News tagged with lung fibroblasts
Effects of smoking linked to accelerated aging protein
A University of Iowa study is apparently the first to make a connection between a rare, hereditary premature aging disease and cell damage that comes from smoking. The study results point to possible therapeutic targets for ...
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Feb 06, 2009 |
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A new way to make reprogrammed stem cells
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have devised a totally new and far more efficient way of generating induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), immature cells that are able to ...
Apr 07, 2011 |
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Scarred lungs leave trail of beta arrestins
Targeting a family of signaling proteins called beta arrestins may stop the life-threatening scarring and thickening of lungs associated with pulmonary fibrosis, reports a new Science study in mice.
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Mar 28, 2011 |
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Protein associated with allergic response causes airway changes in asthma patients
Changes that occur in the airways of asthma patients are in part caused by the naturally occurring protein interleukin-13 (IL-13) which stimulates invasion of airway cells called fibroblasts, according to a study conducted ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 22, 2011 |
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New study finds molecular mechanisms that control Rb2/p130 gene expression in lung cancer
Despite innumerable studies on lung cancer, many aspects of the disease have yet to be understood, including the role played by the retinoblastoma-related protein Rb2/p130 in the evolution of the disease.
Feb 25, 2011 |
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Researchers provide genetic evidence that antioxidants can help treat cancer
Researchers from Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer Center have genetic evidence suggesting the antioxidant drugs currently used to treat lung disease, malaria and even the common cold can also help prevent and treat cancers because ...
Feb 15, 2011 |
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Peptide delivers 1-2 punch to breast cancer in pre-clinical study
Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (WFUBMC) have discovered what may become a new weapon in the fight against breast cancer. For the first time, a peptide found in blood and tissue has been shown ...
Jan 03, 2011 |
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New study upends thinking about how liver disease develops
In the latest of a series of related papers, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues in Austria and elsewhere, present a new and more definitive explanation of how fibrotic ...
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Dec 20, 2010 |
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Tumors bring their own support cells when forming metastases
The process of metastasis requires that cancer cells traveling from a primary tumor find a hospitable environment in which to implant themselves and grow. A new study from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center ...
Dec 01, 2010 |
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Breakthrough in cancer vaccine research
Researchers at the University of Cambridge hope to revolutionise cancer therapy after discovering one of the reasons why many previous attempts to harness the immune system to treat cancerous tumours have failed.
Nov 04, 2010 |
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New promising therapy against systemic sclerosis
There is a new path to defeat systemic sclerosis, also called scleroderma because of the hardening of the skin of the patients (from Greek skleros, "hard", and derma, "skin"). This path involves the B-cell of the immune system, ...
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Jun 14, 2010 |
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