Researchers Discover First Animal Strain Of Hepatitis E Virus
...a, Md., have identified a strain of hepatitis E virus in pigs that is very simila...es , should help advance studies of hepatitis E disease in humans and eventually could lead to the development of a ......elicase inhibitors as new antiviral drugs to treat hepatitis Cvirus (HCV) infection. "This paper presents for...information on the criticalinteraction between the hepatitis C helicase and viral RNA," said Dr. Joseph L.Kim, Vertex crystallographer and an author of the Struc...U.S. Scientists Honored For Lifetime Contributions In Hepatitis Research
...obert H. Purcell, M.D., head of the hepatitis viruses section at the National Ins...ion and characterization of various hepatitis viruses, and to development of diagnostic tests, treatments and preventive ...Jefferson Scientists Devise Way To Treat Animals Chronically Infected With Hepatitis B
...llege may have helped devise a new wayto fight the hepatitis B virus (HBV). Timothy Block, Ph.D., professor ofb... a specific step in the life cycle of thewoodchuck hepatitis virus, the virus can't reproduce, shutting down its abilityto infect a cell. By blocking the...Study At UNC-CH Shows Chlorinated Water Dramatically Cuts Strawberry Contamination
...inated water significantlycuts levels of bacteria, hepatitis A virus and other viruses that indicatepossible co...l lunch programs, caused an outbreak of infectious hepatitis A thatsickened more than 150 children and school workers in Calhoun County, Mich. In their e...New Treatment Successful With Hepatitis C
...NCISCO, Calif. -- An inexpensive new treatment for hepatitis C,a disease that afflicts 1-2 percent of the popul... cost of interferon,the conventional treatment for hepatitis C. Interferon costs approximately$500 per month, and must be administered for at least six months. ...University Of Pittsburgh Scientist Discovers How A Novel Vitamin K Stops Cancer Cell Growth
...auses of this cancer include infection with either hepatitis B or C or chronicalcohol consumption. In the United States and other developed countries, livercancer may be treated by taking out the area of the liver containing a tumor orby surgically removing the diseased organ and transplanting a new one. How...Space Grown Insulin Crystals Provide New Data On Diabetes
...r, respiratory syncytial virus, sickle cellanemia, hepatitis and rheumatoid arthritis.......3.9 million Americans arechronically infected with hepatitis C. New Mexico health officials believe up to2 perc...on has the disease. Yet very little is known about hepatitis C risk factors--behaviors thatincrease the probability that a person will contract the disease. The ...Pediatric Anesthesiologists Risk Halothane-Related Liver Injury
...c anesthesiologists, 21 patients who had developed hepatitis as aresult of exposure to halothane, and 21 patien...l anesthesiologists and 62percent of the halothane hepatitis patients had significant levels ofantibodies. "The findings of this study indicate that some...NASA Research Helps Map Protein Structures -- Key In The Development Of New Disease-Fighting Drugs
...eart disease, cancer, diabetes, sickle-cellanemia, hepatitis and rheumatoid arthritis. While ground-based research has been (historically) vital to thediscovery of protein structures, in the near-zero gravity environment of spaceresearchers have produced some of the largest, highest-quality protein cry...Frequent Genetic Mutations In Hepatocellular Carcinoma
...ancer) are now relatively well known (infection by hepatitis B or C virus,alcoholic cirrhosis, etc.), but the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood.Research by Christine Perret and coworkers (INSERM 129, directed by Axel Kahn)shows that mutations in the gene encoding the protein beta-catenin are frequent......eveloping reengineeredpoliovirus vaccines for HIV, hepatitis B, other viral diseases and cancer, saidthe senior author of the study, Raul Andino, PhD, an assistant professor ofmicrobiology at UCSF. Recombinant viruses, engineered with foreign DNA fragments, are considered apromising approach to vaccine develop...Possible Dangers Of Taking Over-The-Counter Medications For Hepatitis C Patients
HERSHEY, PA-- Patients with chronic hepatitis C often take the over-the-counternon-steroidal dru... In each of these three cases the patients have hepatitis C and tookover-the-counter ibuprofen. After doing so they all had a flare-up of theirhepatitis. ...Ribozymes Come Ready For Action
...ture of a smaller ribozyme from the humanpathogen, hepatitis delta virus (HDV). Crystallizing RNAs is notoriously tricky. Crystals contain billions of moleculesthat must be aligned precisely if they are to provide a sharp image of amolecule's three-dimensional structure. But RNA molecules are difficult to ali...... also has used these vectors to expressproteins of hepatitis C virus, an important human pathogen for which no vaccineexists. "These vectors should be very useful scientific tools because, in amatter of days, people will be able to make cell populations that express a geneof interest," Rice says. "The ......he surface ofcertain human cell types binds to the hepatitis C virus (HCV). This discovery,reported in the Oct...s characterized whatwas then known as non-A, non-B hepatitis in 1987," said Lewis T. ("Rusty")Williams, M.D., Ph.D., Chiron's chief scientific officer and presid...PITTSBURGH, Nov. 5 -- Livers from hepatitis B positive donors weresafely transplanted and a co...splant a liver from a donor who tests positive for hepatitis B (anti-HBcpositive), a surgeon may do so even if it places the recipient at an increasedrisk for be...