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Protein Behind Food Allergies Identified

...hat CD23, a protein normally present in a person's intestinal tract, acts as a receptor for IgE, a protein associated with allergic reactions. The researchers studied nine paediatric patients aged three to 17 years. They believe that the presence of CD23 may provide a surrogate method of looking at the gut wi...

Low Dose Anti Rejection Protocol Helps Intestinal Transplant Recipients

...col //has appreciably improved the outcomes of the intestinal transplant recipients. Research performed by Rakesh Sindhi, MD, Co-Director of Pediatric Transplantation, and associates at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, shows that the new protocol reduces drug doses and eliminates steroids altogether in youn...

Mechanism of Stem Cell Regulation Identified

...which new cells are being produced// by individual intestinal stem cell. The result of the study was published in the journal Cell. The research feels that this might help in the development of new drugs for diseases such as neurological disorders and anemia. In most organs of the body, old cells are continuall...

Vitamin A Deficiency Subsequent to Intestinal Surgery

A recent study has revealed that major intestinal surgery, including stomach reduction for obesity, ...who were all over the age of 65, had had extensive intestinal surgery between 20 and 35 years earlier. The operations included intestinal bypass, surgical remov...

India Declared Free of Rinderpest Cattle Infection

...t infection - an acute viral disease affecting the intestinal tract of cattle //. 'This recognition of India as free from rinderpest infection is a great achievement. It is the first animal disease to be officially recognised by Office Internationale des Epizooties (OIE) as having been eradicated from India,'...

New compounds Help Sustain relief For Patients With Symptoms of Bowel Disorders

...glutide has reduced inflamation and healed injured intestinal tissue. In the exploratory study, 100 participants with active Crohn's disease were randomized and treated with one of three doses of teduglutide or placebo for eight weeks to determine rates of remission (CDAI less than 150) or clinical response (...

Cholera Death Toll Reaches 1,156 in Angola

...rted from province of Luanda. Cholera is an acute intestinal infection that is caused by contaminated water or food. Some of the most dangerous symptoms of the infection are vomiting and acute diarrhea that can potentially cause dehydration and death within 24 hours. WHO said that of the 1,109 cases reported ...

Fresh Polio Cases Reported In Uttar Pradesh

... as the key factors". He said: "High incidence of intestinal diseases as also poor sense of public health and hygiene were also seen as factors contributing heavily to repeated detection of polio cases." L.B. Prasad, director general (family welfare) of Uttar Pradesh, admits there are loopholes in both plann...

Elements In Grape fruit Juice Combine Lethally with Certain Drugs, leading to potentially dangerous side effects, study.

...tering the body after they are consumed because an intestinal enzyme, CYP3A, partially destroys them, as they are absorbed. Grapefruit juice, but not other commonly consumed fruit juices, inhibits this enzyme, allowing more of these drugs to enter the body. It was originally assumed that the ingredients respo...

20,000 Cholera Cases In Angola, 1,000 Casualties

...ht so far with 1,000 deaths//. Cholera is an acute intestinal infection, which is caused in most cases by drinking contaminated water. “It’s still quite bad. It’s showing even more in other provinces now also. This week on certain days we have seen almost a thousand cases a day and in some days more than 30 ...

Link Between Solar Flares And Strokes Under Study

...ientists in 1992 discovered a seven-year cycle for intestinal worm attacks in humans, while other scientists in 1993 found tapeworms occurring in seven-year and 12-year rhythms in swine as well as sheep. Another study found abortions among girls occurring in 10-year cycles in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. ...

Greenpeace Says 93,000 Extra Cancer Deaths Due To Chernobyl Fallout

...sed with 93,000 fatalities. "We're also looking at intestinal problems, heart and circulation problems, respiratory problems, endocrine problems, and particularly effects on the immune system," said Blake Lee-Harwood, campaigns director at Greenpeace. "The figures tend to converge around the 200,000 mark." But ...

Novel Discoveries For Treatment Of Stomach Cancer

...the cells to divide uncontrollably and change into intestinal tissue, often a precursor to cancer. 'We get insights not into individual genes but their networks as a whole system, the switches, which are turned on irrevocably, leading to the cancer,' Patrick Tan, principal investigator at the NCC told The Str...

Viagra Offers Hope In Treatment Of Crohn’s Diseas

...ems, incapable of destroying bacteria invading the intestinal wall. This allows bacterial growth and colonization, eventually paving way for secretion of inflammatory substances that trigger Crohn's symptoms. The improvement in symptoms following treatment aimed at stimulation of white blood cells and the gen...

Treatment Resistant Tumors Can Be Targeted Better Using Botox

...xin, a naturally occurring chemical known to cause intestinal poisoning. The toxin has numerous clinical applications such as relieving facial spasms, strabismus and treating muscle hyperactivity. The toxin acts by blocking release of acetylcholine and norepinephrine (neurotransmitters). It is hypothesized ...

Methyl-DNA binding Proteins To Fight Cancer

.... They are developing this new approach to treat intestinal cancer at the Bioengineering Centre, Russian Acade...e level of expression of the Kaiso protein gene in intestinal tumors in mice and in human patients. The level of expression turned out to be dozens of times highe...

Diarrhea Vaccine Trials Promises Prevention of Rotavirus Infection

...ntussusception. This condition is characterized by intestinal folding, followed by intestinal blockage. Almost all children suffer from rotavirus infection, at age 2 or 3. The most signs of in...

Heartburn drugs linked to bacterial diarrhea

...diff, as it's known, can cause severe diarrhea and intestinal inflammation with cramps called colitis. Dr. Sandra Dial, with her colleagues at McGill University in Montreal, examined data on more than 18,000 patients in Britain from 1994 to 2004. During that time, 1,672 cases of C-diff were diagnosed, and the...

Health bonds to immunize the poor

...ns such as those against malnutrition, malaria and intestinal worms. ...

Fruitfly My Distant Cousin

...ling is as essential in flies in controlling which intestinal cells form as it is in humans. Notch signaling was also found to instruct stem cells themselves, a role that has as yet to be identified for Notch signaling in vertebrates. Source: Eurekalert....

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