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Modified Herpes Virus Keeps Arteries Free-flowing Following Procedures

... addition to opening the artery can lead to smooth muscle cell proliferation, similar to formation of scar t...ty had minimal changes in the arteries. The smooth muscle cell proliferation which causes the restenosis was very low in the group treated with herpes and rem...

War Stimulates Research Blitz in Prosthetics Industry

... Inc., of Salt Lake City, has circuitry that reads muscle twitches as electric signals to open and close a hook or hand attachment. But its response time, even at less than a second, is so slow that Salzman prefers an old-fashioned, "body-powered" prosthesis, controlled by a cable and rubber bands. "I don...

New Target for Muscular Dystrophy Drug Therapy Discovered

...phy (DMD)-puts the brakes on its own expression in muscle cells. The production of utrophin slows in foet...s or represses the activity of utrophin's N-box in muscle cells of mice," says Dr. Tejvir S. Khurana, 7senior author of the study. During the study, the re...

Surgical Repair of Athletic Hernia Speeds Return to Play

...egion that is associated with deterioration of the muscle layers. Without treatment, these athletes typica...on and motion and works toward resistance and core muscle building while later progressing to speed and functional activities. The hope is that this program c...

Dengue Fever in Singapore Likely to Increase: Minister

... to a sudden onset of fever with severe headaches, muscle and joint pains, and rashes....

Spacesuits of the Future Will Be as Flexible as Spidermans

...own that astronauts lose up to 40 percent of their muscle strength in space. But, the new outfits could be designed to offer varying resistance levels, allowing the astronauts to exercise against the suits during a long flight to Mars, she added....

Study Finds Abdominal Fat Not the Prime Cause for Metabolic Syndrome

...pectroscopy to measure the production of liver and muscle triglyceride, the storage form of fat, glycogen, a... stored most of their ingested energy as liver and muscle glycogen, the young, lean, insulin-resistant subjects had a marked defect in muscle glycogen synthes...

Differences in Brain Functions Results in non-contact Knee Injuries

...xiety must be considered, as both cause changes in muscle tone and concentration and the narrowing of our attentional field, Swanik noted. There is likely an optimal state of arousal for each individual to maximize performance and injury avoidance, but future studies will have to determine the relationshi...

Chilly Sauce Linked to Botulism, Forcing Recall in US

...lism can include blurred vision, drooping eyelids, muscle weakness, slurred speech and difficulty swallowing. If not treated quickly with antitoxin, botulism can paralyze breathing muscles, and victims could spend months on ventilators until the toxin wears off. Botulism is rare. The paralyzing illness ca...

Scientists Demonstrate Heart Cell Replication in Mice

...earchers first stimulated mature, rod-shaped heart muscle cells (known as cardiomyocytes) with periostin in a Petri dish. About one per cent of the cells entered the mitotic cell cycle -- namely, they began dividing and replicating. "We found a small subpopulation of cells that could, with proper stimulat...

Himachal Pradesh Under the Grip of Suspected Typhus Fever Outbreak

...e symptoms of scrub virus include fever, headache, muscle pain, cough and gastrointestinal problems. Doctors said it was for the first time that case of such a type of fever was being reported from the region. Teams of doctors have been visiting the affected villages and medical camps set up for check-ups...

World Epilepsy Week - 2007

..., emotions, and behavior or sometimes convulsions, muscle spasms, and loss of consciousness. In ancient times, epileptic fits marked by violent spasms and foaming at the mouth, were considered manifestations of the evil spirits possessed by the sufferer. Incidence: Globally, 40 to 50 million people ha...

Sunita Returns June 21 After 194-day Record Space Odyssey

...w ways to prevent effects already known about like muscle and bone loss. In addition to rigorous exercise, Williams also collected and stored her blood while in space to add to an ongoing study on nutrition, another key element of living in space for long stretches of time. The results of this study may i...

Genetic Variations Leads to Fever After Smallpox Vaccination

...ntially life-threatening inflammation of the heart muscle or sac surrounding the heart. And a small percentage of children who get fevers after the MMR vaccine will develop seizures. We dont know whether the same genetic variations we identified in our study are also linked to more serious vaccine complic...

Obesity is Linked to Enlarged Heart

...eight is associated with a thickening of the heart muscle in the left ventricle, the hearts pumping chamber....problems. We observed that the thickening in the muscle wall becomes especially noticeable in obese patients who have a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 30 or great...

Eyelid Spasm can Be Prevented by Coffee Drinking

...asm, 228 patients with hemifacial spasm (a similar muscle spasm that usually begins in the eyelid muscles bu...igarettes they smoked per day. The age of onset of muscle spasms was recorded for patients who experienced them and a reference age was calculated for each of...

Dengue Cases in Singapore Crosses Alarming Levels

... by a sudden onset of fever with severe headaches, muscle and joint pains, and rashes....

Notice Sent to Courts Asking Them to Stop Courting Mosquitoes

...ith a sudden onset of fever, with severe headache, muscle and joint pains and rashes on the lower part of the chest. Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) officials said that due to rain, dengue has raised its head in mid-June as against its usual arrival time in end July. The civic body has already sent o...

Individual Differences in Sleep Structure are Biologically Determined

...cordingswhich show brain waves, eye movements, and muscle tonewere done. The researchers assessed 18 standard sleep parameters, including sleep duration, time to fall asleep, and the amount of time in each sleep stage (stages 1 through 4 and REM sleep). They found large individual differences in these sle...

Kate Moss Has "worryingly" Thin Legs

...ly thin, worryingly so. You can see the outline of muscle on her thigh because there's so little fat now," The Sun quoted Cooper, as saying. "We're used to seeing her slim, but this is the thinnest I've ever seen her. This looks like a young woman who's neglecting herself. We know she doesn't exercise much...

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