News tagged with immunomodulatory effects
Ginseng -- nature's anti-inflammatory?
Laboratory experiments have demonstrated the immunological effects of ginseng. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access Journal of Translational Medicine have shown that the herb, much used in traditional Chines ...
May 14, 2009 |
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Interventional radiologists advance MS research: Vein-opening treatment safe
Understanding that angioplasty -- a medical treatment used by interventional radiologists to widen the veins in the neck and chest to improve blood flow -- is safe may encourage additional studies for its use as a treatment ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 28, 2011 |
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Research shows regenerative benefit of MultiStem after spinal cord injury
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Athersys, Inc. announced a joint scientific study on spinal cord injury will be published today in the January issue of the Journal of Neuroscience. The study, by lea ...
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Jan 19, 2011 |
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Haptoglobin as an early serum biomarker of virus-induced type 1 diabetes in rats
Type 1 diabetes (T1D), formerly known as juvenile diabetes, is a multifactorial disease of complex etiology characterized by the autoimmune destruction of pancreatic beta cells. In addition to genetic susceptibility, it is ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 26, 2010 |
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Less intensive drug schedule as effective as standard treatment for blood cancer
A less intensive bortezomib-based regimen (given once instead of twice per week) followed by maintenance therapy, is as effective as the standard treatment for elderly patients with multiple myeloma, but with fewer serious ...
Aug 23, 2010 |
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A nutritional supplement for treating chronic hepatitis C: Viusid
A research team from Cuba investigated the efficacy of Viusid, a nutritional supplement, as an antioxidant and an immunomodulator in patients with chronic hepatitis C. Their results showed that treatment with Viusid leads ...
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Jun 17, 2010 |
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Study identifies promising treatment for aggressive lymphoma
New research illustrates that some patients with transformed lymphoma showed "remarkable" response to lenalidomide, an oral drug with few side effects.
May 26, 2010 |
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Catching multiple sclerosis before it strikes
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an equal opportunity destroyer. It attacks the central nervous system and eventually renders most patients disabled. Among its high-profile victims are celebrated cellist Jacqueline du Pre, whose ...
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Apr 29, 2010 |
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Therapeutic effect of worm-derived proteins on experimental colitis
Worms are important source of immunomodulatory proteins that could be used in the development of new drugs for the treatment of immune-mediated diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). A research group in Belgium ...
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Mar 04, 2010 |
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Promising novel treatment for human cancer -- Chrysanthemum indicum extract
A series of studies have demonstrated that Chrysanthemum indicum possesses antimicrobial, antiinflammatory, immunomodulatory, and neuroprotective effects. Recently, much attention has been devoted to the anticancer activi ...
Oct 16, 2009 |
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Placenta-derived stem cells may help sufferers of lung diseases
An Italian research team, publishing in the current issue of Cell Transplantation (18:4), has found that stem cells derived from human placenta may ultimately play a role in the treatment of lung diseases, such as pulmon ...
Jul 27, 2009 |
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