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Sunshine Vitamin for Prostate Cancer

...nt form of vitamin D – calcitriol – which has many roles in how the body's immune system reacts to challenges and how cancer cells grow. In the laboratory, scientists are examining the molecular and vascular mechanisms of vitamin D to help define how to make the vitamin more effective in fighting disease...

Treating Depression may Raise Anxiety Levels

... like molecule in the brain that plays contrasting roles depending on which area of the brain it is present... near the hippocampus. The discovery of opposing roles for the same molecule in two different parts of the brain took the researchers by surprise. "Ours...

Only A Few Differentiating Factors Between Adult And Stem Cells

... hypothesized that the factors that play important roles in the maintenance of embryonic stem cell identity also play pivotal roles in the induction of pluripotency" in other body cells, he explained. The researchers selected 24 g...

New Studies On Zebrafish Could Aid in Treating Birth Defects

...opper-containing enzymes play a number of critical roles in the life of the cell. They are involved in the process by which a cell burns sugars and disposes of the carbon dioxide and water byproducts. They are required to produce pigmentation and develop connective tissue. These "cuproenzymes" are also nec...

Mice Model for Parkinson's disease Shows Promise

... recently there has been an increased focus on the roles of genetic factors. It has been found that mutations in a number of genes can lead directly to disease, while other mutations may be susceptibility factors, so that carriers have an increased risk of becoming ill. A common denominator for some of the...

"Miracle" Cancer Drug Gleevec Can be Toxic to the Heart

...predict what tyrosine kinases will have protective roles in the heart and inhibition of them will be toxic.” Newer drugs tend to be ‘dirtier’ – that is, companies are developing drugs that hit multiple cancer cell targets at once to up the chances of effectiveness. Finding the exact target that, when inh...

Community Health Shake-up Spells Trouble for Nurses

...nurses.// Proposals have been made to merge the roles of community health professionals such as health visitors and district nurses into one community health job. This could affect about 9,000 nurses across Scotland. These were the plans that were outlined in a draft report following a major review of...

Meeting To Discuss Issue Of Personal Health Records

...on enterprise IT, and has held a variety of senior roles in the healthcare and pharmaceutical information technology field. "Personal health records can connect Americans to their healthcare – enabling patients and their families to play a more active role than ever before in managing and improving their...

Elders with Dementia Can Tap Into Memory Stores to Give Advice

... of dementia can assume advice giving and teaching roles despite their cognitive impairments. The researche...en, church or marriage. 'Participants took their roles quite seriously when experimenters asked them for advice,' the researchers wrote. 'They were eager t...

Protein holds clue in the spread of bladder cancer

...cancers known as glioblastomas. It plays important roles in development, cell movement and tumor formation....es that proepithelin will be found to have similar roles in other cancers. He notes that one next step in the work is to verify whether or not proepithelin...

Researchers Find Molecular "Brake" to Cell Death

...nd proteins, and they combine to play a variety of roles in the cell, such as formation of ATP. However, through a series of biological and biochemical experiments, Tang and his research team found that adding ATP to a cancer cell could potentially impede apoptosis. They discovered that these nucleotide ...

Multifaceted Stress: Mere thought is stressful!

... of stress in women was related to their different roles and pressures, but when men and women did the same job in the Civil Service, they had similar rates of psychological problems.” ...

Researchers Have Linked Rett Syndrome to Mitochondrial Gene

...eam reasoned that these three genes played greater roles in the disorder because they went awry earliest. They decided to focus on Uqcrc1 because much was already known about it, including its role in the mitochondria generating energy. Mitochondria make energy in four steps, and researchers can test to ...

Depression And Chronic Pain Cause Disability In Women

...this should be is not clear, but the social gender roles we adopt throughout our lives may have some important part to play. ‘Alongside drugs, other therapies that focus on the behaviours and tendencies associated with depression, such as avoidance and withdrawal, may also be effective in these situation...

Care Workers Need Some Care Too

... them, in order to ensure they can carry out their roles without creating long-term health problems for themselves." Mr Matz added: "Carers Week 2006 will be stressing the importance of carers health and emotional well-being. Improving healthcare provision for the UK’s six million carers makes sense not ...

New Role of COX Enzymes Discovered

...est new biological, developmental, and therapeutic roles for COX enzymes and prompt a re-evaluation of basi...er. "These observations prompt us to explore new roles for the COX enzymes in biology," says FitzGerald. "Perhaps their embrace will extend to other enzyme...

Haryana To Work With Pvt Practitioners To Implement WB Project

...ioners or medical colleges would also specifiy the roles each stakeholder would need to play in the programme, Haryana Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Health Urvashi Gulati said. Diseases such as meningococcal meningitis, dengues, viral hepatitis, japanese encephalitis, malaria, cholera, t...

Hospitalized patients better of with help from Pharmacists

...blems in patient care. The change in pharmacists' roles also has helped patients understand and follow their drug regimes. Previously, pharmacists did not often see hospitalized patients firsthand. However, in the last 20 years, pharmacists have become more involved in collaborative care for patients. "...

Link Between Immune System And Nervous System

...a well-known neurotransmitter that plays important roles in both immune function and the nervous system. In the current study, the Douglas team investigated two forms of NK-1R in a human monocyte/macrophage cell line. One was a full-length receptor, the other a shortened version with fewer amino acids. W...

Alzheimer's-linked apolipoprotein E produced by neurons, Gladstone study

... by which apoE4 wreaks havoc on the brain, playing roles not only in Alzheimer's disease but also in a number of other neurological diseases. Studies in Huang's lab have revealed a possible scenario. It appears that apoE in neurons is subject to processing by an enzyme that clips off a portion of the prote...

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