Chemists seek light-activated glue for vascular repair
Surgeons battle time and the body's defenses as they stitch together veins and arteries, whether after an injury or in the course of such treatments as transplants or bypasses. Loss of blood before a site is closed and too much clotting soon after challenge medical care. Virginia Tech researche...Mayo Clinic researchers restore lost immunity -- Possible breakthrough for AIDS
...y have direct impact on many patients whose immune defenses have been compromised," says Dr. Platt. "There was no way we knew of that this part of the immune system could build itself back up. Now, we think that this is a way." Whether B cells contribute to a diversity of T cells through means other than imm...Study shows opioid growth factor safe for treatment of pancreatic cancer
...cancer cell proliferation, and give the body's own defenses time to battle the disease. For the Phase I clinical study, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, Zagon's collaborator Jill Smith, M.D., professor of medicine, Penn State College of Medicine, enrolled 21 patients with advanced, inoperable, ...Study finds HIV protein can drive immune cells away
...of how HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, evades the defenses of the immune system. In the May issue of the Journal of Virology, a team from the Partners AIDS Research Center at MGH describes finding how a key protein that helps the virus enter its target T helper cells may also keep away the T killer cells th...Disruption of a gene may prevent type 1 diabetes, UVa researchers find
...n-12 (IL-12), a molecule that helps cells maintain defenses against infection. Yang and Nadler's LSF studies acted as a trigger in investigating the role of Stat-4 activation in type 1 diabetes. "If you don't have a functional Stat-4 protein," Yang said, "IL-12 cannot express its biological function in many...Stanford scientists help bring study of smallpox virus into 'molecular age'
...tips the scales in favor of preparedness. To build defenses against a disease agent, its tactics must be under... the most sophisticated viruses in outsmarting the defenses of its natural host - humans," he said. "It can teach us in general about the strategies used by vir...New oral vaccine for Alzheimer's disease
...ich attack the harmful agent, using the body's own defenses to remove the threat. In an earlier immunization study, 6 percent of the subjects developed acute meningoencephalitis, most likely caused by autoimmune T-cell activation. This caused the trial to be stopped. By developing vaccines that can minimize t...Marine sponge leads researchers to immune system regulator
... solution suggests a novel way to boost the body's defenses against cancer. In Science Express, the online early-publication version of the journal Science , the researchers provide evidence that a sugary lipid known as iGb3 plays a key role in regulating the response of natural killer T cells, a component ...Multi-center study finds therapy boosts kidney transplants in 'highly sensitized' patients
...oduced in the body, can act as antibodies natural defenses against invading organisms called antigens. A processed form of immunoglobulin made from blood plasma can be administered to boost the body's natural levels. Researchers led by Dr. Jordan have published several studies showing that IVIG therapy incre...New system may help babies avoid brain damage
... overall lack of oxygen has been exceeded and your defenses are beginning to crumble." Dr. Devoe is a principal investigator on the study of a device that combines this ST segment monitoring which also is measured in an electrocardiogram, or ECG, with the standard fetal heart rate monitoring performed on 80...Rural America vulnerable to bioterrorism and natural disaster threats
...us to confront the inadequacy of our public health defenses in rural areas of this country. A strong national defense requires that we address our weakest links wherever they are." "Rural areas in the United States bring with them unique challenges that are much different than their urban counterparts," said......sthma sufferers fail to invoke critical anti-viral defenses when infected with the common cold virus, according to a study in the March 21 issue of The Journal of Experimental Medicine. These results could help explain why respiratory viral infections are often more severe in people with asthma and how infec...