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Hope for Patients With Kidney Failure

...seriously ill patients. // A recently discovered molecule may have the potential to protect the kidneys from...o express higher-than-normal levels of the natural molecule hepatic growth factor (HGF) or another natural factor called parathyroid hormone-related protein (PT...

Predicting The Risk Of Preeclampsia During Pregnancy

... previous work indicating large amounts of a blood molecule called sFlt-1 is present in women with preeclampsia, and sFlt-1 can induce preeclampsia in pregnant rats. Using blood samples taken from women participating in another study, they compared blood levels of sFlt-1 and another blood molecule, PIGF, in 1...

New Treatment For Patients With Paralysis

... cell that insulates nerve cells, a cell messenger molecule called cyclic AMP, and the antidepressant Rolipram. Following a spinal cord injury, the body typically does not provide a proper environment for nerve regeneration. However, with the new combination, nerve cells actually reconnected, so healing of t...

Hope For Patients With Lung Cancer

...ers -- including lung cancer. Tarceva is a small molecule designed to target the human epidermal growth factor receptor (HER1) pathway, also known as EGFR, which is critical to cell growth in many cancers. This study included 731 patients with stage III or stage IV non-small cell lung cancer who had their c...

Hope For Patients With Advanced Breast Cancer

... controlling the activated leukocyte cell adhesion molecule ( ALCAM ), which plays a role in helping // cells stay clumped together. The gene is less active in aggressive tumors than in normal breast tissue or tumors that don’t result in a spreading of the disease. Researchers speculate less activity on the p...

Protein Found To Improve Muscle Loss

...sults showed young mice produced more of the Delta molecule than older mice. When researchers applied a Delta-like molecule to injured, older muscles, satellite cells began to divide much like those in younger muscle. Resear...

Positive Thinking

...st have come to a common understanding that these molecule structures, though immensely complex in nature have one basic principle that keeps them together, their negative and positive components or charge. These discoveries, lead us to a greater understanding of the behavioral patterns of the molecular stru...

Stopping The Growth Of Viruses

New research shows a molecule that stops the growth of the AIDS virus in the blood may also inhibit the growth of other viruses.// Researchers say alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) -- a protein in the blood -- deactivates cells, stopping viruses from multiplying. In order for cells to ...

Stopping The Growth Of Viruses

New research shows a molecule that stops the growth of the AIDS virus in the blood may also inhibit the growth of other viruses.// Researchers say alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) -- a protein in the blood -- deactivates cells, stopping viruses from multiplying. In order for cells to ...

Puberty may be due to GPR54 gene and KiSS-1 Molecule

...researchers claim that the meeting of a gene and a molecule appear to trigger off puberty. "We now have very g... GPR54 gene and its switch, the kisspeptin protein molecule produced by KiSS-1, are key to the initiation of puberty, when GnRH (Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone)...

Hope For Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease

...is hence researchers explored how an immune system molecule called Toll-like receptor 9 could ease inflammation. Agents that activate Toll-like receptor 9, or TLR9, were given to two different groups of mice that appeared similar but were from different genetic strains. Reactions were different in the two str...

Cure For Persistent Oral Fungal Problem May Be Possible

...which occurs naturally in the human salivary mucin molecule is quite effective for treating oral fungal infections. Even active in very low concentrations, when used with inhibitors, the peptide killed the fungal agents that cause very common infections like candidiasis and cryptococcosis. These can be an esp...

New Cancer Drug Hits the Mark

...g being called ON01910 works by interfering with a molecule known as Plk1, which cancer cells need in order to divide and multiply. This molecule is found in higher numbers in cancerous tumors, and people with poorer cancer survival rates tend to...

Hope For Those With Pancreatic Cancer

...cording to researchers the identification of a key molecule that controls the growth, spread and survival of p... say they have discovered what role the GSK-3 Beta molecule plays in pancreatic cancer and that they have found the molecule is critical in pancreatic cancer ce...

Parasitic infections and human immunity link found

...rchers of Yale School of Medicine had identified a molecule that triggers the immune system and helps the body...of the body in case of toxoplasmosis. The specific molecule of TLR 11 in this case was identified as Toxoplasma profilin. It is the profilins that triggers the ...

In Search Of A New Drug To Target Cholesterol

...uced the enzyme. When the normal mice were given a molecule known to block the effects of ACAT2, the same results were seen. Researchers then studied the enzyme in monkeys, looking specifically at whether certain foods might increase the effects of ACAT2 on cholesterol. It was seen that Monkeys who were fed ...

Depression is associated with high risk for heart disease

...inogen; interleukin-6 (IL6); and adhesion cellular molecule -1 (ICAM-1) were also at a high level. 28% of the people of the high-risk group expressed the depressive mood. The researchers have noted statistically significant relationship between high scores on depression questionnaire and high level of three o...

In Search Of A New Drug To Target Cholesterol

...uced the enzyme. When the normal mice were given a molecule known to block the effects of ACAT2, the same results were seen. Researchers then studied the enzyme in monkeys, looking specifically at whether certain foods might increase the effects of ACAT2 on cholesterol. It was seen that Monkeys who were fed ...

New protein found that could slow pancreatic cancer

...spreading quickly. Researchers have found that a molecule called Smad7, which is found in the pancreas of so...nction of the retinoblastoma proteins. The protein molecule Smad7 may also encourage the rapid growth of TGF-?ò molecules that spreads the growing cancer. Rese...

Tetanus causing toxin has therapeutic properties

..., and work more specifically. This property of the molecule makes it suitable for being turned into a drug with extensive uses in conditions like depression, anorexia, as well as neuro-degenerative disorders like Parkinson’s disease. Tetanus toxin is a form of neurotoxin belonging o the group of toxins like ...

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