JCI online early table of contents: Feb. 16, 2009

... View the PDF of this article at: https://www.the-jci.org/article.php?id=35541 NEUROBIOLOGY: Antibodies hidden potential to damage nerves unmasked Damage to nerves in the tissues, a medical condition known as neuropathy, can cause extremely debilitating pain. In some individuals, nerve damag...

GI Condition Once Thought Rare is Common in U.S.

...People who suffer from celiac seem to have a genetic predisposition and the disease can remain latent or asymptomatic for a long time until it becomes unmasked or more clinically apparent through laboratory studies or symptoms, Chey says. Diseases like diabetes mellitus, auto immune thyroiditis, prematur...

Rising Blood Sugar May Harm the Aging Brain

... And exercise might help offset the effect, study suggests TUESDAY, Dec. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists have unmasked what appears to be a major mechanism contributing to normal, age-related cognitive decline. Happily, it's a mechanism that is amenable to change: r...

FDA Mislead On Asthma Drug By GlaxoSmithKline

...by an independent clinical research organization, not by them. “After discussions with the Data Safety Monitoring Board, Glaxo was provided with unmasked results of the interim analysis and subsequently terminated the study. The SMART trial was stopped on Jan. 23, 2003, a “Dear Healthcare Professional l...

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American Academy Of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2009 Annual Meeting 'Highlights and Hot Topics'

...ms. Failure of the ankle to heal may be due to cartilage injuries, subtle ankle fractures, tendon tears, development of scar tissue, or abnormalities unmasked by an ankle sprain. A panel of foot and ankle specialists will use a case-based approach to describe their experiences with diagnosing and treating m...

ThromboGenics Completes Patient Enrolment in the Phase IIb Trial of Microplasmin in Vitrectomy (MIVI III)

...tes throughout the United States and is assessing the safety and efficacy of Microplasmin intravitreal injection 7 days prior to vitrectomy. Top-line, unmasked results of this trial are expected in June 2008. Dr. Steve Pakola, Chief Medical Officer of ThromboGenics, commenting on today's announcement, said:...

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Death

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Animal food allergens unmasked

The relatedness of an animal food protein to a human protein determines whether it can cause allergy, according to new research by scientists from the Institute of Food Research in Norwich and the Medical University of Vienna. In theory all proteins have the potential to become allergens, but t...

Bacteria control how infectious they become, study finds

...ly masked,?Svetlov said. It's only when RfaH finds the appropriate target sequence on a bacterium's DNA that this small portion of the protein is unmasked and can then turn on a select group of genes. These genes let disease-causing bacteria infect their host while at the same time protecting the bacteri...

Unraveling the viral mechanism

... Using powerful computer tools and cryo-electron microscopes, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine unmasked the secrets of a tiny virus that infects bacteria and, in doing so, opened the door to a better understanding of a variety of viruses that infect peop...

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The World's Best DNase Improved TURBO DNA-free

... l) was amplified in a 25 l RT-PCR using a TaqMan primer:probe set for mouse GAPDH. RT-PCR analysis of the DNase treated samples unmasked the RNA-only signal, which appeared at 15.3 C t . Additional studies have corroborated ...