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Prions Prevent Alzheimers Disease

...rms of prion disease share genetic features. These parallels prompted Professor Hoopers team to look for a link between the different conditions. They found an apparent role for normal prion proteins in preventing Alzheimers disease. Our experiments have shown that the normal prion proteins found in brain ce...

A Balanced Diet can Keep Asthma, Wheezing at Bay in Teens

... on average, been attained and lung growth closely parallels this growth. Therefore we were observing a time when lung function was close to its optimal capacity," she said. The majority of adolescents in the study were white, one third was overweight, and 72 percent did not consume multivitamins. Also, nea...

Apple a Day Keeps Asthma Away

... on average, been attained and lung growth closely parallels this growth. Therefore we were observing a time when lung function was close to its optimal capacity, she said. Also, although our diet survey targeted eating habits only during the past year, it did give us some idea of the teens general past die...

'Missing Link' Stem Cells may Shorten Path to Therapies

... looked and behaved very differently, limiting the parallels that could be drawn between the two species and raising questions about what accounted for the divergence. "It was perplexing," Pedersen told AFP. "Was is it the evolutionary divergence of mice and men, or was there a developmental explanation, ref...

Hearts Saved As Doctors Put Cutting Edge Discoveries to Use

... According to the researchers, the promising trend parallels the growing use of cholesterol-lowering drugs, powerful blood thinners, and angioplasty, the procedure that opens clogged arteries. Says lead author Dr. Keith Fox, a cardiology professor at the University of Edinburgh: These results are really dra...

Are Main Rivers in Himalayas Under Threat?

... Tibet, Assam in India and Bangladesh. There are parallels with Chernobyl in Ukraine where radioactive material leaked out from a nuclear plant in 1986, killing at least 56 people and exposing thousands to diseases like cancer. Shimatsu says the only way to avert potential disaster in the Himalayas is for ...

Hearts Saved As Doctors Put Cutting Edge Discoveries to Use

... According to the researchers, the promising trend parallels the growing use of cholesterol-lowering drugs, powerful blood thinners, and angioplasty, the procedure that opens clogged arteries. Says lead author Dr. Keith Fox, a cardiology professor at the University of Edinburgh: “These results are really dr...

Limb Transplantation with a Difference

... Tung's work in limb transplantation in many ways parallels research being conducted in organ transplantation. But limb transplantation entails different challenges because it involves several kinds of tissue: skin, muscles, tendons, nerves and bone. Each of these elicits a different degree of response from t...

New Company Will Seek Drugs Against Diabetes and Cancer

...searchers are confident that their fruit fly model parallels human physiology to a great extent. Molecular pathways that play a role in diabetes and cancer are present in both humans and fruit flies, according to Cagan. In addition, the researchers feel their approach may be superior to more traditional appr...

Malfunction Of Key Growth Factor Increases Mortality Rate From Pulmonary Fibrosis In Blacks

...e we've identified a physiological difference that parallels the profound differences between black and whites in the severity of the disease and prognosis," she said in an American Physiological Society session at Experimental Biology in San Francisco. Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) strikes nine of out 10 patients w...

Treating Dental Problems Of Abused Children Need Special Care

...searchers said that it is not difficult to see the parallels between some aspects of the abuse experience and elements of dental care. Patients are expected to trust the professional to do what is best for them. The professional often assures them, much as the abusers did, that while the experience may be pain...

Genetic Expressions Can Influence The Process Of Aging

...t in many organisms, including humans // . Drawing parallels from mice, the researchers had concluded that the p63 gene is likely to play a fundamental biological role in aging-related processes. To study how the p63 gene works, the researchers had devised a system for eliminating it from adult mouse tissues....

Pomegranate juice to check fetal brain injury

...sity School of Medicine in St. Louis who had drawn parallels from a mouse study, says that pomegranate juice can prevent the condition of hypoxia ischemia in babies if their mothers have the juice when they are carrying them. Hypoxia ischemia is the condition of decreased blood flow and oxygen to the fetal bra...

It is possible to have stem cell based treatment for eye problems now

...use of loss of certain retinal cell types. Drawing parallels from their animal study, the research scientists report that retinal therapy based on the newly discovered protein is possible as the retina contains its own stem cells that can be used to regenerate the cells need to bring back vision to the eyes. ...

Drug addiction can be genetical, says study

... of the brain.The researchers who had drawn animal parallels had reported that mice deficient in the Clock gene had produced more dopamine when injected with cocaine, much more than the control mice that had the Clock gene. The first group also had more problems with their circadian rhythms when under the infl...

Injury to knee may result in arthritis, but it is possible to prevent it

...rotect the joints from any wear and tear. Drawing parallels from animal study, researchers had found that this disappears completely in three weeks following the knee injury. In humans, the researchers had found that the body produces more of CII peptides when knee injury happens. This indicates that the inju...

Plastic to cause breast cancer

...se health problems on long-term exposure. Drawing parallels from an animal study, scientists of the study said that exposure to bisphenol-A in the womb can be detrimental to the growth of a healthy fetus. Such exposure had been seen to make the breast tissues of the female mice more sensitive to the effects o...

Metabolic problems related to clogged arteries

...ith clogged arteries// and blood pressure, drawing parallels from an animal study. Atherosclerosis or clogged arteries happens in the process where fatty substances, cholesterol, cellular waste products, calcium etc are deposited on the inner lining of the arteries. This build up is called plaque. Plaques can...

Possible benefits of Hormone Replacement Therapy

...bilitating in the estradiol group. The WEST study parallels another study called the Heart and Estrogen Replacement Study, or HERS, the first randomized hormone replacement therapy trial. HERS used Premarin, the most commonly prescribed estrogen in the USA, and enrolled only women with heart disease. It found...

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