Researchers invent way to determine optimal conditions for spinal cord nerve regen in lab animals
...o as a "biodegradable spinal graft." Mayo Clinic's experimental scaffolding consists of several innovations. It us...t that it can quantify axon growth under different experimental conditions. "Knowing what conditions favor regrowth -- or retard it -- enables researchers to design...Merging hearing technologies sounds good to researcher
... and to rank the ease of listening for each of the experimental conditions. The average improvement on speech understanding for cochlear implant users, hearing aid users and people with normal hearing using the directional microphones were 11.7 percent, 21.5 percent and 23.7 percent, respectively. There were no d...Iressa news backgrounder: Testing of smart drug expands at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
...ront of testing Iressa, as well as a slew of other experimental drugs that target critical cancer cell pathways. T...chers in the late 1990s when news of the fledgling experimental therapy was brought to Houston by a former student of M. D. Anderson's president, John Mendelsohn, M...Preliminary results are promising in Alzheimer's gene therapy trial
...he brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease, an experimental approach to delaying brain cell loss associated with the disease, leads to increased metabolic activity in the brain, with cells apparently responding to the insertion of growth factor-producing grafts, according to preliminary findings reported Apri...Future blood tests may use tiny bar-codes to speed disease diagnosis
...ut 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 publication of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. The study was published online today (...First randomized trial of adult stem cell injections in heart failure patients shows benefit
...s of the first prospective randomized trial of the experimental therapy presented today at the American Association for Thoracic Surgery. Amit Patel, M.D., from the Division of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and a faculty member of the university's McGowan Institute for Regener...New type of anthrax vaccine moves into larger-scale trial at Saint Louis University
...ll be studying eight different formulations of the experimental investigational vaccine. All volunteers will be compensated for participating in the study....American Academy of Neurology awards 2004 Potamkin Prize to two scientists
... disease research centers focused on investigating experimental therapies to treat the disease. Nitsch is a profes...cine against Alzheimer's disease. Nitsch's work in experimental immunotherapy has been key to keeping alive the hope that science can find an effective and safe vac...Sounds of New York, evidence for a preferred ear, ultrasound for the eye
...rent messages. Session 2aSPa will feature various experimental demonstrations of this technique. For example, He...graphy ( hcsong@ucsd.edu ) will discuss underwater experimental transmissions of binary data simultaneously to multiple depths using this technique (2aSPa3). Philip...Adding menthol to topical creams for osteoarthritis provides significant pain relief
...ith wrist OA, 8 with elbow OA) were assigned to an experimental group based upon the location of his/her diagnosed osteoarthritis (i.e., knee, elbow, or wrist). Each patient applied the cream to the affected area twice per day every day for one week and subsequently returned to the lab for post-study functional ...Is there a relationship between repeated pregnancies and increased cardiovascular disease?
...advantage of such animal-based studies is that the experimental conditions can be well controlled, that repeated pregnancies can be induced in the animals within a short interval of time, and that blood vessels can be removed and studied for their reactivity. Thus, it was demonstrated in the rat that repeated pre...UCSD researchers determine fibrin depletion decreases multiple sclerosis symptoms
... studies by other investigators who used ancrod in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), another animal model of MS, also showed amelioration of neurologic symptoms. In the current study, the investigators also used cell culture studies to determine that fibrin activates macrophages, the major cell ty...Second NIAID SARS vaccine candidate helps mice fend off SARS
An experimental vaccine based on a critical piece of the SARS viru... not become ill. Thus, the protective value of the experimental vaccine can only be inferred, not shown directly....When 'switched on' muscle stem cells morph to resemble nerve cells
...tially be altered," says Majumder, but provides an experimental way of driving those changes....New drug prevents arrhythmias that cause sudden cardiac death
...eds of thousands of dollars. In the new study, the experimental drug was tested in mice that had the same molecula...nection to heart failure and fatal arrhythmia. The experimental drug also has great potential in preventing the relentless deterioration of the heart during heart f...Hopkins' young researchers honored for their contributions
...duate student Hao Jiang had to develop a cell-free experimental system before he could tackle the real question at hand -- how the immune system learns to recognize such a wide variety of invaders. For previous students and post-docs, the details had been unreachable. With the system he developed, however, Jiang ...Inactivation of Alzheimer's disease genes in mice causes dementia and brain degeneration
...ain degeneration. These results also caution that experimental drugs designed to block presenilin function, and thereby reduce amyloid production, may actually worsen the ongoing memory loss and neurodegeneration. According to Dr. Shen, "Based on our findings, disturbances in the normal cellular mechanisms for m...Study finds nerve damage can affect opposite side of body
...cribe their experiment in three groups of rats an experimental group in which the tibial branch of the sciatic ne...rocedures. Within one week of injury, rats in the experimental group lost almost all skin nerve endings in the part of the paw supplied by the tibial nerve. Surpr...Tropical medicine: A brittle tool of the new imperialism
...t the heart of policy development. While we accept experimental approaches to determine the effectiveness of clinical practices (see p 1093), we too often allow ideology to govern matters of political practice.' The editorial concludes: 'Tropical medicine is indeed changing. The intersecting lines of disease and ...An experimental vaccine prevents the SARS virus from replicating i... digest them or both. Scientists found that their experimental DNA vaccine caused the immune system to produce both antibodies and cells designed specifically to d...