Washington, March 15 : An Indian-origin researcher at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has found that imbalance of iron homeostasis is a common feature of prion disease-affected human, mouse, and hamster brains.
Dr. Neena Singh, who worked in collaboration with researchers from Creighton University, says that her team's findings provide new insight into the mechanism of neurotoxicity in prion disorders, and novel avenues for the development of therapeutic strategies.
Unlike other neurodegenerative conditions, prion disorders are sporadic, inherited, and infectious, and affect both humans and animals.
Mad cow disease in cattle, scrapie in sheep, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans are some of its examples.
London, Mar 15: Viagra might help men rise to the occasion, but its side effects can be oddly devastating, which include - wonky willies flatulence, toothache and hiccups!
According to a health watchdog, the drug is responsible for 109 deaths in the UK.
In Britain, more than 1,000 reports of problems are logged in a huge database listing more than 1,500 side effects.
The drug is prescribed more than one million times a year.
Washington, Mar 14 : Researchers from Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified a molecular pathway that can be a potential therapeutic target for Down's syndrome, the most frequent cause of mental retardation.
The study showed that synaptojanin-1, a central component of the pathway, is essential to production of glia, brain cells that act as neurons'' personal assistants.
Down''s syndrome, spinal cord injury, Alzheimer''s disease, and stroke all are linked by an overproduction of glia.
Washington, Mar 14: While alcohol consumption has always been attributed to devastating effects on health, a new study has revealed that moderate consumption might make bones stronger in older adults.
An international team of experts headed by Katherine Tucker studied a cohort of older adults in the Framingham Offspring Study to determine an association between alcohol consumption and bone mineral density.
“Moderate alcohol consumption was shown to contribute to stronger bones (measured as hip and spine bone mineral density),” said ASN Spokesperson Stephanie Atkinson, PhD.
London, Mar 14 : A bioabsorbable, drug-eluting stent appears to be a safe and effective way of treating blocked coronary arteries, according to results from the open-label ABSORB study.
Two years after implanting of an investigational, everolimus coronary stent in patients, boffins recorded no cardiac deaths, target lesion revascularizations, or stent thromboses, reports The Lancet.
Washington, March 14 : Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have revealed that they have been able to block the development of the malaria-causing parasite in Anopheles gambiae, A. stephensi and A. albimanus mosquitoes-three mosquito species that spread malaria in Africa, Asia and the Americas-by silencing a gene called caspar.
London, Mar 15: Viagra might help men rise to the occasion, but its side effects can be oddly devastating, which include - wonky willies flatulence, toothache and hiccups!
Washington, Mar 14: While alcohol consumption has always been attributed to devastating effects on health, a new study has revealed that moderate consumption might make bones stronger in older adults.
London, Mar 14 : A bioabsorbable, drug-eluting stent appears to be a safe and effective way of treating blocked coronary arteries, according to results from the open-label ABSORB study.
Washington, March 14 : Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have revealed that they have been able to block the development of the malaria-causing parasite in Anopheles gambiae, A. stephensi and A. albimanus mosquitoes-three mosquito species that spread malaria in Africa, Asia and the Americas-by silencing a gene called caspar.
