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Stroke treatment a step closer after trial

...rohibitive. With stroke, the drug would have to be administered within the first few critical hours through an infusion over a short period of time, perhaps as little as three days. Dr Tyrrell, who is based at Hope Hospital in Salford, added: "Stroke is a devastating condition that affects many thousand of peopl...

Cord blood cells may widen treatment window for stroke

...lorida found that human umbilical cord blood cells administered to rats two days following a stroke greatly curbed the brain's inflammatory response, reducing the size of the stroke and resulting in greatly improved recovery. The rats' inflammatory response to injury from stroke peaked 48 hours after the brain at...

Effective, safe anthrax vaccine can be grown in tobacco plants

...of tobacco plants survived lethal doses of anthrax administered later by National Institutes of Health researchers... a new technology that would enable vaccines to be administered orally and allow effective and less expensive treatments to be more accessible worldwide. He believe...

No link found between caffeine intake and development of hypertension in women

...ssible confounders were ascertained from regularly administered questionnaires. Over the 12 years, 19,541 incident cases of physician-diagnosed hypertension were reported in NHS I and 13,536 in NHS II. In both cohorts, no linear association between caffeine consumption and risk of incident hypertension was obse...

Group proves it's possible to grow new lung alveoli by growing new blood vessels

...he team attached the proteins to an adenovirus and administered it through an aerosol directly into the lungs. In effect, the virus carried the protein to the heart of millions of lung cells. Once inside the cells, the growth factor proteins went to work doing the job they were programmed to do. The results were...

Study shows combination of immune substances to be safe

...mone known as interleukin-12 (IL-12) can safely be administered with interferon, another immune-system protein, as an experimental therapy for some cancers. Normally, interferon is used alone to stimulate the immune system to attack certain cancers. This strategy, a form of immunotherapy, is sometimes used to t...

Serious adverse reactions to smallpox vaccine appear to be limited

...eatening adverse reactions to the smallpox vaccine administered to potential first responders to a bioterrorism in...smallpox vaccination program, in which vaccine was administered to federal, state, and local volunteers who might be first responders during a bioterrorism event. ...

UCLA scientists discover immune response to HIV differs, even in identical twins

...r 1983 births in Los Angeles by blood transfusions administered from the same donor at the same time. Infected with the same strain of the virus, the twins continue to live in the Los Angeles area and grew up exposed to the same environmental forces. Yet their T-cell receptors (TCR) reacted differently in each t...

Human trial proves ricin vaccine safe, induces neutralizing antibodies; further tests planned

...apacity to elicit immunity. Ricin, which can be administered in food and water or sprayed as an aerosol, is ext...er common vaccines, such as tetanus, are typically administered with an adjuvant and can confer immunity for years. Dr. Smallshaw is currently determining whether...

Diabetes researchers pioneer islet cell xenotransplantation in primate studies

...humoral rejection. To combat that, the researchers administered an anti-IL-2 receptor and anti-CD154 (H106) antibody, while maintaining immunosuppression using sirolimus and belatacept (a second-generation high affinity derivative of CTLA4-Ig)9-11 on diabetic rhesus macaques transplanted with neonatal porcine isl...

Animal models show that anabolic steroids flip the adolescent brain's switch for aggression

...d pliable, steroids could change the trajectory if administered during development." His lab is releasing other new findings, as yet unpublished, that the serotonin system ?implicated in depression ?may never recover. "If you hit the right areas of the brain at the right time, you make permanent changes," ...

HIV/AIDS rates in Tijuana, Mexico increasing at alarming rate

... for HIV infection, antiretroviral medicine can be administered to reduce the risk of HIV infection from being passed on to her infant." Health officials in Mexico and the U.S. agree that expansion of free and voluntary HIV screening and counseling are needed. "Other studies by this team reveal that only half o...

Liquid ventilation

... suitable respiratory rhythm. The amount of liquid administered is usually in the order of 10 millilitres per kilogram of the baby's weight. Perfluorocarbons instead of air Perfluorocarbon is used in liquid respiration, as it has a suitable surface tension in order to maintain the pulmonary structure and the ...

Canine cancer vaccine program shows early promise

...is combination of cells and immune stimulant, when administered as an injection into the patient's skin, has been shown to stimulate the immune system to specifically fight against the melanoma cells. Dogs that first had surgery for their melanoma and then received vaccine lived cancer-free for approximately tw...

BiovaxID?yields 89 percent survival in patients with aggressive non-Hodgkins

...ated mantle cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) were administered six cycles of dose-adjusted EPOCH-R, a chemotherapy regimen that includes Rituxan® (rituximab). Of the 26 patients in the study, 23 received vaccinations with BiovaxID commencing at least three months after completing their last chemotherapy and Rit...

Ebola DNA vaccine produces immune responses in all fully vaccinated volunteers in Phase 1 trial

...ed announced today that an Ebola vaccine candidate administered using Vical's proprietary DNA delivery technology was safe and well tolerated, and produced both antibody and T-cell Ebola-specific responses in all healthy volunteers who received the full 3 doses of vaccine. The Phase 1, randomized, placebo-contro...

A link is found between morphine addiction and the tendency to explore

...d their new environment had a preference for being administered morphine. It was also observed that other personality characteristics in the rats, such as anxiousness or fear, are unrelated to morphine addiction. This is the first time a relationship has been observed between addiction and a tendency to explore w...

Unique equine cataract surgery offered on routine basis

...eams remove the lens using an ultrasound probe and administered an injection of intravitreal steroids to control postoperative inflammation of the eye. Professor Knottenbelt said: "This new surgery shows how effectively the latest human cataract surgical techniques can translate successfully to bear on an equ...

Heart-healthy compound in chocolate identified

...improved blood flow. In the laboratory, flavanols administered to samples of vascular tissue caused the tissue to relax. Pure epicatechin consumed by humans had much the same effect as did consumption of flavanol-rich cocoa. Considered together, these findings point to epicatechin as one of the compounds foun...

New compound stops brain cell degeneration in Alzheimer's disease

...thwestern University have developed a novel orally administered compound specifically targeted to suppress brain cell inflammation and neuron loss associated with Alzheimer's disease. The compound is also rapidly absorbed by the brain and is non-toxic ?important considerations for a central nervous system drug t...

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