News tagged with hereditary hemochromatosis
Hyperferritinemia is another surrogate marker of advanced liver disease
May 13, 2009 |
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High serum ferritin, being a hallmark of hereditary hemochromatosis , is frequently found in chronic hepatitis C, alcoholic or non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease patients . A study in Italy ...
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Iron and copper relationship is studied
Jul 24, 2007 |
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U.S. scientists studying the relationship of iron and copper in the body have found when iron absorption by cells decreases, copper absorption increases.
Europe's most common genetic disease is a liver disorder
Feb 06, 2008 |
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Much less widely known than the dangerous consequences of iron deficiencies is the fact that too much iron can also cause problems. The exact origin of the genetic iron overload disorder hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) has ...
Key site in iron metabolism aids in diagnosing anemia of chronic disease
Aug 05, 2008 |
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University of Utah School of Medicine researchers have developed a new tool that facilitates diagnosis of anemia related to chronic illness, as well as diseases of iron overload. The results of a study detailing the new tool ...
RNA induction of an epigenetic hereditary pathology
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Jun 09, 2008 |
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A new study shows that microinjection of RNA molecules into mouse embryos induces a hereditary form of cardiac hypertrophy that is similar to human hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). The research, published by Cell Press ...
The cause of all hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type II cases has been established
Jun 10, 2008 |
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A major discovery that details the existence of a neuronal specific form of the WNK1 gene, henceforth referred to as the WNK1/HSN2 isoform, was recently completed by the research group of Dr. Guy A. Rouleau and published ...
Carbon Nanotube Transistor Can Detect Genetic Mutations
Jan 25, 2006 |
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University of Pittsburgh researcher Alexander Star and colleagues at a California-based company, Nanomix, Inc., have developed devices made of carbon nanotubes that can find mutations in genes causing hereditary diseases, ...
New technique enables faster genetic diagnosis for hereditary diseases
Dec 08, 2008 |
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VIB researchers (Belgium) connected to the University of Antwerp have developed a new method that enables them to track down the cause of hereditary diseases more quickly and efficiently. By means of this technique, genetic ...
New technique could eliminate inherited mitochondrial disease
Aug 26, 2009 |
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Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have developed an experimental technique with the potential to prevent a class of hereditary disorders passed on from mother to child. The technique, as yet conducted ...
Fighting cancer before tumor grows
May 27, 2008 |
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Researchers in Heidelberg have discovered a new strategy for an immunization against certain forms of cancer. They have determined that immune cells react strongly to the modified proteins in tumor cells in which a DNA repair ...
'Personalized' genome sequencing reveals coding error in gene for inherited pancreatic cancer
Mar 05, 2009 |
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Scientists at the Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have used "personalized genome" sequencing on an individual with a hereditary form of pancreatic cancer to locate a ...
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