News tagged with transgenic mice
Epilepsy halted in mice
Scientists at Leeds have prevented epilepsy caused by a gene defect from being passed on to mice offspring - an achievement which may herald new therapies for people suffering from the condition.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 03, 2009 |
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Researchers demonstrate green tea is effective in treating genetic disorder and types of tumors
A compound found in green tea shows great promise for the development of drugs to treat two types of tumors and a deadly congenital disease. The discovery is the result of research led by Principal Investigator, ...
Aug 15, 2011 |
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Research offers clue to halt Huntington's disease
(PhysOrg.com) -- Surprising findings from a study into the brains of transgenic mice carrying the Huntington's disease mutation could pave the way for treatments which delay the onset and progression of this devastating genetic ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 25, 2011 |
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Novel mouse gene reduces major pathologies associated with Alzheimer's disease
A new study reveals that a previously undiscovered mouse gene reduces the two major pathological perturbations commonly associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD). The research, published by Cell Press in the November 12 issue ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Important development in the treatment of multiple sclerosis reported
A major step forward, with important implications for understanding how to reduce the severity of multiple sclerosis, has been made by scientists at the University of Bristol. The results are published online ...
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Aug 24, 2009 |
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Novel antibody prevents infection by hepatitis C virus
Taking aim at a leading cause of liver failure in the United States, a team of scientists at the Massachusetts Biologic Laboratories (MBL) of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) has developed a human monoclonal ...
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May 05, 2009 |
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Transcription factor clears protein clumps in Huntington's mice models
Over expressing a transcription factor that promotes the increase in number of mitochondria greatly improves the neurological function of transgenic mice models for Huntington's disease (HD), researchers today told the American ...
Dec 14, 2010 |
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Gladstone scientists identify process by which Alzheimer's disease creeps through the brain
Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (GIND) have offered new information about the events that underlie the "spread" of Alzheimer's disease (AD) throughout the brain. The research, published in the ...
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Nov 03, 2010 |
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Getting off tract: Polyglutamine disease involves other regions of protein
Many genes code for proteins that have a "polyglutamine tract," several glutamine amino acid residues in a row. Nine inherited neurodegenerative diseases, including Huntington's disease and spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1), ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 22, 2010 |
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Scientists discover new protein that gets to the roots of obesity and osteoporosis
Here's good news for anyone trying to lose weight or has osteoporosis: Scientists from Maine are on the trail of a weight loss drug that may revolutionize how we treat these two conditions. In a new research report published ...
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Aug 31, 2010 |
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Sense of smell holds the key to diagnosis and treatment in early stage Parkinson's disease
A fast, simple and non invasive test of the ability to smell may be an important tool to screen people who are likely to develop Parkinson's disease (PD), in which motor symptoms only become evident at a later stage of the ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 11, 2010 |
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Promising strategy for treatment of lung cancer
A research team at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has shown in a study that two closely related enzymes could be targets for the treatment of lung cancer. The discovery was made when the ...
Mar 29, 2010 |
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German researchers develop new tool to investigate ion channels
Neurotoxins from cone snails and spiders help neurobiologists Sebastian Auer, Annika S. Stürzebecher and Dr. Ines Ibañez-Tallon of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany, ...
Feb 10, 2010 |
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Researchers create first transgenic prairie voles
Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have successfully generated the first transgenic prairie voles, an important step toward unlocking the genetic secrets of pair bonding. The future ...
Dec 01, 2009 |
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Mighty mice: Treatment targeted to muscle improves motor neuron disease
New research with transgenic mice reveals that a therapy directed at the muscle significantly improves disease symptoms of a genetic disorder characterized by destruction of the neurons that control movement. The study, published ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 12, 2009 |
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