New approaches to protecting transplanted organs make first steps toward patients
AUGUSTA, Ga. - Methods used by the body to selectively suppress the immune response may help make organ transplants safer and more effective, according to scientists. "If you like, what we are trying to do is make every tissue transplant much more like a fetus," said Dr. Andrew L. Mellor, direc...Woman's Abdominal Organs Removed in Unique Cancer Surgery
Taking out stomach, pancreas, liver, spleen, small intestine and large intestine led to lifesaving operation MONDAY, March 24 (HealthDay News) -- Brooke Zepp, a 63-year-old South Florida woman, was diagnosed last May with leiomyosarcoma, a rare cancerous tumor deep inside her abdomen t...Doctors will soon be able to feel organs via a display screen
With the aid of computerized image analysis, it may be possible in the future for radiologists to feel images with the help of a three-dimensional mouse. Erik Vidholm at Uppsala University has been involved in developing the new technology, which makes it easier to diagnose and plan the treatment...Microscopic 'beads' could help create 'designer' immune cells that ignore transplanted organs
AUGUSTA, Ga. The future of organ transplantation could include microscopic beads that create "designer" immune cells to help patients tolerate their new organ, Medical College of Georgia researchers say. "It's absolutely natural," says Dr. Anatolij Horuzsko, reproductive immunologist at the MC...Improved DNA stool test could detect digestive cancers in multiple organs
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Mayo Clinic researchers have demonstrated that a noninvasive screening test can detect not only colorectal cancer but also the common cancers above the colon -- including pancreas, stomach, biliary and esophageal cancers. This is one of more than 100 Mayo Clinic studies being p...Cancer Centers of North Carolina Offers HDR Brachytherapy for Treatment of Cancerous Tumors
...very system is used to optimize the dose distribution to the target. As a result of this precise delivery, the surrounding healthy tissue and critical organs are preferentially spared from high doses of radiation and side effects may be reduced. Unlike low dose rate brachytherapy treatment, HDR thera...First Potential Lupus-Specific Treatment in Sight
...s patients who were treated with BENLYSTA had improvement in overall disease activity without clinically significant flare-ups in one or more isolated organs when compared to patients who received the placebo (inactive agent). The patients receiving BENLYSTA also were able to reduce their intake of steroid ...Inspiration for 'My Sister's Keeper' Speaks Out
...raft. "We decided Adam's cord blood would be used to attempt to save Molly's life, but that would be it. He would not be used for his blood, marrow or organs after he was born." Today all the Nash children are thriving. Adam's cord blood succeeded in curing Molly's leukemia. While she still lives with...In Rare Disorder, a Familiar Protein Disrupts Gene Function
...s Hospital of Philadelphia, where he directs a unique full-service clinic for children with CdLS. First described in 1933, CdLS affects multiple organs and typically results in distinctive facial features, such as thin eyebrows that join, long eyelashes, thin lips, and excessive body hair. It affects ...Intra-Aortic Balloon (IAB) / iPulse
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Description:... Smooth, rounded working end manipulates organs less traumatically. Used as a general manipulative instrument....Multi Frequency Finger Grip Intraoperative Transducer UST-8731-7.5
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Description:...requency "I shaped convex intraoperative transducer. The UST-995-7.5 nestles comfortably between your index and middle fingers so that you can palpate organs while scanning at the same time....Multi Frequency Convex Abdominal Transducer with Harmonic Echo Imaging
Description:... Scan internal organs percutaneously while eliminating side lobe artifact....UCR scientists identify stem-cell genes that help form plant organs
RIVERSIDE, Calif. Plant stem-cells are master cells located at the tip of the stem and are part of a structure called the shoot apical meristem (SAM). Here, the stem cellsall clumped togetherdivide throughout the life of the plant to give rise to other cells, resulting in the formation of above-g...New regulatory mechanism discovered for cell identify and behavior in forming organs
CINCINNATI Two proteins interact in a previously unknown molecular mechanism that may have broad implications in future studies looking for the causes of defective organs in fetuses, metastatic cancers and other diseases, according to researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. ...Scientists explore how complex organs develop from a simple bud
The current issue of Differentiation, guest-edited by Brigid Hogan, highlights several scientific investigations into the complex biological mechanism known as branching morphogenesis. Through a series of seven laboratory reviews, important insights governing this process during animal development ...PNAS study reveals why organs fail following massive trauma
Massive trauma, say from a sabertooth tiger attack, meant immediate death for the primitive human. Modern man is more likely to survive severe injury caused by a car crash, gunshot or fall thanks to high-tech emergency medicine. Unfortunately, the body does not know what to do when it survives an ...Researchers discover which organs in Antarctic fish produce antifreeze
Thirty-five years ago Arthur DeVries of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign first documented antifreeze glycoproteins (AFGPs) in Antarctic notothenioid fishes. This month three colleagues report they've solved the ensuing, long-running mystery of where these AFGPs, which allow the fish t...Study finds how organs monitor themselves during early development
How are you? In biological terms this question could involve a feedback loop that lets the body check in on itself and then act on that information. Although feedback loops are essential and they abound in biology, they aren't well understood. Feedback loops enable an organ such as the liver to det...Canadian researchers discover gene related to the appearance of aging
...GGI co-lead. "It provides the impetus for further work that could help us understand the development of skin, the largest, and one of the most complex organs of the body. It shows that you can't mess with proline without causing a dramatic effect on many systems, including brain development." The gene is ...Stanford researchers find a quicker, cheaper way to sort isotopes
...macologists can use isotopic analysis to measure the targeting precision of a specific drug by testing samples of urine and breath to see if the right organs have properly metabolized it. Also, climatologists can learn more about the ancient earth by studying carbon dioxide locked within cores of ice, Zare ...Sigma-Aldrich and Atlas Antibodies Announce 2,300 New, Highly Validated Prestige Antibodies(RM)
...PA) program. The HPA program generates expression and localization patterns of proteins in a large portion of both normal and cancer human tissues and organs resulting in the antibody-based profiling presented in the publicly available Human Protein Atlas (HPA) ( http://www.proteinatlas.org ). The HPA v...Dr. P Set - Human Fetal Normal Tissue: Umbilical Cord from BioChain
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Description:... Dr. P Set from different Cynomolgus monkey normal tissues are available. More organs maybe available upon request. Customers can choose any two items from the whole set, and pay 70% of the whole set price. All Dr. P Set products are ...Multi - Organ Tissue - Arrays from Dominion Pharmakine S.L.
Description:... A collection of 42 spots with normal tissues from different organs of C57 mice, rat and human....Porcine Galanin , 125I Conjugated/Tagged from PerkinElmer
Description:...h is flammable may be fatal if swallowed, harmful if inhaled or absorbed through the skin. This component causes central nervous depression and target organs are the eyes, liver and kidneys\n...Human, Porcine Endothelin-1 , 125I Conjugated/Tagged from PerkinElmer
Description:...ponent which is harmful by contact, ingestion and inhalation. It is irritating to the eyes, skin and respiratory tract, is toxic and flammable. Target organs are the central nervous system, respiratory system, kidneys and liver.\n...Human, Porcine Endothelin-1 , 125I Conjugated/Tagged from PerkinElmer
Description:...ponent which is harmful by contact, ingestion and inhalation. It is irritating to the eyes, skin and respiratory tract, is toxic and flammable. Target organs are the central nervous system, respiratory system, kidneys and liver.\n...