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Vaccine slows progression of skeletal muscle disorder
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 13, 2009 |
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A potential vaccine for Alzheimer's disease also has been shown in mice to slow the weakening of muscles associated with inclusion body myositis, a disorder that affects the elderly.
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New way of viewing cells could lead to easier routes for drug manufacture
Dec 10, 2008 |
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Research by a Michigan State University chemist could eventually lead to a quicker and easier way of developing protein-based drugs that are key to treating a number of diseases, including cancer, diabetes and hepatitis.
Old math reveals new thinking in children's cognitive development
Dec 11, 2009 |
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Five-year-olds can reason about the world from multiple perspectives simultaneously, according to a new theory by researchers in Japan and Australia. Using an established branch of mathematics called Category Theory, the ...
Treatment to improve degenerating muscle gains strength
Nov 11, 2009 |
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A study appearing in Science Translational Medicine puts scientists one step closer to clinical trials to test a gene delivery strategy to improve muscle mass and function in patients with certain degenerative muscle disord ...
Gene therapy for muscular dystrophy shows promise beyond safety
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 15, 2009 |
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Researchers have cleared a safety hurdle in efforts to develop a gene therapy for a form of muscular dystrophy that disables patients by gradually weakening muscles near the hips and shoulders.
Lithium chloride slows onset of skeletal muscle disorder
Mar 18, 2008 |
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A new UC Irvine study finds that lithium chloride, a drug used to treat bipolar disorder, can slow the development of inclusion body myositis, a skeletal muscle disease that affects the elderly.
Researchers link inflammatory diseases to increased cardiovascular risk
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Patients suffering from two serious autoimmune disorders which cause muscular inflammation are at increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease, says a group of Montreal researchers. Dr. Christian A. Pineau and his ...
RING finger protein 5 may guide treatment for muscle disease in older adults
Apr 04, 2008 |
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Researchers at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have discovered a new player in the development of a disorder called Sporadic Inclusion Body Myositis (sIBM). sIBM is a muscle disease that affects predominantly ...
Art and medicine meet to make the world's first 'operation' gown
Jan 30, 2008 |
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Medical students will be helped to understand what it is like to go under the knife thanks to a world-first project that brings together art and science.
Carrot cake study on sugar in type 2 diabetes
Jan 08, 2008 |
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Patients with type 2 diabetes are often advised to cut out sucrose (table sugar) all together. However, in recent years this traditional advice has been questioned by some researchers who suggest that moderate amounts of ...
New model system may better explain regulation of body weight
Jan 14, 2009 |
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A new mathematical model of the physiological regulation of body weight suggests a potential mechanism underlying the difficulty of losing weight, one that includes aspects of two competing hypotheses of weight regulation. ...
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