News tagged with inflammatory condition

New screening technique yields elusive compounds to block immune-regulating enzyme

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have found the first chemical compounds that act to block an enzyme that has been linked to inflammatory conditions such as asthma and arthritis, as well as some ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Curry spice could offer treatment hope for tendinitis

(PhysOrg.com) -- A derivative of a common culinary spice found in Indian curries could offer a new treatment hope for sufferers of the painful condition tendinitis, an international team of researchers has shown.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 09, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New contrast agents detect bacterial infections with high sensitivity and specificity

A new family of contrast agents that sneak into bacteria disguised as glucose food can detect bacterial infections in animals with high sensitivity and specificity. These agents -- called maltodextrin-based ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Clinical trial success for Crohn's disease cell therapy

Speaking at the UK National Stem Cell Network annual science meeting later today, Professor Miguel Forte will describe research into a new cell therapy for chronic inflammatory conditions such as Crohn's disease. Patient's ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NIH genetic collaboration brings new meaning to the Silk Road

Researchers with the National Institutes of Health have found susceptibility to Behcet's disease, a painful, inflammatory condition, to be associated with genes involved in the body's immune response.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 13, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Blood test for inflammation may be sign of colon cancer

A blood test used to determine the level of inflammation in the body may offer some help in assessing colon cancer risk, according to results of a study to be presented by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center's Gong Yang, M.D., ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 19, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Immune responses to mitochondria help explain body's inflammatory response to injury

Inflammation is at the root of most serious complications occurring after both infection and injury. But while the molecular course of events that leads from microbial infections to the inflammatory condition called sepsis ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

There's Hope for Debilitating Knee Pain

(PhysOrg.com) -- Complaints about knee pain can be all too familiar when you suffer from osteoarthritis of the knee. The condition often keeps sufferers from participating in many activities—sometimes even ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jan 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

2D protein maps of mucosal biopsies in patients with ileal pouch-anal anastomosis

A group of researchers headed by Professors Patrizia Brigidi and Massimo Campieri utilized a comparative proteomic approach to profile protein expression in mucosal biopsies from patients with chronic refractory pouchitis ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jan 14, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Soy peptide lunasin has anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory properties

Two new University of Illinois studies report that lunasin, a soy peptide often discarded in the waste streams of soy-processing plants, may have important health benefits that include fighting leukemia and blocking the inflammation ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Aspirin, tylenol may decrease effectiveness of vaccines

With flu season in full swing and the threat of H1N1 looming, demand for vaccines is at an all-time high. Although those vaccines are expected to be effective, University of Missouri researchers have found further evidence ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Kidney transplants generally safe for lupus patients

Individuals with a history of lupus who receive a kidney transplant rarely develop the serious inflammatory condition lupus nephritis in their new organ, according to a paper being presented at the American Society of Nephrology's ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Can psychosocial stress at work put at risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis?

A Swedish study published in one of the latest issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics discloses new relationships between stress at work and development of rheumatoid arthritis. 

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Key protein regulating inflammation may prove relevant to controlling sepsis

Scientists at Singapore's Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), under the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), have identified the protein, WIP1, as the molecular "brake" that curbs severe inflammation ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Older men more likely than women to die after pneumonia

Differing biological response to infection between men and women may explain higher death rates among older men who are hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). The findings, published online in the Critical Ca ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0