News tagged with enzyme activity
Scientists take a step towards uncovering the histone code
Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have determined the structures of two enzymes that customize histones, the spool-like proteins around which DNA coils inside the cell.
Dec 20, 2009 |
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Study helps advance heart-related research
Using a new mathematical model of heart cells, University of Iowa investigators have shown how activation of a critical enzyme, calmodulin kinase II (CaM kinase), disrupts the electrical activity of heart cells.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 04, 2009 |
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Spinal cord regeneration enabled by stabilizing, improving delivery of scar-degrading enzyme
Researchers have developed an improved version of an enzyme that degrades the dense scar tissue that forms when the central nervous system is damaged. By digesting the tissue that blocks re-growth of damaged ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Inventive approach may improve enzyme replacement therapy for Fabry disease
A new study uses a creative structure-based remodeling strategy to design a therapeutic protein that exhibits significant advantages over currently available treatments for a rare disease that often leads to cardiac and renal ...
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Genetic variation of enzyme linked with outcomes for women receiving tamoxifen
Among women with early stage breast cancer, genetic variation of a certain enzyme appears to be associated with clinical outcomes for women treated with tamoxifen, according to a study in the October 7 issue of JAMA.
Oct 06, 2009 |
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Scientists present first genetic evidence for why placebos work
usually mere sugar pills designed to represent "no treatment" in a clinical treatment study. The effectiveness of the actual medication is compared with the placebo to determine if the medication works.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 20, 2009 |
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Exercise helps patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Counseling patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) on how to increase physical activity leads to health benefits that are independent of changes in weight. These findings are in a new study in the July issue ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 01, 2009 |
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New nanoparticles could revolutionize therapeutic drug discovery
A revolutionary new protein stabilisation technique has been developed by scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council which could lead to 30 per cent more proteins being available as potential ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Pesticide susceptibility in children lasts longer than expected
Although it is known that infants are more susceptible than adults to the toxic effects of pesticides, this increased vulnerability may extend much longer into childhood than expected, according to a new study by researchers ...
Jun 23, 2009 |
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Mechanisms that prevent Alzheimer's Disease: Enzymatic activity plays key role
In a project involving the collaboration of several institutes, research scientists of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have succeeded in gaining further insight in the functioning of endogenous mechanisms that protect ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 23, 2009 |
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