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"Super Drug" Targets Disease-Causing Gene

... that finds its target, c-Jun, within the cell and destroys it," said lead researcher Levon Khachigian, a molecular biologist.The drug works by turning off a disease-causing gene called c-Jun, which is found in diseased blood vessels, eyes, lungs, joints and in the gut. The researchers said animal trials had ...

Earlier the Cochlear Implants Used Better the Speech

...t that a cochlear implant is forever -- the device destroys any residual hearing so that hearing aids are no longer an option. ‘Studies like ours are meant to help answer parents' questions about cochlear implants,’ Nicholas says. ‘Our overall goal is to focus on the best age for implantation. If the window...

Blood Fluke Vaccine in the Pipeline

... and thereby helps the body to detect the worm and destroys it. It is proved to be very effective during the trail studies. It has reduced the rate of infection by more than 60 %. Blood flukes, or schistosomes, are found in fresh waters of the tropics in developing countries and is ranked in the second pla...

Scleroderma Cure Still In Oscillation

...e affected by the fatal disease Scleroderma, which destroys our system by hardening and thickening the skin and in many times it completely damages the lungs and other related organs. Nearly 80% of affected people have lung damaged more often it includes women only. When comparing the benefits with after e...

The Deadly Evolution of SIV to HIV

... the T-cells especially the CD4 helper T-cells and destroys them by apoptosis. But in the SIV version apoptosis is shut down by another mechanism and there is prevention of the death of T-cells. It is said that during viral evolution this function could have been lost by the HIV-1. This study could open up ne...

Modern Killer Disease Alert Indians

...te action Diabetes will spread as an epidemic that destroys the healthcare resources. Type 2 diabetes can be easily prevented by dietary modifications and lifestyle changes with more physical activity. Main causative factors for Type 1 diabetes (insulin dependent) prevalance seems to be low exercise habit...

Infant Formula With High Iron Content Packs Brain Disorder

...elieved to cause oxidative stress which eventually destroys the neurons which produce dopamine. Iron levels in the iron-fed pups were found to be significantly increased in the SN by two months of age; by 12 months of age (the human equivalent of middle-age) the mice began to show signs of SN neurodegenerat...

Coffee Drinking Associated with Lower Risk for Alcohol-Related Liver Disease

...JAMA/Archives journals. Cirrhosis progressively destroys healthy liver tissue and replaces it with scar tissue. Viruses such as hepatitis C can cause cirrhosis, but long-term, heavy alcohol use is the most common cause of the disease in developed countries, according to background information in the artic...

Cancer-Causing Virus Synthesizes Protein To Help Sustain Itself In Host Cells

...well without HBZ because the immune system readily destroys cells infected by these viruses, Green says. 'We believe that HBZ acts as a brake on viral replication,' he says. 'Without HBZ, the virus replicates too fast, producing its proteins so quickly that the immune system readily detects infected cells an...

Research on AIDS vaccine a wealth of information

... the cells that have been infected by HIV and then destroys them so that the virus cannot continue replicating. 'While this vaccine approach cannot actually prevent an infection, it can tamp down the AIDS virus, resulting in the development of a much milder form of the disease in vaccinated monkeys that sub...

Mouse Model Beneficial to Study of Head and Neck Cancer

...miserable because the location of the cancer often destroys structures critical to speaking, breathing and swallowing. In their research, Wang and her colleagues engineered a strain of mice to specifically lack expression of the transforming growth factor beta receptor II (TGFbRII) in epithelial cells of th...

Elements In Grape fruit Juice Combine Lethally with Certain Drugs, leading to potentially dangerous side effects, study.

...med because an intestinal enzyme, CYP3A, partially destroys them, as they are absorbed. Grapefruit juice, but not other commonly consumed fruit juices, inhibits this enzyme, allowing more of these drugs to enter the body. It was originally assumed that the ingredients responsible for drug interactions were ...

Oven roasted Vegetables Can Cause Dental Erosion

...ed by the direct contact of teeth with acid, which destroys tooth tissues. Acid can etch into the thin layer of enamel that protects the teeth and can also affect the underlying dentin....

Cure For Pompe Disease

...disease is a rare inherited enzyme deficiency that destroys muscles and can kill infants at a very young age. Myozyme is a drug developed by Genzyme// to treat this disease. Genzyme, a biotechnology company in Cambridge, Mass said that it has spent more than $500 million since 1998 to develop Myozyme. It h...

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

...scence stage. It occurs when the immune system destroys the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas. Insulin is needed to control blood sugar levels. Insulin is a hormone that allows sugar to enter cells and be converted to energy. Without insulin, sugar and fats remain in the bloodstream and eventua...

Raspberries Are Richer In Anti-Oxidants Than Tomatoes Or Broccoli

...rogen and storing them at minus 20 degrees Celsius destroys much of the vitamin C, but the anti-oxidant capacity remains. Processing the berry into jams may alter some of the anti-oxidants, but most of the valuable compounds remain, the researchers say....

Study Would Pave Way for the Development of New Drugs That Targets TB Proteasome

...Inside the macrophage the immune cells damages and destroys the bacterial proteins. These accumulated proteins have to be removed otherwise it will in turn destroy the cell. But the TB bacteria remove the damaged proteins with the help of a protein-cleaving complex known as a proteasome. It is highly specif...

Anti-cholinesterase drugs for treating Alzheimer's not worth the price

... forty years. Once affected, Alzheimer's gradually destroys the ability to reason, remember, imagine and learn. It is marked by abnormal clumps (plaques) and irregular knots (neurofibrillary tangles) of brain cells. For reasons not well understood, these plaques and tangles take over healthy brain tissues, de...

Sunflowers Could Hold the Key to New Class of AIDS Drugs

...esistant to a disease called "white stem rot' that destroys the crops. Agricultural engineer Claudio Cerboncini proceeded to isolate the substance that confers protection on the sunflowers that are resistant to this fungal disease. The substance was dicaffeoyl quinic acid, or DCQA. "Dicaffeoyl quinic acid can...

Rising Rates Of C.Difficile Infection Among Non-Hospitalized Patients

...ion in hospitals. The consumption of antibiotics destroys the natural bacterial flora present in the intestine, and enhances the susceptibility to the infection. C.difficile now happily grows and thrives in an otherwise hostile environment leading to symptoms such as severe diarrhea, abdominal pain, and fev...

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