Antioxidants show no clear benefit against cardiovascular events, death in high-risk women
... In addition, compounds known as free radicals may damage artery linings, encourage blood clots and alter th... Antioxidants scavenge free radicals and limit the damage they can cause, the authors write. Diets high in fruit and vegetable intake, and thus rich in such a...Fluctuating eye pressure associated with visual field deterioration in glaucoma patients
...ssure (IOP) slowed the advancement of visual field damage in patients with glaucoma. However, even if the IO...Our results suggest that glaucomatous visual field damage cannot be stabilized by only lowering the postoperative IOP but also requires reducing the long-term...Draining away brain's toxic protein to stop Alzheimer's
...ld lead, over years, to accumulate in amounts that damage the brain....Chromatin remodeling complex connected to DNA damage control
...hen molecular disaster strikes, causing structural damage to DNA, players in two important pathways talk to ...nection between a signaling pathway crucial to DNA damage control and a pathway known as chromatin remodeling "opens an entirely new category of targets for p...Pathway links inflammation, angiogenesis and breast cancer
... In the Cell paper, researchers show IKK does its damage working in the cytosol of the cell, the internal fluid outside of the nucleus. Together, the two kinases previously were known to free the oncoprotein nuclear factor kappa B (NF"B) from the cytosol, allowing it to move to the nucleus and activate gen...Reductive stress linked to heart disease
...ravel the body, triggering chemical reactions that damage proteins and causing them to form aggregates. Many people take antioxidants to prevent heart and other protein-aggregate diseases, but there actually is scant evidence to prove they work, according to Benjamin. Until now, reductive stress has not b...Stanford researchers find culprit in aging muscles that heal poorly
...t of problem arises on a lesser scale in repairing damage that results from the normal wear and tear of aging. Rando also found that the misdirected stem cells - the ones that failed to generate new muscle cells in the old environment - were instead differentiating into scar-tissue-producing cells called ...A woman who heard voices with her own speech impairments
... to lose consciousness. Tests showed she had brain damage covering several lobes and an aneurysm, which was ...in comprehending or speaking language due to brain damage involving the areas specialised to those functions. Four weeks in intensive care substantially imp...Researchers find vitamin B1 deficiency key to vascular problems for diabetic patients
...omplications: microvascular complications, such as damage to the kidney, retina and nerves in arms and legs; and macrovascular complications, such as heart disease and stroke. The University of Warwick researchers, led by Professor Paul Thornalley, have shown conclusively that diabetic patients are thiami...Wireless technology shows promise in diagnosing pediatric intestinal disease
...bowel, helping us to identify signs of disease and damage that would otherwise be impossible to view in children. The camera, encased in a capsule that can be swallowed or placed into the stomach, travels through the digestive system naturally and painlessly, reducing the need for invasive tests, anesthe...New research discovers independent brain networks control human walking
... colleagues have found that certain types of brain damage interfere with walking ability, while others do not. For example, individuals with damage to the cerebral hemispheres can adapt while those with damage to the cerebellum are rarely able to. ...ACC/AHA release revised UA/NSTEMI guidelines
...men; add troponin biomarkers as markers of cardiac damage and B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) markers as potentially useful for cardiac risk assessment; and stop the usage of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) for all UA/NSTEMI patients during hospitalization. ...Statin drugs may delay progressive artery damage in children
...e 8 safely and effectively delays the early artery damage caused by familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), according to a Dutch study reported in the Aug. 7th print issue of Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. Our data support early initiation of statin therapy in FH children, which might y...Many heart attack patients still not getting emergency clot-busting treatment
... which is known to save lives and prevent lasting damage to the heart muscle dont get it at all, the study shows. And the chance of missing out on lifesaving emergency treatment was highest among those patients whose heart attack symptoms dont include typical symptoms like chest pain, those who didnt r...Chemical in brain acts like a fuel gauge
...eding and hormonal responses to hypoglycemia after damage to the norepinephrine pathways connecting the hindbrain to the hypothalamus....'Cars' imaging reveals clues to myelin damage
...determine how to halt disease progress and reverse damage by growing new myelin, said Ji-Xin Cheng, an assis...l method to diagnose multiple sclerosis and detect damage to the spinal cord from accident trauma, which also causes the myelin to degrade, he said. Researc...Future therapies for stroke may block cell death
...stroke." Stroke can cause permanent neurological damage or even death if not promptly diagnosed and treated. It is the third-leading cause of death and the leading cause of adult disability in the United States. A great deal of research has gone into developing histone deacetylase inhibitors as novel th...Brightening prospects of using fluorescent nanotubes in medical applications
...ents that have been done indicate that they do not damage living cells. By comparison, quantum dots, which are a popular alternative fluorescent tagging technology, contain cadmium, which is highly toxic, and so may not be appropriate for in vivo applications. Nanotube fluorescence is extremely stable a...Aging stem cells in mice may hold answers to diseases of the aged, Stanford study finds
...ons. "The idea is that, over time, accumulated DNA damage progressively diminishes the cell's ability to per...stem cells in normal, healthy mice also accumulate damage as they age. To address this, in the second set of experiments, Rossi isolated stem cells from the...Loss of stem cells correlates with premature aging in animal study
... damaged DNA, and mutations in proteins in the DNA damage response underlie certain types of cancer and othe...ells without ATR had an overwhelming amount of DNA damage and could not contribute to tissue renewal; nevertheless, the 10 to 20 percent of cells that escaped...