News tagged with langerhans cell
New mediator of smoking recruits
Apr 24, 2009 |
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Current research suggests that smoking increases the production of osteopontin in the lungs, which contributes to the development of smoking-related lung disease. The related report by Prasse et al, "Essential role of osteopontin ...
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Researchers prove that insulin-producing cells can give rise to stem-like cells in-vitro
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Jul 21, 2008 |
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The question of whether insulin-producing cells of the pancreas can regenerate is key to our understanding of diabetes, and to the further development of regenerative therapies against the disease. Dr Rosenberg from the McGill ...
Boosting survival of insulin-cell transplants for Type 1 Diabetes
Jul 07, 2008 |
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Researchers in Japan are reporting a discovery that could improve the effectiveness and expand the use of transplants of insulin-producing cells to treat diabetes. Their study is scheduled for the July 16 ...
Suspected cause of type 1 diabetes caught 'red-handed' for the first time
May 09, 2008 |
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Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis working with diabetic mice have examined in unprecedented detail the immune cells long thought to be responsible for type 1 diabetes.
Researchers discover new details about HIV-1 entry and infection
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Feb 15, 2007 |
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The primary targets of HIV-1 infection in the human vagina have been definitively identified in a new study published in the February 2007 issue of the journal Immunity, published by Cell Press. The findings are likely to gui ...
Immune cell entry into the pancreatic islets key to understanding type 1 diabetes origins
Oct 08, 2009 |
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators have discovered how destructive immune cells gain access to insulin-producing cells and help cause diabetes.
The Stem Cells That Weren't There
May 07, 2007 |
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Diabetes researchers, investigating how the body supplies itself with insulin, discovered to their surprise that adult stem cells, which they expected to play a crucial role in the process, were nowhere to ...
Scientists make multiple types of white blood cells directly from embryonic and adult stem cells
Aug 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In an advance that could help transform embryonic stem cells into a multipurpose medical tool, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have transformed these versatile cells into ...
Popular diabetes treatment could trigger pancreatitis, pancreatic cancer
Apr 30, 2009 |
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A drug widely used to treat Type 2 diabetes may have unintended effects on the pancreas that could lead to a form of low-grade pancreatitis in some patients and a greater risk of pancreatic cancer in long-term users, UCLA ...
Adult stem cells from human cord umbilical cord blood successfully engineered to make insulin
Medicine & Health / Medications
May 25, 2007 |
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In a fundamental discovery that someday may help cure type 1 diabetes by allowing people to grow their own insulin-producing cells for a damaged or defective pancreas, medical researchers here have reported that they have ...
No change in brain tumor incidence during a time when cell phone usage increased
Dec 03, 2009 |
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There was no substantial change in brain tumor incidence among adults 5 to 10 years after cell phone usage sharply increased, according to a new brief communication published online December 3 in the Journal of the National Ca ...
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