TAT in Medical News

Patients Beyond Borders Thailand Edition to Launch in September

...national tourism industry and its related sectors. tat also supplies information on tourist destinations ...ct travelers to Thailand. For nearly 50 years, tat has played a significant role in national tourism ...tions available. Thirty-five local and 22 overseas tat offices disseminate Thailand tourism information w...

Bumrungrad Launches 2009 Great Chefs Program - Top local Chefs Design Menus Based on 'Amazing Thailand'

... CEO. "This year, we wanted to connect these expert chefs to what's special about Thailand--for example, great beaches and delicious seafood. The tat campaign offers a natural tie-in." The participating hotels include: Swissotel Le Concorde Bangkok, Pan Pacific Bangkok, Sofitel Centara Gran...

Study sheds light on causes of HIV dementia

...rasad and colleagues compared the sequences of the tat protein of the two clades and noted a key difference. Where the clade B tat protein contained the amino acid cysteine at a specific position in the tat protein, the clade C...

Selenium may slow march of AIDS

...ey protein known as Tat, is the likely culprit. tat is one of about 14 odd proteins produced by HIV du...at the virus needs to sustain itself. In addition, tat also plays a key role in helping the virus replicate. One of the proteins that targets tat is a selenoprotein known as TR1. "Since HIV ta...

Researchers identify toehold for HIV's assault on brain

... neurons. Researchers discovered the receptor that tat uses to attack neurons, and they were able to reverse the effects of tat in the laboratory by blocking the receptor. The...tright dementia. Gelbard's team discovered that tat works through the ryanodine receptor to sicken neu...

Illinois Radiologists Self-Edit Reports, Reduce Turnaround Time with SpeechQ for Radiology(TM)

...to the appropriate radiologist for review and signature. With SpeechQ, average report turnaround time has been reduced from 61/2 hours to 3 hours, and tat for STAT and ED reports is now five minutes. Dr. James Studlo, medical director of Imaging Services and chief of the medical staff at Provena Mercy,...

Anti-parasite drug may provide new way to attack HIV

...N. In a series of experiments, Kims team observed that the presence of HIV tat in infected macrophages lowers PTEN levels by 40 percent, enabling the PI3K... inhibits PI3K/Akt pathway, and thus, promises to counter the effect of HIV tat on PTEN, Kim said. The treatment was first identified in Germany in the ear...

amfAR announces inaugural Mathilde Krim Fellowship Awards for AIDS research

... cell protein, P-TEFb, which interacts with a segment of the virus called Tat. Dr. DOrso plans to elucidate the precise details of the process whereby tat and P-TEFb bind together and the structure of these protein complexes. Understanding the process of assembly and the shape taken by these proteins whe...

FDA Approves New Roche West Nile Virus Blood Screening Test

...nce of a new threat to the U.S. blood supply. Although mosquito-borne transmission remains the predominant mode of WNV transmission, identification of tat underscored the need for WNV screening of donated blood. In June 2003, blood-collection agencies implemented investigational WNV nucleic acid-amplific...

Working Up Potential Living Liver Donors

...acts on his or her psyche, decision and satisfaction, as well as on the outcome of the potential recipient. Researchers, led by Professor Sheung tat Fan of the University of Hong Kong, sought to analyze and report the experiences of donor workups at their center, which performs many more transplant...

Poor Quality of Cabin Air in the Plane Can Cause DVT, After A Long Flight

...dentary for eight long hours. Regular activity on a normal day for eight hours was also monitored for the group. After the flight, the levels of tat complex shot up by an average of 30%, but dropped by about 2% after the cinema, and by nearly 8% subsequent to the everyday routine chores. The post-f...

Common drugs to treat essential tremor

...n Academy of Neurology, for limb tremors surgery may be chosen if the drugs are found to be ineffective. The association in its press release had said tat although drugs may not fully cure the essential tremors, they can reduce the discomfort and increase the quality of life of the people who suffer from...

Human immunity system can battle HIV.

...l mutation on the one of the HIV proteins called Tat. To protect itself HIV virus may need a virally encoded protein. Scientists feel that the protein tat may be guarding a vulnerable genetic sequence of HIV that the virus cannot change even under attack. Researchers opined that this novel siRNA seq...

Man against HIV – new vaccine ready for human trials

... A new vaccine called the tat vaccine has been developed in Italy as the latest ...ilding block of the dreaded virus. By blocking the tat protein the scientists hope to stop the growth of ...the initiatives man has taken to eliminate it. The tat vaccine is the latest hope for man against the vir...