The link between fasting and acute attacks of porphyria
...rphyria attacks can include severe abdominal pain, skin sensitivity to sunlight, and psychiatric disorders like hysteria, which may have been the source of King George III's well-known insanity, according to some historians....Fewer wrinkles and firmer skin linked to earlier use of estrogen therapy
...nopause is associated with fewer wrinkles and less skin rigidity in postmenopausal women, Yale School of M...rmone therapy makes wrinkles less severe and keeps skin more elastic," Taylor added.Taylor and his co-authors compared 11 women who had not used hormone the...Blocking a premature aging syndrome with anticancer drugs
...symptoms of accelerated aging -- namely hair loss, skin wrinkling, and fat loss -- around the first year o...w the same effect when he treated cells grown from skin biopsies of HGPS patients: HGPS cell blebbing decreased to near normal levels. "FTIs, originally dev...Anti-cancer drugs may hold promise for premature aging disorder
...accelerated symptoms of aging -- namely hair loss, skin wrinkling and fat loss. Accelerated cardiovascular... author. The new work involved using FTIs to treat skin cells taken from progeria patients and grown in laboratory conditions. If upcoming studies in a mous...Controlling the spread of invasive plants: a national effort one-day symposium, Aug. 30
...Exposure to its clear, watery sap can cause severe skin irritation, swelling and blisters that can last for several months. Contact with the eyes can lead to temporary or, in some cases, permanent blindness. A survey and eradication program is underway in western Pennsylvania and the USDA Animal & Plant H...Designed peptides: Candidates for the treatment of cancer, sexual dysfunction, eating disorders
...orexia, obesity), diabetes, sexual dysfunction and skin cancer. Victor Hruby, who is a Regents' Professor... eating behavior and metabolism, stress reactions, skin pigmentation and sexual behavior. In the body, melanotropins exert their various functions by bindin...Immune cells known as macrophages linked to growth of lymph vessels in eyes, scientists discover
...s. The team is now researching the same process in skin wounds and cancer....Researchers discover why melanoma is so malignant
... discovered one of the reasons why this particular skin tumor is so ruthless. Unlike other cancers, melano... shows that as melanocytes--cells that protect the skin from sun damage by producing pigmentation--morph into cancer cells, they immediately reawaken a dorm...UT Southwestern researchers develop screening test for cells that activate immune system
...ic cells, which are found throughout the body from skin to blood. They continuously scan the body at the cellular level looking for antigens foreign cells and materials invading the body and for molecular signatures of tissue damage or infection. "Their primary job is to present antigens to the immune s......Norway, for example, succeeded in converting human skin cells back into a multi-potent stage with an extract mixture of pluri potent embryonic carcinoma cells. Jeong Tae Do of the Max Planck Institute in Mnster showed that even differentiated body cells can be re-programmed into embryonic stem cells. He m...Scientists get first glimpse at how plants, most animals repair UV-damaged DNA
...ng. "So we humans have more of a chance of getting skin cancer than an insect or a frog." Scientists would like to develop drugs that use photolyase's mechanism to repair UV damage in human skin, but they've had trouble with the first steps replicating the photolyase reaction in the laboratory, and fully......ling to the whales' raised, callus-like patches of skin named callosities the grooves and pits between callosities, and also to skin in slits that cover mammary glands and genitals. The white whale lice covering the callosities creat...Hurricane aftermath: Infectious disease threats from common, not exotic, diseases
...n New Orleans in the coming weeks are likely to be skin and soft-tissue infections, most likely from cuts, abrasions and wounds. The primary culprits will be Staphylococcus and Streptococcus bacteria, both of which can generally be treated with available antibiotics. Diseases caused by consumption of con......ized by inflamed, scaly and frequently disfiguring skin lesions and often accompanied by arthritis of the ...egarded as an auto-immune disease that affects the skin and the joints. Alternatively, it was characterized as a skin disorder with immunological consequenc...Tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...n containing antimicrobial peptides from amphibian skin may inhibit transmission of HIV say researchers. ...maz. 2005. Antimicrobial peptides from amphibian skin potently inhibit human immunodeficiency virus infection and transfer of virus from dendritic cells t...Columbia scientists develop cancer terminator viruses
...ian, pancreatic, breast, brain (glioma), prostate, skin (melanoma) and colon cancer - because the virus is constructed to exploit a characteristic of all solid cancers. However, clinical trials are necessary before such treatments can be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and available for...Newfound roadblock to interferon effectiveness against malignant melanoma
...apies. Malignant melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer, and if not treated successfully, it can spread to affect the liver, lungs, or brain. Chemotherapy fights the disease with limited efficiency, and the use of interferon has become the most established immunotherapy for advanced-stage melanoma....JCI table of contents October 1, 2005
...T THE PAF Staphylococcus aureus infections of the skin trigger inflammatory skin diseases, including atopic dermatitis. But the mechanisms by which this bacteria can modulate the i...A novel method to measure circadian cycles
... the suprachiasmatic nucleus. The researchers took skin samples from humans and infected subsequently made tissue cultures with a virus engineered to report with a fluorescent signal when a certain host circadian rhythm gene was expressed. They found that their data jibed with the previously accepted len......ournal of Virology that compounds secreted by frog skin are potent blockers of HIV infection. The finding...explained, have specialized granular glands in the skin that produce and store packets of peptides, small protein-like molecules. In response to skin injury...