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New therapy targets for amyloid disease
Dec 04, 2009 |
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A major discovery is challenging accepted thinking about amyloids - the fibrous protein deposits associated with diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's - and may open up a potential new area for therapeutics.
How life-threatening blood clots take hold
Apr 16, 2009 |
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When plaques coating blood vessel walls rupture and expose collagen, platelets spring into action to form a blood clot at the damaged site. Now, a new report in the April 17th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press public ...
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Muscular dystrophy mystery solved; scientists move closer to MD solution
Feb 26, 2009 |
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Muscular dystrophy, which affects approximately 250,000 people in the United States, occurs when damaged muscle tissue is replaced with fibrous, bony or fatty tissue and loses function. While scientists have identified one ...
Can tomatoes carry the cure for Alzheimer's?
Jul 08, 2008 |
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The humble tomato could be a suitable carrier for an oral vaccine against Alzheimer's disease, according to HyunSoon Kim from the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) in Korea and colleagues from ...
Researchers show that fibrosis can be stopped, cured and reversed
Dec 27, 2007 |
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University of California, San Diego researchers have proven in animal studies that fibrosis in the liver can be not only stopped, but reversed. Their discovery, to be published in PLoS Online on December 26, opens the do ...
How neuronal activity leads to Alzheimer's protein cleavage
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Oct 20, 2008 |
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Amyloid precursor protein (APP), whose cleavage product, amyloid-b (Ab), builds up into fibrous plaques in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients, jumps from one specialized membrane microdomain to another to be cleaved, ...
Researchers identify critical receptor in liver regeneration
Mar 29, 2007 |
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In studies in mouse models, researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have found that a cellular receptor involved in triggering cell death is also a necessary component ...
Link between chronic kidney disease and oxygen-deprived tissue
Dec 18, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered how low-oxygen conditions can worsen chronic kidney disease (CKD). The key player is a protein called hypoxia-inducible-factor (HIF-1) that, ...
First direct information about the prion's molecular structure reported
Oct 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A collaboration between scientists at Vanderbilt University and the University of California, San Francisco has led to the first direct information about the molecular structure of prions. ...
Scientists study how asbestos fibers trigger cancer in human cells
Dec 18, 2008 |
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Ohio State University scientists believe they are the first in the world to study the molecular underpinnings of cancer by probing individual bonds between an asbestos fiber and human cells.
Genetic abnormality may increase risk of blood disorders
Mar 15, 2009 |
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Researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) have shown for the first time that a tendency to develop some blood disorders may be inherited. Their research, published online today in Nature Genetics, identi ...
Soft tissue taken from 68 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex fossil yields original protein
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Apr 12, 2007 |
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What happens when a 68 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex meets 21st century medical science?
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