American Heart Association Media Advisory: Cholesterol Lowering Margarines
...and cause atherosclerosis,the disease process that underlies heart attacks. "For people with elevated levels of cholesterol, the new margarines can providean effective 'boost' to a LDL-cholesterol-lowering plan prescribed by aphysician that includes a healthy diet, physical activity, and in someindividuals, me...Myc's cancer-causing joy ride more reckless than previously believed
... tounravel the amazing cell-signaling network that underlies our body's ability toproduce cancer cells. That process is the focus of more than 100 scientists justjoining the Center for Cancer Biology, a new effort begun by the University thisyear to study how faulty cell signals can conspire to cause cancer. ......anding of the disrupted dystrophin production that underlies muscular dystrophy. These studies also showed for the first time that muscular dystrophy could be prevented and reversed by replacing the defective gene. He is currently working on developing vectors that might deliver the missing genetic information...Early promise of simple screening for coeliac disease
...lutaminase elicits a specific immune response that underlies coeliac disease. Luis Sorell from the Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Havana, Cuba, and colleagues describe a simple and rapid test that detected these specific antibodies in the blood of patients with coeliac disease. The test, cal...Health benefits of leanness blown away by cigarette smoke
...veloping atherosclerosis, the disease process that underlies heart attacks and strokes. The arteries of smokers tend to be stiffer, and have more plaque, the waxy buildup of cholesterol and other elements that can clog the arteries. Because the diseased arteries lack elasticity, they are less likely to give...Foods rich in folate may reduce risk of stroke
...osis. Atherosclerosis is the disease process that underlies heart disease and stroke. Folate can reduce homocysteine, but this new study looks at the direct effect of folate on cardiovascular disease risk, according to Bazzano. Researchers looked at participants in the National Health and Nutrition Examina...World Heart Day spotlights cardiovascular disease pandemic
...therosclerosis, the narrowing of the arteries that underlies heart disease and most strokes, is a disease of affluence. World Heart Federation statistics show that 80 percent of cardiovascular disease deaths occur in low-to-middle income countries, such as China, Russia and Poland. Heart disease and stroke ki...Why are people who recover from major depression never really out of the woods?
...g that may point to a depression trait marker that underlies this vulnerability." This 'depression trait marker' involves two brain regions: the subgenual cingulate and the medial frontal cortex. These brain regions are located in a band that runs deep within the frontal lobes, down the midline. The subgenual ...Parents' smoke injures children's blood vessels
...ature of atherosclerosis, the disease process that underlies heart disease and stroke, and is an important marker of vascular damage. Free-radicals, which are unstable molecules produced during a process called oxidation, can damage cells in the body. This damage is often called oxidative stress. It is signi...Is there a way to derail the children's 'Allergy March'?
...c itch that develops into a rash. Allergy commonly underlies itch, with 30 percent of all skin disorder cases in toddlers being allergy-induced eczema. Research has established a link between IgE and food allergen-induced atopic dermatitis with food allergy the root cause in one-third to one-half of all childh...False memories, failing recall are not an inevitable consequence of aging, research suggests
...tion in context. That is, frontal lobe functioning underlies the ability to monitor accurately the source of information, and when frontal lobe declines, so does memory for the source of the events. "If the frontal lobes are responsible for controlling attention or source monitoring, such that false memories ...New insight into heart failure suggests novel drug target
...ent study elucidates a key cellular mechanism that underlies heart failure and identifies a promising new method for stalling the progression of the disease." The team reports its findings in the October 2003 issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation. The research was funded by the National Institutes of ...Dyslexia may involve both vision and hearing
...basic sensory integration deficit in dyslexia that underlies reading difficulties," Flowers said. Wallace said the finding suggests better ways to teach people with reading disabilities. "We believe that the most effective approaches will use a combination of visual and auditory cues," he said. "Because the br...Yesterday, today and tomorrow: Mount Sinai researchers are making sense of episodic memory
... Neuron begins to unravel the brain activity that underlies concurrent processing of the recent past, the present and the imminent future. Memories that are organized by time and context are known as episodic memory. Dr. Matthew L. Shapiro, Associate Professor of Neurobiology at Mount Sinai School of Medici...UCSF scientists show prion shape affects nature of infection
...her, the new finding demonstrates that prion shape underlies this ability. "Until now, it has been very difficult to distinguish which features that we see in a test tube are merely curiosities and which are truly fundamental to understanding prion biology," Weissman said. "The key advance in these studies is ...Exercise is key to reversing obesity-related heart risk in children
...ature of atherosclerosis, the disease process that underlies heart disease and stroke. The researchers also used ultrasound to measure the thickness of inner layers in the wall of the carotid arteries, which are in the neck and supply blood to the brain. This measure is a well-established, noninvasive way to...Physically fit children appear to do better in classroom, researchers say
...h that needs to go on before we can determine what underlies achievement," Hillman said. Nonetheless, if scientists can demonstrate that increased levels of physical activity and exercise can have a positive effect on children's physical health and their ability to succeed academically, Castelli is hopeful tha...HHS Secretary names UO researcher to national health advisory panel
...nducting a study that examines the assumption that underlies consumer driven health plans-that consumers will make more cost-effective health care choices if they are given the information they need and if they are required to pay more out of pocket for their care. The UO study examines how consumers behave wh......urred through a mechanism separate from that which underlies the light-induced retinal degeneration. Moreover, these workers found that the light-induced blindness resulted from a gradual decline in the concentration of the light-receptor, referred to as rhodopsin. Manipulations that decreased the rate of lig...