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Control of inflammation

... Sitkovsky. This much is known: when tissue damage mounts due to prolonged inflammation oxygen levels in the damaged area fall. This leads to increased amounts of adenosine outside cells. Dr. Sitkovsky theorised that the excess adenosine binds to the adenosine receptors, which then initiate a chain reaction...

Palmist Claims to Diagnose Ailments Looking At Your Palm

...ed the best doctors. After studying the lines and mounts of a person's hand, Mohanan can accurately predict... out the sexual activity of a person. Likewise the mounts of Mercury and Saturn reveal the neurological health, while the mount of Jupiter is associated with ...

The new face of vaccine development

... that body recognizes the bacteria as a threat and mounts a defense. "What you'd really like is to control either the broadness of the immune response so that you can take one vaccine and protect against multiple strains of the bacteria," said Woods, lead author of the study and associate professor of bio...

Indonesian Earthquake – Story of Destruction, Death and Disease

...se hence mass burials are in process. Growing fear mounts as outbreak of common diseases such as Cholera, and Malaria can follow after such a large-scale disaster and result in loss of more lives. Author:Ruchi.S...

Protective Intestinal Antibiotic Protein Discovered

...rant relationship turns sour and the immune system mounts an attack on the gut's microbial inhabitants that can lead to painful ulcers and bloody diarrhea. What triggers this attack is not clear, but the fact that these patients have elevated HIP/PAP production suggests that they are coping with increased n...

Researchers Discover Breakthrough in Major Third World Scourge

...ave been unable to determine how the immune system mounts an effective response against tissue dwelling helminthic parasites. The findings of Drs. Anthony, Gause, and co-workers suggest a new model of resistance, involving macrophages. Macrophages have previously been associated primarily with protection ag...

HIV Takes Advantage of Rivalry among T cells

...c drop as the immune system recognizes the threat, mounts a defense and destroys most of the invading viruses. The second phase is a long period of clinical latency that can last up to 10 years. In this phase, a small amount of virus mutates fast enough to escape initial detection and continues to mutate ov...

Crucial Link Between Body Composition and Cancer Risk

...g excessively retained, instead of consumed, which mounts the risk of cancer. During a study conducted on transgenic mice prone to prostate cancer, Tim R. Nagy, Ph.D., professor of nutrition sciences at UAB and colleagues discovered that cancer progressed rather slowly in lean mice as compared to their obe...

Study Uncovers Clues for Why Graves’ Disease Attacks the Eye

...tient’s thyroid as “self,” the antibody mistakenly mounts an attack against the organ, causing inflammation and damage to the body, including eye tissue. In the current study, UCLA researchers discovered that T-cells taken from GD patients contain an abnormal surplus of the receptor targeted by this antib...

Public Libraries Turning into Shelters for the Homeless in the US

As the problem of the chronically homeless mounts in the US, the public libraries in that country are slowly turning into de facto daytime shelters. // In bad weather -- hot, cold, or wet -- most of the homeless have nowhere to go but public places. The local shelters push them out onto the str...

Rejection in Lung Transplants Due to Elevated Pepsin Level

...ctors other than alloimmunity, the attack the body mounts to protect itself against foreign cells. We think gastric aspiration [the taking of stomach fluids into the lung] may contribute to an overall injury to the transplanted lung, said Chris Ward, Ph.D., lead author of the study. This pattern of injury...

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