News tagged with bile acid


Cause of common chronic diarrhea revealed in new research

Cause of common chronic diarrhea revealed in new research

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A common type of chronic diarrhoea may be caused by a hormone deficiency, according to new research published in the November issue of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. The author ...


'2-faced' Bioacids Put a New Face on Carbon Nanotube Self-Assembly

'2-faced' Bioacids Put a New Face on Carbon Nanotube Self-Assembly

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Nanotubes, the tiny honeycomb cylinders of carbon atoms only a few nanometers wide, are perhaps the signature material of modern engineering research, but actually trying to organize the atomic scale rods ...





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Researchers find high-dose therapy for liver disease not effective

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A national team of researchers led by scientists at Mayo Clinic has found that a common treatment for primary sclerosing cholangitis, a chronic liver disease, is not helpful for patients, according to a study published this ...


New Role for a 'Foxy Old Gene'

Researchers find a new role for a 'Foxy Old Gene'

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 01, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered that a protein called FOXA2 controls genes that maintain the proper level of bile in the liver. FOXA2 may become the focus for ...


Stronger material for filling dental cavities has ingredients from human body

Stronger material for filling dental cavities has ingredients from human body

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists in Canada and China are reporting development of a new dental filling material that substitutes natural ingredients from the human body for controversial ingredients in existing “composite,” or ...


What relates to the short-term effectiveness of biliary drainage?

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Biliary drainage is performed as a palliative treatment of hilar cholangiocarcinoma. The reduction of serum bilirubin is usually the hallmark of successful biliary drainage. However, some patients may have persistent jaundice ...


Serum bile acid profiling for inflammatory bowel disease characterization

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Based on serum bank material, BA profiling was applied in IBD patients and healthy controls which showed that most but not all BA species were decreased to a different extent in CD and UC. BA decreases were highly pronounced ...


Transplanting human gut bugs into mice helps understanding of metabolic system

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created May 22, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Bugs found in the guts of humans, which play an important part in people's metabolic makeup, have been transplanted into mice to further understanding of the human and animal metabolic system, reveals a new study in the journal ...


Parasite growth hormone pushes human cells to liver cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists have found that the human liver fluke (Opisthorchis viverrini) contributes to the development of bile duct (liver) cancer by secreting granulin, a growth hormone that is known to cause uncontrolled growth of cel ...


Study finds adverse effects in treatment for primary sclerosing cholangitis

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is an uncommon chronic liver disease characterized by progressive inflammation and destruction of the bile ducts. The disease progresses slowly, usually leading to biliary cirrhosis, ...


Genetically engineered mice don't get obese

Genetically engineered mice don't get obese (w/Podcast)

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Obesity and gallstones often go hand in hand. But not in mice developed at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Even when these mice eat high-fat diets, they don't get fat, but they do develop ...


Use of 3-D imaging on patients with pancreatic carcinoma

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In the field of hepatic imaging in the context of living liver donors and before complex partial liver resections, three-dimensional imaging of the liver, hepatic vessels and bile ducts has managed to become established in ...



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