Tag: "divide" at medical news

A need for new stem cell lines

...Institute of Medicine said that every time a cell divide in a tissue culture it accumulates mutations. In aggregate those mutations may cause certain problems too. Stem cells are unspecialized cells that can become any cell type with// specialized functions. They can be gleaned from several sources, such ...

New drug may stop alopecia

...also hit the cells surrounding hair follicles that divide quickly. The gel works by inhibiting the action of an enzyme involved in cell division. By applying GW8510 directly to the scalp, the drug does not enter the bloodstream and affects only the hair cells and not the cancer cells....

Inherited gene important in ovarian cancer

...enes to be lost due to a malfunctioning when cells divide - this can happen even if you inherit two normal copies. The study shows that BRCA1 is more significant in ovarian cancer than previously realised. This opens the door to new therapies for this hard-to-treat cancer - drugs which restore BRCA1 funct...

The route to fertilization

...ise, metabolic changes occur that cause the egg to divide and form into an embryo. Sea urchins have long served as a model for understanding fertilisation in other living beings, including people because sperm and eggs are relatively easy to extract from them.If nitric oxide is involved in mammalian ferti...

Chromosomes to predict oral cancer

...ls containing a number of chromosomes that did not divide evenly by 23, the number of chromosomes received from each parent. According to study results, of the 27 patients with these aneuploid lesions, 21 developed cancer....

Resistant tumors could be treated with the discovery of a new molecule within cancer cells

...d cells. In normal cell division, a cell can only divide if it has correctly shared out all its genes, ensuring each new cell receives a complete set. If there is a problem with the process of sharing out genes, an alarm will be triggered and the cell will not divide. However, cells with high amounts of AU...

New vaccine for brain cancer

... say the killer immune cells then recognize it and divide into millions of powerful T-cells. Now, when they see the tumor with this protein on the surface, they will try to attack it and kill the tumor cell. It sounds confusing, but it works. By giving this vaccine, patients are surviving longer. Early r...

Protein said to Improve Muscle Loss

...cle fibers. These cells rescue damaged muscles and divide to form new muscle tissue. They also generate new ...o injured, older muscles, satellite cells began to divide much like those in younger muscle. Researchers say these older muscles had a regenerative ability si...

New Technique to Study Infants Brain.

... previously held belief that infants' brains don't divide into left-brain/right-brain dominance until puberty. A new study finds the brain's left hemisphere plays the leading role in processing most //language functions beginning almost immediately after birth. Researchers are using functional magnetic re...

Hope For Patients With Prostate Cancer

...pping tubulin -- a protein that helps cancer cells divide and grow. The drug Taxotere in combination with prednisone was found to extend the lifespan of patients by about 2.5 months.Side effects of the drug combination include nausea, hair loss, bone marrow suppression, tingling sensations, and fluid retent...

Protein Found To Improve Muscle Loss

...uthfulness. These cells rescue damaged muscles and divide to form new muscle tissue. They also generate new ...o injured, older muscles, satellite cells began to divide much like those in younger muscle. Researchers say these older muscles had a regenerative ability si...

fMRI Offers Insight Into An Infants Brain

... previously held belief that infants' brains don't divide into left-brain/right-brain dominance until puberty. // A new study finds the brain's left hemisphere plays the leading role in processing most language functions beginning almost immediately after birth. Researchers are using functional magnetic re...

WHO acts to reduce the maternal death toll

...ren whose mothers have not died. There is a stark divide of maternal mortality between the rich and poor countries. In some developing regions, a woman has a one in 16 chance of dying in pregnancy and childbirth. The risk of dying in pregnancy in the world's poorest countries is over a hundred times higher...

New Cancer Drug Hits the Mark

...known as Plk1, which cancer cells need in order to divide and multiply. This molecule is found in higher numbers in cancerous tumors, and people with poorer cancer survival rates tend to have especially high amounts. The drug was tested on 94 different types of human cancers in the laboratory both individ...

New medicine for ovarian cancer

...R). The drug stopped the cells so that they cannot divide anymore or move o a different location and spread the cancer. The drug also reduces the cells ability to get nourishment from the blood vessels by a process called angiogenesis. The new drug is a derivative of an immuno-suppressant drug called rapam...

Apollo Hospitals Collaborates With Histostem For Stem Cell Therapy

... on the area of the body. They have the ability to divide for indefinite periods in culture and have a unique property to differentiate into any type of body cell eg nerve cell, bladder cell or muscle cell For more informatiom read: http://www.medindia.com/patients/ patientinfo/stemcells_about.htm S...

Scientists Identify Cancer Pathway

...r information Cancer: Cancer occurs when cells divide in an uncontrolled manner. In the human body, a pr...ells in the tissues that are lost. Normally, cells divide and produce the exact number of cells required. In cancer, cells divide for no apparent reason and f...

Researchers identify the early makers of Neonatal Sepsis

...pected infection within 48 hours after birth. They divide the study group into two, those with sepsis, based on culture results and those who are called a possible-infection group. The investigators found that for 35 children of the available data, CD11b and IL-8 was increased in the children with confirme...

Heart can repair itself after heart attack

...at heart muscle cells called myocytes continued to divide after a heart attack. Anversa's team examined the hearts of 13 people who died within a few days of having a heart attack and compared them with 10 normal hearts. The researchers screened the tissue for the expression of Ki-67, a protein that...

Skin tests confirms cancer

... cells. Cells should replicate their DNA when they divide but if they do not they can cause alterations to microsatellites - the short repetitive sequences of genetic code contained in DNA. This phenomenon, known as microsatellite instability (MSI), can cause tumours to develop. Dr Bataille and her team i...

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