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Immune Cells Destroy Bone In Gum Disease

...tration of B cells found in the gum, periodontally diseased patients mount significantly elevated antibody levels to bacteria colonizing around gum tissues. However, the fact that periodontal disease continues to progress, even though B cells produce a weapon to fight off the bacteria, raised an important and...

Microcapsules target cancer cells

...e successfully used only when they affect only the diseased organs or cells - for example, cancer cells.// Ma... needs to be preserved. Chemotherapy tends to kill diseased cells, at the same time causing great damage to the body in general. So scientists are looking for w...

Gene variants hold clues about vulnerability to cardiovascular disease

... GATA2 was turned on, or expressed, differently in diseased areas of aorta, the primary artery supplying the heart, in people with damaged hearts. This finding suggested that the gene could be involved in susceptibility to coronary artery disease, the researcher said. In the current study, the researchers ...

Human Embryonic Stem Cells Could Be Later Used In Therapeutic Cloning

...ese characteristics could be later used to replace diseased or damaged cells with healthy cells. The study results were published in the journal Genome Research. Embryonic stem cells are derived from embryos that are undergoing a period of intense cellular activity, including the chemical addition of methyl g...

Emerging Therapies for Skin Cancer Treatment

...cancer. During angiogenesis new blood vessels feed diseased tissues, destroy normal tissues and allow tumor cells to escape into the circulation and lodge in other organs causing tumor metastases. “Research is trying to find therapies that will enhance cancer cell death, minimize invasion, diminish angiogen...

UCLA Researchers Transform Stem cells From Fat tissues Into Smooth Muscle

...for anti-rejection medications. In patients with a diseased or absent organ, who cannot use their own organ tissue for regeneration, adipose stem cells offer an alternative. Smooth muscle cells have also been produced from stem cells found in the brain and bone marrow, but acquiring stem cells from adipose ...

New Technique To Diagnose Cancer At Molecular Level

... shape or other characteristics of tumor tissue or diseased cells, said Ying Li, one of nine UF faculty members and graduate student co-authors of the paper. That's a problem because it often means that cancers may already be advanced when detected."Normally, definitive diagnosis of cancer requires a visual e...

Prion Disease Agent Causes Heart Damage

...ies through the consumption of tainted meat from a diseased animal's central nervous system. The first major outbreak of mad cow disease in Britain is believed to have originated with the now outlawed practice of feeding cattle meat and bone meal derived from other slaughtered animals. Chronic wasting disease...

Syphilis on the Rise

...ally the aorta. The disease has been documented in diseased bones found in Europe and North Africa. It has been in existence in Europe for the past 2,000 years. The disease has always been associated with travel. The rates of syphilis increased during war, when a large number of lusty but bored men were sep...

Significant Advance in Treatment of Breast Cancer Reported

...have discovered they can more effectively wipe out diseased tissue when standard chemotherapy is combined with a drug //that shuts down certain molecular pathways involved in causing cancer. In a multicenter clinical trial reported in the Jully, 2006 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, women with loca...

"Super Drug" Targets Disease-Causing Gene

...sease-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 shown great results. "We're talking about a therapy but whether or not it's a cure remains to be seen," Prof Khachigian said. The drug will be tested at a skin ...

How to Hinder Gene Amplification? - Researchers Revealed

...help researchers understand the cause of cancer in diseased individuals and also to potentially identify individuals who might be prone for cancer. In addition to Lobachev and Narayanan, the research team consisted of Hyun-Min Kim from Georgia Tech and collaborators Piotr A. Mieczkowski and Thomas D. Petes ...

Repeated Liver Cell Proliferation, a Cause for Liver Cancer

...ore slowly. Increased JNK1 activation was found in diseased liver and tumors when compared to normal tissue. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common form of liver cancer, is the third leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Its major risk factors are persistent infection with hepatitis B and C vir...

Vitamin A Deficiency Subsequent to Intestinal Surgery

...ns included intestinal bypass, surgical removal of diseased tissue as a result of inflammatory bowel disease, and gallbladder removal. All the patients were diagnosed with vitamin A deficiency, and this was in spite of them having taken vitamin supplements. One of the patients refused injections of vitamin ...

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

...re released into the bloodstream when the liver is diseased or damaged. By the end of 2001, 330 participants had been diagnosed with cirrhosis, including 199 with alcoholic cirrhosis. For each cup of coffee they drank per day, participants were 22 percent less likely to develop alcoholic cirrhosis. Drink...

Harvard Begins Controversial Human Stem Cell Cloning Project

...the project aims to find out whether and how these diseased ES cells behave differently from healthy ones, in order to learn what goes wrong as conditions develop and perhaps find new ways to treat them. The work, the report notes, is highly controversial since human embryos are discarded in the process, and...

Puff-packs to sport potent pictures of smoking-peril

...oking habit. The pictorial representation could be diseased lungs, a dying smoker and a foetus in the womb. A website installed by the Department of Health, is soliciting opinion from the public regarding opinions about a range of pictures that intend to underline the pitfalls of smoking. There is a lot of ...

Consultant Bungles A Kidney Surgery

...g kidney from a patient, leaving// her with only a diseased one. The disciplinary hearing was told yesterda...idney, which was still functioning, instead of her diseased natural kidney. The woman is a 57-year-old mother of three, who now needs four hours of dialysis t...

Tiniest Nanoscale Test Tubes Corked; Holds Promise In Cancer Treatment

...bout five million drug molecules. They will seek diseased or cancerous cells, uncork and spill their therapeutic contents in the right place, according to a report on the University of Florida website. ‘Because they are open at one end it would be like trying to ship wine in a bottle without a cork,’ expl...

Molecular Basis Of ALS Found

... the spinal cord of several ALS-model mice. In the diseased mice the scientists found intermolecular disulfide bonds that cross-linked SOD1 molecules together, resulting in the formation of insoluble aggregates. The SOD1 aggregates were specific to the spinal cord, the part of the body most damaged in ALS. Ti...

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