Celiac success: New enzyme efficiently degrades gluten in 'human stomach' environment
...ase; similarly, immune reactions can lead to organ transplant rejection. Koning said it "isn't likely that AN-PEP would be of any therapeutic value in any of these HLA-associated diseases" because Type 1 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis are real autoimmune diseases, where the immune system attacks parts of the...Dopamine drug leads to new neurons and recovery of function in rat model of Parkinson's
... neurons. One possible way to do this would be to transplant new neurons that are grown from embryonic stem cells or neural progenitor cells. However, this type of treatment is very difficult for technical reasons. The new study, conducted by Christopher Eckman, Ph.D., and Jackalina Van Kampen, Ph.D., at t...Researchers aim to cut future need for liver transplants
...nited Kingdom, 20% of patients waiting for a liver transplant will die from liver failure before a suitable donated organ becomes available. Head of the group Dr James Ross said: "Potentially, cell replacement therapies could provide alternative treatments that would avoid difficulties associated with obtain...World-first stem cell research could aid male infertility
... the laboratory into becoming functional sperm and transplant them back into the patient." The findings could also inform a field of stem cell research known as nuclear transfer, or therapeutic cloning, which aims to provide tailor-made stem cells to aid disease therapy and infertility. Sperm cells could pot...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- July 19, 2006
...number of sutures to successfully fasten a corneal transplant and secure the wound interface," they report. ARTICLE #3 "Hydrogels Formed by Multiple Peptide Ligation Reactions to FastenCorneal Transplants" DOWNLOAD HTML: http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/sample.cgi/bcches/asap/html/bc060060f.html DOWNLOAD PDF:...Medical steroid's baffling connection to osteoporosis becomes clearer
...ructive pulmonary disease, and it is prescribed to transplant patients to prevent rejection of transplanted organs. Earlier attempts to identify the connection between bone loss and cortisone produced seemingly contradictory results. In lab animal experiments, researchers found cortisone caused bone-building ...Innovative method for creating a human cytomegalovirus vaccine outlined
... threat to them. The exceptions are AIDS patients, transplant recipients, and others with compromised immune systems are at risk for complications. The virus is a member of the herpes virus family, which includes the herpes simplex viruses, the viruses that cause chicken pox (varicella-zoster virus), and infect...Mapping system tells skin cells whether to become scalp, palm tissues, Stanford study finds
...heir neighbors, and may help in growing tissue for transplant or understanding metastatic cancer. "There is a logic to the body that we didn't understand before," said John Rinn, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar in the laboratory of Howard Chang, MD, PhD, assistant professor of dermatology. "Our skin is actively m...Failure of 'scout cells' may lead to cancer in transplant patients
... Ohio A serious form of cancer that occurs in some transplant patients may arise because cells that normally ser...proliferative disorder (PTLD), arises only in some transplant patients, but doctors don't know why. This study, led by Ohio State University scientists, begins...Finding paves way for better treatment of autoimmune disease
...ersus host disease, a problem for some bone marrow transplant patients when immune cells from the donor start at...his finding indicates a potential role for helping transplant patients keep new organs, the researchers say. Dr. Iwashima has an Alcoholic Beverage Medical Rese...Invasive species alter habitat to their benefit
...rasses, asters, and goldenrods. Next, Farrer did transplant experiments to figure out whether the invaders were causing the changes she observed. She set up four study plots in a previously uninvaded section of marsh. In one, she transplanted live hybrid cattails; in the second she added litter---the mats of ...Contagious cancer in dogs confirmed; origins traced to wolves centuries ago
...ople with compromised immune systems such as organ transplant recipients and those with AIDS. In humans, occult ...wn to emerge on rare occasions in immunosuppressed transplant recipients, Weiss noted. ...Rapamycin shown to inhibit angiogenesis
...apamycin, a compound used for immunosuppression in transplant patients and currently under investigation as a cancer treatment, can successfully block this signaling pathway--known as the Akt pathway-- in blood vessels. This discovery further enhances the drug's promise as a cancer therapy. "There are three ...Healing potential discovered in everyday human brain cells
...nly take months to get enough material for a human transplant operation." The findings document for the first time the ability of common human brain cells to morph into different cell types, a previously unknown characteristic, and are the result of the research team's long-term investigations of adult human ...Promising new research on hereditary diseases
...ants also heard the very promising results of cell transplant therapy. People with Huntington's disease in France received cellular transplants into their brains, which then grew and made connections. The initial pilot phases of this research were so encouraging, even after a follow-up of 8 years, that the rese...Dartmouth researchers find key player in immune system regulation
...r finding is a complete surprise. We were studying transplant tolerance and what's required to protect a graft from rejection," says Randolph Noelle, professor of microbiology and immunology at Dartmouth Medical School. "When we went looking to see what genes were responsible in a successful graft, we found hig...JCI table of contents: September 1, 2006
...iduals whose immune system is compromised, such as transplant recipients and individuals infected with HIV, but it is controlled easily by healthy individuals. Now, researchers from the University of Cincinnati who studied both mouse and human cells in vitro have identified a potential reason for this differenc...Clue found to Epstein-Barr virus' ability to form and sustain tumors
...'s lymphomas, lymphomas in AIDS patients and organ transplant recipients as well as nasopharyngeal carcinomas. The SMPH researchers, based at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, focused on a viral protein they had previously found to be necessary to keeping Burkitt's lymphoma cells alive and growing in......ed, prior to his move to Johns Hopkins. "Even if a transplant recipient is suffering from diabetes, there is still a chance for reinnervation--just at a slower speed," he added. "Unfortunately, there are no techniques developed yet that speed the nerve regeneration process," he said. Currently, nuclear medici...