Research suggests new avenue for stopping, preventing colon cancer
...ostaglandin that blocks clot formation and dilates blood vessels. Long-term, high-dose use of the COX-2 inhibitor Vioxx has been linked to high blood pressure and an increased risk of serious heart problems in some patients. Last month, researchers ...USC study links historical increases in life span to lower childhood exposure to infection
...ectious diseases cause chronic inflammation in the blood that, decades later, leads to heart attacks, strokes and cancers the classic killers of old age. "We've put pieces together that are in front of everybody's nose and made a coherent hypothesis," said Caleb Finch, the study's lead author and holde...New way to protect brain from stroke damage
...brain. In ischemic stroke, the most common form, a blood vessel that carries oxygen and nutrients to the brain becomes blocked by a clot. As a result, part of the brain fails to get the oxygen it needs, a condition that damages nerve cells. The effects of a stroke, which can include paralysis and problems ...Joslin researchers clarify mechanisms for beta-cell formation
...of insulin to function properly, including keeping blood glucose levels in the normal range. It is a major ...heart attacks, strokes, blindness, kidney failure, blood vessel damage and nerve damage. ...JCI table of contents September 15, 2004
...nted stem cells stabilized and rescued the retinal blood vessels that would ordinarily completely degenerat...1382.pdf ACCOMPANYING COMMENTARY: Prostanoids and blood pressure: which way is up? AUTHOR CONTACT: Thomas M. Coffman Durham Veteran Affairs Medical Center, ...9/11 search-and-rescue dogs exhibit few effects from exposure to disaster sites
... dogs that would be cause for alarm." Initially, blood tests showed that the deployed dogs exhibited higher bilirubin concentration and alkaline phosphatase activity, which indicates that their livers were actively filtering toxins from their bloodstream. The serum globulins were also higher in the firs...New fruitfly model of diabetes has future implications for pancreatic cell transplantation
... completed picture of how fruitflies control their blood sugar will inform researchers and clinicians about...ells, and the liver to take up excess sugar in the blood and store it as glycogen. Conversely, when the sugar level in blood dips between snacks, glucagon no...Protein is key for digestive function of the pancreas
... production of hormones like insulin that regulate blood sugar, the pancreas also produces digestive enzyme...is and measured levels of digestive enzymes in the blood in the pancreases of normal and VAMP8-deficient mice. Compared to normal mice, mice lacking VAMP8 h...IBD (Crohn's, Colitis) 'joins' cancer, inflammatory diseases in associated blood vessel growth
...cade it has been recognized that the growth of new blood vessels is critical in the pathogenesis of cancer because it increases blood supply to malignant tissue. Relatively recently, a novel pathogenic role of angiogenesis has been es...A probable cause for high blood pressure identified - shows links with diabetes
...n the cell) in the brain that is known to regulate blood pressure and release of insulin. Furthermore, the ...rticular receptor in the brain is over-stimulated, blood vessels constrict and blood pressure rises," said George Prell, PhD, Associate Professor of Pharmaco...Researchers identify distinctive signature for metastatic prostate cancer
... perhaps measured by detecting some marker in the blood to distinguish indolent from metastatic disease, they could know to treat the metastatic form and not the indolent form," he said. "If the indolent form, for example, were detected in older men, it might not be as necessary to perform a prostatectom...Proteins show promise for mosquito control
... order to transport it in a liquid medium, such as blood or cell fluids, organisms must have a way to shiel...t cannot transmit disease, but it can still take a blood meal. The problem with that approach, she says, is that there are many uncertainties about releasing...Researchers report new gene test for isolated cleft lip and palate
... we've reached a point where it's possible to take blood samples from parents, test certain genes, and determine whether their risk for a second child with cleft lip or palate is, say, 1 percent or 20 percent," said Jeffrey Murray, M.D., a scientist at the University of Iowa and senior author on the study....Cell's gatekeeper for ammonia revealed in unprecedented detail
Bacteria thrive on it, red blood cells carry it in high concentration, yet the huma.... They are the Rh factors, most familiar as the Rh blood group antigens on the surface of red blood cells that can cause the potentially lethal antigenic inc...The search for a kinder, gentler chemotherapy
...omiting, hair loss, anxiety and a reduction in red blood cells are just some of the side effects that can occur with chemotherapy. "If there's a way to specifically target medicine to the site of disease, that makes this potential treatment all the more effective because then presumably you could use small...OutFoxed! New research may redefine late-stage cardiac development
...these embryos succumbed due to the lack of correct blood flow with two hearts pumping into the same set of blood vessels. Foxp4 belongs to a class of DNA binding proteins called transcription factors that turn oth...Serotonin metabolites in mollusks suggest pathways for human therapies
... student in the neuroscience program, measured the blood levels of serotonin sulfate as a time-of-day function. It may be important for growth, most of which occurs during sleep, Gillette said. It's possible that the role of serotonin sulfate in marine mollusks is similar to melatonin, which resests the ...Early detection hope for eye disease
...hod of taking pictures of the retina, to study the blood vessels of the eye and reveal the presence or prog...80nm and 600nm reveal the oxygenation state of the blood vessels in the eye, telling doctors which areas are healthy and which might be diseased. Dr. Andrew...Adaptive changes in the genome may provide insight into the genetics of complex disease
...tion and show a connection to diseases such ashigh blood pressure, kidney disease, susceptibility to infection, asthma,and Alzheimer's disease. He and colleagues used data from the Seattle SNPs project, led by Dr.Deborah Nickerson, a professor in the Department of Genome Sciences at UW,which is a large-sca......giogenesis researchers find way to exploit tumour blood vessels New cell death-inducing monoclonal antibody results from early study targeting TRAIL R2 protein Lypcopene and vitamin E inhibits prostate tumours new laboratory results underpin epidemiological evidence patient trial now started Interna...