Could skin cells become brain cells?
...y did this by a two step process involving soluble agents called growth factors which generated almost limitless numbers of stem cells which could then be made into nerve cells. Dr Chandran comments: "This study provides a platform for further experimental studies and raises the possibility of generating ne...Nanoshells cancer treatment proves effective in first animal test
...hese results confirm that nanoshells are effective agents for the photothermal treatment of in vivo tumors." Results of the study are published in the June 25 issue of the journal Cancer Letters. Invented in the 1990s by Naomi Halas at Rice, nanoshells are about 20 times smaller than a red blood cell. The m...Cholesterol-lowering medications may reduce risk of glaucoma
...nd lipid diseases. Nonstatin cholesterol-lowering agents were also associated with a reduced risk of having open-angle glaucoma."...Male and female smokers have similar lung cancer risk
...ales are exposed to and/or respond to carcinogenic agents do exist and that exploration of these differences may be of benefit in reducing the toll of lung cancer among both sexes."...New data demonstrates that Benicar(R) and Benicar HCT (TM) achieve JNC 7 blood pressure goals
...sive agent is titrated upwards and then additional agents added, as necessary, to achieve blood pressure goals. "Most head-to-head trials of hypertension therapies compare the benefits of each agent in terms of how effective it is in decreasing millimeters of mercury, the measurement units of systolic and d...Aspirin use associated with reduced risk of breast cancer
...n centered on chemoprevention, the use of chemical agents to prevent or inhibit the carcinogenic process, ac...r the use of aspirin and NSAIDs as chemopreventive agents against breast cancer, particularly among postmenopausal women. The mechanisms are probably distinct...New research on reduced bone mass and risk of fracture in postmenopausal women
...le: "Over the past 15 years, several pharmacologic agents have been shown to reduce fracture risk in osteopo...arly, the expanding array of effective therapeutic agents for osteoporosis reinforces the need for appropriate screening strategies to identify therapeutic ca...Compound in salsa may fight food poisoning
...f California, Berkeley. Most natural antibacterial agents found in food generally have weak activity. "The study suggests that people should eat more salsa with their food, especially fresh salsa," Kubo adds. In addition to dodecenal, about a dozen other antibiotic compounds were isolated from fresh cilantr...Breakthrough therapies treat Crohn's disease
...disease by exposing children to natural biological agents lost from their environment. Fontolizumab (HuZAFTM), a Humanized Anti-Interferon-Gamma Antibody, Has Clinical Activity and Excellent Tolerability in Moderate to Severe Crohns Disease (Abstract 900139) Until recently, there has not been a variet...Advances in Skeletal Anabolic Agents for the Treatment of Osteoporosis: A scientific meeting
...d future status of bone-building anabolic skeletal agents for osteoporosis treatment. This ground-breaking meeting is cosponsored by the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research and the National Institutes of Health. The first of the therapeutic skeletal anabolic agents, parathyroid hormone (PTH), h...Diabetes drug improves metabolic changes associated with HIV combination therapy
.... "We were able to demonstrate that this class of agents can slow down or reverse fat loss in patients with fat atrophy," says Hadigan. "However there are still a lot of questions to be answered about safety before these results can be widely applied. For example, those taking rosiglitazone had increases ...Even drug-resistant HIV infection responds to right treatment
...o the algorithm. New regimens of three or more ARV agents from two or three classes were created for each patient based on the "least bad" combination of agents according to drug resistance scores generated on the website ( http://hivdb.stanford.edu/ ). New r...Malaria: Plasmodium togetherness a strategy for breeding success
...te's reproduction. In the microfilariae, nematode agents of filariases, heterogeneity in the number of parasites ingested by the mosquitoes results from queues of varying lengths they form in the capillaries. Thus a similar aggregation event might occur in Plasmodium gametocytes, even if their very small s...OHSU study: Rate of brain volume loss predicts dementia
...and ginkgo biloba, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents and cholesterol-lowering 'statin' drugs," Quinn sa... do not routinely recommend that people take these agents for prevention until we know more facts, since some of them, such as the non-steroidal anti-inflamma...Medication for heart failure may be helpful addition to standard therapies
...nce carriers have a stake in this question, as new agents are likely to be expensive. Some demonstration of physiologic improvement, such as weight loss and correction of hyponatremia, is necessary but should be coupled to some index of improvement in clinical outcome. Heart failure researchers are still st...University of Minnesota to lead national effort in food bio-security
...roducts with biological, chemical, or radiological agents could lead to potentially devastating effects on human health, as well as major economic losses to a critical sector of the economy. Historically, efforts to protect the food supply have focused primarily on preventing and reducing accidental contami...Future blood tests may use tiny bar-codes to speed disease diagnosis
... to Alzheimer's, or identify exposure to bioterror agents such as anthrax and smallpox, they say. Details about the analytical test, which appears promising in experimental studies, are scheduled to appear in the May 19 print issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society , a peer-reviewed publicati...Study: New neurons can get out of spinal cord
...s "conversed," each pumping out -- within hours -- agents needed to pave the way for the cells' "hookup." In the lab dishes, Kerr saw the new motor neurons grow outward toward the muscle cells and form proper connections with proper receptors. The muscle cells that were connected to nerve cells even began ...Tacrolimus + mycophenolate mofetil & steroids: Safe, effective in preventing acute cardiac rejection
...o establish which combination of immunosuppressive agents is most advantageous to cardiac transplant patients in preventing acute rejection. The study evaluated tacrolimus + mycophenolate mofetil and steroids, vs. cyclosporine microemulsion (CYA) + MMF and steroids, vs. tacrolimus + sirolimus (SRL) and ster...Study shows opioid growth factor safe for treatment of pancreatic cancer
... Results showed that, unlike the chemotherapeutic agents often used to treat pancreatic cancer, OGF did not cause white blood cell, platelet or iron counts to drop, and did not cause gastrointestinal problems. Nor were there side effects such as hair loss, nausea or loss of appetite. Quality of life surve...