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Tag: "targets" at medical news

Survival of Mice With Human Breast Cancer Extended by Monoclonal Antibodies

... Journal Neoplasia. The antibody, named JAA-F11, targets a particular disaccharide, an antigen known as TF-Ag, which aids the adhesion and spread of certain cancer cells. While the antibody did not kill the cancer cells, it blocked stages of cancer-cell growth that allow the cells to adhere to organ tissue...

Tailor-made Cancer Treatment for Multiple Myeloma Patients Offered by Mayo Clinic

...r. Bergsagel says. "These mutations represent good targets for drug development," he says. Source-Eurekalert ST...

Aggressive Stem Cells Might Improve Transplant Outcome

... bacteria, viruses and other potentially dangerous targets including cancer cells, and they develop a specialized homing mechanism called a T cell receptor that lets them find the specific target they are genetically programmed to attack. The key to the new finding is the discovery by the St. Jude team th...

Drugs Delivery Revolutionized by Extremely Stable Glass

...l compounds to enhance drug delivery to specific targets in the body The new technique entails depositing vapors of organic molecules onto a substrate cooled to 50 degrees (Celsius) below the glass transition temperature—the point at which a compound normally begins to solidify en route to becoming glass, ...

Young Women Beware Of LAM

... have identified a rare deadly lung disease, which targets only young women.// It is believed to be triggered...lled Lymphangioleimyomatosis (LAM). The disease targets only women, striking them down during their childbearing years and often results in death within ten...

Birth- Control Made Easy And Tasty

...r Warner Chilcott of Rockaway, N.J. This product targets young women who sometimes forget to take their pills. A month's pill pouch will cost for $44 wholesale and somewhat higher at pharmacies. The pills come in a credit-card sized dispenser with a velvet pouch. "This isn't a great leap forward, but ...

Research In A New Direction To Develop Innovative Psychotropic Drugs

...es are suggesting that we are looking at the wrong targets for mood disorders. Until we have treatments that ...s is still unknown. "Some of these novel molecular targets may be much better than existing ones, but we won't know anything for sure until we have large scale...

Kerala: God’s Own Country Prevails Against AID

... the list of states that have successfully met the targets set by the National AIDS Control Programme.This state is in the frontline now, taking the lead. All geared to focus on meeting the goals of Phase 111 of NACP, KSACS intends to take HIV prevention programmes to grass root levels. MST...

First International Gene Screen for Typical ALS Is on Track

...redispose people to the disease should provide new targets for therapies. In the decade since discovering the cause of some inherited forms of ALS-namely, a mutation producing a flawed version of the enzyme superoxide dismutase (SOD1)-a handful of other ALS-related mutations have been brought to light. Th...

A New Research Demonstrates HIV-1 In Resident Immune Cells Of Human Testis

...opment of anti-retroviral therapy that effectively targets all sources of HIV, including the testis, is gravely needed. The use of this testis culture system may allow assessment of new anti-retroviral drugs that target HIV in the testis. Source-Eurekalert SI...

New Technique to Detect Cancer in Early Stages

...s deep beneath the tissue surface. The radiation targets specific proteins and carbohydrates in the cells, Huang said. Varying combinations of biochemical molecules create a "fingerprint", helping in determining whether the cell is normal or not, he said. Conventional methods of optical testing used no...

Zinc – A New Key Player In Brain Circuitr

...tion in the receptor, called the glycine receptor, targets the same receptor known to be mutated in humans with hyperekplexia. The receptor functions as a modulator of neurons in both motor and sensory signaling pathways in the brain and spinal cord. The genetic approach used by the researchers was a more ...

Health Minister Stresses the Importance of Realistic Health Targets

...ment came down heavily on so-called benchmarks and targets set to achieve healthcare milestones, which accord... air. To achieve the targets, it is important that targets also have fall back options to make-up for unexpected delays. The minister has however assured bes...

NHS Debts Forces Hewitt to Consider Resignation

...ere needed to meet targets. The NHS achieved those targets ahead of schedule and some trusts significantly overshot the targets." The plan envisaged increasing the number of hospital doctors to 75,000 by 2007. But trusts overshot this by three thousand medical practitioners. The trusts also hired tens of tho...

Scientists Pursue New Treatment For Asthma Sufferers

...m being activated, then perhaps we can develop new targets for treatment. The goal is to find new approaches to asthma, because although we can treat asthma symptoms fairly well, we’re not so good at dealing with the long-term consequences. “And this doesn’t only involve asthma. There are a lot of other d...

Scientists Close To Identifying Anti-viral Drug for SARS

...ng,” Mangel said. “Viral proteinases are excellent targets for antiviral drugs. One reason so many people are surviving the AIDS epidemic is the effectiveness of drugs targeted to the proteinase of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).” One way to obtain compounds that bind to a proteinase is via high-throug...

Fear of Possible Harm Hinder Nanotech Development

...he Five Grand Challenges, the authors set specific targets to achieve within specific timeframes. These include developing a 'universal aerosol sampler' for measuring exposure to airborne nanomaterials, assessing whether fiber-shaped nanoparticles present a unique health hazard, and establishing ways of engi...

"Trojan Horse" Agent Halts Bone Metastasis in Mice

...ble to offer the first treatment that specifically targets bone metastasis." The study also revealed critical information about the role of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in the development of tumors in bone, says Rosenblum. VEGF is a signaling protein involved in the creation of new blood vesse...

A New Target for Painkillers: Snail Toxins Show the Way

... human patients. While Metabolic has said the drug targets nicotinic receptors, McIntosh says alpha9alpha10 nicotinic receptors have not been reported previously as a target for any kind of painkilling medication. McIntosh says Vc1.1 is administered by subcutaneous (under the skin) injection. McIntosh hope...

Adalimumab Proves Effective for Children with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis

...ults with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, targets inflammation by blocking TNF (tumor necrosis factor) proteins in the body. Following studies that demonstrated safety and effectiveness in adults with rheumatoid arthritis, this study in children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis was performed. Juve...

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