News tagged with proteolytic enzymes
Fibroblasts invade at a snail's pace
A transcription factor known to drive the formation of fibroblasts during development also promotes their ability to invade and remodel surrounding tissues, report Rowe et al. in the February 9, 2009 issue ...
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New insights into ancient life: Chromosome segregation in Archaea
(PhysOrg.com) -- The effort to classify life into various groups has been a bumpy ride. Prior to the 1900s, living things were usually pegged as either plants or animals – period. By the middle of the ...
Mar 16, 2012 |
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The Mechanisms of Memory
(PhysOrg.com) -- USC College's Michel Baudry and graduate student Sohila Zadran brought forty years of research to a pinnacle with their breakthroughs in the science of learning and memory.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 09, 2010 |
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How proteins talk to each other: Caspase-3 cleaves in unforeseen ways
Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research have identified novel cleavage sites for the enzyme caspase-3 (an enzyme that proteolytically cleaves target proteins). Using an advanced proteomic technique called ...
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Prodrug could help curb skin toxicity related to EGFR-inhibiting cancer drugs
There may be a way around the harsh skin toxicity associated with a widely used cancer drug, according to a study published online this week in Cancer Biology and Therapy by researchers from City of Hope and the Kimmel Cancer ...
Sep 01, 2009 |
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A single mechanism for hypertension, insulin resistance and immune suppression
Many of the 75 million Americans with essential hypertension also develop diabetes and other complications in addition to their high blood pressure, and researchers have discovered a common molecular mechanism ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 30, 2008 |
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Lowering body temperature could aid standard stroke treatment
University of Cincinnati scientists have developed a model that could help physicians combine current clot-busting medication with below-normal body temperatures (hypothermia) to improve the treatment of ischemic stroke patients.
May 17, 2007 |
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Moonlighting enzyme linked to neurodegenerative disease
Friedreich's ataxia is one of those diseases few have heard of unless you know someone with the condition. For that individual -- usually a child or teenager -- it is devastating. Symptoms are mild at first: muscle weakness ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 24, 2007 |
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Researchers target multiple sclerosis
U.S. scientists say they have developed a substance that inhibits the progress of multiple sclerosis in an animal model.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 22, 2006 |
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Key Signaling Switch Identified in Allergic Disease
A research team has identified a key enzyme responsible for triggering a chain of events that results in allergic reaction, according to new study findings published online this week in Nature Immunology.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 30, 2006 |
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Nanoparticles Make Cancer Cells Visible
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could detect tumors and their metastases as easily as we find broken bones with X-rays? A team of scientists headed by S. Bhatia in Boston has been working on this problem. They have found a way ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 04, 2006 |
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