News tagged with cell surface receptor
Milestone discovery in cell behaviors
Oct 14, 2009 |
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A team of international molecular scientists, led by a Monash University researcher has discovered a new, fast mechanism by which cells communicate change - for example their location during spreading of a cancer in the human ...
New approach for growing bone
Oct 07, 2009 |
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The natural cycle of building bone to maintain skeletal strength and then breaking it down for the body's calcium needs is delicately balanced, but diseases like osteoporosis break down too much bone without adequate bone ...
'Genetic arms race' between bacteria, viruses subject of stimulus grant
Jul 02, 2009 |
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The oceans teem with microscopic bacteria that produce much of Earth's oxygen as they absorb carbon dioxide greenhouse gas. But fast-mutating viruses also populate the seas, attacking marine bacteria in an ...
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Crucial factors in lymphoma development and survival discovered
Jun 24, 2008 |
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[B]Experiments with new mouse model suggest therapeutic targets[/B] Researchers at National Jewish Medical and Research Center have discovered an important factor in the development of B-cell lymphomas, one of the fastest gro ...
Flexible neck in cell-receptor DC-SIGN targets more pathogens
Jul 14, 2009 |
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Pathogen recognition is the foundation of the body's immune response and survival against infection. A small cell-receptor protein called DC-SIGN is part of the immune system, and recognizes certain pathogens, including those ...
Getting on 'the GABA receptor shuttle' to treat anxiety disorders
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 22, 2009 |
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There are increasingly precise molecular insights into ways that stress exposure leads to fear and through which fear extinction resolves these fear states. Extinction is generally regarded as new inhibitory learning, but ...
Discovery of a new signaling mechanism may lead to novel anti-inflammatory therapy
Jul 17, 2008 |
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A team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has uncovered a new signaling mechanism used to activate protein kinases that are critical for the body's inflammatory response. Their work ...
Plants on Steroids: Key Missing Link Discovered
Sep 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology have discovered a key missing link in the so-called signaling pathway for plant steroid hormones (brassinosteroids). Many important signaling ...
Cell surface receptors are all 'talk' in T cell stimulation
Jun 12, 2008 |
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Understanding the mechanisms that drive healthy immune responses is important when it comes to combating autoimmune diseases, which occur when cells that should attack invading organisms turn on the body instead.
Newly appreciated membrane estrogen receptor important therapeutic target for breast cancer
Jul 01, 2009 |
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New research at Rhode Island Hospital has uncovered the biological effects of a novel membrane estrogen receptor, a finding that has potential implications for hormonal therapy for breast cancer. The study is published in ...
Growth hormone could promote cancer, according to new research
Sep 21, 2007 |
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Growth hormone and associated proteins could be responsible for promoting many types of cancer, including breast and prostate cancer, according to an Australian researcher.
Designing probiotics that ambush gut pathogens
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Researchers in Australia are developing diversionary tactics to fool disease-causing bacteria in the gut. Many bacteria, including those responsible for major gut infections, such as cholera, produce toxins that damage human ...
It takes two to infect: Structural biologists shed light on mechanism of invasion protein
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Bacteria are quite creative when infecting the human organism. They invade cells, migrate through the body, avoid an immune response and misuse processes of the host cell for their own purposes. To this end every bacterium ...
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