientists at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam have shown that women are more vulnerable to the brain cell damage. The researchers studied 54 people whose use of the drug varied from moderate to h...

Garlic fights malaria and cancer

... glutathione system is of particular importance in cells that rapidly reproduce, like cancer cells or malaria-infected cells, because these harmful particles are natural by-products of metabolism.Ajo...

IVF technique May Increase The Risk Of Birth Defects

...lity, and if a baby inherited a problem where some cells lacked Y chromosomes, it could cause ambiguous genitalia, Turner’s syndrome, or both....

Cinnamon combats Diabetes

...od testing and insulin injections. It happens when cells in the body normally responsible for dealing with excess blood sugar lose their ability to respond to insulin, the hormone which instructs them to perform this function. The increased blood sugar levels cause symptoms such as fatigue, weight loss ...

Red Wine Helps Fight Heart disease

...the amount of the peptide endothelin-1 produced by cells taken from the blood vessels of cows. Endothelin-1...re present in grape juice. In the study, the cow cells were exposed to extracts from 23 red wines, four white wines, one rose and one type of red grape jui...

Caffeine can induce epilepsy in newborns

...nked to the development of epileptic discharges in cells from newborn mammals that have been briefly starve...e Institut National De La Santé in France examined cells from the hippocampus, a part of the brain that is thought to control memory.They subjected the cells...

Stem cell research

...of scientists, based in UK, have grown human nerve cells in the lab, in the first successful attempt to con...w years to capture the potential of embryonic stem cells - a kind of 'template' cell - by directing their differentiation into a specialised cell such as a n...

Cure for blindness

...iversity of Texas, have transplanted human retinal cells into rats born with a predisposition to blindness.// Experiments showed that the rats were then able to distinguish patterns as well as animals with normal vision. This is an important step on the way to using retinal transplant to restore sight in...

Higher Risk of Asthma in children with autoimmune disease

... Type 1 diabetes occurs when the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas are destroyed, making it necessary for a person to take injections of the blood-sugar-regulating hormone. Kero and colleagues found that 25% of children with celiac disease had asthma, compared with about 3% of children without celia...

Low cholestrol,low behaviour

... cholestrol that might influence the way the nerve cells work." Dr Garland said impulsivity stimulated by low cholesterol levels could be responsible for many types of dangerous behavior....

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