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Gene Therapy Technique for Inherited Heart Problems in The Pipeline

...ar conditions linked to faulty genes or congenital metabolic diseases, including atherosclerosis, stroke, muscular dystrophy and an enlargement of the heart muscle known as dilated cardiomyopathy. But efforts to begin testing it in people have been slowed by the need to find ways to deliver corrective genes ...

Orchid to Buy out Bexel Pharma, US

...el has been focusing on drug discovery research in metabolic diseases such as diabetes, obesity and auto-immune diseases, while Orchid has been focusing on inflammation, cancer and anti-infective areas. Source:PTI News...

Measuring the Quantity of Information Passed on From the Eye to the Brain

... brain uses the sluggish channels and pays a lower metabolic cost." "In terms of sending visual information to the brain, these brisk cells are the Fedex of the optic system, versus the sluggish cells, which are the equivalent of the U.S. mail," notes Sterling. "Sluggish cells have not been studied that clos...

Computational Model Reveals Working of AZT in Body

...lls, including their mitochondria, under different metabolic conditions. Drugs like AZT may interfere with DNA ... reaches a cell, it is subject to some of the same metabolic modifications or phosphorylation events that are encountered by the four naturally occurring deoxynu...

Using Multivitamins Before And After Conception Averts Preeclampsia

...utrient doses, may not be adequate to overcome the metabolic challenges associated with the development of preeclampsia along with being overweight and pregnant," she added. "But again, more study is needed to test these ideas." Contact: Michele Baum baummd@upmc.edu 412-647-3555 University of Pittsburgh M...

NHGRI Aims To Sequence Primate Genomes

...l models because of their genetic, physiologic and metabolic similarities with humans. For example, the rhesus macaque is an essential research model for drug development, neuroscience, behavioral biology, reproductive physiology, endocrinology and cardiovascular studies. In addition, because it can be infecte...

Serotonin the Answer for Anti-Obesity Treatment

...ion's effort to investigate the causes of obesity, metabolic syndrome and diabetes. Source: Eurekaert...

Expanded Infant Health Screening

...nded screening for 29 disorders, including certain metabolic conditions. UAB maternal and child health expert Russell Kirby, Ph.D., agrees. “All of these conditions are either fatal or result in potentially serious developmental disabilities or chronic health conditions if untreated. Screening involves more ...

Study Says - Blocking 'aP2' Protein Prevents Airway Diseases

...interesting additional link between the immune and metabolic systems. The findings of the study has appeared in online on 13th July, is to be published August issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. The "hygiene hypothesis" currently dominates thinking in the medical field about the underlying causes...

How Does Leptin Work?

...e of action through which Leptin carries out these metabolic activities were not known till date. Now, research...appreciate the important role of STAT3 in leptin's metabolic actions, strategies designed to restore the effects of Leptin on STAT3 should achieve considerable h...

'Diet Modifications' - less effective against Stress

...t improved diet had little effect in reversing the metabolic profiles (a health indicator) of rats. The team ...he LC-PUFA enriched diet did help to improve their metabolic profiles, an indicator of health, although the diet failed to totally normalise them. Dr Elaine Ho...

Childhood Obesity Linked to Adult Blood Pressure

...to the development of both high blood pressure and metabolic syndrome in adulthood. Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of health measures including: fat around the waistline, high blood pressure, low levels of HDL "good" cholesterol, high fasting blood sugar levels and high triglycerides. Srinivasan's analysis o...

Aspirin and other NSAIDS Proved Less Effective in Long-Term Smokers

... cigarette smoke contains hundreds of carcinogenic metabolic products that may damage DNA. ‘This accumulated damage might not be reversible,’ Chia said. ‘NSAIDs act to suppress inflammatory processes and may help limit the progression toward cancer. However, people who have microsatellite-unstable tumors may b...

Effective Anti - Psychotic Drugs Pack Health Risk

...s health consequences related with higher risk for metabolic syndrome in long-term users. Metabolic syndrome ... More than half the clozapine patients studied had metabolic syndrome while only about 20 percent of those in a comparison group did, researchers report in the J...

Clozapine Increases Risk Of Metabolic Syndrome

...e study found that clozapine increased the risk of metabolic syndrome, a group of conditions that increase the risk for heart disease, stroke and diabetes. The details of the study appear in latest issue of The American Journal of Psychiatry. The study said that the potential risks must be weighed with the be...

Abnormal Abeta - Protein Level in Human Brain Trigger Alzheimer's Risk

...y potential Alzheimer's patients on the basis of a metabolic imbalance between Abeta synthesis and clearance rates,' Bateman says. The test combines technologies that have been available for some time but only through recent technical and procedural advances has become sufficiently sensitive. Via an intrave...

Marijuana may be Helpful in Lowering Blood Pressure

...ssels as a result of hypertension, and others with metabolic irregularities, Maor believes. Cardiovascular disease accounts for about one-third of all deaths in industrialised countries, and is the leading reason for visits there to physicians as well as for drug prescriptions. (Source: IANS News)...

Obesity Makes Treatment of HCV Difficult

...chester, Minnesota has revealed that obesity was a metabolic condition, which could interfere //with the treatment for the Hepatitis C virus (HCV). Lead researcher Dr. Michael R. Charlton and his colleagues have found that obese patients treated for the chronic hepatitis C virus infection are also more likel...

A New Marker For Type-2 Diabetes ?

...ype 2 diabetes, as also cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome, according to a recent study. Researche...sed blood pressure. These factors are part of the metabolic syndrome, and indicate a higher risk of cardiac disease. The good news is that moderate exerci...

A Carrier Protein Associates With Human Insulin Resistance

...d insulin resistance and thus risk of diabetes// , metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease decreased. A protein in blood called retinol-binding protein 4 (RBP4), when reduced by the effect of modified diet and good exercise programs proved to drop the risk factors of diabetes – finding reports. Dr. B...

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