News tagged with vessel growth
1930s drug slows tumor growth
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 06, 2009 |
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Drugs sometimes have beneficial side effects. A glaucoma treatment causes luscious eyelashes. A blood pressure drug also aids those with a rare genetic disease. The newest surprise discovered by researchers at the Johns ...
Sight gone, but not necessarily lost? Researchers find life in blood-starved retinas
Oct 30, 2009 |
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Like all tissues in the body, the eye needs a healthy blood supply to function properly. Poorly developed blood vessels can lead to visual impairment or even blindness. While many of the molecules involved in guiding the ...
New treatment found to reduce vision loss from central retinal vein occlusion
Sep 14, 2009 |
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Scientists have identified the first long-term, effective treatment to improve vision and reduce vision loss associated with blockage of large veins in the eye. This research was part of a multi-center, phase III clinical ...
Gene signal GS-101 data shows safe and effective inhibition of ophthalmic blood vessel growth
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Sep 01, 2009 |
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Gene Signal, a company focused on developing innovative drugs to manage angiogenesis based conditions, today announced the publication of interim results from a phase II study suggesting that the antisense oligonucleotide ...
New discovery brings hope to treatment of lymphatic diseases
Aug 10, 2009 |
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Researchers in the laboratory of Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati at the University of Kentucky have discovered the first naturally occurring molecule that selectively blocks lymphatic vessel growth. In an article in the Aug. 9, 2009 ...
Lower levels of key protein influence tumor growth in mice, study shows
Jun 01, 2009 |
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Tumors need a healthy supply of blood to grow and spread. Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a molecule that regulates blood vessel growth that is often found at less-than-normal levels ...
Molecule prompts damaged heart cells to repair themselves after a heart attack
Apr 10, 2009 |
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A protein that the heart produces during its early development reactivates the embryonic coronary developmental program and initiates migration of heart cells and blood vessel growth after a heart attack, ...
Deciphering the body's healing secrets
Feb 12, 2009 |
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Healthy blood vessels play a key role in the prevention and treatment of diseases such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Endothelial cells line the blood vessels and are critical to the regulation of blood vessel growth ...
Scientists increases understanding of two types of blindness
Feb 07, 2009 |
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Though based on mouse studies, the research bolsters the idea that humans suffering from these and other eye conditions may be able to help preserve function by adding antioxidants to their diet, and explains why this would ...
Discovery of natural compounds that could slow blood vessel growth
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Oct 04, 2008 |
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Using computer models and live cell experiments, biomedical engineers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have discovered more than 100 human protein fragments that can slow or stop the growth of cells that ...
Drugs to inhibit blood vessel growth show promise in rat model of deadly brain tumor
Aug 22, 2008 |
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In a landmark study, Medical College of Wisconsin researchers in Milwaukee report that drugs used to inhibit a specific fatty acid in rat brains with glioblastoma-like tumors not only reduced new blood vessel growth and tumor ...
