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Key to zebrafish heart regeneration uncovered

...mmals, and such an advance could lead to potential treatments for human hearts damaged by disease, the Duke scientists said. "If you look in nature, there are many examples of different types of organisms, such as axolotls, newts and zebrafish, that have an elevated ability to regenerate lost or damaged tiss...

Men with prostate cancer avoid radiation due to misconceptions

...the treatment to be as safe and effective as other treatments for the disease, including surgery, according to a...e cancer choose external beam radiation over other treatments because it is non-invasive, has a short recovery period and often helps men preserve their sexual an...

Molecular atlas provides new tool for understanding estrogen-fueled breast cancer

...nd may eventually help doctors match patients with treatments that are most likely to be effective for them and ...ay help researchers and physicians determine which treatments are likely to work best in individual patients and restore the potency of cancer drugs to which pati...

MRSA toxin acquitted: Study clears suspected key to severe bacterial illness

...decades has developed resistance to common medical treatments and now is finding new mechanisms to spread and cause severe illness." About 75 percent of CA-MRSA infections are localized to skin and soft tissue and usually can be treated effectively. CA-MRSA strains have enhanced virulence, meaning they can i...

New way of tracking muscle damage from radiation

...dy's findings are significant because as radiation treatments become more advanced and complex, clinicians must ...cians will then be able to design better radiation treatments to avoid potential problems or treat the injury at an earlier stage, Krasin said. ...

Antibiotic treats lymphoma of the eye

...y be a useful therapy even in patients where other treatments have failed, and it is a valid alternative to chemotherapy and radiation without causing the same toxic side-effects. Patients treated with doxycycline had a 66% rate of disease-free survival. "Our prospective trial revealed that doxycycline is a f...

New gene linked to bipolar disorder

..."We hope our discovery will eventually lead to new treatments for depression and bipolar disorder, including possible preventive strategies, for example with drugs or even through nutritional intervention." Around one in every 200 people in the UK develops bipolar and other related mood disorders. Signs of d...

Researchers seek to design first treatment for neuroAIDS

...or neuroAIDs. The current, standard combination of treatments has extended the lives of most U.S. AIDS patients, but has not cured neuroAIDS, despite early reports to the contrary. Antiviral combinations only slow the onset of HIV-related nerve damage that is becoming more common the longer HIV patients live. ...

Increase in drug development for killer diseases is not enough

...he poor in developing countries and development of treatments is inhibitive due to lack of economic demand. Researchers argue that the rate of development of drugs (and of some vaccines and diagnostics) would increase if more incentives were created using patent rights and providing guarantees to purchase drugs...

Tarantula venom and chili peppers target same pain sensor

...ve these receptors on their surface, and some pain treatments have been developed that target them. The capsaicin receptor acts as a channel on the nerve surface. When certain compounds bind to it, the receptor channel opens, allowing a stream of charged sodium and calcium molecules to rush into the nerve cel...

Transplanted photoreceptor precursor cells restore visual function in mice with retinal degeneration

...aroop sees several next steps in his quest to find treatments for retinal and macular degeneration. His research team will continue to study the properties of photoreceptor cells and mouse models to learn more about the process of transplantation and functional integration. He hopes that he will soon be able t...

Early HIV treatment fails to restore memory T cells

...ent of immunity. These results also suggest that treatments to preserve immune function early after infection should be studied, and in particular that an HIV vaccine may need to stimulate immune responses that can act very quickly following infection, before the bulk of lymphocytes capable of countering the ...

Heavy smoking cuts women's chance of pregnancy -- even with donated oocytes

...studied all the first cycles of oocyte-donated IVF treatments carried out at the IVI-Valencia Foundation between the start of 2002 and June 2005 ?741 in non-heavy smokers (under 10 cigarettes a day) and 44 in heavy smokers (over 10 a day). None of the women's partners were smokers and none of the oocyte donors ...

Proteins necessary for brain development found to be critical for long-term memory

...dings could lead to a better understanding of, and treatments for, cognitive decline associated with normal agin...ew, these findings could open possible avenues for treatments relating to memory loss. "This gives us some strong clues as to what we should be looking into for t...

Environmental toxins may cause body's defenses to worsen lung disease

...thways could play an important role in future drug treatments for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and the basic scientific findings may also have applications in asthma and cystic fibrosis as well as other chronic lung diseases. The overall goal of the study is to expand existing scientific...

New technology to speed up research into Huntington's disease

...sity represents a breakthrough in the race to find treatments to help sufferers with Huntington's disease. Res...ure and whilst some symptoms can be alleviated, no treatments have been developed that help with cognitive deficits, a distressing aspect of the disease. Whil...

Hopkins scientists link immune response to 'ghost' parasites and severely congested sinuses

...ite immune response, we could potentially have new treatments for these airway diseases of the lung and nose," says Lane. New therapies are needed, he says, as an alternative to long-term steroids, which block the inflammatory chemical pathway but also have debilitating side effects, including loss of bone de...

Natural protein stops deadly human brain cancer in mice

..."This opens exciting doors to future research into treatments and therapies for such a devastating disease." ...

Fast test for low blood flow in dogs detects early heart trouble

... blockage, or become a practical test to verify if treatments with drugs therapies, surgical bypass or stented arteries have worked to improve blood flow." Lardo, a biomedical engineer who specializes in so-called perfusion imaging, says the tiny size of blood vessels, many no bigger than 0.5 millimeters in d...

Researchers in Montréal and the US create model of key immune-system component

...ty to get rid of infections, will help develop new treatments and approaches for the prevention of diseases such as tuberculosis." ...

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