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Interaction between lymph and liver cells may affect immune response

...plain the altered immune responses that occur with aging and other conditions and may be useful in developing therapies for viral hepatitis and autoimmune diseases. The results of this study appear in the November 2006 issue of Hepatology, the official journal of the American Association for the Study of ...

Flavanols in cocoa may offer benefits to the brain

... brain health will only continue to grow with this aging population. ...

Stem cell transplants explored at Stanford as a possible treatment for hearing loss

...y of those with hearing loss, particularly in the aging population, drug therapy could be the solution. As the population has aged and noise pollution has grown more severe, health experts now estimate that one in three adults over the age of 65 has developed a handicapping hearing loss. Coming up w...

Elderly spinal cord injuries increase five-fold in 30 years, Jefferson neurosurgeons find

...und. "This increase is likely a result of an aging population and propensity for these patients to ha...njuries due to: (1) changes in bone quality with aging (2) increasing prevalence of cervical spinal stenosis with older age (3) an increased rate of mo...

What's in the water? Estrogenic activity documented in fish caught in Pittsburgh's rivers

...metals, farm and industrial runoff and wastes from aging municipal sewer systems," said Conrad D. Volz, Dr.P.H., M.P.H., principal investigator, department of environmental and occupational health, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. "The goals of this project are to use fish as envi...

Smell may outlast other senses

...d Molecular Biology, said the study suggested that aging alone had a small detrimental effect on smell. “However our sense of smell is vulnerable to both the direct effects of some medications and changes associated with a number of neurodegenerative illnesses. Exposure to these factors typically incre...

When your brain talks, your muscles don't always listen

... "Exercise is still the means for improvement, and aging is a process that unites us all." ...

Power-boosting signal in muscle declines with age

... and increased intracellular fat content seen with aging could be traced back to deficiencies of AMPK. They compared AMPK activity in young and old rats following three "perturbations" that normally stimulate the enzyme and, in turn, mitochondria production. The treatments included acute exposure to an AMP...

The sturdier sex? -- Study by Pittsburgh scientists finds female stem cells work better

...better understanding of sex-related differences in aging and disease and could explain, at least partially, the high variability and conflicting results reported in the literature on stem cell biology." Dr. Huard’s team, and the study’s first author, Bridget Deasy, PhD, director of the Live Cell Imaging...

Loss of stem cells correlates with premature aging in animal study

...important in embryo development leads to premature aging and loss of stem cell reservoirs in adult mice. Th...ll. “The reason we’re seeing the early signs of aging in these mice is that we’re exhausting their ability to renew tissues,” says Eric J. Brown, PhD, Ass...

Agent slows aging in mice

...the first reliable data on potential drugs to slow aging and its accompanying ills. Miller says prior st...eaves as a way to defy old age. If NDGA pushes the aging envelope in the final results of this study, other labs will likely try to repeat the results in ani...

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(Date:7/24/2008)...YORK, July 24, 2008 In the life of a cell, the re...s fated to pause and repair itself, commit suicide...r. In a new study, published in the July 25th issu...ter have identified a way that cells respond to DN...or disposal. The finding points to a new pathway f...
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