Adult bone health is dependent on lifestyle we live
...at fetal genetic factors and childhood factors are responsible for //deterioration of bone health of the adults. A new study disapproves the study and says that our bones are in good or bad condition because of our lifestyles. Researchers had tracked the health of 389 people since their birth in 1947. All aspec...Genetics linked to leukemia treatment success rate in children
...n the high-risk group, GSTM1 non-null genotype was responsible for treatment failure and recurrence of the disease. The research will be published in the new edition of the journal Blood....Twisted bypass grafts work better
...searchers from Imperial College of London, who are responsible to creating the SwirlGrafts have successfully tested their loop in live animals. The results of the tests have shown that conventional grafts had thickened blood that had also coagulated, but the new shunts looked as good as new since they were graft...New diseases require holistic outlook to treatment
... prevent their outbreaks, mking the animal traders responsible for preventing and controlling disease outbreaks, and establishing standard regulations across the world regarding animal trade that will stop the spread of the infection across the countries....Acrolein may be the key to halting spinal cord damage
... and is so toxic, we theorize that it is primarily responsible for the secondary damage that keeps injured spines from healing." Acrolein's involvement with other conditions suggests that it could be the key to fighting a number of diseases, Shi said. "When the brain suffers a stroke, for example, it is depri...Language development linked to Foxp2 gene
...urons in the development of the cerebellum that is responsible for coordination of voluntary muscular movements like speech etc. Researchers are hopeful that this study may open ways for establishing links between the Foxp2 gene and autism in children. Reference: Mount Sinai School of Medicine, news release, ...Roots of polycystic ovarian syndrome traced to mother’s wom
... developmental pathways affecting the fetus may be responsible for the incidence of polycystic ovarian syndrome in daughters later in life. One such pathway may be the incidence of high maternal bodyweight in late pregnancy that can lead to irregular periods in daughter. This may in turn lead to daughters being ...Low immunity in people with multiple sclerosis may be genetical
...niversity have reported that the FOXP3 gene may be responsible for the low immune problem that leads to progress of multiple sclerosis. Multiple sclerosis is a chronic neurological disease of the central nervous system. There is no cure for this disease but modern day treatment may slow the course of developmen...Antibiotics help combat dangerous tropical disease
...H?rauf emphasizes. "The mature worms are after all responsible for such symptoms of the disease as the extreme swelling of the limbs. In the past there was no effective and reliable method of combating them." The effectiveness of the antibiotic might be even greater than what was measured: "we cannot exclude the...Arsenic poisoning reactions can be traced to genes
...9 in people, particularly in children, that may be responsible for varied reactions to the metal called arsenic. Arsenic exposure had long been associated with health hazards like cancer of the skin, lungs or bladder, circulatory problems, and neurological disorders. It can enter the body through water that get...Race an important links to the risk of advanced colorectal cancer
...of CANCER. Colorectal cancer is a common cancer responsible for causing up to 11 percent of all cancer-related deaths in the United States . The Prognosis of the cancer is dependent on the stage of disease at the time of diagnosis. The study reveals wide variations in colorectal cancer stage of diagnosis ...Researchers discover receptor cells that can cause epilepsy
... made a new discovery regarding the cells that are responsible for causing epileptic seizures // . Researchers ...their potential to check the neural pathway that’s responsible for seizures can benefit the epilepsy patients without having any side effect on the normal function...PET Scan find the Area of Brain Responsible for Anorexia Nervosa
...ience and make choices. The area maybe the culprit responsible for the condition. The research may point to a molecular target for development of more effective treatments strategies than those currently available. The study used ‘Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging’ to assess the activity of brain dopam...Overactive brain regions can lead to anorexia nervosa
...dopamine receptors in the brain's basal ganglia is responsible for women being unaware of their conditions even as they suffer from the disorder. Researchers had used positron emission tomography (PET) imaging to find out about the function and the level of activities of brain dopamine receptors. Researchers cou...Gene responsible for immune deficiency discovered
Expression of gene may be responsible for various immune deficiency syndromes, and resea...aused by defects in the cells and tissues that are responsible for our immune system, like T cells, B cells, phagocytes, natural killer cells, etc. The researcher...Research identifies trigger that sets of Huntingtons disease
... the study, feel that the molecule p53 may also be responsible for Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also called Lou Gehrigs disease. The research establishes a specific role for p53 in Huntingtons disease, as a nuclear transcription factor that regulates various mitochondrial genes. The r...Genes responsible for social behavior of us
Researchers have been able to unearth the gene responsible for controlling the part of the brain// that is responsible for behaving according to a norm in the social circumstances. In a revealing study, researchers fro...Brain damage can affect children who stop breathing
...ren show damage like strokes in areas of the brain responsible for cardiovascular system, urination and body temp... may be quite extensive in the right side, that is responsible for emotions, to the anterior cingulate that regulate cardiovascular functions, and to the basal for...Gene mutation identified for inherited pain syndrome
... mutation of the gene for sodium channel Nav1.7 is responsible for people to suffer from the chronic condition of primary erythromelalgia. Researchers have studied the DNA samples from 36 members of a same family in which 17 members suffer from the condition. The genetic mutation makes the pain sensing neurons t...... the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase// (ALDH)that is responsible for some people feeling less or no hangover from consuming alcohol. Researchers from Mitsukoshi Health and Welfare Foundation have found that the toxicity of acetaldehyde leads to hangovers in individuals who have a particular genetic makeup. Alde...