deCODE discovers cause of major subtype of glaucoma
...ation glaucoma. The progression of glaucoma can be slowed using various medications that promote the drainage of fluids from the eye and reduce pressure on the optic nerve. However, exfoliation glaucoma is often resistant to drug treatment. Little has been understood to date about the pathophysiology of the......g the disruption of variantcombinations would have slowed dramatically. But the LD pattern instead suggested that selfing evolved on the order of amillion years ago or more, and perhaps soon after the evolution of thespecies itself. In their Nature Genetics study, published online August 5, the researc...Study points to new way to predict death risk from torn aorta
... arent large, blood flow inside the false lumen is slowed down, pressure increases, and clots begin to form. The study shows that the risk of post-hospital death is more than two-and-a-half times greater for patients who experience partial clotting (thrombosis) of the false lumen, than for those whose fa...Immune system 'escape hatch' gives cancer cells traction
... the immune system is in overdrive and needs to be slowed down, says Schneck, a professor of medicine, pathology and oncology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Kimmel Cancer Center. The teams latest report built on research initially conducted at the University of South Florida......esistant to the root-knot nematode, they are being slowed down by current time-consuming and expensive methods of screening for resistant plants. Now, researchers believe they have found a shortcut for screening resistant soybean crops. Researchers at the University of Georgia report the discovery of seve...JCI table of contents: July 12, 2007
...is attacked by the bodys own T cells, resulting in slowed and disrupted nerve impulses and, ultimately, axon loss. Myelin basic protein (MBP) is a major component of the myelin sheath and when used as an antigen will induce experimental autoimmune encephalitis (EAE) in mice, which is used as an animal model...Scientists identify 2 distinct Parkinson's networks
... NY The disease that causes tremors, rigidity and slowed movements in a million Americans also targets another brain network that regulates cognitive thought and the ability to carry out everyday tasks. David Eidelberg, MD, head of the Center for Neurosciences at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Researc...Tiny tweezers and yeast help St. Jude show how cancer drug works
...ever, the surprising finding was that drug binding slowed toposiomerase uncoiling of overwound DNA (positive supercoils) more than the rewinding of the strands of DNA that was underwound (negative supercoils). Our finding that topotecan preferentially slows the uncoiling of overwound or positively superc...Germany's embryo protection law is 'killing embryos rather than protecting them'
...n 2002. However, in 2004 this rate of increase had slowed to just two per cent. This is almost entirely due to the drop in the number of cycles in Germany. Prior to 2004, Germany carried out the most number of ART procedures in the whole of Europe, with France and the UK in second and third place respecti...Lancet study shows gene therapy for Parkinson's disease is safe and some patients benefit
...n develops the first symptoms of disease: tremors, slowed movement, muscle rigidity and problems with balance. The main medication used in Parkinson's is L-dopa, which replaces dopamine in cells that are still working normally. Over time, the cell death is so massive that the effects of the medication disap...Microbes at work cleaning up the environment
...idly to 100-nanometer diameter aggregates but then slowed or ceased after one week. However, zinc-sulfide nanoparticles in the presence of cysteine displayed more extensive and prolonged aggregation, accumulating up to 1-10 micron (1/1000th of a millimeter)-sized structures. Potentially we can use cystei...5.9 million award gives UK aging research a new lease on life
...emain youthful for longer and have glossy fur with slowed appearance of grey hair. Their eyes are unclouded by cataracts, and they are more active, both physically and sexually." The researchers hope to explore how their findings in the animal models relate to the human ageing process, in particular neuro...QUT microgravity tower attracts global scientific community
...n inflated airbag that allows the experiment to be slowed down and readied for another drop. Scientists are able to analyse the result when the drop is completed, Professor Steinberg said. Professor Steinberg said the microgravity tower would be an attractive and cheap alternative to the usual methods of ...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...uccessive generations. Overexpression of p57 Kip2 slowed the proliferation rate of OPCs in vitro to various degrees, depending on the availability of mitogen and of external differentiation cues. Buildup of p57 Kip2 also triggered expression of early gene markers of myelination. When the authors knocked...Story ideas from the Journal of Biological Chemistry
...udies had shown that such transport processes were slowed down in ALS patients and related animal models, but how such deficiency was connected with defective SOD1 has remained unknown. The new results show that this slower transport of molecules is probably due to an abnormal interaction between the newly-...Jefferson scientists use gene therapy to reverse heart failure in animals
... heart tends to increase in size. The added S100A1 slowed down this process and actually reversed it. According to Dr. Koch, who is also W.W. Smith Professor of Medicine at Jefferson Medical College, the added S100A1 appears to improve calcium signaling in heart cells, which is critical to the force of c...Landmark study details demographic, ecological and genetic spread of rabies in raccoon outbreak
... found that the Allegheny Mountains appear to have slowed the virus's expansion to the north. The study area ranged from North Carolina to Vermont, as far east as Chesapeake Bay, and westward into Tennessee and Ohio. "These results provide important insights into the geographic scale of rabies persistence...Testosterone may help men with multiple sclerosis
...testosterone gel for men with MS reduced symptoms, slowed brain degeneration and increased muscle mass in me... still showed that the rate of brain deterioration slowed by 67 percent. In addition, muscle mass increased an average of 1.7 kilograms, about 3.74 pounds, ...Researchers making significant strides against diabetic retinopathy
...Center, who showed that the compound ruboxistaurin slowed the progress of retinopathy by inhibiting an enzyme in the body called protein kinase C beta (PKC beta), which is believed to contribute to the blood vessel damage that leads to the disease. This is the first time a drug has been shown to protect ag......oxin that can accumulate to hazardous levelscan be slowed in its passage up the food chain to fish. "This research provides evidence that by eating high-quality food, organisms may reduce their bodily concentration of a contaminant," said lead author Roxanne Karimi, a graduate student in the Dartmouth De...