News tagged with cells release

Tasting fructose with the pancreas

Taste receptors on the tongue help us distinguish between safe food and food that's spoiled or toxic. But taste receptors are now being found in other organs, too. In a study published online the week of February ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Engineering cartilage replacements

A lab discovery is a step toward implantable replacement cartilage, holding promise for knees, shoulders, ears and noses damaged by osteoarthritis, sports injuries and accidents.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Human skin begins tanning in seconds, and here's how

We all know that human skin tans after days spent in the sun. That relatively slow process has known links to ultraviolet (and specifically UVB) exposure, which leads to tanning only after it damages the DNA of skin cells. ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Dopamine release in human brain tracked at microsecond timescale reveals decision-making

A research team led by investigators at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute has demonstrated the first rapid measurements of dopamine release in a human brain and provided preliminary evidence that the neurotransmitter ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Weakness in aging tied to leaky muscles

There is a reason exercise becomes more difficult with age. A report in the August Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, ties the weakness of aging to leaky calcium channels inside muscle cells. But there is some good n ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Effects of exercise on meal-related gut hormone signals

Research to be presented at the upcoming annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, finds that alterations ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 12, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Increasing oxygen delivery: Allosteric effectors of human hemoglobin

(PhysOrg.com) -- Numerous diseases, such as cardiovascular ailments and cancer, are characterized by a lack of oxygen in specific tissues. Therefore, increasing the supply of oxygen delivered by red blood ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 23, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Researchers show how cells open 'doors' to release neurotransmitters

Like opening a door to exit a room, cells in the body open up their outer membranes to release such chemicals as neurotransmitters and other hormones.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Calcium connections: Basic pathway for maintaining cell's fuel stores

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers have described a previously unknown biological mechanism in cells that prevents them from cannibalizing themselves for fuel. The mechanism involves ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Novel technique informs drug delivery research

University College Dublin researchers led by Conway Fellow, Professor David Brayden have shown that a candidate drug delivery polymer may have potential for oral or topical use. These findings were recently ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created Jun 03, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Prolonged stress sparks ER to release calcium stores and induce cell death in aging-related diseases

Li et al. explain how prolonged stress sparks the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to release its calcium stores, inducing cells to undergo apoptosis in several aging-related diseases.The study will appear in the September 21, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers pinpoint neural nanoblockers in carbon nanotubes

Carbon nanotubes hold many exciting possibilities, some of them in the realm of the human nervous system. Recent research has shown that carbon nanotubes may help regrow nerve tissue or ferry drugs used to ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Link between obesity and diabetes discovered

A Monash University study has proven a critical link between obesity and the onset of Type 2 diabetes, a discovery which could lead to the design of a drug to prevent the disease.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Researchers identify missing target for calcium signaling

An international study led by Ohio State University neuroscience researchers describes one of the missing triggers that controls calcium inside cells, a process important for muscle contraction, nerve-cell transmission, insulin ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New 'bubble' targets only cancer cells

For millions of Americans with cancer, the side effects of chemotherapy and other treatment drugs can be devastating. But new drug-delivery research based on nano- and microtechnology from Tel Aviv University might provide ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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