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Astra Zeneca's Seroquel Gets FDA Approval For Schizophrenia

...patients to stay on track. Bipolar disorder is a characteristic mental imbalance in which the patient experiences wild mood swings, feeling elated during episodes of mania and then immediately suffering from a severe depression. An eight week study of 1045 affected patients was conducted before the drug was ap...

Naturally Occurring Enzyme Can Break Down Key Part of Alzheimer's Plaques

...an break down a key component of the brain plaques characteristic of Alzheimer's disease.// The finding may provide researchers with new opportunities to understand what goes wrong in the brains of Alzheimer's patients and could one day help them seek new therapies. Researchers at Washington University School of M...

Breast reconstruction may be possible with fat stem cells

... cells have been shown to differentiate into cells characteristic of those from tissues such as fat, bone, cartilage, nerve, muscle and blood vessels. Dr. Rubin and his colleagues are focusing their efforts on an approach that involves combining the fat-derived stem cells with microscopic beads composed of a type...

Drexel Research in Cytokines Could Treat Sepsis

...larger biological molecules, such as proteins with characteristic dimensions, over 5-10 nm, need to be removed from the human body or biological fluids. Most of the pores in activated carbon are too small and only a small fraction of the surface area is available for adsorption. Technology for production of medical...

Stem cells in regeneration of breast tissue in Cancer patients

...tory experiments. These cells develop into cells characteristic of fat, bone, cartilage, nerve, muscle and blood vessels on exposure to certain chemical conditions.The team plans to combine fat-derived stem cells with microscopic beads with regenerative properties. Initial tests reveal that the stem cells easil...

Anti Atherosclerosis Therapies Linked to Leukemia

...e to injury and disease; atherosclerosis, with its characteristic lesions in the blood vessel walls, underlies most cardiovascular disease, including heart attacks and strokes. Scientists at The Wistar Institute pursuing a promising new immune-system target for anti-atherosclerosis therapies discovered an unwanted...

The Anti-HIV Properties Of Green Tea Uncovered

...ions of EGCG, a flavonoid that gives green tea its characteristic colour. Clinical trials of several EGCG-based cancer drugs are in progress. Scientists at Baylor College of Medicine and University of Sheffield, UK revealed the mechanism by which EGCG blocks HIV. They found that EGCG bound to the same site as the...

Holiday Season Could Ring in “Heartburn Season

...ng back up from the stomach – is often marked by a characteristic burning sensation that sufferers describe as rolling up into their chest. Fatty foods play a starring role in this process. “Most of the time heartburn is a nuisance, not a tremendous threat to your health,” said Dr. Stuart Spechler, professor of i...

Parkinson’s- Transplanting Cure

...the loss of movement control, which is the typical characteristic of the disease. Borlongan said, 'We are very cautious but, to us, it`s an indication that stem cells have promise for Parkinson`s disease. Right now we are saying if you are able to identify Parkinson`s in the early stage, we think this therapy wi...

Novel Brain Scan to Diagnose Alzheimer's Disease

...bnormal l protein deposits that are described as a characteristic of Alzheimer's. It also affixes to another chief a...bnormal l protein deposits that are described as a characteristic of Alzheimer's. It also affixes to another chief aspect of this disease called twisted "tangles” of ...

Link Between Nanoparticles and Kidney Stones

...are inconclusive. In some of the segments we saw a characteristic signal that might suggest DNA, but in others we did not,” Dr. Miller says. This is a relatively new area of science, so the tools and processes used in this research have yet to be perfected. “Many of these tools haven’t been applied to these syst...

Researchers Identify New Drug Targets for Cancer

... Institute for Cancer Research, looked at a common characteristic of cancer cells called aneuploidy. Aneuploidy – the occurrence of one or more extra or missing chromosomes – was first proposed as the cause of cancerous tumors nearly a century ago by German biologist Theodor Boveri, but his hypothesis had remained ...

Down’s Syndrome Test - Advised in All Pregnancie

...a chromosome present, causes mental retardation, a characteristic broad, flat face and small head and, often, serious heart defects. The original age-35 trigger was chosen years ago when doctors had less information about the risk of Down syndrome. The only choice for prenatal detection was an amnio, using a need...

Black and White in ‘Shades of Grey

...sed by Darwin, providing the phenotypic variations characteristic of the humans. Discrimination, in some form or the other, has always been part of the history of the human race. Attempts should be made to connect individuals by treading the scientific path and by generating a better understanding of man a...

Act Now To Cleanse Highly Polluted River Hindon, Says Study

...e last five years from the above diseases that are characteristic of water poisoning. The study has urged a wide array of central and state government authorities to act fast to save the Hindon. These include the Uttar Pradesh State Pollution Control Board, which is being asked to take action against all industri...

Learning Slows Physical Progression of Alzheimer's Disease: Study

... that were bred to develop the plaques and tangles characteristic of the disease. Mice in one group were allowed to "learn" by swimming in a round tank of water until they found a submerged platform on which to stand. These mice received training four times a day for one week at two, six, nine, 12, 15 and 18 mon...

Drug Strategy Makes Cancer Genes Get Lost in Translation

...that the uncontrolled growth of cells is a general characteristic of the disease, he added. The new findings establish a "possible new strategy for cancer therapy," the researchers said. However, they cautioned, the newly described inhibitor is not strong enough for use as a drug in itself. The researchers will n...

Remicade Therapy Effective in Treating Severe Psoriasis

...of involvement in the nail unit and assesses eight characteristic features of psoriatic nail involvement, including pitting, leukonychia (discoloration), nail plate crumbling, red spots in the lunula (crescent-shaped area at bottom of nail), onycholysis (separation of nail from nail bed), nail bed hyperkeratosis (t...

Salk Scientists - Links Between Cancer and Aging

...ily see breakage or fusion of chromosomes that are characteristic of damaged DNA under the microscope. Then they artificially supplied the cultured cells with one of two genes-either a functional copy of the WRN gene, which is mutant or nonfunctional in Werner Syndrome, or a gene encoding the protein telomerase, ...

Man-Made Proteins Could Be More Useful Than Real Ones

...ructure is produced when this chain folds, forming characteristic shapes such as helices. The three-dimensional arra...f stable bundles of spiral-shaped helices that are characteristic of natural proteins, Schepartz said. In their studies, Schepartz and colleagues synthesized a a-p...

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