News tagged with experimental biology and medicine
Caffeic acid inhibits colitis in a mouse model -- is a drug-metabolizing gene crucial?
May 26, 2009 |
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Researchers at Iowa State University have found that increased expression of a form of cytochrome P-450 (CYP4B1) is a key marker of inhibition of colitis in mice by caffeic acid, an anti-inflammatory antioxidant compound ...
Regulation of cell proliferation by the OGF-OGFr axis is dependent on nuclear localization signals
Apr 23, 2009 |
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Researchers at The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania have discovered that the efficacy of the Opioid Growth Factor (OGF, [Met5]-enkephalin), a clinically important antitumor agent, is ...
Plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1 -- a potential link between heart failure and diabetes
Feb 24, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Vermont Cardiovascular Research Institute, Colchester, Vermont have found that increased expression in the heart of plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1 (PAI-1) is profibrotic. The results, ...
Apolipoprotein(a): A natural regulator of inflammation
Dec 24, 2008 |
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In a study to be published in the January 09 issue of Experimental Biology and Medicine, Hoover-Plow and co-workers in seeking to define a role of apo(a) in leukocyte recruitment have identified a novel activity of apo(a) ...
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Plasma levels of GGT and ALB and their genetic correlations with cardiovascular risk factors
Nov 24, 2009 |
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Two indicators of liver function, Gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT) and albumin (ALB) have been implicated in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. It is known that the variation in the plasma level of these liver related proteins ...
Improvement of liver stem cell engraftment by protein delivery
Aug 24, 2009 |
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Researchers at INSERM (France) have engineered a chimeric protein that increases cell survival, migration and proliferation to improve stem cell engraftment. The results, which appear in the September 2009 issue of Experimental Bi ...
Concurrent imaging of metabolic and electric signals in the heart
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Cardiac rhythm disorders can result from disturbances in cardiac metabolism. These metabolic changes are tightly linked with specific cardiac electrophysiology (CEP) abnormalities, such as depressed excitability, impaired ...
In vitro antibody production enables HIV infection detection in window period -- key to safer blood
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 24, 2009 |
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Researchers in Israel and Kenya have shown that the contribution of variable degrees of immune suppression, either due to existing chronic infections such as parasitemias and/or nutrition, in different populations may influence ...
A search for protection against chemotherapy cardiotoxicity
Dec 20, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of Grenoble, in France, have discovered that erythropoietin administration prevents acute cardiotoxic effects induced by doxorubicin and trastuzumab exposures. The research article describing ...
A search for biomarkers for early detection of colorectal cancer
Sep 24, 2007 |
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Researchers at the Zhejiang University, Hangzhou have discovered that mimecan and Thioredoxin Domain-Containing Protein 5 (TXNDC5) were differentially expressed in colorectal adenoma. The research article describing this ...
Nanoparticles hitchhike on red blood cells: a potential new method for drug delivery
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 27, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara have discovered that attaching polymeric nanoparticles to the surface of red blood cells dramatically increases the in vivo lifetime of the nanoparticles. ...
Researchers discover important tool in understanding differentiation in human embryonic stem cells
Oct 24, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of Minnesota’s Stem Cell Institute have described how an existing genetic tool can be used to study how human embryonic stem cells differentiate. The research appears in the November 2007 issue ...
'Natural killer' cells keep immune system in balance
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Natural killer, or NK cells, are part of our innate immune system. A healthy body produces them to respond early during infection. They are activated and they kill cells infected with a given virus.
Humanin peptide linked to neuronal cell survival and regulation of glucose metabolism
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Recent studies have shown that the mitochondrial peptide Humanin (HN) protects against neuronal cell death such as happens in Alzheimer's disease. Now, in a study presented April 22 at Experimental Biology 2009 in New Orleans, ...
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