News tagged with neuropathies
Could the Hot Stuff in Chili Peppers Ease Your Tingling Nerve Pain?
Oct 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Millions of people suffer peripheral pain and other troubling sensations accompanying diseases as varied as diabetes, AIDS, shingles and arthritis. Cancer patients also often suffer these so-called peripheral ...
Advanced nerve cell system could help cure diabetic neuropathy, related diseases
Jun 23, 2009 |
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Multiple sclerosis, diabetic neuropathy, and other conditions caused by a loss of myelin insulation around nerves can be debilitating and even deadly, but adequate treatments do not yet exist. That's in large part because ...
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Have numbness, pain or muscle weakness? Guidelines identify best tests for neuropathy
Dec 03, 2008 |
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New guidelines developed by the American Academy of Neurology find a combination of blood tests and other specialized assessments appear to be the most helpful tests for finding the cause of neuropathy. Also known as neuritis ...
Mutation may cause inherited neuropathy
Dec 26, 2007 |
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Mutations in a protein called dynein, required for the proper functioning of sensory nerve cells, can cause defects in mice that may provide crucial clues leading to better treatments for a human nerve disorder known as peripheral ...
Researchers discover gene crucial for nerve cell insulation
Apr 16, 2007 |
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Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have discovered how a defect in a single master gene disrupts the process by which several genes interact to create myelin, a fatty coating that covers nerve cells and ...
Lower-dose fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy results in better hearing preservation
Dec 17, 2008 |
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Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University have found that a lower dose of fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy for acoustic neuromas results in better hearing preservation and has the same tumor local control rate as a ...
A pain-free window into painful neuropathies
Dec 05, 2007 |
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Scientists have demonstrated a new technique for detecting a painful nerve condition known as neuropathy, which affects millions of people with diabetes and many other patients as well.
Cell's split personality is a major discovery into neurological diseases
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 07, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Université de Montreal (UdeM) and the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University have discovered that cells which normally support nerve cell (neuron) survival also play an active and ...
Chemical compound found in tree bark stimulates growth, survival of brain cells
Oct 01, 2007 |
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Researchers have identified a compound in tree bark that mimics the chemical reactions of a naturally occurring molecule in the brain responsible for stimulating neuronal cell signaling. Neuronal cell signaling plays a crucial ...
The APCs of nerve cell function
Jun 16, 2008 |
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Rapid information processing in the nervous system requires synapses, specialized contact sites between nerve cells and their targets. One particular synapse type, cholinergic, uses the chemical transmitter acetylcholine ...
Scientists discover a new line of communication between nervous system cells
Jun 26, 2007 |
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In a host of neurological diseases, including multiple sclerosis (MS) and several neuropathies, the protective covering surrounding the nerves – an insulating material called myelin – is damaged. Scientists at the Weizmann ...
How chemo kills tumours: research to reduce side effects
Aug 01, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Manchester researchers are investigating exactly how chemotherapy drugs kill cancerous tumours in a bid to reduce side effects and test the effectiveness of safer new agents.
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