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Alarming trend -- antiviral therapy to treat hepatitis C is declining in the US
Nov 24, 2009 |
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Researchers from the University of Michigan determined that only 663,000 of the approximately 3.9 million Americans with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection received antiviral therapy between 2002 and 2007. Treatment rates ...
Interferon alpha can delay full onset of type I diabetes
Jul 01, 2009 |
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A low dose of oral interferon alpha shows promise in preserving beta cell function for patients with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes, or juvenile diabetes, according to researchers at The University of Texas Medical School ...
Immunologists identify biochemical signals that help immune cells remember how to fight infection
May 28, 2009 |
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May 28, 2009 - Immunology researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered how two biochemical signals play unique roles in promoting the development of a group of immune cells employed as tactical ...
Interferon needed for cells to 'remember' how to defeat a virus
Dec 03, 2008 |
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Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have determined that the immune-system protein interferon plays a key role in "teaching" the immune system how to fight off repeated infections of the same virus.
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Discovery could improve hepatitis C treatment
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers are part of an international team that has discovered a genetic variation that could identify those people infected with hepatitis C who are most likely to benefit ...
Discovery of New Antiviral Mechanism in Mammals May Improve Treatment of Hepatitis C Infections
Oct 17, 2007 |
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A team of researchers led by biologists at the University of California, San Diego has discovered a completely new mechanism that mammalian cells employ to fight infections of the Hepatitis C virus, which affects approximately ...
Study may explain why HIV progresses faster in women than in men with same viral load
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 13, 2009 |
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One of the continuing mysteries of the HIV/AIDS epidemic is why women usually develop lower viral levels than men following acute HIV-1 infection but progress faster to AIDS than men with similar viral loads. Now a research ...
A balancing act in Parkinson's disease: Phosphorylation of alpha-synuclein
Oct 12, 2009 |
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Both genetic and pathologic data indicate a role for the neuronal protein alpha-synuclein in Parkinson disease. Previous studies have indicated that phosphorylation of alpha-synuclein at amino acid 129 (Ser129) is a key event ...
The right messenger for a healthy immune response
Jul 20, 2009 |
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Researchers from the Molecular Immunology group at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig, Germany have now shown that Beta-Interferon also plays a crucial role during an immune response: without ...
Adding steroid drug to MS treatment may reduce disease activity
Apr 30, 2009 |
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Using a steroid drug for multiple sclerosis (MS) in addition to an MS drug may reduce the amount of disease activity more than using the MS drug alone, according to a study that will be presented as part of the Late-breaking ...
ID3 provides career counseling for blood progenitors, driving the creation of gamma-delta T cells
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Like an unusually forceful career counselor, the Id3 protein decides the fate of a given white blood cell precursor, according to researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center. Their findings, published today in the journal Immunity, de ...
Current hepatitis C treatments work equally well, researchers report
Aug 07, 2009 |
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The three treatment combinations for clearing the most common form of the hepatitis C virus work equally well with similar side effects, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers and their colleagues in 13 ...
Tuberculosis patients can reduce transmissability by inhaling interferon through a nebulizer
Sep 15, 2009 |
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A new study published in the September 15, 2009, issue of PLoS ONE found that patients with cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis receiving anti-TB medications supplemented with nebulized interferon-gamma have fewer bacilli in the ...
The protein modifier SUMO helps set apart females and males
Sep 02, 2009 |
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One way in which men and women differ is in their expression of liver proteins that control a large number of whole-body processes such as energy generation and lipid and steroid hormone production and turnover. Now, Walter ...
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