Collaboration needed for strengthening medical research in Europe

...e acknowledged and rewarded, MD/PhD programmes are important and should be of high quality, the best researchers - like the Nobel Laureates at The lindau meeting - to participate in teaching, Novel technologies and research infrastructures are important as well as incentive in terms of decent salaries...

Survey: Two-thirds of Illinois public schools provide comprehensive sex education

...adolescents do become sexually active. "Most parents support school-based sex education and teens regard it as an important source of information," lindau said, "yet we found that several important health topics and skills are omitted, more often than not, from most Illinois public school sex-education c...

Many Older Americans Have Active Sex Lives

...y of Chicago, said at a Monday teleconference. lindau is lead researcher on the study, which is publishe...th care decisions and to be prepared for changes," lindau said. "With the right information, people might be...men). "There do seem some gender disparities," lindau said. "Men overall are more likely to have partner...

Lindau in Medical Dictionary

Von Hippel-lindau Disease

... Von Hippel – lindau disease (VHL) is a rare, autosomal dominant ...veral pathologies including... von Hippel - lindau disease information sheet compiled by NINDS, th...Neurological ... Disorders A - Z " von Hippel - lindau Disease " ... Von Hippel -...

Von Hippel-Lindau

... Von Hippel – lindau disease (VHL) is a rare, autosomal dominant ge...veral pathologies including... von Hippel - lindau disease information sheet compiled by NINDS, th...Neurological ... Disorders A - Z " von Hippel - lindau Disease " ... Tumors called hemangioblastomas...

Lindau in Biological News

An AIDS-related virus tricks cells to become tumors, new Penn study finds

...d protein, called latency-associated nuclear antigen, or LANA, tricks the cell into destroying two major suppressors of tumor growth called von Hippel lindau (VHL) and p53. "In addition, we have shown that when LANA expression was blocked, the tumor suppressors again become stable suggesting a direct role o...

UCLA scientists uncover mechanism of response to targeted therapy

...researchers Dr. Ingo Mellinghoff and Dr. Charles Sawyers, discovered that human kidney cancer cells that had lost the tumor suppressor gene Von Hippel lindau (VHL) were more sensitive to the growth inhibitory effects of CCI-779. One of the main functions of VHL is to regulate a protein called hypoxia induci...

Building a better mouse model of lung cancer: FHIT counts

...ce and working properly, it blocks angiogenesis." Interestingly, humans whose VHL gene is lost or mutated suffer from a condition called Von-Hippel lindau disease, an inherited disorder characterized by abnormal blood vessel growth in the eyes, brain, spinal cord, adrenal gland and other parts of the bod...