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2009 — 2013 Postdoctoral Research, University of California, San Francisco USA Max Planck Institute for
Heart and Lung Research Germany
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for
Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim, together with U.S. colleagues, have now observed in the embryo of the zebrafish that muscle cells migrate from the undamaged atrium into the ventricle and thus significantly contribute to regeneration.
Scientists at The Ohio State University Davis
Heart and Lung Research Institute have identified a new target they hope will help make the next drug discovery for patients suffering from heart arrhythmias happen sooner.
Scientist from the MPI for
Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim now found that additional genes compensate for a knocked out gene and either attenuate consequences or completely compensate deficits.
Together with scientists at the universities of Cologne and Heidelberg, the Research Group led by Stefan Offermanns, Director of the Department of Pharmacology at the Max Planck Institute for
Heart and Lung Research and professor at Goethe University Frankfurt, has now succeeded in clarifying the underlying mechanism.
Scientists from Didier Stainier's group at the Max Planck Institute for
Heart and Lung Research have now identified the reason for this.
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for
Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim and Goethe University Frankfurt have now shown that tumour cells kill specific cells in the vascular wall.
Zhang, a member of Ohio State's Davis
Heart and Lung Research Institute, is particularly interested in bioadhesives that could aid in wound healing after injury or surgeries.
Other scientists involved in the study were Amy Dickson and Toyokazu Endo, also at Duke University, and Chinmoy Patra and Didier Stainier at the Max Planck Institute for
Heart and Lung Research.
A team led by Antonia Sassmann - Schweda of the Max - Planck - Institute for
Heart and Lung Research and colleagues generated mice lacking TAK1 specifically in adipocytes.
Not exact matches
Medical
research has shown that palm oil can improve blood circulation, reduce high blood pressure, protect against
heart disease, block cancer, improve blood sugar control, calm inflammation, support healthy
lung and liver function, strengthen bones
and teeth, improve eye health, boost immune function,
and protect against mental deterioration, such as Alzheimer's
and Parkinson's disease.
Corresponding author
and reprints: Carl E. Hunt, MD, National Center on Sleep Disorders
Research, National
Heart,
Lung,
and Blood Institute, Two Rockledge Centre, Room 1003, 6701 Rockledge Dr, MSC 7920, Bethesda, MD 20892 - 7920 (e-mail:
[email protected]).
Director, National Center on Sleep Disorders
Research National
Heart,
Lung,
and Blood Institute, NIH
Michael Twery is the director of the National Center on Sleep Disorders
Research (NCSDR) in the National
Heart,
Lung,
and Blood Institute's (NHLBI) Division of
Lung Diseases at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
«It's a big problem,» said Michael J. Twery, director of the National Center on Sleep Disorders
Research at the National
Heart,
Lung,
and Blood Institute.
Research reported in this news release was supported by the National
Heart,
Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under award number R01 HL116585 - 01
and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the NIH under award numbers UL1TR000075
and KL2TR000076.
The study was conducted with researchers at Linköping University in Sweden
and the Technical University of Munich, Germany
and financed by the Swedish
Research Council, Stockholm County Council, the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the
Heart and Lung Foundation, the Ragnar Söderberg Foundation, Karolinska Institutet
and the European
Research Council (ERC).
This
research was funded by grants from the Swedish Research Council, the Heart - Lung Foundation, the Swedish Medical Society, the King Gustaf V's and Queen Victoria's Foundation of Freemason, the Torsten Söderberg Foundation, and the Ragnar Söderberg Fou
research was funded by grants from the Swedish
Research Council, the Heart - Lung Foundation, the Swedish Medical Society, the King Gustaf V's and Queen Victoria's Foundation of Freemason, the Torsten Söderberg Foundation, and the Ragnar Söderberg Fou
Research Council, the
Heart -
Lung Foundation, the Swedish Medical Society, the King Gustaf V's
and Queen Victoria's Foundation of Freemason, the Torsten Söderberg Foundation,
and the Ragnar Söderberg Foundation.
Research has shown such particles can lodge in
lungs, triggering asthma attacks,
heart attacks
and other respiratory
and cardiovascular problems.
The
research was funded by the National
Heart,
Lung,
and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health
and the National Cancer Institute.
A transplant biopsy system that uses gene chips to read molecules is far safer
and more effective than existing approaches used for
heart transplant biopsies
and is showing promising results for
lung transplant biopsies, new University of Alberta - led
research shows.
The
research was funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health - National
Heart,
Lung and Blood Institute
and the National Science Foundation in the United States,
and the Science Faculty, Aarhus University, in Denmark.
Contributing to the work were researchers from the National Human Genome
Research Institute (NHGRI), the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases, the National Institute of Arthritis
and Musculoskeletal
and Skin Diseases, the National
Heart,
Lung,
and Blood Institute
and the NIH Clinical Center, all part of NIH, along with their colleagues in Turkey
and the United Kingdom.
Research by Boyd
and a colleague, cardiac anesthesiologist John Murkin, had indicated that 3 percent of patients suffer strokes after being hooked up to the
heart -
lung machine.
As for blood - disorder
research, the obvious source of NIH funding is the National
Heart,
Lung,
and Blood Institute.
The
research has received support from the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Brain Foundation (Hjärnfonden), the Swedish Heart - Lung Foundation and the Swedish National Infrastructure for Co
research has received support from the Swedish
Research Council, the Swedish Brain Foundation (Hjärnfonden), the Swedish Heart - Lung Foundation and the Swedish National Infrastructure for Co
Research Council, the Swedish Brain Foundation (Hjärnfonden), the Swedish
Heart -
Lung Foundation
and the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing.
The
research was supported by the National
Heart,
Lung and Blood Institute.
Additional
research funds were provided by the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements; the National Center for Complementary
and Integrative Health; the National Institute on Aging; the National
Heart,
Lung,
and Blood Institute;
and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders
and Stroke.
Research at the school seeks new cures
and treatments in five key areas: cancer, liver disease,
heart /
lung disease, aging
and brain disease,
and infectious disease.
The study was financed by the Swedish
Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences
and Spatial Planning (Formas), the Swedish
Research Council, the Swedish
Research Council for Health, Working Life
and Welfare (Forte), the Swedish Asthma
and Allergy Association, the Swedish
Heart and Lung Foundation, Stockholm County Council
and the European Commission.
This study was presented at the Featured Clinical
Research Session I: Two - year Outcomes of Surgical Treatment of Moderate Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation: A Randomized Clinical Trial from The Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network The Moderate Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation trial was supported by a cooperative agreement (U01 HL088942) funded by the National
Heart Lung and Blood Institute, the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders
and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD,
and the Canadian Institutes of Health
Research.
This
research was funded primarily by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging
and Bioengineering
and the National
Heart,
Lung and Blood Institute.
Dr Sam Parnia, Assistant Professor of Critical Care Medicine
and Director of Resuscitation
Research at The State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA,
and the study's lead author, explained: «Contrary to perception, death is not a specific moment but a potentially reversible process that occurs after any severe illness or accident causes the
heart,
lungs and brain to cease functioning.
This work was funded by the European
Research Council, Economic
and Social
Research Council
and the National
Heart,
Lung and Blood Institute.
«Taken together, these two studies suggest that the new scalable vaccine formulation is likely to prove as effective as the original formulation — which would make it the first protective TB vaccine in humans since BCG, which was introduced almost a century ago,» said Professor Ajit Lalvani, Director of the Tuberculosis
Research Centre, National
Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London
and a member of the DAR - 901 development team.
Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome
Research Institute (NHGRI)-- which is funding this initiative jointly with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute — says that having the genomes of three of the most important mammals in biomedical research in hand «will greatly speed the unraveling of the genetics and physiology» of human
Research Institute (NHGRI)-- which is funding this initiative jointly with the National
Heart,
Lung,
and Blood Institute — says that having the genomes of three of the most important mammals in biomedical
research in hand «will greatly speed the unraveling of the genetics and physiology» of human
research in hand «will greatly speed the unraveling of the genetics
and physiology» of human disease.
For the study, conducted as part of the doctoral thesis of Mahesh Raundhal, a graduate student in the laboratory of Prabir Ray, Ph.D., Pitt professor of medicine
and co-senior author, the
research team examined lung cell samples obtained from patients also participating in the Severe Asthma Research Program (SARP), a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health - sponsored program to improve the understanding of severe
research team examined
lung cell samples obtained from patients also participating in the Severe Asthma Research Program (SARP), a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health - sponsored program to improve the understanding of severe ast
lung cell samples obtained from patients also participating in the Severe Asthma
Research Program (SARP), a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health - sponsored program to improve the understanding of severe
Research Program (SARP), a National
Heart,
Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health - sponsored program to improve the understanding of severe ast
Lung,
and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health - sponsored program to improve the understanding of severe asthma.
This study was funded in part by the National
Heart,
Lung,
and Blood Institute (contracts HHSN268201100005C, HHSN268201100006C, HHSN268201100007C, HHSN268201100008C, HHSN268201100009C, HHSN268201100010C, HHSN268201100011C,
and HHSN268201100012C;
and grants R01HL087641, R01HL59367
and R01HL086694), the National Human Genome
Research Institute (contract U01HG004402),
and National Institutes of Health contract HHSN268200625226C.
The
research was funded by the National
Heart,
Lung and Blood Institute, the American
Heart Association
and the Medical Scholars Program at MCG
and AU.
The
research team also included Michael H. Picard from Massachusetts General Hospital; Brendan Cavanaugh from New Mexico Heart Institute; Jason Cole from Cardiology Associates; Muhammad Akram Khan from North Dallas Research Associates; Vinay Malhotra from Cardiac Study Group; James E. Udelson from Tufts Medical Center; and Lawton S. Cooper from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood In
research team also included Michael H. Picard from Massachusetts General Hospital; Brendan Cavanaugh from New Mexico
Heart Institute; Jason Cole from Cardiology Associates; Muhammad Akram Khan from North Dallas
Research Associates; Vinay Malhotra from Cardiac Study Group; James E. Udelson from Tufts Medical Center; and Lawton S. Cooper from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood In
Research Associates; Vinay Malhotra from Cardiac Study Group; James E. Udelson from Tufts Medical Center;
and Lawton S. Cooper from the National
Heart,
Lung,
and Blood Institute.
This work was supported in part by grants from the US National Institute of Neurological Disorders
and Stroke (R01NS058529), the National Human Genome
Research Institute (U54HG003273), a joint NHGRI / National
Heart Blood
and Lung Institute grant (U54HG006542) to the Baylor Hopkins Center for Mendelian Genomics,
and the BCM Intellectual
and Developmental Disabilities
Research Center, IDDRC Grant Number 5P30HD024064 - 23, from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development.
The
research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health's National
Heart,
Lung,
and Blood Institute (T32 HL007024)
and the NIH's National Institute of Diabetes
and Digestive
and Kidney Diseases (K24DK106414
and R01DK089174).
The National Institutes of Health's National
Heart,
Lung and Blood Institute
and National Library of Medicine, the National Science Foundation (NSF)
and the Keck Center of the Gulf Coast Consortia supported the
research.
This work was supported by grants from Maryland State Stem Cell
Research Fund (grant numbers 2011 - MSCRFII - 0088
and 2011 - MSCRFE - 0087)
and the National
Heart,
Lung and Blood Institute (grant numbers 2R01 HL - 073781, U01 HL107446
and T32 HL007525 - 31).
Anil Potti, M.D., Duke University School of Medicine: Based on the reports of investigations conducted by Duke University School of Medicine (Duke)
and additional analysis conducted by ORI in its oversight review, ORI found that Dr. Anil Potti, former Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke, engaged in
research misconduct in
research supported by National
Heart,
Lung,
and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), grant R01 HL072208
and National Cancer Institute (NCI), NIH, grants R01 CA136530, R01 CA131049, K12 CA100639, R01 CA106520,
and U54 CA112952.
«Our society attributes the weight gain
and lack of exercise at mid-life (approximately 30 - 60 years) primarily to poor lifestyle choices
and lack of will power, but this study shows that there is a genetic program driven by an overactive enzyme that promotes weight gain
and loss of exercise capacity at mid-life,» said lead study author Jay H. Chung, Ph.D., M.D., head of the Laboratory of Obesity
and Aging
Research at the National
Heart,
Lung,
and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of NIH.
About the National
Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI): NHLBI, a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), plans, conducts, and supports research related to the causes, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood diseases; and sleep disor
Heart,
Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI): NHLBI, a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), plans, conducts, and supports research related to the causes, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood diseases; and sleep disord
Lung,
and Blood Institute (NHLBI): NHLBI, a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), plans, conducts,
and supports
research related to the causes, prevention, diagnosis,
and treatment of
heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood diseases; and sleep disor
heart, blood vessel,
lung, and blood diseases; and sleep disord
lung,
and blood diseases;
and sleep disorders.
Funding: NIH's National Institute of Arthritis
and Musculoskeletal
and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National
Heart,
Lung,
and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), National Cancer Institute (NCI),
and National Human Genome
Research Institute (NHGRI);
and many other funding entities (see reference paper for the full list).
The National
Heart,
Lung and Blood Institute of the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services, the National Cancer Institute
and Wyeth - Ayerst
Research Laboratories funded the study, which involved researchers at nine institutions
and 15 WHI clinical - study sites nationwide.