News tagged with atrophy
Pivotal discoveries in age-related macular degeneration
A team of researchers, led by University of Kentucky ophthalmologist Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati, has discovered a molecular mechanism implicated in geographic atrophy, the major cause of untreatable blindness ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 06, 2011 |
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Reduced diet thwarts aging, disease in monkeys
(PhysOrg.com) -- The bottom-line message from a decades-long study of monkeys on a restricted diet is simple: Consuming fewer calories leads to a longer, healthier life.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 09, 2009 |
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Vitamin B could delay onset of Alzheimer's: study
Large daily doses of B vitamins could delay -- or even halt -- the onset of Alzheimer's disease, a study suggested Thursday.
Sep 09, 2010 |
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The pull of artificial gravity
(PhysOrg.com) -- Although President Obama's vision for NASA's future calls for canceling the Constellation program that was intended to send humans to the moon by 2020, his proposed budget for the agency still ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 15, 2010 |
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Analyzing structural brain changes in Alzheimer's disease
In a study that promises to improve diagnosis and monitoring of Alzheimer's disease, scientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a fast and accurate method for quantifying subtle, ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Muscle atrophy through thick but not thin
During desperate times, such as fasting, or muscle wasting that afflicts cancer or AIDS patients, the body cannibalizes itself, atrophying and breaking down skeletal muscle proteins to liberate amino acids. In a new study ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 08, 2009 |
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Study links normal function of protein, not its build up inside cells, to death of neurons
A study led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators links the muscle weakness and other symptoms of a rare neurodegenerative disease to a misstep in functioning of a normal protein, rather than its build-up ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 22, 2010 |
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Identifying molecular guardian of cell's RNA
When most genes are transcribed, the nascent RNAs they produce are not quite ready to be translated into proteins - they have to be processed first. One of those processes is called splicing, a mechanism by ...
Oct 25, 2010 |
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To keep muscles strong, the 'garbage' has to go
In order to maintain muscle strength with age, cells must rid themselves of the garbage that accumulates in them over time, just as it does in any household, according to a new study in the December issue of Cell Metabolism. In the ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 01, 2009 |
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New finding may help baby boomers get buff
If you're an aging baby boomer hoping for a buffer physique, there's hope. A team of American scientists from Texas and Michigan have made a significant discovery about the cause of age-related muscle atrophy that could lead ...
Jan 04, 2010 |
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New therapy offers hope to spinal muscular atrophy patients
Children who suffer from the devastating disease Spinal Muscular Atrophy are set to benefit from a new breakthrough in therapy developments by researchers at the University of Sheffield.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 09, 2010 |
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Newly Discovered Gene Mutation Linked to Nerve Diseases
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have identified mutations in the gene for TRPV4 that cause two related degenerative motor nerve disorders, scapuloperoneal spinal muscular ...
Dec 28, 2009 |
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Muscle loss finding may one day save physiques
Hey guys, remember the muscle shirts we wore in our teens and 20s? After the age of 40 that meager part of our wardrobes usually is obsolete. Yes, at the big 4-0 we begin to lose muscle, and by age 80 up to a third of it ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 12, 2010 |
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More evidence that Alzheimer's disease may be inherited from your mother
Results from a new study contribute to growing evidence that if one of your parents has Alzheimer's disease, the chances of inheriting it from your mother are higher than from your father. The study is published in the March ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 28, 2011 |
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SANS tracks cell death protein invading biomimetic mitochondrial membrane
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of biochemists, biophysicists, and neutron scientists are using a combination of fluorescence and small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) techniques to assist biochemists ...
Dec 15, 2011 |
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Atrophy
Atrophy is the partial or complete wasting away of a part of the body. Causes of atrophy include poor nourishment, poor circulation, loss of hormonal support, loss of nerve supply to the target organ, disuse or lack of exercise or disease intrinsic to the tissue itself. Hormonal and nerve inputs that maintain an organ or body part are referred to as trophic.
Atrophy is a general physiological process of reabsorption and breakdown of tissues, involving apoptosis on a cellular level. When it occurs as a result of disease or loss of trophic support due to other disease, it is termed pathological atrophy, although it can be a part of normal body development and homeostasis as well.
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