Scientist works on innovative treatments for brain tumors
...urosurgery, radiation oncology, cancer biology and pathology will participate in these studies. Debinki's findings may eventually benefit patients with other types of cancer. The researchers have observed that some other cancers have the same IL 13 receptors found in glioblastomas. Debinski's project is part o...Brain imaging study may hold clues to onset of schizophrenia in people at high risk
...intervene early on in some way to improve whatever pathology it showed." Belger is an associate professor of ps...ve tasks or whether or not they showed some of the pathology of individuals who already have schizophrenia," Belger said. The researchers found that when the he...2005 Research in Oral Biology Award
...ontribution to understanding of the physiology and pathology of the mineralized and soft tissues of the peridontium. She has published widely, currently serves on four journal editorial boards, and has long been committed to serving on research review bodies, AADR panels, and international advisory committees....New system for the analysis of facial movement in three dimensions
...ralysis Facial Paralysis is a relatively frequent pathology (each year there are nine new cases per 100,000 inhabitants), its origin being diverse such as, for example, obstetric, congenital, pharmacological, auto-immune, traumatic, surgical, and so on. Its surgical repair treatment can be carried out by stat...Researchers discover link between insulin and Alzheimer's
...logist at Rhode Island Hospital and a professor of pathology at Brown Medical School. "This raises the possibility of a Type 3 diabetes." It has previously been known that insulin resistance, a characteristic of diabetes, is tied to neurodegeneration. While scientists have suspected a link between diabetes and...MRI better than current standard in assessing neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer
...e results of these tests were then compared to the pathology results following surgery. MRI was right (when compared to pathology results) 71% of the time. It overestimated the amount of residual tumor in 6% and underestimated the...Hyperactive kids three times as likely to be removed from their families
...companying editorial says that the cut-off between pathology and a child with a difficult temperament is unclear, and as yet there is no public or professional consensus on the use of drugs to stabilise hyperactive children. The disorder challenges "not only our professional tolerance but also the way paediat...Women with thyroid problem have lower risk of breast cancer
...ompared to healthy women. Analysis of breast tumor pathology demonstrated that women with hypothyroidism were diagnosed with earlier stage disease and smaller tumor size. The authors say, "The observed association between hypothyroidism and breast cancer may be due to the biologic effect of (the thyroid hormon...Uric acid may help reduce effects of spinal cord injury, Jefferson researchers find
...arious models to distinguish between peroxynitrite pathology and its effects on blood-brain barrier function," he says. "We want to establish the precise timing where the inactivation of peroxynitrite will have therapeutic benefit," he says. "In the spinal cord, we know many of the changes occur within 24 hou...Promising treatments for Huntington's disease identified in UCI study
...lso are caused by this polyglutamine activity. The pathology of these diseases is complex and involves multiple cellular events. To address these complexities, the researchers matched compounds that together showed greater efficacy then they would individually and at levels in which their toxicity is lessene...Rat whisking may provide insight into debilitating eye disorder
...as a model system to deepen our understanding of a pathology in the human eyeblink circuit." The only neural circuits controlling reflexes that had been identified prior to the UCSD physicists' discovery were negative feedback loops, in which sensory input leads to motor output that withdraws sensors from the ...Association of herpesvirus with lung disorder questioned
... in the earlier study: a retrospective analysis of pathology specimens from a small number of subjects. They looked for evidence of HHV-8 in samples of lung tissue from 10 patients diagnosed with primary pulmonary hypertension at a Tokyo hospital from 1981 to 2003. They also examined samples of lung tissue fro...First US kidney cancer vaccine trial underway at Columbia
... Kaufman, M.D., associate professor of surgery and pathology at Columbia University Medical Center and director, Tumor Immunotherapy Program at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia. "We expect that combining IL-2 with Trovax will double the treatment response rate for our kidney cancer patients, offering new hope fo...Study sheds light on cross-species infection for BSE
...nts of this type, even in primates that mimic vCJD pathology following oral BSE exposure. Multiple oral exposure events over a period of years seems likely in the UK, and vCJD occurs predominantly in young adults, raising the possibilities of age-related susceptibility or exposure. More data will be forthcomin...Researchers hope monkeys can provide new insights into depression
...in women," said Carol Shively, Ph.D., professor of pathology at Wake Forest Baptist. "Current ways to treat depression are only partially successful. This may be an important opportunity to develop and test new treatments." She said that with current treatments, there's often a difference between men and wome...McMaster researchers develop test for rare bleeding disorder
...ward, an associate professor in the departments of pathology and molecular medicine and medicine in the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine of McMaster's Faculty of Health Sciences. The Transfusion Medicine Research Team at McMaster, headed by Nancy Heddle, helped develop the tool. Before Hayward began her ...Blocking molecules protects health of implants
... author, Themis Kyriakides, assistant professor of pathology and a member of the interdepartmental program in Vascular Biology and Transplantation at Yale School of Medicine. "Implantation of biomaterials and tissue-engineered devices into tissues cause the development of a foreign body reaction that can lead ...Size of myocardial infarct measured using MRI
... The Hopkins development, if confirmed in further pathology studies in humans, could standardize how physicians currently gauge the severity of a heart attack and a patient's chances for recovery. A variety of methods are currently used to determine the size of an infarct by MRI, such as visual cues, but the...Study suggests Akt3 protein is key to melanoma's resistance to chemotherapy
...rtson, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmacology, pathology and dermatology, Penn State College of Medicine. "Because most chemotherapeutic drugs work by inducing apoptosis, or programmed cell death, we predict that inhibiting Akt3 activity could lower the threshold doses of drugs or radiation required for ef...Fred Hutchinson receives $9.7 million to lead early detection consortium
...ry. Kemp, also an affiliate associate professor of pathology at the University of Washington, focuses on using mouse models of human cancer to understand how environmental exposure to carcinogens interact with genes to cause cancer. COLLABORATING INSTITUTIONS AND RESEARCHERS The Institute for Syst...