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Enzyme for treatment of arthritis

...inflammations in conditions like // arthritis. An enzyme called cathepsin G can regulate the ability of the...mmatory conditions that can lead to arthritis. The enzyme cathepsin G attracts accumulation of immune cells that can lead to damage of the tissue and cartilag...

Top Ten Super Food Items That Can Help In Avoiding Cancer

...cell replication. 10) PINEAPPLE: It has a called enzyme bromelain and phenolic compounds. It protects against lung and breast cancer. Health writer Liz Szabo in her story in the newspaper USA TODAY said, "A growing body of research shows that, once inside the body, fruits and vegetables spring into the...

Molecule responsible for muscle repair identified

...lacking in the PAI-1, had increased activity of an enzyme called urokinase-type plasminogen activator in the damaged muscle. This had resulted in increase in proteins like the myogenic transcription factor MyoD that had led to faster muscle regeneration and repair after injury. Muscle regeneration after i...

Hangovers: why some people suffer and some don’

Japanese study had identified a mutant form of the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase// (ALDH)that is responsible...ldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) is the most important enzyme involved in the removal of acetaldehyde, which is the foremost product of alcohol metabolism. If the...

New Supplement Found To Be Effective Against Sunburn

...nt mode of action to vitamins. Also known as ‘the enzyme of life’ when first discovered in 1968, it is the first antioxidant mobilized by the cell for defence. It is thought to be more powerful than antioxidant vitamins as it activates the body's productions of its own antioxidants, including catalase and ...

Research Shows Carbon Monoxide Prevents Inflammations

...ntal mice – one group lacked the gene for the Hmox enzyme and was unable to synthesize carbon monoxide. Another group produced unusually high levels of Hmox and CO. When the scientists’ transplanted windpipes from one type of mouse into the other, genetic differences between the two strains of mice triggere...

New Insight Gained For Allergic Reactions

...ed by interactions between a single pollen-carried enzyme and the cells that line airways. And, the research...signal concept” in detail. They zeroed in on a key enzyme known as NADPH oxidase, which they identified in grains of pollen produced by ragweed and 38 other p...

Scientists Identify Cancer Pathway

...n place. The build-up of MT1-MMP also activates an enzyme called MMP2, which further degrades the connective tissue.In this way, the cancer cell loses its moorings and can float off to spread around the body. While no one has found v-Src in human cancer patients, a number of other cancers have been linked t...

Dissecting Diabetes - Is protein AKT2 the cause of type 2 diabetes?

...covered that mice lacking a gene that produces the enzyme called Akt2 or Protein Kinase B are born without diabetes but develop symptoms of glucose intolerance after two months, roughly the same age that onset begins in humans. Heading this mission of profound dimension Dr.Kim said that if studies in...

Scientists use plant hormones to fight cancer

...f cell cultures Wardman and his colleagues used an enzyme called peroxidase, to trigger the release of the toxic-by-products of IAA to destroy tumours. Early results show that the treatment, which has been patented by the CRC, killed 99% of the cancerous cells and with different types of cancers. Scien...

And now it is vaccines for heart disease

...transfer protein (CETP), Alving stated. CETP is an enzyme that transfers cholesterol from high-density lipoproteins (HDL), the so-called "good cholesterol," to low-density lipoproteins (LDL), also known as "bad cholesterol." The vaccine boosts good cholesterol levels and reduces bad cholesterol by blocking ...

Identification of gene

...UCSD,found that mice with a genetic mutation in an enzyme called alpha-mannosidase II develop lupus-type symptoms. This enzyme helps to form cell-surface carbohydrate structures called N-glycans, which enable the immune system ...

Blood test for diagnosis of heart attacks

...ve known about the blood test - which looks for an enzyme called creatine-kinase MB (CK-MB) - for years. It is the most commonly used test to confirm a heart attack has taken place.The researchers found an ECG was not enough for accurate diagnosis But its use has not become routine in casualty departments -...

Breakthrough in cancer therapy

...locks the activity of an enzyme, called CDK2. This enzyme plays a central role in the progression of cells through their natural lifecycle. The compound was applied directly to the scalp of the rats. When the rats were subsequently treated with two widely used anticancer drugs, hair loss at the site of wh...

An effective pain killer

...als, his group has found that gingerols inhibit an enzyme that causes inflammation, cyclooxygenase (or COX for short). It has two forms: COX-1, which is always present in the body, and COX-2, which is produced during inflammation.Newer anti-inflammatory drugs, such as celecoxib (trade name Celebrex) and rof...

Xenotransplantation “breakthrough”

... 1,3 galactosyl transferase. The gene codes for an enzyme that adds a sugar// to the surface of pig cells, flagging them up as foreign bodies. A US subsidiary of PPL Therapeutics, who were also responsible for the creation of Dolly the sheep, used gene targeting to knock out a single copy of alpha 1,3 gala...

Breakthrough in Type II Diabetes

...covered that mice lacking a gene that produces the enzyme called Akt2 or //Protein Kinase B are born without diabetes but develop symptoms of glucose intolerance after two months, roughly the same age that onset begins in humans. Heading this mission of profound dimension Dr.Kim said that if studies ...

Tear-free Onions

...hat the crying response to onions was caused by an enzyme called alliinase. Alliinase plays a part in the ch... To their surprise, they found a hitherto unknown enzyme called lachrymatory-factor synthase was responsible for making a compound called propanthial S-oxide...

Protein acts as "Master Switch" that cuts off cells' Cancer-Growth machinery

... and this leads to build up of large amounts of an enzyme known as Cox-2. Cox-2 is the major culprit in arthritis and headache. Aspirin-like drugs and newer drugs such as Celebrex and Vioxx, known as Cox-2-selective inhibitors, block the action of this enzyme. Cox-2, when over-expressed by precancer cells, ...

An Enzyme That Turns a One –time Experience into a long-time Memor

...mories are formed with a process that involves the enzyme known as protein kinase C.// Researchers in New...ys a role in memories. Their research suggests the enzyme protein kinase C plays a fundamental role in turning a one-time event into a lasting memory. The enz...

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