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Treatment May Be Possible For Degenerative Brain And Spinal Cord Disease

...rs have found out a key protein that can block the degenerative process of the brain diseases //like Alzheimer’s d... substance called glutamate that is present in all degenerative brain diseases and spinal cord injuries, causing permanent cell death and preventing the repair of d...

Gene-Nanoparticle Gene Transfer Is Better Than Viral Vector Transfer System

...ation on stem cells - Stem cells are used to treat degenerative diseases, which occur due to premature cell death or malfunctioning of specific cell type. Stem cells can be used to replace these dead cells. For more information read: http://www.medindia.net/patients/ patientinfo/stemcells_about.htm...

Molecule responsible for muscle repair identified

...ike Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and other muscular degenerative disease may hinder the normal muscle regeneration. Reference: American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology, July 2005...

Weight Loss Relieves Osteoarthritis Pain

... esp. women walk in an awkward manner due //to the degenerative disease of arthritis. The most common form of arthritis, osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative disease caused by the breakdown and eventual loss of joint cartilage. It commonly affects the hands,...

Vitamin E May Not Reduce Risk Of Death Due To Heart Disease In Women

...ping to reduce the risk of heart and other serious degenerative diseases. This is especially important for people who smoke, have high blood pressure, or who don’t eat properly, habits which can leave them with inadequate levels of this essential vitamin.” However the study involving almost 40,000 American women...

MRI for distinguishing between dementia and Alzheimer’s diseas

...e brain to distinguish between two forms of neural degenerative disease. Researchers feel that since the progression of frontotemporal dementia is usually faster than Alzheimer’s and the pathology of the disease is different as well, the new scanning technique will help the physicians make an early diagnosis base...

New Drug Found To Benefit Patients With Osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease and one of the oldest and most common types of arthritis. It happens when the joint’s cartilage breaks down and the bones rub against each other causing pain and loss of movement.// An international, multi-center study shows an effecti...

Blood Transfusion A Likely Cause For A Rare And Fatal Brain Disorder

vCJD is a rare, degenerative and fatal brain disorder. The only way to confirm vCJD is by a brain biopsy or autopsy. Data from a recent study links // the second case of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) to a blood transfusion. The first case of vCJD linked to a blood t...

Pain Relief For Osteoarthritis Patients

Osteoarthritis is a progressive, degenerative joint disease that affects more than 21 million people in the United States. The most common // symptoms are pain, stiffness, reduced joint range of motion and limitations to normal activities such as getting up from a chair, walking, balance and str...

Painkillers may protect against Alzheimer's disease

...rmful brain plaques that are characteristic of the degenerative brain disease that afflicts millions of people worldwide. Etminan stressed that although the results are encouraging and could provide clues for the development of new drugs for Alzheimer's disease, people should not take an NSAID to prevent the illn...

Gene linked to 'Missing Eye' condition in newborns

...phthalmia better and also help patients with other degenerative eye conditions, such as retinal and macular degeneration, cataracts and glaucoma....

Stem cells - New and richer source found

...nic stem cell-based therapies for treating several degenerative diseases of the nervous system as well as other types of disease is hindered by the controversial nature of the cell sources. The cord matrix cells - called so, to distinguish them from cord blood cells - can be obtained in the non-invasive manner fr...

Psychiatric issues common in brain disease

...esearchers at the University of Texas, people with degenerative brain disease are most likely to have treatable ps...sing - who wouldn't be depressed if diagnosed with degenerative brain disease? What's new here is that the researchers believe that the cerebellum may be involved i...

Effective therapy for Huntington's disease

...ure for Huntington's disease (HD), which is a rare degenerative brain disorder //caused by a faulty gene. But researchers at the University of Texas may be one step closer to a treatment, according to experiments on mice with HD. The mice were treated with a bile acid known as tauroursodeoxycholic acid (TUDCA),...

Chemical in Gila monster's saliva yields Alzheimer drug

Alzheimer's is a degenerative brain disease that usually begins gradually, causing a person to forget recent events or familiar tasks. The disease eventually leads// to confusion, personality and behavior changes and impaired judgment. Communication becomes more difficult as the ...

High Cholesterol linked to Alzheimer’s diseas

Alzheimer's is a degenerative brain disease that usually begins gradually, causi...lly can lower the risk of getting the much dreaded degenerative brain diseae....

Alzheimer's followed by head injury

...iated risk. Alzheimer's disease is a progressive, degenerative and irreversible brain disorder that causes intellectual impairment, disorientation and eventually death.It is estimated that between 2 and 4% of people over 65 years of age and up to 20% of those over 85 years of age suffer from the disease. The ...

Defence against free radicals

...ould potentially lead to the prevention of certain degenerative diseases.// Oxidative damage has been linked with ailments such as cardiovascular disease, strokes, autoimmune diseases like arthritis and diabetes, cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. The researchers from the Medical Research Council’s Dunn Human Nutr...

Genes for Vision discovered

...fication of genes which, when mutated, cause these degenerative diseases. According to Connie Cepko, HMS profess... A little more than half of the mutant genes for degenerative diseases of the retina had been identified when Cepko began his study. Using a computer program that...

Music aids in curing dementia

... dementia patients.// Dementia is a progressive, degenerative and irreversible brain disorder that causes intellectual impairment, disorientation and eventually death. It is estimated that 3-6% of people over 65 years of age and up to 20% of those over 85 years of age suffer from the disease. Professor Greenfi...

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