Sentences with phrase «as potential therapies»

Drugs that target VCP are already being developed as potential therapies for cancer.

«While electrical stimulation of the brain is emerging as potential therapy for a wide range of neurological and psychiatric diseases, little is known about its effect on memory,» says Gregory Worrell, M.D., Ph.D., a Mayo Clinic neurologist and senior author of the article.

Because the researchers found that CTLA4Ig was effective in suppressing hepatitis in this study, they suggest that CTLA4Ig should be among the therapeutic options investigated further as a potential therapy for patients with severe acute hepatitis B. To this end, this animal model is useful for virological and immunological analysis of HBV infection.

Importantly this article suggests that geranylgeraniol deserves further study as a potential therapy for human prostate cancer.»

DFMO is being investigated in human clinical trials to treat some types of cancer, but it hasn't been tested as a potential therapy for Alzheimer's.

To test how well FAHFAs could work as a potential therapy, the researchers fed the lipids to insulin - resistant mice, and observed an improvement in inflammation, insulin sensitivity and glucose uptake.

The results in dogs allowed the scientists to advance PAC - 1 as a potential therapy against human cancers.

Recent days have seen a slew of news emerging regarding the use of something called genome editing as a potential therapy for genetic diseases like Huntington's Disease.

Each cell - based treatment approach is presented as a potential therapy for a specific disease or a disease category (e.g.: cardiovascular diseases, metabolic diseases, etc.), studied in animal models or in humans.

These characteristics may make them ideally suited as a potential therapy for muscle injuries and diseases, according to Drs. Huard and Péault.

Importantly, the KD is also gaining recognition as a potential therapy for a host of other neurological and neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, traumatic brain injury, and stroke.

It has been proposed as a potential therapy option within cancer as this population group are known to have difficulties with eating especially when going through active treatment.

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New technologies such as gene and cell therapies hold out the potential to transform medicine and create an inflection point in our ability to treat and even cure many intractable illnesses.

He hopes Medicine by Design's collaboration with Rotman will help cultivate a new generation of bioscience entrepreneurs who will strengthen Toronto as a global hub for stem cell - based therapies and help Canada realize its full potential in the field.

«It is important to appreciate the risks as well as the opportunities to have a clear understanding of the market potential of these therapies and their developers.»

Financial plans should be developed to allow theological students who need personal or marital therapy to obtain as much of this as is required to release their potential for ministry.

(31) Be aware of your feelings as the therapist affirms your potential wisdom and gives responsibility for your therapy back to you.

The appeal of New Age and human - potential therapies is that they give expression to the personal and mystical and do so — as Catherine Albanese points out — by «reprimitivizing» religion.

The growth counselor can use the human potentials and lifelong development perspectives as the hub of the wheel around which insights and methods from the newer growth oriented psychotherapies — e.g., reality therapy, transactional analysis, gestalt therapy, action therapies — can be integrated.

Norm Robillard, a microbiologist and expert on SIBO, is now carefully optimistic about the potential for resistant starch as part of a therapy for SIBO for some people.

With a caring, supportive, strengths - based focus, and a touch of humor, Colleen uses a variety of approaches and interventions such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Play Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Mindfulness and Harm Reduction Strategies in order to help clients achieve their goals, feel empowered and realize their full potential.

«The most exciting result is the discovery of PGC1 - alpha as potential new target of therapy for early intervention Scherzer,» says.

The study, published online today in Science Translational Medicine, further points to a master switch for these gene sets as a potential target of future therapies.

Ongoing fear of the potential risks of hormone therapy is cited as a primary reason for the growing use of CAM among menopausal women (including pre -, peri - and postmenopausal) in recent decades.

«These brain makers are the same across dozens of neurological diseases, as well as brain trauma, so you can test potential therapies not just for schizophrenia, but for conditions such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, bi-polar disorder, and traumatic brain injuries,» says Gil - da - Costa.

Research has led to discoveries in the use of antioxidant therapy as a proactive measure to counteract the production of free radicals and thus stave off the potential for prolonged cellular damage.

Researchers, led by Joshua Mayourian at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, used mathematical modeling to simulate electrical interactions between these stem cells and heart cells to develop insight into possible adverse effects, as well as to hypothesize new methods for reducing some potential risks of this therapy.

As well as reducing inflammation in the lung, MSC therapy also resulted in significant improvements in lung structure, suggesting that this form of treatment has the potential to repair the damaged lunAs well as reducing inflammation in the lung, MSC therapy also resulted in significant improvements in lung structure, suggesting that this form of treatment has the potential to repair the damaged lunas reducing inflammation in the lung, MSC therapy also resulted in significant improvements in lung structure, suggesting that this form of treatment has the potential to repair the damaged lung.

As the cost of sequencing the human genome has plummeted in recent years, many medical researchers have touted the potential of personalized medicine — exotic therapies and synthetic drugs that are tailored to our individual genetic makeup.

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Research is now moving into the translational realm, as testing begins on a potential therapy for Parkinson's disease.

Courtesy of the herbal healer, some bacterial or fungal infections can be treated with better effects when compared to a therapy based only on antibiotics, as it has potential to influence the antimicrobial effect of some common antibiotics and antibiotics may be co-administered with plant - derived compounds to potentiate their antimicrobial effect.

«Diabetes drug shows potential as disease - modifying therapy for Parkinson's disease.»

However, in the wake of fatalities from gene therapy and other technologies, as well as the potential for cancers associated with stem cell transplants, governments are understandably nervous about safety issues — not to mention the ethical maze of tinkering with fledgling life.

«Cartilage cells (or chondrocytes) isolated and expanded from cartilage tissue have great potential as a cell - based therapy for patients with, for example, traumatic cartilage defects,» says Juha Piltti, doctoral student at the Department of Integrative Medical Biology.

The devices are being developed and studied by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign as a potential treatment for pain that does not respond to other therapies.

The study paves the way for CRISPR - Cas9 as a powerful gene editing tool with potential therapeutic applications for inherited diseases — leading to more widely available gene therapy techniques.

Clinical trials that charge enrollees to participate are ostensibly aimed at giving patients early access to promising therapies — often in the fields of stem cells or aging reversal — that are too unusual or have too little profit potential to get funding from traditional sources such as companies, foundations, or the National Institutes of Health.

Made into a permanent programme in 2009, it set out to sequence the genomes of potential bioterror agents, explore new drug technologies and develop «broad - spectrum» therapies that would work against multiple bacterial and viral pathogens — especially haemorrhagic fever viruses such as Ebola and Marburg.

The same process has been studied as a potential genetic therapy for more than a decade, because you can target any disease gene with matching dsRNA.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed an animal research model for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) to be used for muscle regeneration research as well as studies of the effectiveness of potential therapies for FSHD.

The depth and breadth of information obtained is promoting biomarker discovery, especially potential targets for drug therapies, as well as possibly enabling improved patient stratification for clinical trials and treatment protocols.

Now a team of researchers from Central South University in China have demonstrated that a technique known as photoacoustic imaging, which is already under investigation for detecting skin or breast cancers and for monitoring therapy, also has the potential to be a new, faster, cheaper and non-invasive method to detect, diagnose and stage cervical cancer with high accuracy.

Their trial not only provides new and important information concerning the efficacy of AF ablation but also serves as another reminder of the potential complications of invasive therapies such as AF ablation.»

«Gene defect as a potential gateway for targeted prostate cancer therapy.»

On the flipside, targeting this growth factor or BCL - 2 could reduce NK cell numbers and offer potential therapies for immune disorders such as some types of autoimmune diseases, sepsis or graft versus host disease, a side effect of bone marrow transplants.

«A retrospective analysis of the CHD1 gene in these samples may reveal the potential utility of CHD1 as a biomarker for improved prostate cancer patient stratification and targeted therapy with PARP inhibitors,» notes Johnsen.

The process, which located a genetic site for the most common form of prostate cancer, has potential for developing precision therapy for other cancers, such as breast, brain and colorectal, say researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Stem cell therapy is acknowledged as having great potential for the treatment of a variety of diseases in both people and animals.

However, another way of getting at a similar end - and one with more potential as a therapy - is to find out what the plasticity brake is acting on, and try to artificially boost the process being suppressed.