News tagged with vessel growth
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Medical imaging breakthrough uses light and sound to see microscopic details inside our bodies
See it for yourself: a new breakthrough in imaging technology using a combination of light and sound will allow health care providers to see microscopic details inside the body. Access to this level of detail potentially ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 22, 2010 |
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1930s drug slows tumor growth
Drugs sometimes have beneficial side effects. A glaucoma treatment causes luscious eyelashes. A blood pressure drug also aids those with a rare genetic disease. The newest surprise discovered by researchers at the Johns ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 06, 2009 |
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Insulin boost restores muscle growth in elderly
When most people think of insulin, they think of diabetes — a disease that arises when, for one reason or another, insulin can't do the critical job of helping the body process sugar. But the hormone has another, less well-known ...
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Sep 25, 2009 |
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Researchers seek to put the squeeze on cancer
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cancer researchers have been studying angiogenesis — the growth of new blood vessels — since the early 1970s, when Judah Folkman first theorized that tumors could be destroyed by cutting off ...
Jun 15, 2010 |
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Scientists find gas pedal -- and brake -- for uncontrolled cell growth
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a new way to regulate the uncontrolled growth of blood vessels, a major problem in a broad range of diseases and conditions.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 01, 2010 |
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Down's Syndrome Chromosome Yields More Cancer-Blocking Genes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London have discovered cancer-blocking activity for genes carried on chromosome 21 - an extra copy of which is carried by people with Down’s syndrome.
Jun 11, 2010 |
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Morphine blocks tumor growth
Current research suggests that taking morphine can block new blood vessel and tumor growth. The related report by Koodie et al, "Morphine suppresses tumor angiogenesis through a HIF1α/p38MAPK pathway," appears in the ...
Jul 28, 2010 |
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New hybrid 'NOSH aspirin' as possible anti-cancer drug
Scientists have combined two new "designer" forms of aspirin into a hybrid substance that appears more effective than either of its forebears in controlling the growth of several forms of cancer in laboratory ...
Feb 29, 2012 |
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Researchers uncover novel genetic pathway responsible for triggering vascular growth
Most solid cancers can't grow beyond a limited size without an adequate blood supply and supporting vascular network. Because of this, cancer researchers have sought to understand how a tumor's vascular network develops—and, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 04, 2010 |
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UCLA team uncovers mechanism behind organ transplant rejection
UCLA researchers have pinpointed the culprit behind chronic rejection of heart, lung and kidney transplants. Published in the Nov. 23 edition of Science Signaling, their findings suggest new therapeutic approa ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 18, 2010 |
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Scientists increases understanding of two types of blindness
Though based on mouse studies, the research bolsters the idea that humans suffering from these and other eye conditions may be able to help preserve function by adding antioxidants to their diet, and explains why this would ...
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Feb 07, 2009 |
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Molecule prompts damaged heart cells to repair themselves after a heart attack
A protein that the heart produces during its early development reactivates the embryonic coronary developmental program and initiates migration of heart cells and blood vessel growth after a heart attack, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 10, 2009 |
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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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Sight gone, but not necessarily lost? Researchers find life in blood-starved retinas
Like all tissues in the body, the eye needs a healthy blood supply to function properly. Poorly developed blood vessels can lead to visual impairment or even blindness. While many of the molecules involved in guiding the ...
Oct 30, 2009 |
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Study finds link between low oxygen levels in body and cancer-aiding protein
What began as research into how diabetics could possibly preserve their eyesight has led to findings that could prolong the vision of children afflicted with retinoblastoma.
Mar 09, 2010 |
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