Breakthrough isolating embryo-quality stem cells from blood
...ed from the patient's own blood are applied to the wound to kick-start the healing process....Master gene controls healing of 'skin' in fruit flies and mammals
...ies a master gene called grainyhead that activates wound repair genes in the cells surrounding an injury in the cuticle of a fly embryo. These wound repair genes then regenerate the injured patch of cuticle. In a separate study published in the sa...Buying time through 'hibernation on demand'
...n of oxygen deprivation would include accelerating wound healing in patients, such as diabetics, whose abil...rable tissue damage from wounds that won't heal. A wound to the skin allows the entry of oxygen, which initiates cell death. In healthy people, cell death su...Scientists reveal how disease bacterium survives inside immune system cell
...fections, such as bloodstream infections, surgical wound infections and pneumonia. In their experiments, the research team compared the neutrophil response to A. phagocytophilum with that of a weak strain of S. aureus. Using microarray technology that allowed them to compare about 14,000 different human g...Cancer exploits the body's wound-healing process
...own for the last decade that a link exists between wound healing and cancer. For instance, in a 1994 experi...stromal cells opportunistically exploit the normal wound healing process to benefit the tumor," says Weinberg. In recent years, scientists have focused on a...Stem cell research at Weill Cornell, The Rockefeller University, and Sloan-Kettering
...ls in the adult bone marrow that can contribute to wound healing and blood vessel growth in tumors, and the discovery of a specific type of fetal stem cell that can co-differentiate simultaneously into both muscle and blood vessel cells. One of Weill Cornell's most distinctive resources is its in vitro fer...American Indians and Alaska Native veterans have higher mortality rate after surgery than Caucasians
...The higher risk factors found in the study include wound infections, low platelet counts, and diabetes. The JACS article cited related studies that found that American Indian patients received fewer kidney transplants than Caucasians and experienced a greater delay from onset of treated end-stage renal dis...Bacteria can survive for weeks on hospital surfaces
...ging from mild skin infections to serious surgical wound infections, pneumonia or blood infections. "The potential of MRSA to be transferred from person to person, in large part, depends on its ability to survive on environmental surfaces," says researcher Kris Owens of Ecolab, Inc. in Mendota Heights, Mi...Regenerative ocular biology the focus of ARVO Conference
.... Topics will include stem cell biology; scarless wound healing; and control of cell growth and differentiation by gene transfer. The Plenary Speaker will be Fred H. Gage, PhD, of The Salk Institute. Keynote Speakers will be Jean Bennett, MD, PhD, Mark W. J. Ferguson, BSc, DDS, PhD, FDS, FFD, FMedSci, C...Inner structure of cells behaves much as molten glass
...g in asthma, vessel narrowing in vascular disease, wound repair, embryonic development, and cell invasion in cancer, all of which have important mechanical components. Perhaps most surprising of all, in addition to offering a different way to think about mechanisms of disease, these findings shed light upo......ortant during an organism's development and during wound healing, but they can also promote carcinogenesis. The new study shows that one type, MMP-3, causes normal cells to express a protein, Rac1b, that has previously been found only in cancers. Rac1b stimulates the production of highly reactive oxygen mo...Researchers at UGA provide first look at protein expression in Chagas disease-causing parasites
...ite into the blood stream when victims scratch the wound site or touch it and then touch a vulnerable mucus membrane site such as the eyes. Despite the widespread nature of the disease, available treatments are unreliable, and no vaccine against the parasite has ever been developed. That's why Tarleton an...'Achilles' heel' of the herpes virus possibly found
...orm a shape called a coiled coil. This intricately wound structure, they believe, may be similar to the structure of some fusion proteins of viruses and also to cellular proteins called SNAREs. Typically, SNARE proteins help cells to manage the fusion of membranes of vesicles inside the cell with other spe...UNC scientists discover new role for protein as fundamental inhibitor of cell movement
... fetal development, new blood vessel formation and wound healing to occur in humans. Increased tumor cell migration also is one of the hallmarks of highly aggressive, rapidly spreading cancer tumors. The study appears in the August issue of The Journal of Cell Biology. The study indicates that CIB1 inhi...Immune cells known as macrophages linked to growth of lymph vessels in eyes, scientists discover
... a macrophage, is called in by the body during the wound healing process. The discovery of this new role fo...hages are large white blood cells called in during wound healing to ingest foreign invaders such as bacteria. They can also present pieces of those intruder...Anthrax stops body from fighting back, study shows
...s move in the body, Southwick said. "It relates to wound healing, it may relate to many diseases and manyproblems," he said....Hurricane aftermath: Infectious disease threats from common, not exotic, diseases
...unificus can also cause serious infections, either wound infections or blood poisoning (septicemia); V. vulnificus is a bacterium that is normally present in Gulf Coast waters and is usually contracted by eating tainted seafood. It is primarily a threat to people with weakened immune systems or liver dysf...UF researchers kill resistant bugs one bandage at a time
...earchers have led the development of a new type of wound dressing that could keep dangerous antibiotic-resi...ficiently mass produced and permanently adhered to wound dressings or ready-to-wear clothing to make antifungal and microbicidal socks and underwear. "What w...JCI table of contents October 3, 2005
...cell growth and division and is involved in normal wound healing. The authors provide data, which demonstrate that treatment with STI571 not only improved hemodynamic, and morphometric parameters but also increased survival. The PDGF receptor (PDGF-R) and PDGF is upregulated in the course of disease. STI...... causes opportunistic urinary tract infections and wound infections, and is becoming antibiotic resistant. "We also picked it for this research because it is spherical," Hochella said. Bank attached a single bacterial cell as the tip of a cantilever in an atomic force microscope, lowered it to a mineral su...