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Laboratory Testing Can Identify Risk of Pre-Term Labor and Delivery

...(fFN).A glycoprotein that is secreted by the fetal membrane and found in the choriodecidual junction, fFN is responsible for cellular adhesions. The level of fFN in the woman's cervicovaginal secretions is highly associated with pre-term labor and pre-term delivery. The fFN immunoassay detects concentrations ...

Feeding channel created by malaria parasite - a new target for malaria treatments

...tes the channels by changing a protein in the cell membrane or by trafficking a new protein made in the malaria parasite to the cell membrane for subsequent icorporation. With this information, researchers may be better able to develop drugs ...

Action of nerve cells

...l depends on the number of neurotransmitter filled membrane balloons released by each neuron.So the strength of memory depends on how well the UNC-13 protein helps to gather up the neurotransmitter filled balloons and release them from one cell to another, he stated. Jorgensen said the research was aimed ...

Drugs to stop burgeon of HIV

...opies of themselves, the virus goes to the surface membrane and wraps it around themselves before 'popping' off.// In 1996 the researchers showed that a protein created by HIV called Vpu formed ion channels in fatty membranes around cells. Ion channels act as 'gates' for ions to pass in and out of the cell."...

Water regulation in humans

...mbled upon an unknown protein lodged in the plasma membrane of red blood cells and kidney tubules.After expressing the the proteins in frogs' eggs,they discovered that the eggs exploded when immeresed in water because they absorbed the the liquid much faster than normal....

Nose plug-switch that stops smelling

...nal.The ‘nose’ is really a channel in the neurons’ membrane that opens when an odour is presented and closes as the neuron becomes desensitised to that smell. By measuring the signals from these odour receptors cells in genitically engineered mice, one research team showed that mice lacking CNGA4 could sense...

Nose plug: switch that stops smelling

.... The ‘nose’ is really a channel in the neurons’ membrane that opens when an odour is presented and closes as the neuron becomes desensitised to that smell.By measuring the signals from these odour receptors cells in genitically engineered mice, one research team showed that mice lacking CNGA4 could sense o...

Attacking therapy with electricity

... applied it opens up microscopic pores in the cell membrane so that drug molecules can enter into the cell. When the pulse is stopped, the holes close up again so the drug stays inside. Research so far has applied electroporation to cancer chemotherapy, the delivery of DNA for gene therapy, and to the deliv...

How brain works

...l depends on the number of neurotransmitter filled membrane balloons released by each neuron.So the strength of memory depends on how well the UNC-13 protein helps to gather up the neurotransmitter filled balloons and release them from one cell to another, he stated. Jorgensen said the research was aimed ...

Bypass Surgery & Pleural Effusion

... and the chest wall, covered by a thin transparent membrane called the pleura. The study indicated that almost 55% had a pleural effusion one month after the bypass surgery. Around 15 per cent of cases had an effusion that occupied more than 25 per cent of one side of the chest while in most of cases the ef...

Inflammation Linked to Colon Cancer

...d these free radicals can damage cells -- the cell membrane and the DNA." The laboratory study involved a type of DNA damage caused by a product of the COX-2 enzyme, which is known to play a role in inflammation and is blocked by aspirin and other drugs known as COX-2 inhibitors. Researchers took the damaged...

Mouth Infection better handled with new discovery

... through studies that histatin binds to a specific membrane protein called TRK1p, which regulates potassium ion flow through the cell membrane of Candida albicans. This allows the cell to regulate its volume. It is said that the binding action...

Biomarker for prostate cancer may be separated for treatment

... The researchers had placed the prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) at a new location for the immunotherapy that is carried by the blood, to reach the biomarker. This had been done by a chemotherapy agent, which destroys the microtubules. Cancer of the prostate glands is one of the deadlier cancers th...

New insight for neuro-degenerative diseases discovered

... protein without a glycophosphoinositol (GPI) cell membrane anchor that did not show the symptoms of scrapie disease when inoculated with scrapie prion protein. These mice had developed plaques in their brain, similar to those that are observed in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s disease. However, the ...

PET Scan find the Area of Brain Responsible for Anorexia Nervosa

...o the dopamine D2 and D3 receptors that lie on the membrane surface of neurons. Ten women who had recovered from anorexia nervosa for more than a year were studied, as were 12 normal female subjects. Because malnourishment affects brain chemistry, the researchers did not include acutely ill women in their stu...

Eleutherobin From Coral Fights Cancer Cells

... the oral cancers affect the outer layer of mucous membrane covering the oral cavity. For more information read: http://www.medindia.net/patients/ patientinfo/oralcancer.asp Information about Prostate cancer: When a person is affected by prostate cancer, the cancer cells may spread outside the gland ...

Britney Spears Donates $50 000 To Support Cancer Patients

... the oral cancers affect the outer layer of mucous membrane covering the oral cavity. For more information read: http://www.medindia.net/patients/ patientinfo/oralcancer.asp Information about Prostate cancer: When a person is affected by prostate cancer, the cancer cells may spread outside the gland ...

Possibility Of Treatment For Permanent Hearing Loss

...taining the interfering RNA was placed against the membrane covering one opening into the inner ear of the mice. The slightly porous membrane allowed the interfering RNA to diffuse into the inner ear cells. Source: Newswise Medindia on Hea...

Soya Found To Affect Women's Ability To Conceive: Professor

...reaction generally took place as the sperm sheds a membrane as it "docked" with the egg. "If the acrosome reaction occurs before a sperm reaches an egg, then fertilisation is unable to take place because the sperm has lost special docking molecules that allow it to bind to the egg," she said. The findings...

Chronic Sinusitis May Be Related To Nasal Mucus

...g and presumably damage-inflicting nasal and sinus membrane inflammation, instead of the secondary bacterial infection that has been the primary target of treatments for the disease. Also, some surgeons have already started to change the way they do surgery for patients with chronic sinus infections, focusing...

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