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International HIV/AIDS trial finds continuous antiretroviral therapy superior to episodic therapy

...ase in major complications such as cardiovascular, kidney and liver diseases in the participants on the drug conservation arm. These complications have been associated with ART, and it was hoped that they would be seen less frequently in those patients receiving less drug. Although the risk-to-benefit r...

Scientists discover that widely available drug also helps fight kidney disease

...widely available drug may be effective in treating kidney disease, report scientists at the University of Ca...2 million worldwide, are affected by the inherited kidney disease known as ADPKD, short for autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease. In the U.S., the num...

Hantavirus found in African wood mouse

... similar illnesses with symptoms including, fever, kidney failure, and bleeding. The viruses are carried by a number of rodents, including the brown rat, the striped field mouse, and the yellow-necked mouse. If left untreated, mortality can be as high as 15 percent. Hantavirus was not seen in the Americas ...

Protein finding could lead to treatment for inflammatory diseases

...l student in microbiology, treated human embryonic kidney cells with cytokines known to activate NF-kB. Cytokines are chemicals made by immune cells that boost the immune system by stimulating inflammation to fight infectious pathogens. "We found that the NF-kB levels were always lower in MC160-expressing ...

UCLA scientists uncover mechanism of response to targeted therapy

... - based on two clinical trials - that a subset of kidney cancer patients responded well to an experimental ...f their cancer cells. "We knew there were certain kidney cancer patients who responded to this drug, but we didn't know the mechanism behind the response," s...

Removing DNA repair gene causes metabolic syndrome

...rtension, high cholesterol, insulin resistance and kidney disease. "So if there are catalytically compromised forms of NEIL1 within the U.S. population, these people will be predicted to be at increased risk for developing the metabolic syndrome," a disease believed to affect more than 40 million Americans...

A new way of looking at molecular motors

...itions ranging from certain kinds of blindness and kidney disease to neurodegenerative disorders and parasit...is pigmentosa (which causes blindness), polycystic kidney disease, brain development defects, neurodegenerative diseases, muscular dystrophy, skin pigmentatio...

Berkeley researchers lay groundwork for cell version of DNA chip

...ucted a series of experiments with human embryonic kidney cells. From their results, they estimated that following treatment, each individual cell was coated with approximately 270,000 DNA molecules. Similar results were obtained using a line of human T-cells, called Jurkat cells, which are naturally non-a...

UCLA paper examines how one disease may prevent another

...from severe caloric or protein restriction include kidney failure, type-II diabetes, inflammatory bowel dise...t Babies Hospital in New York City. One case was a kidney disease patient with nephrosis who was unresponsive to medications but went into remission after con...

Heparin prepared synthetically could replace animal-derived drug

...g during medical procedures and treatments such as kidney dialysis, heart bypass surgery, stent implantation, indwelling catheters, knee and hip replacements, and deep vein thrombosis. The annual worldwide sales of heparin are estimated at $3 billion. "We have synthetically prepared heparin in quantities l...

Evolution of 'irreducible complexity' explained

... hormone aldosterone, which regulates behavior and kidney function, along with the receptor protein that allows the body's cells to respond to the hormone. They resurrected the ancestral receptor gene ?which existed more than 450 million years ago, before the first animals with bones appeared on Earth ?and...

How nice, brown rice: Study shows rice bran lowers blood pressure in rats

...s decreases their risk of stroke, heart attack and kidney disease. But the drugs can also carry side effects...chronic cough, allergic reactions, dizziness, even kidney problems. What if some component of our diet could work in similar fashion, with few or no side eff...

Plastic surgeons countdown first full facial transplantation

...med by a plastic surgeon in 1998, as was the first kidney transplant in 1954. The idea of tissue transplantation has opened a new era in this field of medicine." ...

Gene discovery may shed light on kidney disease

...at may have broader implications for understanding kidney disorders, genetics researchers at The Children's ...d that mutations in the NOTCH2 gene were linked to kidney abnormalities in patients and families. "While Alagille syndrome is relatively rare, organ diseases ...

One-third of adults with diabetes still don't know they have it

...r both. It is the most common cause of blindness, kidney failure, and amputations in adults and a major cause of heart disease and stroke. Over the years studied, about 26 percent of adults age 20 and older continued to have impaired fasting glucose (IFG), a form of pre-diabetes. IFG, in which blood gl...

U of M study examines kidney stone prevention in astronauts

... for astronauts to reduce their risk of developing kidney stones while in space. Astronauts lose calcium in...their kidneys, putting them at risk for developing kidney stones. At least 14 American crew members have developed kidney stones in the last 5 years, and as ...

Successful transplantation from pig embryos to mice

...host of risks that includes blindness, amputation, kidney failure, and heart disease. For many, particularly those afflicted with juvenile diabetes, transplants of the pancreatic tissue in which insulin is produced might alleviate these problems. Unfortunately, there are not nearly enough organ donors avail...

Failure of 'scout cells' may lead to cancer in transplant patients

...organ transplanted, occurring in 1 to 2 percent of kidney transplant patients and in up to 20 percent of bone marrow and lung transplant patients. The disease usually arises within six months to a year after transplantation, and it can have a 70- to 80-percent mortality rate. The study by VanBuskirk and ...

Diabetes hits 275 Australians each day as pandemic spreads

...ypertension (increased blood pressure) and chronic kidney disease. The statistics reveal that in Australia ... hypertension, and 270,000 adults develop chronic kidney disease. The Australia-wide study was conducted by the International Diabetes Institute over the l...

Scientists tie several cancers to common 'oncogene engine'

..., two forms of soft-tissue sarcomas, and a type of kidney cancer that mainly affects children. Still other c... of them, TFEB, is known to be abnormal in certain kidney carcinomas in children, and TFE3 is involved in another rare soft-tissue tumor, alveolar soft part s...

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