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Parasitic worms used to fight bowel disease

... variety of autoimmune conditions, such as asthma, diabetes and multiple sclerosis. Some researchers suggest that all of these conditions can be explained as combinations of the hygiene hypothesis and genetics. ...

Chewing up a key regulator of fat synthesis keeps mice lean despite a high-fat diet

...iscovery that suggests new ways to reduce obesity, diabetes and other fat-related human diseases. Geneticall...people with insulin resistance will develop type 2 diabetes within 10 years, unless they lose 5 to 7 percent of their body weight--about 10 to 15 pounds for som...

Teasing out tissue from blood

...pain, last year reported reversing a mouse form of diabetes with insulin-producing cells developed from blood cells (Gastroenterology, vol 128, p 1774). And researchers at the University of Kiel in Germany led by Fred Fandrich report producing liver cells. ...

The molecular mechanism of a diabetes vaccine revealed

...ntly in advanced stages of clinical trials. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disorder in which the immune syst...d a vaccine that arrests the progression of Type 1 diabetes in laboratory animals. They had discovered that a particular protein called HSP60, or even only a sm...

PTEN: the Treg's handbrake

... for example, to treat autoimmune diseases such as diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis -- is hampered by problems generating sufficient cells to be therapeutically effective. This is because, unlike non-regulatory T cells, Tregs do not proliferate in vitro when stimulated through either their TCR or IL-2 recept...

Finding paves way for better treatment of autoimmune disease

...nderstanding of autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes and arthritis, Medical College of Georgia researchers say. T cells are components of the immune system designed to attack invaders such as bacteria and viruses; regulatory T cells are a small subset that prevents the cells from also attacking body ...

New study reveals signaling pathways required for expansion of pancreas stem cells

...tic epithelial progenitors. "The complications of diabetes mellitus impose enormous medical, economic, and so... of insulin-producing cells occurs in the phase of diabetes when these cells are being actively eliminated," says Alberto Hayek, a professor of pediatrics at th...

Sleep deprivation doubles risks of obesity in both children and adults

...conditions of affluent societies, such as obesity, diabetes and hypertension. Francesco Branca, the Regional Adviser for nutrition and food security in the World Health organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Europe said: "This is an interesting piece of research putting together different lifestyle aspect...

Diabetes hits 275 Australians each day as pandemic spreads

...nternational Diabetes Institute in Melbourne shows diabetes is hitting up to 275 new victims each day througho... each year: Approximately 100,000 adults develop diabetes (275 people daily) More than 200,000 people progress from being overweight to being obese (nearly 6...

UCLA study of community health project shows how group dynamics affect fitness, eating habits

...ess Program is on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes within the African-American community, where CVD r...rparts. And blacks are 1.8 times as likely to have diabetes as whites." UCLA examined the results of the CHC study of 35 organizations. More than 700 staff, me...

Speeding the search for elusive chromosomal errors

...fy genes involved in common, complex diseases like diabetes and hypertension. Microarrays contain short fragments of DNA, called oligonucleotides, that bind to complementary stretches of DNA within a sample being tested. These microarrays hold more than 100,000 DNA oligonucleotides, which allow researchers to...

Compound in dairy products targets diabetes

... found in dairy products have successfully treated diabetes in mice, according to a researcher at Penn State. ...newest generation of synthetic drugs used to treat diabetes in humans. These synthetic drugs act by triggering a set of nuclear receptors called PPAR. In a...

Joslin discovers signs of residual islet cell function in people with long-term type 1 diabetes

...surprisingly high percentage of people with type 1 diabetes (insulin-dependent) who have had the disease for 5...problems, which demonstrates that long duration of diabetes does not always progress to complications. There also was no significant difference in age, duration...

Gene discovery opens door to tackling disease

...ism, SLIRP could well lead to progress in tackling diabetes and weight problems," Professor Leedman said. The findings are to be published in the international journal, Molecular Cell, today, Friday, June 9. Professor Leedman and his team have now applied for a patent on the gene. Professor Leedman, who is...

Diabetes research takes wing thanks to long-lived fruit fly

...oundation for metabolic syndrome and diabetes, why diabetes occurs more frequently as people age, and indeed why people live as long as they do. Dirk Bohmann, Ph.D., and Henri Jasper, Ph.D., are focusing on a cell signaling system that responds to stress and works in tandem with the insulin receptor that is ...

Gardenia fruit compound starting point for diabetes therapy

...n Chinese medicine to treat the symptoms of type 2 diabetes does indeed contain a chemical that reverses some ...erefore represents a useful starting point for new diabetes therapies, they said. Such a drug could offer a big advance, the group added, as no currently avail...

Increased sensitivity to nerve signals keeps diabetes at bay

...vity to such signals might offer a new approach to diabetes treatment, the researchers said. Mice in which th...animals become resistant to developing symptoms of diabetes or prediabetes when fed a high-fat diet. The findings suggest that drugs that boost the activity of...

Knowledge of dendritic cells branches out

... in preventing autoimmune diseases, such as type 1 diabetes and Multiple Sclerosis, where the body's immune system mistakes "self " for "foreign " and launches an attack. Since DC are central to many immune responses, they are potential targets for the development of new immune therapies. Since their discove...

Herbal medicine silymarin may help sugar-control in people with type II diabetes

...ts is recognised as one way of helping people with diabetes to control their blood sugar levels. The herbal ...ical trial involving 51 people who had had type II diabetes for at least 2 years. One group of 25 patients received 200 mg of silymarin three times a day for 4 ...

Study of gene transfer for erectile dysfunction shows promise

...anic. In half of the subjects, the cause of ED was diabetes or cardiovascular disease ?both of which can interfere with the ability of smooth muscle cells to relax. The primary goal of the study was to determine the safety and tolerability of the new therapy. However, the results also showed that at the hi...

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