News tagged with pathology
Brain Researcher Defies Conventional Wisdom on Estrogen
(PhysOrg.com) -- When Dominique Toran-Allerand started studying the effects of estrogen in the brain some 40 years ago, her research was considered so unconventional as to be unbelievable. One of her first ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 12, 2010 |
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Are the effects of pornography negligible?
A Université de Montréal researcher, funded by the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Family Violence and Violence Against Women, has launched a new study to examine the effects of pornography on men. "We ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 01, 2009 |
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A new lead for autoimmune disease
A drug derived from the hydrangea root, used for centuries in traditional Chinese medicine, shows promise in treating autoimmune disorders, report researchers from the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine and the Immune ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 04, 2009 |
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Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard
(AP) -- Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States.
Jul 03, 2009 |
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Disease-causing strains of Fusarium prevalent in plumbing drains
A study examining the prevalence of the fungus Fusarium in bathroom sink drains suggests that plumbing systems may be a common source of human infections.
Dec 21, 2011 |
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Pigeons' navigation skill not down to iron-rich beak cells: study
The theory that pigeons' famous skill at navigation is down to iron-rich nerve cells in their beaks has been disproved by a new study published in Nature.
Apr 11, 2012 |
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Amid the murk of 'gut flora,' vitamin D receptor emerges as a key player
Within the human digestive tract is a teeming mass of hundreds of types of bacteria, a potpourri of microbes numbering in the trillions that help us digest food and keep bad bacteria in check.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 07, 2010 |
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Drug-resistant urinary tract infections spreading worldwide
A sudden worldwide increase in an antibiotic-resistant bacterium is cause for concern, according to a review in f1000 Medicine Reports.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 28, 2009 |
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Structure, dynamics of a chemical signal that triggers metastatic cancer revealed
In cancer and other pathological diseases, researchers are discovering that packaging is important: specifically, how DNA – about two meters long when unwound and stretched – coils up and compacts ...
Feb 16, 2011 |
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Uncharted territory: Scientists sequence the first carbohydrate biopolymer
(PhysOrg.com) -- DNA and protein sequencing have forever transformed science, medicine, and society. Understanding the structure of these complex biomolecules has revolutionized drug development, medical diagnostics, ...
Oct 11, 2011 |
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Ingredient in red wine may prevent some blinding diseases
found in red wine, grapes, blueberries, peanuts and other plants — stops out-of-control blood vessel growth in the eye, according to vision researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 25, 2010 |
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Researchers discover key to vital DNA, protein interaction
(PhysOrg.com) -- A researcher at Iowa State University has discovered how a group of proteins from plant pathogenic bacteria interact with DNA in the plant cell, opening up the possibility for what the scientist ...
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Where did you get those eyes and that brain?
A family history of Alzheimer's disease significantly increases the risk for developing this disorder, but a new study in Biological Psychiatry suggests that which of your parents has the disease is very important.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 15, 2010 |
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New avocado rootstocks are high-performing and disease-tolerant
Avocado, a significant fruit crop grown in many tropical and subtropical parts of the world, is threatened by Phytophthora root rot (PRR), a disease that has already eliminated commercial avocado production ...
Apr 27, 2012 |
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Research reveals early steps in Parkinson's pathology
Although the cause of Parkinson's disease remains a mystery, scientists now have a better understanding of the earliest stages of abnormal aggregation of a key disease-associated protein. The research, published by Cell Press ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 06, 2010 |
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Pathology
Pathology is the precise study and diagnosis of disease. The word pathology is from Ancient Greek πάθος, pathos, "feeling, suffering"; and -λογία, -logia, "the study of". Pathologization, to pathologize, refers to the process of defining a condition or behavior as pathological, e.g. pathological gambling. Pathologies is synonymous with diseases. The suffix "path" is used to indicate a disease, e.g. psychopath.
Pathology addresses 4 components of disease: cause/etiology, mechanisms of development (pathogenesis), structural alterations of cells (morphologic changes), and the consequences of changes (clinical manifestations).
Pathology is further separated into divisions, based on either the system being studied (e.g. veterinary pathology and animal disease) or the focus of the examination (e.g. forensic pathology and determining the cause of death).
For more information about Pathology, read the full article at
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