Common blood pressure drug treats muscular dystrophy in mice
...ng process," adds Cohn. "We may only be seeing the tip of the iceberg." Losartan, first approved for use as a blood pressure medication in 1995 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, often is used as an alternative to other antihypertensive drugs in people who cannot tolerate other blood pressure m...Men warned of osteoporosis problems by McMaster researcher
...e, Ontario. She said scientists are "just at the tip of the iceberg" in understanding the implications of osteoporosis for men, unlike women where it's well known which women are at risk, how the disease develops and how to treat it. "The problem," she said, "is that when men sustain fractures they a...U of M discovers protein linked to elevated BMI in people of American Indian and Mexican ancestry
...cular disease risk. Thus, having the variant could tip the balance of cholesterol carriers and lead toward depletion of HDL-also a risk factor for heart disease. The variant differs from the normal protein by a single change in one of its 57 amino acids. Among 1500 subjects from widely divergent geneti...Holographic images use shimmer to show cellular response to anticancer drug
...e shimmer effect. "What we have seen is just the tip of the iceberg," Nolte said....Water flows like molasses on the nanoscale
...rements by recording the force placed on a silicon tip of an atomic force microscope as it compressed wat...iment, we found that when the distance between the tip and the surface is about one nanometer, we feel a repulsive force by the water that is much stronger...Study offers clues to 'Broken Heart Syndrome'
...robe is threaded into the coronary arteries on the tip of a catheter, may show whether the patient has clogged arteries or unstable plaques that are not visible on coronary angiography. These findings will help guide long-term treatment. "Because we don't yet know what causes this phenomenon, we don't...SCAI Founders' Lecture highlights remarkable progress in catheter-based aortic valve replacement
...catheter with a stent-mounted valve crimped on its tip is threaded from the femoral artery in the groin into the aorta and across the aortic valve, in a direction oppositeor retrogradeto normal blood flow. The compressed valve is moved into position in the diseased aortic valve and a balloon at the end o...