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The Effectiveness Of The Breast Cancer Drug By Pfizer

...s the first approved oral therapy that binds to an enzyme known as aromatase, which normally converts the hormone androgen into estrogen in postmenopausal women. The drug thereby curtails the actual supply of estrogen to the cancerous tumors that are dependent on it, rather than blocking estrogen after it i...

Viagra Also Found To Be Effective For Treatment of Lung Diseases

...agra works by yet another mechanism, inhibiting an enzyme called phosphodiesterase 5. The drug relaxes blood vessels, allowing blood to flow into the penis - or, it is hoped, into the lungs. However specialists say , approved drugs typically allow someone who cannot climb even one flight of stairs to clim...

Life-Saving Heart Drug Often Not Prescribed

... those who don’t receive an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor are 14-percent more likely to die within one year than those who do get the drug. ACE inhibitors work by blocking the harmful effects of angiotensin, a substance known to make heart failure worse by causing blood vessels to become narrower....

Side Effects Of Some Common Drugs

...the condition was caused by angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE-inhibitors or ACEIs) in 45 of the cases, or 64 percent of the time. The remaining cases were attributed to other factors, such as food allergies, antibiotic reactions, or infections. In 18 of the cases, the patient had to be admitted...

Intermittent Exercising The Best Way To Burn Fat

...contractions stimulate a fat-clearing enzyme. That enzyme peaks about 12 hours after an exercise session. Thus, researchers say it’s best to exercise 12 hours before eating a large or high-fat meal....

Heart Drug Also Effective In Preventing Specific Causes Of Death

...ndomly assigned to take the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor ramipril (Altace), vitamin E, or a placebo to see if either the ACE-inhibitor or vitamin E would prevent heart attacks or stroke. Vitamin E did not have any effect on heart attack or stroke rates, but ramipril showed a protective effect. Re...

Drug to Delay the Onset of Arthritis

...he research pinpoints the molecular pathway and an enzyme that play a pivotal role in the onset of the condi...activation of MMPs. Researchers then inhibited the enzyme PKR in the cells. This time they found no increase in the activation of MMPs and that the release of...

Tea may prevent Alzheimer's

...g to the journal, tea inhibits the activity of the enzyme acetylcholinesterase, which breaks down the chemic...ea and black tea also hindered the activity of the enzyme butyrylcholinesterase, seen in protein deposits found on the brains of patients with Alzheimer's. Mo...

Herb Found To Be Effective In Controlling Blood Sugar Levels

... sugar that circulates throughout the body. If the enzyme binds to the herbal extract rather than to a carbohydrate, less glucose gets into the bloodstream, resulting in lowered blood glucose and insulin levels. For the study thirty-nine adults without diabetes participated and were given four test meals c...

Cell’s microenvironment linked to cancer

...involved in the alteration in genome package. An enzyme that cuts DNA at certain sequences does not snips ...isted and compact in these kind of cancers and the enzyme cannot get access to the DNA. Studies on various cancer tissues showed that invasive cancers are m...

New Enzyme Identified For Arthritis

...sity of Melbourne, Australia have identified a new enzyme // that causes arthritis. The enzyme called ADAMTS5 destroys the cartilage by degrading the aggrecan in the joints. The cartilage destruc...

To Reduce Risk Of Cancer Eat Grapes

...nvolved in fighting human DNA topoisomerase II, an enzyme necessary for the spread of cancer in the body. Th...ynergy action of the flavnoids may help reduce the enzyme that is secreted more than 300 times by a malignant cell than a normal cell. Researchers are of th...

Genes from saliva may predict oral and breast cancer

...etic code from the cell’s DNA, with the help of an enzyme called RNA polymerase. This process is known as transcription and the products are the transcripts. The researchers had collected saliva and blood from 32 patients suffering from oral squamous cell carcinoma and 40 patients with breast cancer. The m...

New medicine for ovarian cancer

...arian cancer cells.//The new medication targets an enzyme known as mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR). The... in humans includes a high level of activity of an enzyme called AKT. This enzyme controls the cell activities, cell divisions and how the cell will respond t...

In Search Of A New Drug To Target Cholesterol

...heart attacks and strokes. Researchers suggest an enzyme called ACAT2 may be to blame for the build-up. ACA...e results were seen. Researchers then studied the enzyme in monkeys, looking specifically at whether certain foods might increase the effects of ACAT2 on cho...

New breed of mice to live longer

... produced higher than normal levels of antioxidant enzyme catalase. The cells can use this catalase to convert hydrogen peroxide that can damage cells into water and molecular oxygen, in the ctytoplasm of the cells. The mice, created by the research team of University of Washington, Seattle, US, can produce...

In Search Of A New Drug To Target Cholesterol

...heart attacks and strokes. Researchers suggest an enzyme called ACAT2 may be to blame for the build-up. ACA...e results were seen. Researchers then studied the enzyme in monkeys, looking specifically at whether certain foods might increase the effects of ACAT2 on cho...

Test for prenatal chromosomal abnormalities using cervical swab

...eeks into the pregnancy. Researchers have used an enzyme to free up the cell and fluorescent antibodies to mark the fetal cells. These cells are then checked for chromosomal abnormalities with the help of DNA identification. The abnormalities of chromosome may be giving rise to Down’s syndrome etc. early i...

Cystic fibrosis patients may require a new treatment for bacterial infection

...e lungs by bacterial infection with the help of an enzyme called Dnase. This enzyme is already used to break up the mucus that forms in the lungs of the cystic fibrosis patients. The ...

Differing reactions to anti clotting drugs may be due to genetic variation.

... clotting medications. The gene encodes the CYP2C9 enzyme that metabolizes the anti clot drug and thus accounts for almost 10% variations of the reactions to the drug warfarin. When are patients are tested for variations in reactions to medications, the tests mostly concentrate on the sex, age, weight and...

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