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Prematurity More Accurately Predicted by Advances in Proteomic Technology

...on of a group of proteins that serve as biomarkers characteristic to women who will deliver preterm. A normal MR score is 0 and a score of 3-4 is indicative of infection. The proteins detected are human neutrophil defensin 1, human neutrophil defensin 2, calgranulin C and calgranulin A. About 50 percent of wo...

Natural Brain Substance Linked to Parkinson's Symptoms

...can knock the system out of balance to produce the characteristic tremor, rigidity and other mobility problems of Parkinson's disease patients. The shortage arises when another signaling system in the brain, driven by the neurotransmitter dopamine, starts to break down. Without enough dopamine, the researchers fo...

Liver an Excellent Target For Cancer Gene Therapy

...plained: “We are taking advantage of a fundamental characteristic of cancer cells – structural disorganization. The disorganized structure of the cancer cells exposes the receptors so that Onyx-015, the adenoviral vectors used in this study, can readily enter tumor cells. This may be the first time a therapy has be...

Health Disorders Linked To Astrological Signs

... in cheek. Replace astrological signs with another characteristic such as gender or age, and immediately your mind starts to form explanations for the observed associations,” says Austin. “Then we leap to conclusions, constructing reasons for why we saw the results we did. We did this study to prove a larger point ...

Novel Test Identifies Leukemia Patients Likely to Respond to New Therapy

...that are caused by BCL6 deregulation should have a characteristic 'signature' in which the genes targeted by the BCL6 protein are either expressed (turned on) or not expressed. The researchers used state-of-the-art genomics technology to analyze a panel of diffuse large B cell lymphoma cell lines. They found a se...

Treating Male Infertility With Stem Cells

...k study period. The donor stem cells displayed the characteristic shape of either germ cells or supporting cells, suggesting that the stem cells had differentiated. These differentiated donor (green) cells were also found near the native recipient cells of the same type, demonstrating that the local cellular enviro...

FDA Approves First-of-its-Kind Drug to Treat Rare Blood Disorder

... the breakdown of red blood cells, the most common characteristic of PNH. Soliris acts to block the complement system activity, including the destruction of PNH red blood cells. FDA based its approval on the company's randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical study of 87 patients with PNH and a serie...

New Non-toxic Therapies for Breast, Ovarian Cancers

...ancers. "We’re now tapping into what causes the characteristic cell shape changes seen in cancerous tumours and possibly how these cells grow and metastasize. It gives us a whole new target for therapy," says Assoc. Prof. of Medical Genetics and stem cell expert Kelly McNagny, co-senior principal investigator. "...

Ecstasy Makes People Bond Better, Says an Australian Study

...ple become more sociable on the drug. 'It's very characteristic behaviour. They lie next to each other and chill out,' McGregor says. The team gave the rats the equivalent of two to three ecstasy tablets in an adult human and found that the drug activated oxytocin-containing neurons in an area of their brains ...

Diabetes May Bring You A Step Closer To Alzheimer’s Diseas

...g the build-up of plaques in the brain, a hallmark characteristic of Alzheimer's disease, the authors note. In addition, cerebrovascular disease-diseases such as stroke that affect the vessels supplying blood to the brain-is related to both diabetes and Alzheimer's disease. "Our results provide further support to...

Biological Differences in Breast Cancer

...spanic and Caucasian women that differences in the characteristic of breast cancer exist. “These differences include earlier (average) age at diagnosis, later stage of disease at diagnosis, and the presence of tumor characteristics associated with poor prognosis” according to Dr.Byers. Hispanic women are more pro...

Researchers Discovers DNA Repair as Key to Huntington's Disease

...d that the expansion of the tracts -- an inherited characteristic -- also caused toxicity in cells that cannot expand, such as nerve cells. The result is that cell death acceleration is directly proportional to the additional repeated lengths. In a further step, the team eliminated a key enzyme (OGG1) related to ...

Stress- Harms Now And Later

... trait helps identify people for whom that is more characteristic than others," says Wilson, whose study is published in the journal Neurology. "This isn't a measure of stress, but of the response to stress," he was quoted. Results from the research suggest that chronic stress may harm parts of the brain respon...

Alzheimers Incidence is Set to Quadruple by 2050

... gene. In turn, this leads to the formation of the characteristic protein "tangles" found in the brains of people with Alzheimer's, the researchers told Neuron. Professor Clive Ballard, director research at the Alzheimer's Society, said: "This impressive research suggests a common gene could be responsible for a...

Low Levels of Testosterone may Increase the Risk of Death in Older Men

...okines, which contribute to many diseases. Another characteristic that distinguished the men with low testosterone was a larger waist girth along with a cluster of cardiovascular and diabetes risk factors related to this type of fat accumulation. Men with low testosterone are three times more likely to have the me...

Drink, Binge and the Genetic Link

...between the alcoholics and the non-alcoholics. The characteristic patterns that emerge help a person to predict his alcohol dependence and mode of behavior. These patterns, therefore, are established markers of familial alcohol-dependence. Genetic profiling through technologies like microarrays , also know...

New Analytical Tool to Unravel the Cause of Diabetes

...eams can detect the minute vibrations and identify characteristic patterns to deduce protein structures. The technique also has potential application in other human diseases that involve protein mis-folding, such as Alzheimer's and Huntington's diseases. The study appears in the online issue of the Proceeding...

Decoding Protein Structures Helps Illuminate Cause of Diabetes

...eams can detect the minute vibrations and identify characteristic patterns to deduce protein structures. A few years ago, Zanni's team built the first device capable of designing infrared laser beams with a computer. The team has now simplified and speeded up the process with an automated version of the 2-D IR t...

Study Offers Clues to 'Broken Heart Syndrome'

...r. In all patients, cardiac catheterization showed characteristic abnormalities in the motion of the heart. One patient died of acute heart failure. The good news is that most patients who survived the first 48 hours had a steady recovery. Thirty one, or 78 percent, of patients had follow-up echocardiography with...

Abnormal Face Processing in Toddlers With Autism

...tep is to closely examine the spatial and temporal characteristic of the childrens visual scanning patterns. While typical and developmentally delayed toddlers move quickly between various inner elements of the face, scanning rapidly between the left and right eye, toddlers with ASD tend to look longer at specific ...

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