Stanford researchers warm to cooling heart attack patients
...t-attack patients to protect cells that can become damaged during an attack. "Cooling is not a novel idea," Lee said, noting that heart surgeons often induce hypothermia during procedures. During a heart attack, blood flow is significantly reduced or stopped in the arteries - depriving the hear...Rat makes a partial recovery following a spinal cord lesion
...o further stimulate the growth and recovery of the damaged nerve cells. This is done by means of growth stimulating molecules. These neurotrophic factors are naturally present during, for example, the recovery of nerves following a deep cut in the finger. Normally they are not present in large enough quantit...Multimillion-dollar pain research center funded at Wake Forest
...a major influence over the perception of pain from damaged nerve endings. James C. Eisenach, M.D., professo...pain from back surgeries, industrial injuries that damaged a nerve, diabetic neuropathies, shingles pain, and possibly some residual cancer-related pain in peo...Stopping statins may cause rebound that triples risk of death
...n. Troponin T is a protein released by heart cells damaged because they do not get enough oxygen. Evaluating the protein in the blood of someone with accelerating chest pain provides a good indication of whether the patient is likely to suffer a heart attack in the near future....USC researchers define role of protein, discover cause of chromosome damage
...o one another. "What Artemis does is trim away the damaged parts of the DNA so that the strands can be joined," said Lieber. Artemis and the NHEJ pathway are so essential, Lieber continued, that mice lacking NHEJ usually die at birth-and those that don't generally lack an immune system entirely and experienc...Second patient with multiple sclerosis undergoes groundbreaking surgery at Yale
...es, in this case, the ankle, can safely repair the damaged cells in the brain and spinal cord that result in neurologic disability in patients with multiple sclerosis and other disorders of myelin. In multiple sclerosis, the immune system attacks the brains nerve fibers and strips away the protective myelin...Teaching computers to replace lost sounds
...n teach computers to deliver sounds that have been damaged in transmission. His research will aid military communications, improve hearing aids, and possibly find musics lost chords. Savic, a professor of electrical, computer, and systems engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., is acco...New minimally invasive surgical procedure for arthritis may delay knee replacement surgery
...o preserve the patients bone by replacing only the damaged cartilage and addressing alignment. Because the Un...acement surgery, in which the surgeon replaces the damaged knee with an artificial implant. Surgeons are generally reluctant to perform replacement surgery on ...Chip design has potential as artificial retina
...n artificial eye that has the potential to replace damaged human retinas, offering sight to the blind if the chip works as planned. The cellular nonlinear network (CNN) analog computer chip is integrated with a camera to produce an image processor. The innovation is the 1 cm-square CNN chip that can increase...Psychologists hunt for new ways to detect precursors to Alzheimer's Disease
...he disease before the brain has been significantly damaged by AD, a form of dementia that is believed to afflict up to four million Americans. Two different studies that attack the problem from the standpoint of both cognitive abilities and genetics appear in the April issue of Neuropsychology, published b...Molecular self-assembly techniques used to coat biomedical substrates
...g, such as bone implants, and scaffolds to restore damaged organ structure....Magnetic fluids offer hope for damaged retinas
... society. Silicone fluid is currently used to push damaged retinas back in place. A magnetized version of the fluid would make repairs easier and more precise by allowing the fluid to be moved to areas of the eye that are hard to reach, according to the researchers. The treatment appears promising in laborat...Enzyme halts muscle waste in mouse models of most-common childhood muscular dystrophy
...Without dystrophin, muscles affected by DMD become damaged and break. Martin discovered the enzyme as he looked for other proteins that might compensate for the disabled dystrophin in DMD patients. Normally, CT GalNAc transferase acts as a chemical stimulant to generate scaffold-like tissue at the neuromusc...Exploring the brain chemistry of people at risk for alcohol disorders
...nd hears. For example, humans whose amygdalas are damaged tend to be deficient in their emotional reactivity. In short, the amygdala is involved in both the alteration of the startle reflex and in more general emotional functioning. The amygdala is controlled in part by the brain's dopamine system, the sa...Sensitivity to gluten may result in neurological dysfunction; independent of symptoms
...etermine the mechanism by which Purkinje cells are damaged in gluten ataxia, commented Hadjivassiliou. Study results show that patients with gluten ataxia have antibodies against Purkinje cells and also that antibodies against gluten (antigliadin antibodies) cross-react with Purkinje cells. These results st...New study explores pulmonary rehabilitation in women with emphysema and chronic bronchitis
... Casaburi said. Although patients whose lungs are damaged by COPD suffer from a number of afflictions, exercise intolerance is often the thing that bothers COPD patients the most. Pulmonary rehabilitation is the standard of care for COPD patients. We are focusing on ways to supplement traditional rehabili...New oral medication halts blindness in AIDS patients
...opulation. However, if a person's immune system is damaged - as in the case of HIV or transplant patients - the virus can reactivate. The incidence of blindness caused by CMV retinitis has dropped considerably, largely due to better HIV treatments. Other investigators are now examining whether the pills are ...Hope for kidney transplant patients of improved graft survival
...osporine and result in an improved function of the damaged kidney. Kidney function can be assessed by the r...t therapies (such as cyclosporine), in chronically damaged kidneys may contribute to progressive kidney failure." Dr Dudley continued, "By offering safe strate...USC ophthalmologists announce launch of permanent retinal implant study
...e retinal prosthesis, intended to stand in for the damaged retinal cells in people suffering from such blinding diseases as retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration, will one day be able to restore some degree of vision to these patients. The investigational device was originally conceived of by Mark Hu...Continued disruption of movement among alcoholics despite abstinence
...udies. "Certain regions of the cerebellum that are damaged by chronic alcoholism are important for regulating smooth movement of the arms and legs," said Sullivan. "Selective damage of these structures can cause jerky and somewhat dyscoordinated movement. Thus, even when an alcoholic becomes sober, 'ataxia...