DDW Studies Present Evidence That Thalomid (Thalidomide) Is Active In Treating Crohn's Disease
...side effects reported were drowsinessand transient peripheral neuropathy. Celgene (NASDAQ: CELG) Corporation'sTHALOMID (thalidomide) was recently awarded orphan drug designation by the U.S.Food and Drug Administration (FDA). "Although this was a pilot study, we did observe improvements in CDAI in thesepatient...Study Reveals Gender Affects Lung-Cancer Development
... lesions. Because womendevelop more cancers in the peripheral (outer) parts of the lung than men do,Gazdar and co-workers presume that women smokers are selectively damaging theseparts of the lung, while smoking damage in men targets the larger, morecentrally located airways. The take-home lesson from this stud...... study kidney/pancreas recipients. In studies of peripheral blood taken at most recent follow-up, the researchersfound that levels of chimerism were two times higher in the bone marrowpatients. In addition, those receiving bone marrow had higher measures ofdonor-specific hyporeactivity. This indicates that ...AVANT Atherosclerosis Vaccine Raises HDL, Reduces Atherosclerosis In Vaccinated Animals
...vasculardisease including heart attack, stroke and peripheral vascular disease.Atherosclerosis can also contribute to other serious health conditions such ashypertension and chronic kidney failure. The American Heart Associationcurrently lists cardiovascular disease as a the number one cause of death in theUnit......body. Several hundred thousand central and peripheral nervous system injuriesoccur annually in the United States, primarily due to trauma and stroke. Thereis currently no technique in humans or other mammals which can repair severednerves in the brain or spinal cord or speed up the repair of severed pe...Steroids May Reverse Loss Of Substance Tied To Nervous-System Diseases
...eases and injuries associated with the central and peripheral nervoussystems. Treatment of MS already includes the use of steroids, because they relieveinflammation and speed remission. The new findings -- published in September'sbiochemistry section of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences-- in...National Science Foundation Awards Knowledge And Distributed Intelligence Grants
...cerebellum and parts of the cerebrum, spinal cord, peripheral nerve and associated muscles.The performance of the model will be analyzed from the perspective of robot balance and leg control. The researchers hope to develop a model of human (primate) cerebellar system function that is physiologically, neuroana...Health Risk To "Cigarette Babies" Is Neglected, Duke Scientist Charges
...age outside the brain, overstimulating cellsin the peripheral nervous system and adrenal glands that secrete adrenalin andnoradrenalin. This stimulation causes them to lose a key survival mechanismprematurely in the newborn. To protect itself from damage due to inadequate oxygen, the fetus andnewborn de...Neurotransmitter-Induced Electrical Activity Identified As Key Regulator Of Synaptogenesis
... glycine receptor, and that the expression of this peripheral membrane protein is essential for the... plasmamembrane. The aggregates of this peripheral membrane protein then act as a diffusion trap for additional glycine receptor polypepti...Diuretics And Beta-Blockers Are Best Drugs To Combat High Blood Pressure, Study Finds
... 75 women, 46 percent had damage to retina, heart, peripheral blood vessels, kidney or central nervous system -- all organs that are affected by high blood pressure. Each time a patient visited an HSTP clinic, the staff recorded items ofclinical importance, especially blood pressure and medication data....... nodes, liver and spleen. Theothers are plasma and peripheral blood cells. While clinical trials are underway at other centers to test the effectsof such a combination of drugs, the Duke trial goes several steps farther,in trying two different experimental protocols aimed at restoring the patients'dam...