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Researchers use MRI to predict recovery after spinal cord injury

...Hospital. "In addition," Dr. Fehlings said, "these findings could result in a more aggressive clinical strateg...gical damage, as well as a possible prognosis. MRI findings may include cord hemorrhage, swelling, soft tissue and ligament injury, blood clots or herniated dis...

Focused ultrasound relieves fibroid symptoms in women

...iously thought possible," Dr. Tempany said. The findings showed significant symptom relief at three months and sustained relief at one year. Women treated with the optimized protocol reported greater symptom relief and quality of life improvement than those treated with the original protocol. No serious ad...

First confirmed common genetic risk factors for breast cancer

...risk for disease," Dr. Liu explained. While the findings of the international research collaboration hopefully will fuel the development of more effective ways of preventing and treating breast cancer, Dr. Liu said that the most immediate benefit of the new results may be in understanding the molecular mec...

Cytomegalovirus exacerbates atherosclerosis through an autoimmune mechanism

...ating the atherosclerotic process. Moreover, these findings contribute to the design of novel preventive and therapeutic strategies....

New designer lipid-like peptide with lipid nanostructures for drug delivery systems

...f the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE. Their findings not only help us to understand the basic science o... biological active materials. They detailed their findings in the report on the impact of integrating short surfactant-like designer peptides in lipidic nanost...

Extra-aggressive form of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis identified

... usual "slow progressors" patients. "These findings highlight the variability in the progression and outcome of IPF, and may explain, in part, the difficulty in obtaining significant and reproducible results in studies of therapeutic interventions in patients with IPF," said Dr Selman, who is the Dire...

Gene expression patterns predict rapid decline in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients

...University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, these findings offer strong evidence that rapid progressors repre...p them better decide a course of action." These findings also highlight the variability in the progression and outcome of IPF and may explain, in part, the d...

For many insects, winter survival is in the genes

...use," Denlinger said. The researchers report their findings in the current online early edition of the Proceed...temperatures," Denlinger said. "At this point, the findings broaden our palette of players that contribute to cold tolerance in insects." He said the next st...

Mule deer moms rescue other fawns

... fawns other than their own. But while the study's findings seem to point to mule deer as superior mothers, the motivation for looking out for other fawns is likely based not on altruism but on simple survival, said Lingle. "Having a rigid and aggressive response to the simple sound of a fawn distress call...

How brain pacemakers erase diseased messages

...to problematic bursts, they showed. The model's findings closely parallel the clinical responses of patients, who typically experience the greatest relief from symptoms when their devices are tuned by physicians to deliver rapid pulses, Grill said. Patients' symptoms can actually worsen when the devices ar...

Philandering female felines forgo fidelity

...undoubtedly resided outside the study area. The findings corroborate established studies on ranging patterns of female and male cheetahs. Female cheetahs occupy a home range averaging some 833 square kilometers in size, whereas a male’s territory averages 37 square kilometers. In many carnivore species, it...

Lessons from the orangutans: Upright walking may have begun in the trees

...the savannah, as current theory suggests. These findings appear in the 1 June 2007 issue of the journal Sc...n the forest canopy and moved on two legs. "Our findings blur the picture even further," said Robin Crompton of the University of Liverpool in Liverpool, Gre...

Human stem cell treatment restores motor function in paralyzed rats

...ce that lessens their efficacy. “These research findings could offer great hope to people with spinal ischemic injury who suffer from resulting spasticity and rigidity,” said Marsala. ...

Resistant HIV quickly hides in infants' cells

...nt virus strains for all infants studied. These findings have important implications when it comes to choosing among available treatments. As Persaud summarized, "The initial transmitted drug-resistant virus will likely never be cleared from that infant with currently available treatments. However, it is...

Statin treatment improves spatial memory in mouse models of Alzheimer's

...he study confirmed the Morcos laboratory’s earlier findings of improved memory in this mouse model of Alzheime...rculation to the memory region of the brain. These findings suggest that increases in brain nNos levels may play an important role in statin-induced improvement...

Early exposure to indoor fungus molecules may protect infants against future allergies

...ne system response." The UC team reports their findings in the May 2007 edition of the scientific journal Allergy. This epidemiological study is the first to suggest that early-life exposure to high levels of indoor fungal glucans can have a positive impact on the human immune system. "Fungi are a div...

A cherry on top: Tart cherries may alter heart/diabetes factors

...vant to human diets. We are enthusiastic about the findings that tart cherries conferred these beneficial effe... "These data from whole tart cherries join other findings that suggest a correlation between anthocyanin intake and reductions in cardiovascular and metabolic...

Hearts of male and female rainbow trout are different

... Dr. Rodnick's laboratory is presenting the team's findings at the 120th American Physiological Society (APS; ...nd Conclusions This study expands upon previous findings that sex differences in cardiac performance and metabolism exist in fish in general, and have now be...

'Insulator' helps silence genes in dormant herpes virus

...or in mammals and in fruit flies. What's more, the findings revealed that the viral DNA binds to CTCF in the same manner as the host DNA binds to the protein. "By binding in this manner, we believed the CTCF protein was interacting with other viral proteins to form a type of insulator in the virus structu...

How the brain's backup system compensates for stroke

...leagues at the University of Oxford reported their findings in the May 3, 2007 issue of the journal Neuron, published by Cell Press. In their experiments, the researchers focused on a region of the brain called the dorsal premotor cortex (PMd), which is known to govern the selection of an action. The PMd i...

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