Molecule that destroys bone also protects it, new research shows
...Gaffen said, "but also because the consequences of therapies that target these cytokines need to be understood."...Preterm infants with RDS -- surfactant replacement therapies improves neonatal survival
...ary 2003 to June 2006. The alternative surfactant therapies over which Curosurf Intratracheal Suspension showe...ded a robust basis upon which to choose surfactant therapies for premature babies suffering form RDS. Even though natural surfactants have appeared for some tim...Scientists identify new strategy for preventing acute and chronic brain disease
... effective way to prevent it. Many investigational therapies for AD aim to reduce levels of amyloid-beta proteins (AB) because Amyloid-beta builds up to abnormally high levels in the brains of people with AD and is widely suspected to cause the disease. "We wanted to pursue a complementary strategy and try t...Keeping the immune system from starting a 'food fight'
...rrier may therefore provide the "next frontier" of therapies to combat the rising tide of chronic metabolic disease, they said. "Humans were not meant to deal with little to no exercise and a constant bombardment of nutrients," said Gkhan Hotamisligil of the Harvard School of Public Health of his teams findi...'Insulator' helps silence genes in dormant herpes virus
...omatin structures may help finding ways to develop therapies that can target the virus and not the host." ...May: Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month -- latest research is good news
...pproach will represent a meaningful addition to MS therapies and provide novel insights into the disease process itself."...New treatments have major impact on heart failure rates
...ave improved outcomes due to large scale trials of therapies but there has been a substantial gap in knowing how this relates to how new drugs and procedures are being used and implemented in hospitals. Our study enables us to look at differences in practice in a clinical setting over time and it has reflect...Unstable leukemia stem cells may predispose patients to drug resistance
...onic myeloid leukemia] in future efforts to devise therapies with curative potential, the authors write. In ...ene and future approaches to developing successful therapies for chronic myeloid leukemia. A future challenge will be to devise approaches that overcome drug res...MNI researchers find a new role for mitochondria in cellular copper regulation
... SCO1 and SCO2 is significant in developing better therapies for several neurological diseases....Scientists find new agent to fight genetic disorders -- Zorro-Locked Nucleic Acid
...ticle significantly raise the possibility that new therapies could arise where defective DNA is deactivated more completely and more thoroughly than ever before. For instance, Zorro-LNA could be used in combination with "RNA interference" (RNAi). Like Zorro-LNA, RNAi has the ability to deactivate genes, but do...Estrogen fluctuation affects epileptic seizures
...cted findings in her laboratory suggest where such therapies might intervene. Dr. Woolley had been selected to present this years C. J. Herrick Award Lecture, a distinguished award presented as part of the scientific program of the American Association of Anatomists. A decade ago, Dr. Woolley discovered that...Adult stem/progenitor cells repair of damaged brain, pancreas, kidney cells newly understood
...ls suggests multiple strategies for developing new therapies for a broad range of diseases, says Dr. Prockop. It also may help make such treatments more effective and minimize potential dangers. Dr. Prockop was the keynote speaker at the American Association of Anatomists meeting in Washington, DC., held as ...New understanding of schizophrenia could lead to new treatment approaches
...way of thinking about the causes of, and possibly, therapies for schizophrenia." The findings could also have implications for bipolar disorder, which has also been linked with NRG1 and also involves white matter defects, he adds. Working with mice, the researchers blocked NRG1-erbB signaling in oligodendr...A relative of anti-aging gene Klotho also influences metabolic activity, obesity
... proteins thus will be important players in future therapies for human conditions such as diabetes, obesity and kidney disease."...Antioxidant found in many foods and red wine is potent and selective killer of leukemia cells
...So, there is an intensive search for more targeted therapies for leukemia worldwide, said corresponding author Xiao-Ming Yin, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Leukemia is not a single disease but a number of related cancers that start in the blood-f...Deactivating protein may protect nerve fibers in MS
...ted 2 million people with MS. The only available therapies for MS are anti-inflammatory drugs, which reduce the inflammation believed to spur certain T-cells in the body to attack myelin, the fatty sheath insulating nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord. The fibers can't conduct impulses, leading to para...Brain networks strengthened by closing ion channels
...s. This discovery may help the development of drug therapies for the cognitive deficits of normal aging, and for cognitive changes in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). "Our data reveal how the brains arousal systems influence the cognitive networks that subser...New network launches to keep UK at forefront of stem cell science
...to help turn first class research in the labs into therapies for patients in our hospitals." The UK's stem cell research community has a strong historical foundation going back to the first isolation of embryonic stem cells in Cambridge over a quarter of a century ago by Professor Sir Martin Evans. Since thi...OHSU lab finds meth receptor that could lead to therapy
...he signaling system could soon become a target for therapies aiming to reverse meths adverse health effects as well as reduce the craving that drives its abuse. Working in the recently opened Program in Chemical Biology in the OHSU School of Medicine's Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, scientists de...Genes and biomarkers that allow doctors to choose the right therapy for the right patient
... therapies, enabling them to create more effective therapies for individual cancers personalized medicine. At ...r ways to identify how we can best tailor existing therapies to individuals and how to target experimental agents." Gray and his colleagues have developed a sy...