Virginia Tech Researchers Receive Patent For Rapid Virus Detection Technology
BLACKSBURG, Va., June 19, 1996 -- Outbreaksof intestinal diseases due to contaminated water are on the riseworldwide, and over half of these outbreaks are caused by viruses,according to Charles Hagedorn, Virginia Tech professor of cropand soil environmental sciences. Marian Ijzerman, a 1994 Ph.D. graduate...Nitric Oxide May Hold Key To First Treatment For Deadly Form Of Malaria, Duke Scientists Report
...essel dilation to neurotransmissionin the brain to intestinal contraction to penile erection. "Virtuallyeverywhere scientists look in the body, they find NO has a role," Stamlersaid. "This study shows why. NO influences myriad body functions becauseNO is a universal signal." The body keeps NO, which is toxic i...Nitric Oxide Found To Control Cells By Turning On Genes; Suggests New Role In Health And Disease
...essel dilation to neurotransmissionin the brain to intestinal contraction to penile erection. "Virtuallyeverywhere scientists look in the body, they find NO has a role," Stamlersaid. "This study shows why. NO influences myriad body functions becauseNO is a universal signal." The body keeps NO, which is toxic i...Researchers Find Genetic Clues To Intestinal Disease
...dies, Johns Hopkins researchers have shown that an intestinal disease affecting 400,000 people in the United Sta...remains localized in one area of the intestine; 2) intestinal scarring that eventually causes blockage of the intestine; and 3) a more dangerous form that sometim...Erodible plastic microspheres could be effective oral drug delivery system
... taken orally enter the bloodstream bycrossing the intestinal lining, travel body-wide and degrade, releasing th...othermaterials. The microspheres moved through the intestinal wall and betweenindividual cells as early as one hour after being fed to rats. After three andsix ho...Enhancin Protein Attacks Insect Immune System
...anados and colleagues reported their findings, "An intestinal mucin is the target substrate for a baculovirus en...lar cloning and sequencing of a novel invertebrate intestinal mucin cDNA," is scheduled for publication in the Journal of Biological Chemistry (27 June 1997), aut...E. Coli Genome Reported: Milestone Of Modern Biology Emerges From Wisconsin Lab
...ed." E. coli's natural habitat is the lower intestinal tract of animals,including humans. Originally isolated in 1922 from a convalescent diphtheria patient, the strainof E. coli sequenced by Blattner's team rose to prominence as an experimental organism in 1945 when it was used in the discovery of spont...Plant-Based Therapies Examined For Colon Cancer Prevention
... looking for and measuringthe size and kind of any intestinal polyps that develop in the participants. "Ideally, we would like to find the lowest, optimal dose of each of thethree plant compounds that would safely inhibit the development of colorectalcancer," explains Shiff. The study lasts ...NIH Office Of Dietary Supplements Expands Research Support
...icine in Houston, Texas to measure the benefits of intestinal supplementation of three amino acids--glutamate, glycine and cysteine--in infants with ineffective intestinal metabolic function. The study will help clarify the role of these key amino acids in inhibition and ...USGS Scientists Implicate Exotic Parasite In Wisconsin Lake Bird Deaths
...ke. Onceinside a bird's body, the parasite causes intestinal damage and a slow death. Cole does not know which of the many varieties of snail inShawano Lake carries the parasite. Also unknown is how easily the parasite canspread. Many coots migrate to Florida and other Southern states for ...Biotech Approach To Feral Cat Problem Devised
...gested, it survives in the stomach and crosses the intestinal tract to cells in the immune system, according to Boyle. Once in the cells of the immune system, the Salmonella are killed and the ZP antigen is released and stimulates production of antibodies against ZP. Because these antibodies bind to the ZP su...Lactose-Intolerant People Should Drink More Milk, Expert Says
...e intolerance until they are 3 to 5 years old. The intestinal lactase remains high in all infants, except the very rare situation where there is a genetic lack of the enzyme from birth." Savaiano says milk allergies appears in 5 percent of newborns, but that almost all infants outgrow this allergy by their firs......fetal calcium demand was met by increased maternal intestinal absorption; early breast-milk calcium was provided by maternal renal calcium conservation and loss of spinal trabecular bone, a loss that was recovered postmenses. Am J Clin Nutr 1998;67:693-701. From the Department of Nutritional Sciences, Univer...Fortified Drink Improves Third World Nutrition
...ed a similar unfortified drink. All children with intestinal worms were treated with the anti-parasite drug Alb...ld workers. Albendazole, he found, eradicates the intestinal worms that infest 3 billion people worldwide and lead to growth failure in children. The latest st...University Of Cincinnati Biologists Find Evidence For Unusual DNA Repair InArchaea
...ansfer things that were done in E. coli (acommon intestinal bacterium) and apply them to these organisms." Grogan began his most recent work by using Sulfolobus mutants ingenetic recombination experiments. A common type of microbial mutant is called anauxotroph or nutritional mutant. The mutant requires a s...Taking The "Ouch" Out Of Needles: Arrays Of "Microneedles" Offer New Technique For Drug Delivery
...rointestinaltract, be readily absorbed through the intestinal wall, and survive attacks byenzymes in the liver. Conventional hypodermic needles get drugs directly intothe bloodstream, but cause pain, create the potential for infection, and requiremedical training to use. A limited number of compounds, such as......fect the intestines, causing pain,severe diarrhea, intestinal bleeding, weight loss and fever. They afflict about250 out of every 100,000 people, usually beginning in adolescents and youngadults. Symptoms vary in severity and duration; some patients suffer frequentprolonged attacks and others have fewer recurre...New Evidence For Growth Factor Role In Crohns Disease
...ike growth factor(IGF-I) in inflamed and thickened intestinal tissue samples of CD patients butnot in otherwise ...carring." During this thickening, wholesections of intestinal smooth muscle cells can become encased in a denseovergrowth of fibrous collagen. According to ...... survive theacidity of the human stomach and cause intestinal illness. "E. coli"contamination is responsible fo...entified as O157:H7 areenterohemorrhagic and cause intestinal bleeding. Victims may experience severecramping and abdominal pain, watery or bloody diarrhea, vomi......patients developed kidney stones inconnection with intestinal malabsorption problems. Cystic fibrosis, one of th... very,very low frequency of colonization with this intestinal bacteria," said AmmonPeck, a professor of pathology at UF's College of Medicine. UF researcherscoll...