marker 1 8

Tag: "marker" at medical news

A Detail Analysis of Head and Neck Cancer

...c strategy. The CD44/EGFR complex can be used as a marker for potentially aggressive head-neck tumors. This complex may be used a clinical predictor for evaluating the potential of head and neck cancers to metastasize....

Researchers Identify The Cause To Obesity

...tem's inflammatory response, is gaining favor as a marker for hypertension and heart disease risk, known complications of obesity. "We know that CRP binds to leptin, and this impairs its signaling, but we don't know how this is so. It may be that the coupling of the two makes crossing the blood-brain bar...

Researchers Opts For Better Screening Methods For Detecting Ovarian Cancer

...svaginal ultrasound and a blood test for the tumor marker CA125 should be offered to women who are at high risk of ovarian cancer. Promising research conducted at the University of South Florida and the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute on a specific protein in the urine may lead to a mor...

Mayo Clinic Researchers Find Two New Genes Predict Breast Cancer Outcomes

...e profile was previously discovered as a potential marker of relapse in hormone-receptor positive breast can... Fergus Couch, Ph.D. "Our new study shows that the marker is only useful for identifying women with a higher risk in the setting of lymph node-negative breast...

High Dietary Fiber Reduce The Risk Of Heart Disease

...d than those who ate the lowest amounts. CRP, a marker of ongoing inflammation in the body, is regarded as a risk factor for future heart disease although its involvement in the disease or even the accuracy of its risk indication is subject to continuing debate. A low-level inflammation in the body is ge...

Hormone Can Foretell Presence Of Potentially Fatal Pulmonary Hypertension

...of significant left heart disease, BNP serves as a marker of an increased workload in the right heart originating from idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension," Dr. Behr said. BNP is a hormone found in the heart. Its level in the blood is usually on the lesser side, but rises if the heart has to work har...

Smoking and Drinking Could Lead Colorectal Cancer

...current tobacco and alcohol consumption would be a marker for people who are at risk for developing earlier disease, and maybe screening for these folks should start earlier than age 50, Roy added. --Edited IANS...

The Little Known Facts of Junk DNA

...equence can be tested for its ability to turn on a marker gene in zebrafish embryos. The system allows researchers to study more sequences in a shorter period of time. Using this, they identified several human enhancers able to control expression consistent with the zebrafish ret gene. Shannon Fisher, M.D...

Colour Of Urine Can Reveal The Health Status Of The Patients

...h, which suggests it's time for a drink. "It's a marker of hydration (which can) be used as a marker of whether you're drinking enough fluid, particularly in summer," Foot said. Dark brown or tea col...

C-reactive Protein (CRP) Levels Could Assess Future Lung Cancer Risk In Smokers

...ns like cancer in the airways of smokers. CRP is a marker of inflammation and measuring the blood levels of this protein could help doctors identify people at risk for developing lesions that could cause irreversible damage. Dr. Stephen Lam, from the British Columbia Cancer Agency in Vancouver, Canada, an...

Age Can Affect PSA Reading And Prostate Cancer Diagnosis

...evels. They argue that low threshold levels of the marker need to be set for men under 70. The existing threshold for PSA velocity (PSAV) is 0.75 ng/ml/yr. A prostate biopsy is strongly indicated in men whose PSA levels increase by a margin of 0.75 in one year. The present study highlights that this may l...

Statins For Erectile Dysfunction- An Alternative To Viagra?

...ns share similar risk factors. Infact, ED can be a marker for the presence of heart disease. Nitric oxide is essential for a normal erection, but when the body does not make enough of it, due to vascular disease, erectile dysfunction manifests. Viagra, which is most commonly used for treatment of ED, prev...

TNF Protein Can Predict GVHD Bone Marrow Transplant Recipients

...d tumor necrosis factor (TNF). // The inflammatory marker can help doctors identify which patients will develop graft vs. host disease (GVHD), the most commonly observed complication following the surgery. The early identification of related complication can enable the attending physician to initiate appr...

Fungal toxins infected corn the reason for congenital defects

...rtum sphinganine:shingosine ratio (sa:so ratio), a marker for fumonisin exposure measured in maternal serum, and corn tortilla intake based on the maternal recall. 225 Mexican-American women with NTD-affected pregnancies and 378 Mexican-American women with healthy births were the study group. Among them...

Protein marker to detect early preeclampsia

...isability for mother and fetus. This new protein marker may be helpful in detecting early preeclampsia and...ers have plans of testing the values of this blood marker in all pregnant women which may help in early diagnosis of preeclampsia. Researchers are not sure ab...

Re-evaluation of the soy protein’s effects to reduce cholestero

...d to reduce the prostate-specific antigen (PSA), a marker of prostate cancer development and in breast cancer it spurred the growth of the unwanted cells. Hence isoflavones supplements can be avoided. But the National Prostate Cancer Coalition said that soy plays a very important role in the fight again...

Inflammation and WBC count has a link to deaths by cancer

...hat a high WBC count is a reliable and widely used marker that reflects inflammation throughout the body. L...sion may be reflected in the systemic inflammatory marker of higher WBC count.” ...

Obesity could lead to Alzheimer's

...art disease and diabetes, such as the inflammatory marker C-reactive protein, insulin, and high-density lipoprotein in 18 healthy adults who were either extremely overweight or obese. They found a statistically significant correlation between body mass index and beta-amyloid. They also looked at several ...

Small Biosensor To Enable Cancer Detection

...ctronically in two modes. When a cancer-specific marker binds to the surface of a disc, in the pattern of the coating, the uneven weight causes one of the modes of vibration to change in frequency. The difference between the frequencies of the two modes of vibration is measured, enabling the detection of ...

Mice With Human Thought Processes Could Be Developed In The Future

... The human embryonic stem cells were tagged with a marker called ‘ Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) ’ that enabled researchers to monitor the human stem cells inside the experimental animal. Nearly 100, 000 human brain cells were introduced into each animal, having no apparent effects on the animal behavio...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10