Dietary Lutein Inhibits Mammary Tumor Growth And Normalizes Immune Balance In Tumor-Bearing Mice
...izedtheir immune response, enabling them to better fight the tumors." Chew and his colleagues investigated the role of lutein in tumor immunity byexamining hoe lutein stimulates the numbers and functionality of immune cellsthat suppress tumor development. Mice were fed a diet containing zero (con...Study Suggests New Approach To Asthma
...The products of these genes attractimmune cells to fight the virus. The JCI paper suggests that the same JAK/STAT pathway plays a key role in asthmaby operating even in the absence of viral infection. First, the researchers located Stat1 in epithelial cells they had brushed frompeople's airways and in bio...Immune Response To Hepatitis B Spares Liver Cells
... counter-attacked with a barrage of T cells, which fight hepatitisB by destroying cells that contain the virus. Thus, few HBV-infected cellsremained for the T cells to attack. The authors assert that the T cell-mediated killing of HBV-infected liver cells,an acquired immune mechanism that develops upon ex...Breakthrough On Microbial Disease Published In Science
...he discovery will eventually be a major aid in the fight against newlyemerging, drug resistant pathogens. ...ve weapons until they are inside acell. "You can't fight what you can't see," said Mahan. But Mahan has discovered a way to get the bacteria to revea...Researchers Engineer A Way To Improve T-Cell Receptors
... virtually untapped portion of theimmune system to fight a variety of autoimmune and viral diseases.In a biotechnological breakthrough, the researchers showed that mutations withintwo regions of the receptor protein allowed it to be displayed on the surface ofyeast. The work appears in the May 11 issue of...Dietary Supplements Could Put A Stop To A Royal Curse
...s could take glutathione orcysteine supplements to fight porphyria. "The stage is set for other researchersto feed people glutathione," says Dayan. If a treatment for the disease had been available centuries ago, it maywell have changed the course of history. "Because of his illness, George III did...Slimy Bacteria Common Cause Of Chronic Infections
...nce article also explains why it's so difficult to fight biofilminfections. Biofilms, for a variety of reasons, resist the antibiotic artillerythat's lodged against them. One theory is that some of the cells grow so slowly - or are so starved - thatthey don't pass along the antibiotics. Another idea is tha......d one ofthe body's defense mechanisms marshaled to fight infection, were more thandoubled in runners after the high-fat diet, compared to the low-fat regimen.Levels of PGE2, inflammation-causing prostaglandins, increased after theendurance test and were higher when the runners were on the low-fat diet. ...Researchers Propose A Revolutionary New Theory About The Way Cells Communicate
...cell to neighboring cell, like a bucket brigade to fight afire, a little bit spilling out with each pass off until the bulk of themorphogen reaches its destination.) Regardless of the particular mode of transport, however, the theory has beenthat morphogens arrive at their destination at a particular grad...Undiscovered Biological Diversity: A Symposium On Bioprospecting
...ioprospectors mine organisms formolecules that can fight disease, protect the environment, or even make a betterlaundry detergent. At the 99th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology(ASM) May 30-June 3 in Chicago, a microbiologist from the U.S. Department ofEnergy's Idaho National ...Until recently, a storehouse of antibiotics could fight off most infections frombacteria. But the overuse of antibiotics by doctors and veterinarians hascreated dangerous strains of bacteria resistant to these once powerful drugs.Many Americans are unaware that a major contributor to this problem isindust...Immunex Corporation and Genentech, Inc. join forces to develop TRAIL/Apo2L in cancer
.../Apo2L, an entirely new approach to research inthe fight against cancer. Pending FDA approval, the compani...ficiently evaluate TRAIL/Apo2L andits potential to fight cancer," said Arthur D. Levinson, PhD, Genentechpresident and CEO, and Ed Fritzky, Immunex chairman ...Jefferson scientists detail mechanisms of programmed cell death
...re trying to develop drugs that inhibitcaspases to fight neurodegenerative diseases and other diseases in whichapoptosis is involved in the pathologic process, and are developing clinicaltrials," says Dr. Alnemri, who is also deputy director of the Jefferson Centerfor Apoptosis Research. Understanding the ...Remarkable results from a new observatory
...in "real time" will help scientists learn howcells fight off diseases, why some cells fail to fight off diseases, how topredict and prevent diseases and to follow treatment of diseases. Also, it will......hers have experimented with medicationsintended to fight the infection and others designed to control and decreasethe inflammatory response and to neutralize the circulating endotoxin oroverabundant cytokines. But efforts to control septicemia and prevent itfrom progressing to septic shock have largely fai...UT Southwestern researcher finds genetic cause for Gulf War syndrome
...xonase, orPON-Q, an enzyme that allows the body to fight off chemical toxins by destroyingthem. This partic...duce high levels of PON-Q,allowing their bodies to fight off toxins like nerve gas. But in others the genedirects the production of low levels of PON-Q, mean...Duke researchers discover protein that can alert immune system to fight cancer
...y modern function:stimulating the immune system to fight tumors. The protein, called calreticulin, ...uing effort tocoax the body's own immune system to fight cancer. If further research provesthe proteins act the same way in humans, it may help scientists ta......ould some day lead todrugs specifically created to fight disease at the molecular level, says Dr.Elliott Richelson. Richelson and his colleagues in the Neuropsychopharmacology and Neurochemistrylabs at Mayo Jacksonville and the Department of Biochemistry and MolecularBiology at Mayo Clinic Rochester descri......e immune system as a whole so that the body cannot fight infections, or CMVmay promote HIV's growth locally in tissues, says Kovacs, director of theComprehensive Maternal-Child HIV Management and Research Center at LAC+USCMedical Center. Scientists in Kovacs' lab and other AIDS researchers are looking in...Rockefeller researchers inject cells, boost immune system in humans
...ate that this method could be apowerful new way to fight cancers and chronic infections like HIV." Bhardwaj,along with lead author Madhav Dhodapkar, M.D., a Rockefeller clinical scholarand assistant professor, and nine other colleagues reported the results of theexperiment in the July 15 issue of the Journ...