Emerging Washington State Health Care Model Secures $7.5 Million in Venture Capital
SEATTLE, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Qliance Medical Management Inc., which operates insurance-free direct primary care clinics -- also known as "direct medical homes" -- in Washington State, today announced it has closed a $4 million funding round from three institutional venture capital firms, led by...
New family-focused model of depression care needed to minimize risks
WASHINGTON -- Health and social service professionals who care for adults with depression should not only tackle their clients' physical and mental health, but also detect and prevent possible spillover effects on their children, says a new report from the National Research Council and Institute o...
Animal model for schizophrenia identifies a novel approach for treating cognitive impairments
Philadelphia, PA, 9 June 2009 - Researchers have been seeking a safe and effective way to treat cognitive impairments associated with schizophrenia by enhancing N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) glutamate receptors. Functional deficits in NMDA receptors may contribute to the underlying neurobiology of ...
Researchers develop the first climate-based model to predict Dengue fever outbreaks
CORAL GABLES, FL (June 5, 2009)--Dengue Fever (DF) and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) are the most important vector-borne viral diseases in the World. Around 50-100 million cases appear each year putting 2.5 billion people at risk of suffering this debilitating and sometimes fatal disease. Dengue ...
Strategies to Rein in Epidemics Need to be Retooled for Rural Populations, Say K-State Engineers Using Computers to Model Disease Outbreaks in Rural Areas
MANHATTAN, Kan., June 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An infectious disease striking a large city may seem like a disastrous scenario -- millions of people sharing apartment buildings, crammed on buses and trains and brushing past one another on crowded sidewalks.
A group of Kansas State Unive...
Frisco ISD Treats Four Students in Medical Emergencies With OxySure(R) Model 615
FRISCO, Texas, May 26 /PRNewswire/ -- OxySure(R) Systems, Inc. today announced that the Frisco Independent School District (FISD) has already used the OxySure(R)
Model 615 on four occasions during the first month of implementation says Scott T. Freeman, Vice President of Operations.
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Fruitfly Model of a Neuropathic Disease Demonstrates Novel Role for Proteins in the Family of aTyr Pharma's Product Class
SAN DIEGO, July 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Research published in the June 26, 2009 edition of Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences provides further evidence for novel roles of tRNA synthetases in disease, validating the therapeutic potential for aTyr Pharma's new class of naturally occurring prot...
Tufts Medical Center Researchers Create a New Predictive Model for Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD)
BOSTON, April 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Researchers at Tufts Medical Center have created a formula for predicting how likely it is that individuals with certain genetic profiles and lifestyle behaviors will develop advanced Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD), a potentially blinding conditi...
Neuralstem's Human Stem Cells Integrate into Nervous System of Rats with Animal Model of ALS
Make Synaptic Contact with Host Motor Neurons
ROCKVILLE, Md., March 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Transplanted human neural stem cells (hNSCs) developed by Neuralstem, Inc. (NYSE Alternext US: CUR) made synaptic contacts with the motor neurons of rats with ALS-like symptoms, a paper published i...
Lixte Biotechnology Holdings Announces That Novel Compounds Being Developed as Potential Treatments for Brain Tumors Have Positive Activity in a Mouse Model of Human Pancreatic Cancer
EAST SETAUKET, N.Y., Aug. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lixte
Biotechnology Holdings, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: LIXT) announced today
that lead compounds from each of two different types of drugs being
developed as potential treatment for specific types of brain cancers have
activity against hum...
CellCyte Genetics Signs Collaborative Agreement With Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine to Perform Disease Model Outcome Study of CellCyte's CCG-TH30 Product Candidate
BOTHELL, Wash., May 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CellCyte Genetics
Corporation (CellCyte) (OTC Bulletin Board: CCYG) has entered into a
collaborative research agreement with Northwestern University's Feinberg
School of Medicine to perform an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) disease
model stud...
New Pharma Business Model Increases Pressure on Staff Communicating Trial Data
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., May 23 /PRNewswire/ -- With increased FDA scrutiny
around new medicines and heightened competition from generics in the
pharmaceutical market, marketing teams and science staff have to be even
more delicate when communicating clinical trial results of new drugs in
developmen...
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3M Littmann® Electronic Stethoscope Model 3000
Description: Don't miss the sounds you need to hear! Amplify heart, lung, and other body sounds while reducing distracting ambient noise with the Littmann
Model 3000.
With Ambient Noise Reduction (ANR) technology, up to 18 times amplification, and a two-year warranty, the
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HEMOCHRON Model 401 Coagulation Monitoring Instrument
Description: The HEMOCHRON
Model 401 is a portable, single-well whole blood coagulation monitoring instrument. The 401 provides on-screen plasma equivalent PT and APTT test results....
Company:ITC
Platelet Aggregation Profiler Model PAP-8E
Description: Platelet Aggregation Profiler...
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Tendril SDX Model 1488T
Description: The Tendril SDX
model 1688 and
model 1488 active-fixation leads are among the world's thinnest extendable/retractable pacing leads, offering the unsurpassed handling advantages, performance, and reliability evident in St. Jude Medical's line of active-fixation leads. Implantable with a 7 F introduc...
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Tendril SDX Model 1688TC
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model 1688 and
model 1488 active-fixation leads are among the world's thinnest extendable/retractable pacing leads, offering the unsurpassed handling advantages, performance, and reliability evident in St. Jude Medical's line of active-fixation leads. Implantable with a 7 F introduc...
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Tendril SDX Model 1688T
Description: The Tendril SDX
model 1688 and
model 1488 active-fixation leads are among the world's thinnest extendable/retractable pacing leads, offering the unsurpassed handling advantages, performance, and reliability evident in St. Jude Medical's line of active-fixation leads. Implantable with a 7 F introduc...
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Autoimmune regulator
...aneous candidiasis. [1] AIRE is expressed primarily in the thymus.
A gene knockout of the murine homolog Aire has created a transgenic mouse
model to study the mechanism of disease in human patients. [2] Research on the knockout mouse has demonstrated that Aire functions through initiating th...
CAVEman
... CAVEman is a 4D high-resolution
model of a functioning human elaborated by University of Calgary . It resides in... like a cave , also known as the "research Holodeck", in which the human
model floats in space, projected from three walls and the floor below.
L...
Full-body scan
...used for screening may be less than this, and depends upon the mathematical
model used for calculation. [6] [8] Additional risks include the possible i...n screening. [14]
In popular culture
In the episode " Role
model " of the TV show House the lead character Dr. Gregory House refers to...
Medicine
...ception of an attendant loss of patient-focused care, known as the medical
model of health, led to further criticisms. This issue started to reach collecti...n medical ethics , holistic approaches to medicine, the biopsychosocial
model and similar concepts.
The inability of modern medicine to properly addre...
Neuropsychiatry
...reuniting of the specialties.
Better management
model
Schiffer et al (2004) argue that there are good... (1997). Limbic-cortical dysregulation: a proposed
model of depression. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clin...ackard, R.C. (2004). Neuropsychiatry: A Management
model for Academic Medicine. Journal of Neuropsychiatry ...
Personalized medicine
...e. It is believed that they are concerned that the emergence of personalized medicine will destroy the foundations of the mass-market blockbuster drug
model because personalized therapeutics will cater for particular sub-sets of the general population.
Another reason for the scepticism of the pharmaceuti...
Model in Medical Dictionary
Traumatic Brain Injury
... damage to the brain This fact sheet discusses traumatic brain injury (TBI) and its consequences, and ... The Traumatic Brain Injury
model Systems National Data and Statistical Center ... Traumatic brain injury — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes and treat...
Toxin
...a cut or tear ... The toxin is injected into the external sphincter, the internal sphincter, the ... V. cholerae produces cholera toxin , the
model for enterotoxins, whose action on ... Thus, the net effect of the toxin is to cause cAMP to be produced at an ... Wound botulism is caused by ...
Thorax
...rus: anterior posterior ... A view of the thorax of the human body based on Visible Human images. Drawing by Allison Baldwin (using thorax
model by Eduardo Difilippo, Mark ... ...
Temporal
...es, videos, forums, prevention, and prognosis. temporal linear mixing
model is proposed, which is developed from both spectral ... second step as temp...eath is one of the best ways to learn ... You can download the 3D Teaching
model of the human temporal bone free of charge. ... Polymyalgia rheumatica...
Tardive dyskinesia
... dyskinesia Overview: Tardive dyskinesias (TDs) are involuntary movements of the tongue, ... a beneficial effect of progesterone on an animal
model of tardive dyskinesia . ... The National Alliance on Mental Illness is a nonprofit, grassroots, self-help, support and advocacy organization of...
Stress management
... 2 Models of stress management . 2.1 Transactional
model ... Individualized Stress Management for Primary Hypertension: A Ra...r reduce stress . ... 2 Models of stress management . 2.1 Transactional
model ... Stress management involves controlling and reducing the tension...
Model in Biological News
Researchers design first model motor nerve system that's insulated and organized like the human body
Amsterdam, 21 July 2009 - In the July issue of Biomaterials , published by Elsevier, researchers from the University of Central Florida (UCF) report on the first lab-grown motor nerves that are insulated and organized just like they are in the human body. The
model system will drastically improv...
A global model for the origin of species independent of geographical isolation
The tremendous diversity of life continues to puzzle scientists, long after the 200 years since Charles Darwin's birth. However, in recent years, consistent patterns of biodiversity have been identified over space, time organism type and geographical region.
Two views of the process of "specia...
Stanford researchers publish comprehensive model for medical device development
WASHINGTON, DCIn an effort to increase understanding of the medical device development process and help companies execute the bench-to-bedside process of product development more effectively, researchers at Stanford University have published the first comprehensive
model representing the medical d...
Mouse model provides clues to human language development
In the brains of the mice the researchers found alterations which may be closely linked to speech and language development. Their analyses comprise part of an international study led by the Leipzig Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. The findings have been published in the current ...
UCLA cancer researchers develop model that may help identify cancer stem cells
Researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, on a quest to find lung cancer stem cells, have developed a unique
model to allow further investigation into the cells that many believe may be at the root of all lung cancers.
If researchers could find a way to isolate and grow lung c...
Caffeic acid inhibits colitis in a mouse model -- is a drug-metabolizing gene crucial?
This release is available in
Chinese .
Researchers at Iowa State University have found that increased expression of a form of cytochrome P-450 (CYP4B1) is a key marker of inhibition of colitis in mice by ca...
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Transposagen Creates a Rat Model of the Human Immune System
LEXINGTON, Ky. , Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Transposagen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. based in Lexington, KY announced today that its scientists and collaborators from the Medical College of Wisconsin have created and characterized the world's first rat
model of severe combined immunodefi...
"Over the Next 2-3 Years We Will Leverage Developmental Capabilities and Explore In-licensing and a Co-development Model to Consolidate Our Presence in Japan" - Dr. Kailash Sharma, President, Japan Operations, Zydus Cadila
TOKYO, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- With a business plan to launch 8-10 new
products each year, Nippon Universal Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of
the Zydus group, one of India's leading integrated pharma companies & a
global healthcare provider, is looking to give a big boost to its ope...
EnVivo Pharmaceuticals Announces Reversal of Cognitive Deficits in Alzheimer's Disease Transgenic Mouse Model With Gamma-Secretase Modulator
VIENNA, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- EnVivo Pharmaceuticals today announced at the Alzheimer's Association 2009 International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease (ICAD) the reversal of behavioral deficits observed in an Alzheimer's disease transgenic animal
model after chronic oral dosing of a propr...
Oncothyreon's PX-866 is effective in preclinical model of pulmonary fibrosis
SEATTLE, May 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Oncothyreon Inc. (Nasdaq: ONTY ) (TSX: ONY) today announced the presentation of data demonstrating the effectiveness of Oncothyreon's PX-866 in a preclinical
model of pulmonary fibrosis. The data were presented earlier today by William D. Hardie, M.D., As...
Global Financial Crisis Making Biotech Business Model Unsustainable, According to Ernst & Young
Deep financing challenges separate haves and have-nots and accelerates move to sustainable models
BOSTON, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite worldwide economic turmoil, the global biotechnology industry delivered a solid financial performance in 2008, according to Beyond borders: Global biotechno...
Samaritan Partners 'Forgetful' Rat Model to Taconic to Commercialize
The Samaritan Alzheimer's Rat
Model - Mimics Human Alzheimer's - Speeds 'Race for Time' to Find Cure - Saves Valuable Research Money
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Samaritan Pharmaceuticals
(OTC Bulletin Bo...
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Flammable Chemical Cabinets, Justrite Model 25042 from South Coast Enterprises
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Printer Paper for Model 680 Series Readers, 2 rolls from Bio-Rad
Description: Printer paper for
Model 680 series readers is used with the thermal printers of the
Model 680 and
Model 680 XR microplate readers. Supplied as 2 rolls....
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Sub-Cell Model 96 and PowerPac Basic Power Supply from Bio-Rad
Description: The Sub-Cell
Model 96 and PowerPac basic power supply are used for submerged horizontal gel electrophoresis of nucleic acids in agarose gels. This
Model 96 cell includes a buffer tank, a 25 x 10 cm UV-transparent gel tray with fluorescent ruler, and a gel caster. The PowerPac basic power supply, 10...
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Sub-Cell Model 192 and PowerPac Basic Power Supply from Bio-Rad
Description: The Sub-Cell
Model 192 and PowerPac basic power supply are used for submerged horizontal gel electrophoresis of nucleic acids in agarose gels. This
Model 192 cell includes a buffer tank, a 25 x 15 cm UV-transparent gel tray with fluorescent ruler, and a gel caster. The PowerPac basic power supply, ...
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Active site
...
Models
There are several models of how enzymes work. The lock and key
model and the induced fit
model whereby the active site binds and encloses the substrate molecule. Often en...
Allostery
...
1 Models of allostery
1.1 Concerted
model
1.2 Sequential
model
2 Allosteric activation
3 Allosteric ...s can be explained by either the concerted (MWC)
model put forth by Monod , Wyman, and Changeux, or by t...
Allostery
...
1 Models of allostery
1.1 Concerted
model
1.2 Sequential
model
2 Allosteric activation
3 Allosteric ...s can be explained by either the concerted (MWC)
model put forth by Monod , Wyman, and Changeux, or by t...
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
...e small drop of water... " - Stated after his discovery of the microscopic world over three centuries ago.
He is thought by some to have been the
model for Vermeer 's painting The Geographer (Stadelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt-am-Main). Vermeer and van Leeuwenhoek were baptised the same month, in...
Arabidopsis
...ard .
One species, Thale Cress ( Arabidopsis thaliana ), are one of the
model organisms for studying plant sciences, including genetics and plant development. Similarly as mouse and fruit fly ( Drosophila ) are used as
model organisms to understand human biology, Arabidopsis thaliana is used to ...
Artificial life
...he appearance of single phenomena. The usual way is through an agent based
model , which usually gives a minimal possible solution. That is: "we don't know ... Homer Jacobsen illustrated basic self-replication in the 1950s with a
model train set -- a seed "organism" consisting of a "head" and "tail" boxcar cou...
Model in Biological Dictionary
Fluid mosaic model
(Redirected from Fluid Mosaic
Model ) Jump to: navigation, search ... The fluid mosaic
model of the structure of cell membranes" ... the plasma membrane is the fluid mosaic
model . daNCinSam5678 (5 months ago) Show Hide ... job but i think that you shou...
Zygote
...t from zygote to multicellular organism involves cell division, the ...
model organisms for the study of development (k) Morphogenesis (l) Zygote ... .... Zygote - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... Zygote Human Anatomy 3D
model ... This article relies largely or entirely upon a single source. ... me...
Xenopus
...he way in identifying the mechanisms of ... Other Names for Xenopus . Vernacular Names: African Clawed Frogs. References ... Xenopus laevis as a
model organism. Syst. Biol. 42(4):476-507. de Sá, R. O. ... Microinjection of Xenopus laevis oocytes followed by thin-sectioning electron ... Part 3:...
Tympanic membrane
...ration Swedish MC, Seattle Washington WA ... Tympanic membrane perforation. Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery. ... An animal
model of chronic tympanic membrane perforation. ... Creating a stable tympanic membrane perforation using mitomycin C ... ... waves strike the t...
Trans-splicing
...plicing (a form of ... Destruction of U2, U4, or U6 small nuclear RNA blocks Trans splicing in trypanosome cells ... This trans splicing
model predicts that the downstream portion of ... There are large numbers of trans - splicing applications, each governed by the ... Such nonspecific...
Transposon
...etics), ...Genes carried on plasmids can find their way onto the bacterial chromosome and become a stable ... DGI leads in applying the zebrafish
model organism to determine gene functions ... The Sleeping Beauty Transposon ™ System (SBTS) is a non-viral carrier of genetic ... Knock Out ... SB...