News tagged with release
Leptin's long-distance call to the pancreas
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Dec 22, 2008 |
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Rube Goldberg—the cartoonist who devised complex machines for simple tasks—would have smiled at one of leptin's mechanisms for curbing insulin release. As Hinoi et al. show, the fat-derived hormone enlists ...
Does growth hormone drug slow Alzheimer's disease?
Nov 17, 2008 |
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A new study shows that a drug that increases the release of growth hormone failed to slow the rate of progression of Alzheimer's disease in humans. The new research is published in the November 18, 2008, print issue of Neurology, the me ...
Nanodiamond Drug Device Could Transform Cancer Treatment
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 27, 2008 |
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A team of investigators at Northwestern University has developed a promising nanomaterial-based biomedical device that could be used to deliver chemotherapy drugs locally to sites where cancerous tumors have been surgically ...
Nanodiamond drug device could transform cancer treatment
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 02, 2008 |
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A Northwestern University research team has developed a promising nanomaterial-based biomedical device that could be used to deliver chemotherapy drugs locally to sites where cancerous tumors have been surgically ...
Coatings to help medical implants connect with neurons
Aug 21, 2008 |
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Plastic coatings could someday help neural implants treat conditions as diverse as Parkinson's disease and macular degeneration.
Microbe diet key to carbon dioxide release
Jul 31, 2008 |
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As microbes in the soil break down fallen plant matter, a diet "balanced" in nutrients appears to help control soil fertility and the normal release of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
How cells die determines whether immune system mounts response
Jul 17, 2008 |
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Every moment we live, cells in our bodies are dying. One type of cell death activates an immune response while another type doesn't. Now researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and St. Jude's ...
New discovery a step towards better diabetes treatment
Jul 01, 2008 |
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In today's issue of the prestigious journal Cell Metabolism Uppsala scientists are presenting new findings that shed light on the processes that determine the release of the blood sugar-lowering hormone insulin. The discov ...
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