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Engineered Stem Cells Show Promise For Sneaking Drugs Into The Brain

...g Parkinson's diseases and other neurodegenerative disorders is getting medicine to the right place in the brain. The brain is a complex organ with many different types of cells and structures, and it is fortified with a protective barrier erected by blood vessels and glial cells -- the brain's structural bui...

Greasing interferon's gears may pave way to greater therapeutic benefits, fewer side effects

...y prove particularly useful for patients with such disorders as hepatitis C, multiple sclerosis and many types ...nterferon temporarily to treat infections or other disorders and then to turn it back down to normal levels when the patient is cured. "The potential for this ...

Polio vaccination strategies assessed as eradication nears

... diseases; on the microbes that cause them; and on disorders of host immune mechanisms. Articles in JID include research results from microbiology, immunology, epidemiology, and related disciplines. JID is published under the auspices of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). Based in Alexandria, V...

Key brain regulatory gene shows evolution in humans

...lnerable to drug addiction, schizophrenia, bipolar disorders and a form of epilepsy. So, we reasoned that humans might uniquely need to make more of this substance, perhaps because our brains are bigger, or because they function differently. "Also importantly, the part of the gene that produces the prodynorph...

Researchers show key protein necessary for normal development of red blood cells

...s, mutations of which play a role in genetic blood disorders like sickle cell anemia and beta-thalassemia, have shown in studies with mice that the KLF2 protein is crucial for making young red blood cells. The findings may point researchers to future gene therapies for patients with sickle cell anemia and be...

Gene controls whether fear is a factor

...have general implications for the study of anxiety disorders and potential anti-anxiety drugs, according to res...can be used as a model of anxiety states of mental disorders with innate and learned fear components," he added. "As a corollary, these animal models could be us...

Researchers know what you were about to say; fMRI used to detect memory storage and retrieval

...led models of memory, which could help treat brain disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and epilepsy. This knowledge could also guide creation of more self-sufficient artificial neural networks and robots. The study also broke new ground in how fMRI could be used to study how brain activity changes from sec...

Researchers develop new method for studying 'mental time travel'

... field of neuroscience, including studies of brain disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. The researchers showed nine participants a series of pictures and then asked them to recall what they had seen. By applying a computerized pattern-recognition program to brain scanning data, the researchers were able to ...

'Acid rain' and forest mass: Another perspective

...ds on the forest mass are the well-known nutrition disorders of the same. One classic effect is that of cation deficit (particularly magnesium) due to the washing both of the forest canopy and the soil produced by these together with anions (sulphates and nitrates). This problem is not very common in forest ec...

Cyberkinetics, Case to develop system to help restore extremity function

...ping products to treat nervous system diseases and disorders by bringing together advances in neuroscience, computer science and engineering. Cyberkinetics' products are based on over ten years of technology development and cutting-edge neuroscience research at leading academic institutions such as Brown Unive...

UT Southwestern researchers unravel control of growing blood vessels

...t and thereby potentially prevent various vascular disorders in humans," said Dr. Eric Olson, chairman of molecular biology and senior author of the paper. The work appears in the August issue of the journal Developmental Cell. There are three types of muscles in the body ?skeletal, cardiac and smooth. Smooth...

Living anti-HIV gel shows early promise

...in the United States as a live treatment for bowel disorders such as Crohn's disease. Berger points out, however, that the possibility of genes transferring from the GM bacteria to other microbes in the body carries a potential medical risk that must be assessed. Although the approach has produced promising ...

Scientists characterize proteome of human cornea

...ness, farsightedness, or astigmatism. These vision disorders are often the result of incorrect curvature or irr...shape of the cornea and are the most common vision disorders in this country. Other diseases that affect the cornea range from bacterial, fungal, and viral infec...

UK is first to administer new anti-clotting technology

...: we want to help patients with heart and vascular disorders by being at the forefront. Our research efforts are clearly bringing Kentuckians closer to the leading edge of the best medicine has to offer," Moliterno said. ...

UQ scientists break new ground in fight against infection & chronic disease

...ed by patients with cancer. Chronic inflammatory disorders are a substantial burden in social and economic terms for the Australian community. Arthritis alone afflicts 3.4 million Australians and the financial costs were more than $19.25 billion in 2004. "This discovery provides new and exciting avenues ...

Complex gene interactions account for autism risk

...oted. One of the most heritable of complex genetic disorders in neuropsychiatry, autism is characterized by impairments in social interaction and communication and restricted and repetitive patterns of interest or behavior. While many previous studies have identified possible genes with links to autism, there...

Biologists Crack Genetic Code for Specialized Spider Silk

...s in a single gene can result in two immune system disorders that leave affected individuals vulnerable to freq...cal School. “Many children who are sick with these disorders are now missed, because they can have normal IgA and IgG levels, yet they still have poor antibody r...

Agreement will speed research on microbicides for women

...s in a single gene can result in two immune system disorders that leave affected individuals vulnerable to freq...cal School. “Many children who are sick with these disorders are now missed, because they can have normal IgA and IgG levels, yet they still have poor antibody r...

Defective Gene Linked to Two Inherited Immune Deficiencies

...s in a single gene can result in two immune system disorders that leave affected individuals vulnerable to freq...cal School. “Many children who are sick with these disorders are now missed, because they can have normal IgA and IgG levels, yet they still have poor antibody r...

Prescription pain patch abuse blamed for increase in deaths

...eening and monitoring their patients for addictive disorders in order to help decrease the abuse of the patch." ...

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