News tagged with human growth hormone
Laughter remains good medicine
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 17, 2009 |
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The connection between the body, mind and spirit has been the subject of conventional scientific inquiry for some 20 years. The notion that psychosocial and societal considerations have a role in maintaining health and preventing ...
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Growth hormone's link to starvation may be clue to increasing life span
Jun 28, 2008 |
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Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have determined that starvation blocks the effects of growth hormone via a mechanism that may have implications in treating diabetes and extending life span.
Scientists find potential protein biomarkers for growth hormone
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Jun 17, 2008 |
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Ohio University scientists have identified several proteins in mice that might act as biomarkers for growth hormone. The research could be the first step to finding a more reliable way to detect recombinant human growth hormone ...
Starvation hormone makes for small mice
Jun 26, 2008 |
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Chronically high levels of a recently discovered starvation hormone markedly stunt the growth of mice, reveals a new study in the July issue of Cell Metabolism, a publication of Cell Press. The liver-produced hormone known ...
Breast cancer drug shows promise for treating, preventing progestin-dependent tumors
Jan 28, 2009 |
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Recent studies suggest that human breast cancer risk is increased by outside exposure to the hormone progestin, such as during hormone replacement therapy. Now, a University of Missouri study suggests that PRIMA-1, a small ...
Parasite growth hormone pushes human cells to liver cancer
Oct 09, 2009 |
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Scientists have found that the human liver fluke (Opisthorchis viverrini) contributes to the development of bile duct (liver) cancer by secreting granulin, a growth hormone that is known to cause uncontrolled growth of cel ...
Scientists discover key event in prostate cancer progression
Jul 23, 2009 |
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A study led by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute reveals how late-stage, hormone-independent prostate tumors gain the ability to grow without need of hormones.
More blood vessels in hormone-resistant prostate tumors
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Patients with advanced prostate cancer are often treated with hormones, but when the tumours start growing again they have more and different blood vessels, reveals a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy, at the University ...
New human reproductive hormone could lead to novel contraceptives
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Nearly 10 years after the discovery that birds make a hormone that suppresses reproduction, University of California, Berkeley, neuroscientists have established that humans make it too, opening ...
Triggering muscle development -- a therapeutic cure for muscle wastage?
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Scientists in the UK and Denmark have shown that if elderly men were given growth hormone and exercised their legs showed an appreciable muscle mass increase.
Researchers develop long-lasting growth hormone
Sep 04, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of Sheffield have developed a long-acting growth hormone for use in human therapy. The new discovery could mean that children and adults with growth hormone disorders will not have to have injections ...
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