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

...r very little microvascular complications, such as kidney and eye problems, which demonstrates that long dur...ir lack of complications, we could perhaps prevent kidney or eye disease," said Dr. King. The study has been investigating whether other factors, such as life...

New study shows antibiotic may protect the heart

...important in transplant medicine and especially in kidney or heart transplantation. Additionally, Kukreja said that because of the antibiotic's antigrowth properties, rapamycin effectively reduces coronary restonosis, the abnormal narrowing of a blood vessel. In coronary angioplasty, stents coated with rapa...

Report focuses on the role good microbes play in future medicine

... and children with AIDS, reducing the incidence of kidney stones, and reducing the recurrence of bladder tumors. ...

Blood-compatible nanoscale materials possible using heparin

... medical devices and in medical treatments such as kidney dialysis. The researchers prepared several materi...ic administration of heparin to the patient during kidney dialysis, the researchers say. The heparin-coated membranes are described in a paper titled "Ionic...

'Cellular antennae' on algae give clues to how human cells receive signals

... in cilia can cause people to develop debilitating kidney disease or to be born with learning disabilities, extra fingers or toes, or the inability to smell. But no one really knows how cilia work, or, in some parts of the body, what their function is. "There are cilia all over within our brain, and we d...

A splice of the action: Translational role for WT1 isoform

...athological human development, with known roles in kidney and urogenital formation as well as several human cancers. Dr. Hammarskjold and colleagues reveal that WT1 works not only at the transcriptional level, but also at the post-transcriptional level to regulate gene expression. The WT1 gene encodes tw...

MRSA vaccine shows promise in mouse study

... Although unvaccinated mice had clear evidence of kidney infections, the "bacterial load" in vaccinated mice was reduced "to a level below detection." The next step was to test the vaccine's ability to protect mice from multiple bacterial strains isolated from humans. The researchers vaccinated 50 mice....

Scientists solve 30-year-old mystery of mutant mouse's kidney woes

Researchers seeking insights into kidney failure in human infants have located the source o...sults from impairment of passage of urine from the kidney to the bladder. About 20 percent of those cases lead to clinical complications that, if left untreat...

Study shows interruption of antiretroviral therapy increases risk of disease and death

...ed in other studies with such events and liver and kidney complications have been linked to such treatment." According to Dr. El-Sadr, "Our findings provide clear and compelling evidence that the episodic antiretroviral strategy, guided by the CD4+ count, should not be recommended." Dr. El-Sadr also stat...

UNC scientists solve mystery of how largest cellular motor protein powers movement

...have been implicated in some neurodegenerative and kidney disorders. Dokholyan pointed out that disruption of dynein’s interaction with a particular regulator protein causes defects in nerve cell transmission and mimics the symptoms of people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). ...

Buildup of damaged DNA in cells drives aging

... loss, visual impairment, anemia, hypertension and kidney failure. The boy’s family had immigrated to Germany to seek better medical treatment for his condition. Extreme sensitivity to ultraviolet (UV) radiation from sunlight is a hallmark of diseases caused by defective DNA repair—an important mechanism...

Climate change has surprising effect on endangered naked carp

...0 percent of that in river fish. Both gill and kidney functions also decline. The sodium/potassium pump ...he freshwater river water. "In other words, the kidney changed from an organ which excreted water at a greater rate than salt in river-water, to one which ...

Researchers examine why food tastes bad to chemotherapy recipients

... and copper "may cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, kidney and liver damage," Dietrich explained. Some tests will be done with human volunteers to determine reactions of volatile compounds in the mouth. Since saliva contains proteins and enzymes, it may have some effect in enhancing the metallic flavor. Th...

More kidney cancer is detected and treated early, yet death rate rises

The number of cases of kidney cancer has been rising over the last two decades, ...ely by the detection of small, presumably curable, kidney masses. But even though the rising incidence has been paralleled by greater use of surgery for kidne...

Holiday gluttony can spell disaster for undiagnosed diabetics

...leading to high cholesterol, hypertension, stroke, kidney disease and amputations." If you are age 40 or older, obese, lack physical activity or have a family history of diabetes, Dr. Chandalia recommends making time during the holidays to visit a doctor for a diabetes test. Symptoms include excessive thi...

Replacing insulin is top-ranked breakthrough foreseen for health in developing world

...ications such as blindness, heart disease, chronic kidney disease and diabetic ulcers, they noted, adding that repeated insulin treatments are costly and therefore inaccessible to many developing country patients. The 2nd-ranked application, regenerating failed heart muscle using the patient's own cells,...

Key gene controlling kidney development found

...x2 plays a critical role in the development of the kidney by keeping a population of "parent" stem cells con...racteristics specific to its job in the body. The kidney stem cells, called mesenchymal blastemal cells, are the source of cells triggered by chemical signal...

Scientists discover toxin that causes gastro disease

...ic syndrome, a dangerous disease that causes acute kidney failure, in South Australia in 1998. The research team was led by Dr Adrienne Paton from the University of Adelaide, and included scientists from Monash University's ARC Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics, and th...

Molecules in blood foretell development of preeclampsia

...ing preeclampsia from chronic high blood pressure, kidney disease and other conditions that can produce symptoms similar to preeclampsia. Dr. Levine said that both sFlt1 and soluble endoglin are referred to as soluble because they circulate in the bloodstream. Both molecules exist in a non-soluble form, ...

Mutant gene causes severe kidney disease in infants

...ly unknown cause for a severe, early-onset form of kidney disease and renal failure in children: recessive m...t provides the first evidence that some types of a kidney disease called nephrotic syndrome, if diagnosed early in infancy, may be treated successfully in chi...

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