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...hich smallproteins called peptides bind, causing a cascade of cellular events. Areceptor, the MG protein lends itself to serve as a target for drug development,noted Dr. Moore. Also, a small portion of the protein's end sticks into thecell's interior, which may act to signal internal cell activity upon pep......cine and physiology. "Now that we know thechemical cascade that activates this mucus gene we should be able to developstrategies to control mucus production and prevent it from blocking airways."Nadel is senior author of a report on the research appearing in the currentissue of the Proceedings of the Nationa...Studies Document Ease Of Ecosystem Disruption
...ecause of that, an impacton a keystone species may cascade through the community and cause a relativelyquick, system-wide impact." The new study reported in Nature, on the other hand, looked not so muchat the keystone species of an ecosystem but the comparatively minor species thatoften get ignored.......an soonbegin to develop new approaches to stop the cascade of this lethal syndrome."...UV Radiation Induces Vitamin A Deficiency In Skin
...e inability to respond to retinoic acid triggers a cascade of biochemicalchanges that upsets the normal balance between healthy and dying skin cells. Inessence, UV causes a functional vitamin A deficiency in human skin. "We also found that pretreating skin with retinoic acid---the active form ofvitamin A---......doing, the research team also found evidence for a cascade of events thateventually results in cellular destabilization - a process which manifests asmuscle weakness in patients with this and other forms of muscular dystrophy. It is hoped that the Penn-developed technique would be ultimately transferablet......ases, degenerationof nerve function is caused by a cascade of events, beginning with a trauma thatinduces an increase of calcium in nerve cells. Excess calcium, in turn,increases the level of enzymes called calpains, which promote the breakdown ofproteins and other factors critical to nerve functioning. ......l other known nuclear receptors, but by asignaling cascade that culminates in phosphorylation, the addition o...etermined that the SF-1 receptor is regulated by a cascade ofsignals initiated outside of the cell that, through a series of molecularevents, ultimately cause ......ep in developing new approaches to stop the deadly cascade of septicemia andseptic shock. John M. Graham, Jr., M.D., Sc.D., director of Clinical Genetics andDysmorphology at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Genetics Birth Defects Center, willpresent a lecture titled "Cole-Hughes Macrocephaly-Mental Retardation Syndr...Drug stops blinding blood vessel growth in mice
..." In diabetics, high blood sugar through a cascade of events can lead todamage to normal retinal blood vessels and a decrease in the supply of oxygenand nutrients. The retina calls for back up by releasing vascular endothelialgrowth factor (VEGF), a substance that stimulates new blood vessels to gro......an soon begin to develop new approaches tostop the cascade of this lethal syndrome."...NYU scientists discover gene for a dementing brain disease
...iscovery provides new opportunities to uncover the cascade of events leading to the loss of synapses and neurons triggering the development of dementia. If we can interfere with this cascade, common to many of the dementias, including Alzheimer's, we may be able to stall the disease process in its tracks." ...Head trauma damages DNA repair mechanism
...rugs are given to stop calcium entry. But, this cascade of events occurs outside the nucleus, away from the genome."If we go to great lengths to protect the cell and in the meantime the DNA isalso damaged due to trauma, that cell is doomed and all of our heroic effortswill have been in vain," notes McInto...Mechanical forces found to exert larger role in blood vessel health and disease
...eved to be akey intermediate in the cell signaling cascade for both shear stress and VEGF,according to their recent paper. Tarbell, who directs Penn State's Biomolecular Transport Dynamics Option forgraduate study in the Life Sciences Consortium, notes that his group alsoinvestigates the effects of fluid fl......es that roam cells disrupting other molecules in a cascade ofcellular events that may be at the very root of the aging process....