News tagged with bowel disease
Common parasite uncovers key cause of Crohn's
(PhysOrg.com) -- Immune systems have their sinister side, especially when they have not learned how hard to fight. Crohn's disease and other inflammatory bowel diseases inflict more than a million Americans ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 23, 2011 |
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Bacteria Wins First Round Against Inflammatory Bowel Disease
(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of British scientists and their Agricultural Research Service (ARS) colleague used a benign bacterium from the human gut to develop a microbe that someday might help treat inflammatory ...
Dec 31, 2009 |
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Scientists find the 'master switch' for key immune cells in inflammatory diseases
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have identified a protein that acts as a "master switch" in certain white blood cells, determining whether they promote or inhibit inflammation. The study, published in the journal ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 16, 2011 |
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New probiotic combats inflammatory bowel disease
You know the probiotics in your peach yogurt are healthful, but now it appears they may also be a powerful treatment for disease.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 31, 2011 |
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Scientists catalog zoo of bacteria inside our guts
(AP) -- The human gut is a virtual zoo, full of a wide variety of bacteria, a new study found. And scientists say that's a good thing.
Mar 03, 2010 |
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Curcumin May be Viable Supplement to Treat Inflammatory Bowel Disease
(PhysOrg.com) -- Turmeric - the key ingredient in curry - has been used in India for thousands of years to help treat colds, inflammation, arthritis and even cancer.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 27, 2009 |
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Gluten-free diets help many
For 20 years, Maurie Ange of El Cerrito, Calif., suffered from chronic belly aches. A decade ago, she was diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome and told to exercise more and increase her fiber intake. But the pain, bloating ...
May 22, 2009 |
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Stem cells turned into complex, functioning intestinal tissue in lab
For the first time, scientists have created functioning human intestinal tissue in the laboratory from pluripotent stem cells.
Dec 12, 2010 |
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Thioketal nanoparticles: Researchers develop oral delivery system to treat inflammatory bowel diseases
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University have developed a novel approach for delivering small bits of genetic material into the body to improve the treatment ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 10, 2010 |
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Eradicating dangerous bacteria may cause permanent harm
In the zeal to eliminate dangerous bacteria, it is possible that we are also permanently killing off beneficial bacteria as well, posits Martin Blaser, MD, Frederick H. King Professor of Medicine, professor of Microbiology ...
Aug 24, 2011 |
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Amid the murk of 'gut flora,' vitamin D receptor emerges as a key player
Within the human digestive tract is a teeming mass of hundreds of types of bacteria, a potpourri of microbes numbering in the trillions that help us digest food and keep bad bacteria in check.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 07, 2010 |
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Research links 29 genome regions with common form of inflammatory bowel disease
An international team of researchers has made new links between 29 regions of the genome and ulcerative colitis – a common form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The new findings increase the total number of genome ...
Feb 06, 2011 |
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Research sheds new light on inflammatory disease
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that understanding the precise timing of communication between cells that coordinate the body's response to disease could be key to new drug developments.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 09, 2009 |
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Newly identified cell population key to immune response
Scientists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have identified the key immune cell population responsible for regulating the body's immune response.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 06, 2011 |
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Breakthrough on causes of inflammatory bowel disease
New research by the University of Adelaide could help explain why some people are more prone to Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis and other autoimmune diseases.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 17, 2009 |
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