Duke Study Suggests New Class Of Drugs Could Bypass Leptin Loop
...ct, their study shows that leptinis only the first step in a series of events that ultimately boosts fatme...rown fat, sometimes referred to as "good"fat. This step appears to be near the endpoint of the leptin "feedback"loop. The loop begins with white fat cells, ...KUMC Researchers Announce Breakthrough Method For Predicting Epileptic Seizures
...l types of seizures tested. "This is a giant first step for improved treatment for epilepsy," said Susan Arthurs, a patient of Osorio's and founder and president of the Epilepsy Alliance, a new, grass-roots organization to give people with epilepsy a voice. "It's very exciting to me, as someone with epile...UW, Siemens Unveil New Panoramic Ultrasound Imaging Application Using Programmable Technology
...nical needs," said Jin Kim. "This is a significant step in the evolutionof ultrasound products toward more flexible, next-generation ultrasoundsystems." The UW Image Computing Systems Laboratory is a world leader inacademic research for multimedia computing and imaging technologies. Thelaboratory combine...Drug And Radiation Treatment May Shrink Pancreatic And Gastric Tumors
...creas andstomach. The finding may be an important step toward a therapy for pancreatic andstomach malignancies. No effective treatments for these cancers currentlyexist. Indeed, the five-year survival rate for patients with pancreatic canceris less than five percent. The treatment was developed by the ...Duke Study Uses Tiny Temperature Changes To Probe Water-Exclusion At Protein Binding Sites
...essed,"he said. According to Toone, the next step in his research "is to try andlearn more about the relationship between shape and hydrophobicity. "Certainly if you could find some motifs that are especially hydrophobic,to the extent that you could incorporate them into the structure of a can......University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The next step is U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval, Barnessays, which means finding a research partner with enough interest tocooperate on extensive clinical studies. Suitable partners could includemanufacturers of emerging digital mammogram scanners, med...New Ultrasound Technique Is Alternative To Cerebral Angiography
... Assessing the extent of blockage is an important step in decidingwhether an operation is needed to remov...tly, doctors use cerebral angiography as the final step inassessing the blockage to determine whether surgery is needed. This methodinvolves inserting a cat...Common Drug-Capsule Coating Not As Inert As Previously Thought
...s material. Andin learning about that we can go a step further and use that to guide thefabrication and development of new biomaterials." Leckband and Sheth discussed their findings in the August issue of theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences....Drug Regimen Reduces Atrial Fibrillation After Heart Surgery
....D., a member of the U-M research team. "The next step is to determine if similar benefits can be achieved when the medication is administered in an accelerated dose over a shorter period of time." That's important because heart surgery often must be performed quickly, without the luxury of a length...Mammography Messages Need To Be Tailored For Older Women
... not leaning toward getting a mammogram, the first step shouldbe to find out why." Skinner was primary investigator in a study of 253 women livingin two high-rise complexes in urban St. Louis. A 1995 phone surveyof these women, who were 65 years of age or older, explored theerroneous beliefs, fears and p...Chemists Closing In On Commercial Potential Of Alkanes
... ofthe earth's most plentiful materials is another step closer to realization.Using ultrafast spectroscopi...and assigned,and energy barriers for each reaction step from solvation to formation of thefinal alkyl hydride product have been estimated." Says Harris...Enhancing Night Visibility Using UV Technology To Be Tested On Virginia Tech's Smart Road
...ioner David R. Gehr says, "This projectis one more step in VDOT's progress toward building "smart" highways, an overallplan to use the best technologies to make our transportation system increasinglysafe and efficient for motorists." The Smart Road, recently begun between Blacksburg and I-81 in Mo......ipated in the tutorial found it to bea significant step in their medical training. "This exercise helped me to really think about and analyze patients," says LeoKim, a first-year medical student who participated in the tutorial. "Like verydetailed paintings, the human body is very complex, and learning t..."Powerful New Tool" For AIDS Is Reported In Science
...easurement." Initial in vivo results are the first step in the development process of this diagnostic technology. SpectruMedix is a U.S. company with a strong focus on medical and scientific technologies and associated instrumentation. It manufactures nearly the entire range of magnetic sector mass spect...New Research In Battling Alzheimer's Impact On Memory
...Western ReserveUniversity may have found the first step in the formation of toxic plaquebelieved responsib...esign drugs that might prevent either this initial step or itscontinuation into Alzheimer's disease. A sequence of 40 to 42 amino acids, aso-called beta-pe...Researchers Identify Candidate Immunosuppressant With Fewer Side Effects
...wly identified peptide prevents a single, specific step in the immunesystem's signaling pathway, so researchers anticipate that it will not causeserious side effects. Anjana Rao, professor of pathology, Patrick Hogan, investigator, andtheir colleagues at Harvard Medical School and the Center for B...Researchers Synthesize Compounds For New Class Of Antibiotics
... from a chemistry point of view, butit's the first step in the process, " said Michael G. Palfreyman, VicePresident of Research and Development at Scriptgen. "Now we need to takemyxopyronin and make it more drug-like. The synthesis was designed to allow usto make many analogs--many different candidates--...Compound In Meat Prevents Diabetes, Study Suggests
...ne how CLA regulates glucose metabolism. "Our next step will be to see if the weight loss is real and sustained over time, and the second thing will be investigating whether CLA just delays the onset of diabetes for a time or if it actually prevents it from ever occurring. We also want to really nail down......taining the inflammatory reaction. The penultimate step in this pathologicprocess is the entry of some vessel wall cells into a process known as apoptosis(self-destruction); cell debris accumulate and destabilize the atheroma plaque.Myocardial infarction can ensue if the plaque breaks free from the vessel...HIV Patients' Mental Health Affects How Seriously They Take Treatment
...tor. The findings, Holzemer said, are an important step in the continuous effort toidentify reasons why some HIV patients disregard treatment even though it mayhelp them fight the disease. A lack of adherence to medication and treatment hasrecently been identified as a key problem in the fight against HIV...