News tagged with autoimmune disorders
Related topics: autoimmune diseases , rheumatoid arthritis , immune system , type 1 diabetes , immune cells
Scientists discover molecular secrets of 2,000-year-old Chinese herbal remedy
For roughly two thousand years, Chinese herbalists have treated Malaria using a root extract, commonly known as Chang Shan, from a type of hydrangea that grows in Tibet and Nepal. More recent studies suggest that halofuginone, ...
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Discovery of cellular 'switch' may provide new means of triggering cell death, treating disease
A research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has discovered a previously unknown cellular "switch" that may provide researchers with a new means of triggering programmed cell death, findings ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 11, 2010 |
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Multiple sclerosis successfully reversed in animals
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new experimental treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS) completely reverses the devastating autoimmune disorder in mice, and might work exactly the same way in humans, say researchers at ...
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Aug 11, 2009 |
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Research involving thyroid hormone lays foundation for more targeted drug development
Research led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists advances a strategy for taming the side effects and enhancing the therapeutic benefits of steroids and other medications that work by disrupting the activity ...
Oct 21, 2011 |
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'Shotgun' method allows scientists to dissect cells' sugar coatings
Sugar molecules coat every cell in our bodies and play critical roles in development and disease, yet the components of these "glycans" have been difficult for scientists to study, because of their complexity.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 05, 2010 |
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New pathway regulates immune balance and offers promising drug development target
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have identified a new pathway that helps control the immune balance through reciprocal regulation of specialized T lymphocytes, which play very different inflammatory roles.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 20, 2010 |
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New pump created for microneedle drug-delivery patch
(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University researchers have developed a new type of pump for drug-delivery patches that might use arrays of "microneedles" to deliver a wider range of medications than now possible ...
Sep 01, 2010 |
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New drug target for immune diseases discovered
Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found a new mechanism that explains how certain immune cells are activated to create protective antibodies against infections or pathological antibodies such as those present ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 03, 2010 |
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Newly Discovered Protein Function Linked to Breast Cancer
(PhysOrg.com) -- UA researchers participated in the discovery of an unexpected role played by a protein molecule, making it a candidate for a biomarker or drug target for breast cancer.
Jul 13, 2010 |
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Rare variants in gene coding may up risk of autoimmune disorders
(PhysOrg.com) -- Rare variants in the gene coding of an enzyme that controls the activity of a key immune cell occur more often in people with autoimmune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis and type 1 diabetes, ...
Jul 01, 2010 |
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Surprising find may yield new avenue of treatment for painful herniated discs
An immune cell known to cause chronic inflammation in autoimmune disorders has been identified as a possible culprit in low back pain associated with herniated discs, according to doctors at Duke University Medical Center.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 29, 2010 |
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Defects in immune system enzyme may increase risk of autoimmune disorders
A multi-institutional research team has found that rare variants in the gene coding an enzyme that controls the activity of a key immune cell occur more frequently in individuals with autoimmune disorders like rheumatoid ...
Jun 16, 2010 |
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'Nanovaccine' reverses type 1 diabetes in mice
A new study, published online April 8 by Cell Press in the journal Immunity, describes a unique therapeutic "nanovaccine" that successfully reverses diabetes in a mouse model of the disease. In addition to providing new in ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 08, 2010 |
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Low levels of vitamin D linked to muscle fat, decreased strength in young people
There's an epidemic in progress, and it has nothing to do with the flu. A ground-breaking study published in the March 2010 Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism found an astonishing 59 per cent of study subjec ...
Mar 05, 2010 |
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Scientists pinpoint critical molecule to celiac disease, possibly other autoimmune disorders
It was nine years ago that University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers discovered that a mysterious human protein called zonulin played a critical role in celiac disease and other autoimmune disorders, such as multiple ...
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Sep 07, 2009 |
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