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Inflammatory molecules released by pollen trigger allergies

...tory molecules produced in the body in response to injury or infection. The authors now plan to assess whether cells from allergy-prone people are more sensitive to the effects of the pollen-derived compound than those from non-allergic individuals. A better understanding of these molecules and how they wor...

U of M researcher examines newly emerging deadly disease

...otrecogin) in an attempt to minimize purpuric skin injury and to slow the inflammatory cascade before irreparable tissue injury occurs. In addition, because toxic shock syndrome is mediated by superantigens, it is possible that ...

Rats infected as newborns grew up vulnerable to memory problems during an immune challenge

...in turn help the central nervous system respond to injury or infection. Because astrocytes also help to determine the number and connectivity of nervous system synapses early in life, especially the first week after birth in rats, they may be involved in the ability to learn and remember, possibly via some ...

New component of the 'brakes' on nerve regeneration found

... to regenerating spinal cord and brain cells after injury is the "braking" machinery in neurons that prevents regeneration. While peripheral nerves have no such machinery and can readily regenerate, central nervous system (CNS) neurons have their brakes firmly in place and locked. Now, two groups of scient...

Heart repair gets new muscle

Some organs in the human body deal with injury better than others. A flesh wound or muscle tear might hurt, but, assuming you are otherwise healthy, both will heal. The prognosis for a heart attack, on the other hand, is not so clear-cut. It has long been thought that cardiac cells (cardiomyocyt...

Buying Time Through Hibernation on Demand

...could lead to new ways to treat cancer and prevent injury and death from insufficient blood supply to organs and tissues. "We are, in essence, temporarily converting mice from warm-blooded to cold-blooded creatures, which is exactly the same thing that happens naturally when mammals hibernate," said lead i...

U-M team recovers ancient whale in Egyptian desert

...could lead to new ways to treat cancer and prevent injury and death from insufficient blood supply to organs and tissues. "We are, in essence, temporarily converting mice from warm-blooded to cold-blooded creatures, which is exactly the same thing that happens naturally when mammals hibernate," said lead i...

Test for early detection of prostate cancer shows promise

...atients), kidney cancer (one patient), spinal cord injury (seven patients) and noncancerous prostate inflammation (two patients), and 16 healthy individuals. The study was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh while Getzenberg was a member of its faculty. The researchers found that EPCA levels were hig...

UNC launches study of liver injury caused by drugs

...will study patients who have suffered severe liver injury caused by prescription and over-the-counter medica...he first large-scale investigation of severe liver injury associated with drugs. Other DILIN centers along with UNC are at the University of Indiana at India...

Brain-injury rehabilitation depends on acetylcholine circuitry

The ability of the brain to recover from such injury as stroke or trauma depends on a particular circui... have long believed that rehabilitation from brain injury causes a rewiring, or plasticity, of brain circuitry--called a "reorganization of cortical motor rep...

Doctors closer to using gene analysis to help trauma patients

... that cause people to die sometimes weeks after an injury occurs. Identifying those factors could help physi... is the most common cause of death after traumatic injury ?sepsis and multisystem organ failure. So the goal is to use functional genomics as a tool to identi...

The lopsided brain: Attention bias is shared by humans and birds

...or some time that human patients who have suffered injury to the brain's right hemisphere can experience a much more severe bias in their spatial attention--spatial hemineglect--in which the entire left side of the visual world seems nonexistent as the brain performs spatial tasks. In a classic example, a p...

Brain May Be Less Plastic Than Hoped

...n displays less flexibility in response to retinal injury than previously thought, according to a new study ...tical activity for seven and one-half months after injury to the retina of adult monkeys. They found limited reorganization in the primary visual cortex. The...

Master gene controls healing of skin in fruit flies and mammals

...tes wound repair genes in the cells surrounding an injury in the cuticle of a fly embryo. These wound repair...head-like factors are required for the response to injury opens up new avenues of research in the field of wound healing," said Kimberly Mace, the first autho...

Too much water may be as dangerous as too little during long-distance athletic events

...may do serious harm rather than keep you safe from injury if you're drinking too much, according to a cardiologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Runners or any long-distance athletes who drink too much water during a race could put themselves at jeopardy for developing hyponatremia, a condition marked...

Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are now species of slime-mold beetles -- but strictly in homage

...may do serious harm rather than keep you safe from injury if you're drinking too much, according to a cardiologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Runners or any long-distance athletes who drink too much water during a race could put themselves at jeopardy for developing hyponatremia, a condition marked...

New design : complete

...may do serious harm rather than keep you safe from injury if you're drinking too much, according to a cardiologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Runners or any long-distance athletes who drink too much water during a race could put themselves at jeopardy for developing hyponatremia, a condition marked...

Remote control flies? Fly behavior controlled by laser light

...restore neural signals that have been lost" due to injury or disease, such as in spinal cord trauma, although he notes that the possibility is "far-fetched" at the moment. The remote control is based on the idea that specific nerve cells could be equipped with molecular "receivers" that allow them to recog...

Shark attack worries? Driving to the beach is more deadly

...says shark attacks are far less frequent causes of injury than driving, boating and diving accidents. He says when most attacks occur, they happen in 3 to 4 feet of water. "But often, that can mean you're several hundred feet away from the beach," he notes. "Also, most attacks occur in water that is murky ...

New HIV drug candidate developed in Sweden

...says shark attacks are far less frequent causes of injury than driving, boating and diving accidents. He says when most attacks occur, they happen in 3 to 4 feet of water. "But often, that can mean you're several hundred feet away from the beach," he notes. "Also, most attacks occur in water that is murky ...

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