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Zinc reduces morbidity due to diarrhea in HIV+ children

...s or placebo daily for 6 months. Measurements of plasma HIV-1 viral load and the percentage of CD4+ T lymphocytes were established before, and 3, 6, and 9 months after the start of supplementation. The researchers found that zinc supplementation did not result in an increase in blood HIV viral load. Chi...

Severe Gum Disease Triples Heart Disease Risk

...lth University have found that increased levels of plasma lipoprotein in patients with advanced periodontiti...e. The current study suggests that checking on the plasma lipoprotein profile in patients with severe periodontitis might be life-saving as appropriate therap...

Wound Healing Found To Be Slower In Couples Who Fight Often

...way to stressful events. If these changes in the plasma levels of these cytokines are allowed to persist for a long time, perhaps it could have devastating effects on the individual health status in ways that are not foreseen at the moment. A variety of age-related diseases such as cardiovascular disease,...

Clinical Trials of New Drug Febuxostat Show Promise in Gout Treatment

...ew drug called febuxostat has been found to reduce plasma levels of uric acid more effectively in Gout than ...acid synthesis. In addition, it also decreases the plasma levels of uric acid over a period of time. The study was conducted amongst a group of 762 patient...

Plasma Exchange Of No Use In Multiple Myeloma

... for dialysis in multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells. However, in all the 14 research centers in Canada, the researchers could find no benefit of the procedure. It also had no effect on the prevailing death or dialysis rates. The scientists are now hoping that the treatment guidelines would be ...

Excess Intake of Alcohol Results in Permanent DNA Damage.

...age, but this effect cannot be explained solely by plasma catechin [a phenolic compound]. Other phenolic compounds in the wine could be contributing factors." "Alcohol can damage your DNA ... and when you damage your DNA you effectively age faster. That's the bottomline. So if you want to preserve your ...

Leptin, The Next Generation Antidepressant?

...e in two studies it was proved that reduced Leptin plasma levels were seen in depressed patient an increased...ng test. It was found that they had lowered Leptin plasma levels and when retrained further for 30 minutes resulted in the further drop of Leptin levels. When...

Patients with HIV-1 can predict plasma lipids level based on race

... which shows that race/ethnicity is a predictor of plasma lipids in patients with HIV-1 on HAART (highly act...itors (a class of drugs used against HIV) affected plasma lipids. Overall, Black patients on HAART had a lipid profile more likely to be less prone to athero...

Britain Announces Third Transfusion Related 'Mad Cow' Case

...e history of blood and blood components, excluding plasma derivatives. Nearly 30 individuals have been reported to have received a blood transfusion from a donor who later developed vCJD in the U.K. All of these recipients had been alerted regarding their exposure. In addition, these individuals have been...

Vitamin C Supplementation Reduces Cancer Risk In Smokers

...C supplements also helped protect the function and plasma levels of Vitamin E, according to the study authors. Smokers who took Vitamin C supplements had nearly the same amount of antioxidant protection as non-smokers, they said. The study, which appeared in the Feb 15 issue of Free Radical Biology and Me...

C-reactive Protein (CRP) Levels Could Assess Future Lung Cancer Risk In Smokers

...ency in Vancouver, Canada, and colleagues measured plasma levels of CRP in 65 patients who were either smokers or had given it up. These patients had bronchial lesions that were more than 1.2 millimeters in diameter. At an interval of six months, researchers took biopsies to assess the progress of the lesio...

Alternate ways to produce HAS from tobacco plants

...he price at the pharmacy of albumin produced using plasma is 4 euros per gram whereas the production cost is between 300 and 4,000 euros per gram. Another alternative is the production of albumin from vegetables using nuclear transformation. On the other hand the plastidial system enables the extraction of ...

Low-dose Aspirin Benefits Both Sexes

...cromoles per liter of epinephrine to platelet-rich plasma produced significantly greater reductions in platelet clumping in treated women, a drop of 36.9 percent, while it was less of a reduction for men, at 31.5 percent. Again, the researchers say, these changes would have been zero if aspirin had had no e...

Technology at its nano best: hand-held lab-on-a-chip for blood tests

...agnostic tool for cancer detection by searching in plasma for certain biomolecules that could be early indicators. Science has dictated that all of these things can be done, we’ve just needed to develop the technology....

Results of Clinical Trials Vary According to Source of Funding

...ntravascular ultrasound, quantitative angiography, plasma biomarkers, and functional measures were more likely to report positive findings (67.0 percent) than were clinical trials using clinical end points (54.1 percent). 'As suggested in surveys of randomized trials published prior to 2000, these contemp...

Asthma Risk Related To Decreased Fruit and Vitamin C consumption

...lesser intake of Vitamin C and manganese. Also the plasma levels of Vitamin C were lower in people with asthma than their healthy counterparts. The researchers attributed this low level of Vitamin C to the lesser consumption of the fruit, but there is no clarity on what dietary components lead to decrease...

Asthma Risk Related To Decreased Fruit and Vitamin C consumption

...lesser intake of Vitamin C and manganese. Also the plasma levels of Vitamin C were lower in people with asthma than their healthy counterparts. The researchers attributed this low level of Vitamin C to the lesser consumption of the fruit, but there is no clarity on what dietary components lead to decrease...

New Multi-Modal Contrast Agents, A Boon For Medical Imaging

...he brain is difficult because the holes that allow plasma and other substances to flow through the brain are very small -- about 25 nanometers. With such a small opening, ‘you've got to have something pretty tiny to get in there. So these little gadolinium oxide particles can be really useful.’ Watkin no...

Functional Differences In Estrogen Receptor Could Be A Therapeutic Target

...ions regarding the functional significance of cell plasma membrane-initiated estrogen signaling in human bre...n largely unanswered. The significance of a cell plasma membrane-based estrogen receptor that triggers estrogen signaling has been a point of controversy fo...

Abnormal Glucose Metabolism May Contribute to Chronic Nerve Disorder

...complete neurological evaluation and had a fasting plasma glucose test, which measures the levels of glucose...g patients ingest a dose of glucose. "The fasting plasma glucose level alone does not always identify patients with impaired glucose tolerance and neither do...

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