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Reversing 'hibernating' heart muscle focus of UB researchers

...c mechanisms responsible for incomplete functional recovery after revascularization hopefully will lead to new therapies that will improve the outlook and symptoms of these patients who are at high risk for adverse cardiovascular events," said Canty. Additional investigators on the study are Alan D. Hutson,...

Dopamine drug leads to new neurons and recovery of function in rat model of Parkinson's

...'s disease (PD). The drug also led to long-lasting recovery of function in an animal model of PD. The finding...urons from cells already in the brain] can lead to recovery of function in an animal model of Parkinson's disease," says Dr. Eckman. The researchers gave eith...

MUHC announces a transplant first in Quebec

...spitals within Quebec. "The patient made a rapid recovery after surgery, and was discharged after only 10 days," says Dr. Nadia Gianetti, Medical Director the Heart Failure and Heart Transplant Program at the MUHC. "The seamless collaboration between the cardiac and liver transplant teams at the MUHC is one...

Selectively blocking inflammatory signals may protect mice from MS

...cago have focused on a set of factors that prevent recovery from the inflammatory attacks. A series of papers from Popko's lab has demonstrated that interferon-gamma -- a chemical signal used to activate the immune system -- plays a critical role in damaging the cells that produce myelin, the protective coat...

New technology enables faster, more efficient cell harvest: Cell therapy meeting study

...ited higher yield of MNCs for significantly better recovery (60 to 95 percent) than the Ficoll method. The Pall Filter Harvest system can be used as a closed system that adheres to Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP), furthering the ability to comply with increasingly stringent regulations for safe, reprodu...

Embryos exposed in 3-D

...ited higher yield of MNCs for significantly better recovery (60 to 95 percent) than the Ficoll method. The Pall Filter Harvest system can be used as a closed system that adheres to Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP), furthering the ability to comply with increasingly stringent regulations for safe, reprodu...

Inheriting a tendency to brain infection

...e combined treatment could dramatically accelerate recovery from herpes simplex encephalitis, and thereby also limit potential brain damage. Casanova believes there are likely other genes that predispose people to infectious diseases, and that some of them may be inherited in a dominant fashion. That is, an...

Researchers use multiphoton microscopy to watch chromosomes in action

...at Webb engineered at Cornell, called fluorescence recovery after photobleaching, the researchers also discovered that HSF activators bind to hsp70 genes much longer than previously thought before being replaced with new HSFs, which raises new questions about the mechanisms of gene transcription. The techniq...

New data from NIH lab confirms protocol to reverse type 1 diabetes in mice

...re inconclusive on the role of spleen cells in the recovery of insulin-producing pancreatic islets. The new d...tment. Spleen cells appear to contribute to islet recovery more in mice who are older and with more advanced diabetes compared with younger mice with less adva...

Brains can recover from alcoholic damage but patients should stop drinking as soon as possible

... the margin of measurement error. Volumetric brain recovery was signified by the patients?brains expanding bey...icantly. "Our results indicate that early brain recovery through abstinence does not simply reflect rehydration. Instead, the adult human brain, and particul...

Brain protein improves stroke symptoms in rats, even when injected after 3 days

... protein naturally occurring in the brain improves recovery from stroke when injected up to three days after t...tor functions in rats. G-CSF is known to improve recovery after a stroke, and it is currently being tested for use in humans. The BMC Biology study is the fir...

Fish species plays surprise role in aiding coral reef recovery

...d not been considered a significant player in reef recovery after overfishing. In doing so, the study provides...nce on a healthy reef. They then filmed the reef’s recovery with remote underwater digital videos cameras. Remarkably, only two of the 27 herbivorous fish speci...

High tech help to prevent further heart disease

...ve lifestyle changes that will contribute to their recovery and ongoing wellbeing. ...

Coral stress 'like never in history'

...e back?to good health ?with a little help. "The recovery of the Great Barrier Reef from the devastating imp...reef management," says Pandolfi,"…but this rate of recovery isn’t seen in other parts of the world?some reefs still haven’t recovered from [events in the last c...

An artificial cornea is in sight, thanks to biomimetic hydrogels

...n rate of about 20 percent and a period for visual recovery of six months to a year. "You get a more predictable shape with an artificial cornea," Ta says. "In many countries, tissue availability is a problem," he says. "If the tissue is artificial, we don't have to rely on donor tissue." The high prevalenc...

Small, smaller, smallest -- The plight of the vaquita

...pport actions proposed by an international vaquita recovery team. These Governments have argued that no action should be taken until a second survey for a new abundance estimate shows definitively that the population is declining. But the question of how often new estimates or indices must be obtained to m...

Drug can quickly mobilize an army of cells to repair injury

...rials of G-SCF found the treatment doesn't improve recovery from heart attacks." In an article in the journal...troke. The ability of angiogenic cells to enhance recovery from heart attack has become a hot research topic, according to Link, with several clinical trials i...

PET imaging shows young smokers quick benefit of quitting

...ages of coronary artery disease in smokers and the recovery time of coronary endothelial dysfunction after giving up cigarettes," indicated Tamaki. Coronary endothelial dysfunction occurs when the heart's blood vessels aren't flexible enough to expand in response to increased blood flow. Smoking can damage th...

Recycling technology

...ions of LCD screens each year. There are no viable recovery techniques and no fully safe disposal options. Some 40 million LCD television sets were sold worldwide last year with expected sales likely to top 100 million by 2009. Now scientists in the Department of Chemistry at the University of York have ...

Diabetes slows nerve recovery after heart transplant

...etrimental effect of diabetes on the potential for recovery of sympathetic nerve fibers of the heart," added the co-author of "Effect of Diabetes Mellitus on Sympathetic Neuronal Regeneration Studied in the Model of Transplant Reinnervation." "A better understanding of the importance of nervous system abnor...

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