Pinpointing a culprit molecule in Alzheimer's disease
One puzzle in Alzheimer's disease (AD) research is why mice engineered to have the abnormal protein underlying the disease in humans show little pathology of the disease. Specifically, such mice are genetically altered to overproduce mutant human amyloid precursor protein (APP). It is this protein that, when clipped by enzymes, produces the amyloid beta (Ab) peptide that clusters into the amyloid...Caffeine is not the only culprit in coffee!
Heavy drinkers of coffee have been said to suffer from the negative effects of coffee that has often been claimed to be the effect of caffeine in the coffee. Caffeinated coffee has been found to boost blood levels of homocysteine, a protein component associated with an increase risk of heart disease. However, a new study by Dutch researchers that was published in// the American Journal of Clinica...Nine Major Culprits For Tooth Loss Identified By Researchers
Periodontal disease is one of the main causes of tooth loss worldwide and is the leading cause for majority of the tooth extractions (those with periodontal disease lost 2.8 teeth versus 1.8 teeth lost for those without// periodontal disease). It has now been found out from research that certain groups of people exhibit increased susceptibility to periodontal destruction than others. Th...Sudden Cardiac Death: Diabetes May Be The Culprit
Recent research highlights diabetes as a strong risk factor for sudden cardiac death, with the risk increasing with the severity of the disease.// The authors writing in the October issue of the European Heart Journal, assert that the prevalence of diabetes mellitus in industrialized countries is rapidly increasing, and diabetes is suspected to carry a particular high risk for sudden car...Death Of Turkish Boy: Bird Flu Not The Culprit
Turkey that is on the migratory route of wild birds had so far not witnessed any human causality due to bird flu. But the latest news about the death of a 14-year-old boy has raised doubts. So far // causalities were reported only in Asia with the death toll about 70. The health minister of Turkey denies the rumors about bird flu being the cause of death of the Turkish boy. T...Roma tomatoes the culprits for salmonella infection
Normally salmonella infectins are caused by non veg items but now roam tomatoes have been found to cause them//. US govt has now revealed that three outbreaks in 2004 were caused by this agent. The three outbreaks took their toll on health of people and caused havoc. The link was establoished when it was found that all outbreaks occured due to the common food item th...