Women with heart attacks benefit from stenting
...his was explained by their older age, smaller body surface area, increased frequency of other diseases and risk factors, and the greater occurrence of in-hospital complications. Major adverse cardiac events remained greater in women than men. The fact that the women had a smaller body size and smaller vess...Painless test using teardrops may speed diagnosis of Sjgren's syndrome
... syndrome. Using a new analytical technique called surface enhanced laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (SELDI-TOF-MS), the researchers identified about 10 protein biomarkers that appear to be specific for Sjgrens. In addition to helping diagnose the disease, the tear biomarkers also...Chemical library aids in developing drug system for nerve damage
...ained small random portions, or sequences of their surface proteins which could be used to attract or bind other proteins through a column with the drug bound to it. She then made the playing field more difficult for the bacteriophage to bind so that eventually she could find bacteriophage peptides that b...Breakthrough findings by Ume researchers link obesity to diabetes
...to fats in various tissues. A recently discovered surface receptor for free fatty acids, called GPR40, is in mice present solely in the insulin-producing beta cells. Mice, like humans, that eat a diet rich in calories gain weight quickly and experience disturbances in their blood levels of insulin, sugar, ...'Nanoshells' simultaneously detect and destroy cancerous cells
...shells to look for breast cancer biomarkers on the surface of the cancer cells. The technique can be readily ...pes of cancer or disease processes that have known surface markers.The additional ability of the particles to absorb light is used to generate heat, which then...New LASIK research reveals unexpected finding: Key to better-than-20/20 vision is in the flap
...s for better vision by creating an optimal corneal surface under the flap, allowing for more precise vision correction....Scientists discover how Ebola virus infects cells
...virus co-opts and uses to cut up one of the virus' surface proteins. Once this protein is snipped apart, the virus is free to begin multiplying. The scientists applied broad-spectrum enzyme inhibitors to mammalian cells before exposing them to Ebola virus. When one specific cellular enzyme, cathepsin B, was ...Golfers' yips may be movement disorder
...articipants were evaluated in the laboratory using surface electromyography (EMG) testing to determine muscle activity. Participants were tested while sitting at rest, arms outstretched, and during handwriting; standing at rest, holding a putter at rest, and using their own putter to putt a total of 75 putts...Shape-altering genes linked to ovarian cancer
...ferent from one another, and also different to the surface epithelium or outer covering of the ovary from whi...inate from some other tissues, and not the ovarian surface epithelium at all. Naora reasoned that ovarian tissue might be coaxed into the different forms by ch...NIAID begins clinical trial of West Nile virus vaccine
...plasmid--that contains genes that code for two key surface proteins of the West Nile virus. When the vaccine ...re foreign, the muscle cells display them on their surface to alert the body's immune system--both helper T cells, which spur the production of antibodies to b...Watching metals melt, nanometer-scale views inside cells
...crowave radiation impinging onto themetamaterial's surface bent (refracted) in the opposite direction asit did for ordinary materials. Combining metamaterials withconventional materials might lead to new kinds of cell-phoneantennas which could provide better reception and coverage. Inaddition, a flat panel...Mayo Clinic researchers discover genetic glitch in the heart's electrical system
...l. Another case involved a young boy who failed to surface immediately after diving in the water at a lake. Efforts to resuscitate him also were unsuccessful. Akin to the investigators on the television show Crime Scene Investigation, senior research technologist David Tester is one of Dr. Ackerman's lead su...Molecular change occurring during brain tumor progression also evident in breast cancer
...ke structure beneath the cells of the blood vessel surface (epithelium). Although the surface cells and the basement membrane are distinct entities, they affect each other through biochemical in...Human eggs can develop from ovarian surface cells in vitro
...an eggs may develop directly from cultured ovarian surface epithelium (OSE) cells derived from adult human ov...rom cultured OSE cells. By scraping cells from the surface of adult ovaries and growing them for 5 to 6 days in the presence of an estrogen-containing medium (...New research raises questions about buckyballs and the environment
...ughes. These particles are designed to have unique surface chemistries, and they exhibit unusual properties because they are at the nanometer scale one billionth of a meter, the range where molecular interactions and quantum effects take place. It is precisely these characteristics that make them both so po...University of Manchester launches new anti-MRSA product
.... However, with the BioKab's specially impregnated surface this cross-contamination is eliminated and germs w... harmful bacteria which come into contact with its surface (see Notes). Measuring just over 89cm (height) by 48cm (square) the BioKab is moulded in one piece, ...Can rice bran oil melt away cholesterol?
...late the expression of a gene called ICAM-1 on the surface of endothelial cells. ...Changes in brain receptors linked to seizures and anxiety during the menstrual cycle
... for changing the number of these receptors on the surface of nerve cells," he said. Also, researchers need to learn if similar mechanisms operate in humans as well. The other researchers were Jamie L. Maguire, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow; Brandon M. Stell, Ph.D., a recent graduate of the UCLA Molecular, Cel...Dermatologists use immunotherapy to treat warts
...ts with numerous lesions or lesions covering large surface areas." (Arch Dermatol. 2005; 141:589-594. Available post-embargo at www.archdermatol.com .) Editor's Note: This study was supported by a grant from the National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. Please see...High levels of estrogen during pregnancy associated with improvement in psoriasis
...nges over the course of one year in psoriatic body surface area in women with psoriasis in a group of 47 preg...ed psoriatic severity and the extent of their body surface affected by psoriasis five times over the course of the year: pregnant women at 10, 20 and 30 weeks ...