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Insect Protein Effective for Treating Heart Enlargement, Arrythmias

...mmock, a distinguished professor of entomology who directs the UC Davis Superfund Basic Research Program and is principal investigator of the Biotechnology Training Program. Over the years Hammock’s lab has isolated thousands of epoxide hydrolase inhibitors, compounds that have cardioprotective effects. P...

Blame Myelin for Many Neuropsychiatric Disorders

...enance of myelin). Myelin, argues Bartzokis, who directs the UCLA Memory Disorders and Alzheimer's Disease Clinic, is “a recent invention of evolution. Vertebrates have it; invertebrates don't. And humans have more than any other species.” Bartzokis studied the reported effects of cholinergic treatments...

Options Improving for Patients With Acromegaly and Gigantism

...itive blood assays for hormones,” said Melmed, who directs the medical center’s Pituitary Center and holds the Helene A. and Philip E. Hixon Endowed Chair in Investigative Medicine. “Despite the improvements, acromegaly remains a very challenging and very complex disease,” he said. “If it occurs before the...

Regrowth of Zebrafish's Tail Fin may Offer Clues for Treating Human Injuries

...lastema.” A blastema is a little nub of cells that directs regeneration, much like the conductor of an orchestra. By directing cell communication, these few cells grow into an organ or body part, in this case, a tail fin. “It is most likely the inability of humans to form a blastema in the first place tha...

Radiation Therapy Combo Cures Prostate Cancer Long-Term

...treatments, where a radiation oncologist precisely directs high energy radiation beams to kill cancer cells. ‘This study is exciting because it shows that the combination of brachytherapy and external beam therapy are successful long-term at curing men of their prostate cancer,’ said John E. Sylvester, M.D...

Long Term Combo Cure for Prostate Cancer Using Radiation

...treatments, where a radiation oncologist precisely directs high energy radiation beams to kill cancer cells. "This study is exciting because it shows that the combination of brachytherapy and external beam therapy are successful long-term at curing men of their prostate cancer," said John E. Sylvester, M.D...

Radiation Therapy Combo Cures Prostate Cancer Long-Term

...treatments, where a radiation oncologist precisely directs high energy radiation beams to kill cancer cells. “This study is exciting because it shows that the combination of brachytherapy and external beam therapy are successful long-term at curing men of their prostate cancer,” said John E. Sylvester, M.D...

Clues to the Cause of Difficulty With Swallowing

...ician at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego and directs a treatment center for children with eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorders. The research team studied biopsies of the esophagus from children with an initial diagnosis of EE who had not yet been treated, comparing them to biopsies of children wi...

Robotic Therapy Helps Restore Hand Use After Stroke

... the hand and couples with a computer program that directs patients though a physical therapy program. HOWARD users initiate hand motion, with the robot monitoring and assisting the activity in order to meet therapeutic goals. “The HOWARD therapy isn’t passive; the patient has to jumpstart the program and ...

Natural Brain Substance Linked to Parkinson's Symptoms

...t signals - form part of the neural machinery that directs normal physical movement. A shortage of the endocannabinoids, the scientists found, can knock the system out of balance to produce the characteristic tremor, rigidity and other mobility problems of Parkinson's disease patients. The shortage aris...

Genes May Trigger Repeated Premature Birth In Blacks

...portant, but none has shown proof, Muglia said. He directs the new Center for Preterm Birth Research at Washington University. His group decided to look at women for whom genetics was most likely to play a role — women who had more than one baby prematurely. Having one baby prematurely is the greatest ris...

Mobility can be improved in elders with exercise

...night said. Knight and co-author Gary Kamen, who directs the Exercise Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts, recently published the results of a study on motor-unit firing rates in the Journal of Applied Physiology, and Knight is now beginning a new project focusing on motor-control me...

Motivational Interviewing Could Reduce Excessive Drinking by Students

...s in Appalachian’s Department of Psychology. Jones directs the university’s Counseling and Psychological Services Center. “There is a rapidly growing movement with counselors to incorporate a motivational interviewing approach when working with behavioral change issues due to the evidence for its effectiv...

RF Ablation a Safe Alternative Option for Treating Lung Cancer

...fficult for patients to be treated with EBT, which directs focused beams of radiation at a tumor to destroy the abnormal cells. “Conventional EBT therapy involves 33 treatments over a six-week period and can often lead to side effects including radiation pneumonia and the permanent loss of lung tissue,” sa...

Estrogen Protects Liver After Traumatic Injury

...e cellular pathway used has been unknown. Estrogen directs cellular processes in two ways: by interacting with DNA to produce new protein or by binding cell surface receptors to initiate rapid protein signaling. Current data points to cell surface receptors in improving recovery from liver injury following s...

New Chemistry Approach Promises Less Expensive Drugs

...inceton's A. Barton Hepburn Chair of Chemistry and directs the chemistry department's Merck Center for Catalysis. "We've found more than a new chemical reaction. It's a common mode of molecule activation that allows a whole group of reactions to take place." Broadly stated, the discovery will open up new p...

New Research Shows That Flu is a Trigger of Heart Attacks

...housands of lives every year." Prof Madjid – who directs a research lab dedicated to the effect of flu on the cardiovascular system – pointed out that the implications of the research were even more important with a looming flu pandemic when a much higher percentage of the population could be expected to c...

Head and Neck Cancer Vaccine Targets Proteins to Create Immune Response

...T cells into action," said Dr. Whiteside, who also directs UPCI's Immunologic Monitoring and Cellular Products Laboratory. According to Dr. DeLeo, the vaccine based on these findings also could be relevant to other types of cancer given that the loss of p53 function is a common feature across many cancers. ...

Women More Vulnerable to Multiple Sclerosis, Research Shows

...eign. In multiple sclerosis, the body mistakenly directs antibodies and white blood cells against proteins in the myelin sheath, a fatty substance that insulates nerve fibers in your brain and spinal cord. This results in inflammation and injury to the sheath and ultimately to the nerves that it surrounds....

Japanese Flower Art Helps Calm a Frantic Moscow

...the first luxury hotels in the capital. Today she directs the Russian subsidiary of the Sogetsu school, which was founded in Japan in 1927 to free the art from its very strict rules, allowing the use of everyday objects: from nails to multicoloured coat buttons. With a curriculum controlled from Tokyo, t...

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