News tagged with lymphatic
Drug boosts snakebite survival time by half: study
Rubbing snakebites with an ointment that slows the functioning of lymph glands could boost survival times by 50 percent, according to a study released Sunday.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 26, 2011 |
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Laying bare the not-so-sweet tale of a sugar and its role in the spread of cancer
Cancer has a mighty big bag of tricks that it uses to evade the body's natural defense mechanisms and proliferate. Among those tricks is one that allows tumor cells to turn the intricate and extensive system of lymphatic ...
Apr 25, 2011 |
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Scientists identify most proteins made by parasitic worm
A team led by Thomas B. Nutman, M.D., of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has completed a large-scale analysis of most of the proteins produced ...
May 23, 2011 |
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Golden Nanotubes Detect Tumor Cells, Map Sentinel Lymph Nodes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Biomedical researchers at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock have developed a special contrast-imaging agent made of gold-coated ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 24, 2009 |
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Nanoparticles Detect and Purge Metastases in Lymph Nodes
Colonoscopy represents one of the great weapons against cancer. In one step, a physician can find precancerous lesions in the colon and then cut them out, an on-the-spot intervention that prevents cancer from developing. ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 30, 2009 |
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Researchers unlock how key drug kills tropical parasites
In a major breakthrough that comes after decades of research and nearly half a billion treatments in humans, scientists have finally unlocked how a key anti-parasitic drug kills the worms brought on by the ...
Nov 10, 2010 |
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Parasite bacteria may help fight spread of mosquito-borne diseases
Infecting mosquitoes with a bacterial parasite could help prevent the spread of lymphatic filariasis, one of the major neglected tropical diseases of the developing world, according to research published today ...
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Bismuth nanoparticles provide high fidelity images of breast tumors
By combining a nanoparticle that is readily visible in X-ray computed tomography (CT) scans with a molecule that targets tumor lymph vessels and other tumor tissues, a research team from the University of California, San ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 20, 2012 |
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Banana plantain fibers could treat Crohn's disease
Crohn's is a condition that affects one in 800 people in the UK and causes chronic intestinal inflammation, leading to pain, bleeding and diarrhoea. Researchers are working with biotechnology company, Provexis, to test a ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 25, 2010 |
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Chronic skin inflammation alleviated with lymphatic vessel growth stimulation
ETH Zurich pharmacists have discovered an astonishing mechanism that could help alleviate the suffering of patients with chronic skin inflammation, by stimulating lymphatic vessel growth.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 20, 2010 |
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WHO: 1 billion suffer from hidden tropical disease
(AP) -- The World Health Organization estimated Thursday that 1 billion of the world's poorest people suffer from neglected tropical diseases such as dengue, rabies and leprosy that remain concentrated in remote rural areas ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 14, 2010 |
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Researchers discover gene mutation linked to lymphatic dysfunction
A genetic mutation for inherited lymphedema associated with lymphatic function has been discovered that could help create new treatments for the condition, say researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of ...
May 27, 2010 |
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New imaging technique could help physicians ease the aftermath of breast cancer
A new study of breast cancer survivors may help physicians ease a common side effect of cancer treatments. The collaborative research by Eva Sevick, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Molecular Imaging at the University of ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 03, 2010 |
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Researchers discover novel circulation in human eye, new glaucoma treatment target
Researchers at the University of Toronto, St. Michael's Hospital and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre have discovered a previously unidentified form of circulation within the human eye which may provide important new insights ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 05, 2009 |
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A cell turns into a virus factory
Bunyaviruses are poorly researched, despite their diversity and importance in relation to animal and human diseases. ETH Zurich researchers led by virologist Ari Helenius have now discovered the tricks used ...
Jun 25, 2010 |
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