Sentences with phrase «at slowing the progression»

Other endpoints may focus on different things, such as depression in a drug designed to help with mood symptoms, or overall functioning in a drug aimed at slowing progression.

Treatment is aimed at slowing the progression of the disease, correcting chemical imbalances in the blood, and includes special diets, medication, and various forms of fluid therapy.

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Rumors are we are looking at a sporting director, again I feel it is slow progression for Arsenal FC but it is a step in the right direction, is it not?

If you look at the players who have been not performing as well as they should then you look at the signings then you will see Arsenal FC slowly rebuilding, I would like it done faster like a lot of Arsenal fans but slow progression is happening... As I said, I am not happy with how slow it is but Arsenal FC could do more if they had the people in who could focus on those aspects.

Been injured this season... Slowed his explosive progression and run... I feel like to shoot myself when i see him there, just like frekin De Bruine ending up at Wolsfburg before City... What da heck!

The Welshman has shown on a number of occasions that he has the ability to play at the highest level, but numerous injuries have stunted and slowed his progression over the years, and there are always worries that we could lose him to injury at any point in the season.

«We found that healthy food stores within one mile of their home was the only significant factor that reduced or slowed the progression of calcium buildup in coronary arteries,» said Ella August, Ph.D., co-lead author who initiated the study and clinical assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

«The search for treatments that slow the progression of neurodegenerative diseases has gradually shifted from ameliorating symptoms to finding agents that reduce the progression of the disease,» said Gary Lynch, PhD, who studies neurodegeneration at the University of California, Irvine, and was not involved with this study.

«Now that we have more evidence that serotonin is a chemical that appears affected early in cognitive decline, we suspect that increasing serotonin function in the brain could prevent memory loss from getting worse and slow disease progression,» says Gwenn Smith, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of geriatric psychiatry and neuropsychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

«While significant effort is being put into developing treatments to slow or block the progression of Alzheimer's dementia, little work has been done to get the medical system ready for such an advancement,» said Jodi Liu, lead author of the study and a policy researcher at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

Inhibiting NF - ƘB in microglia in mice slowed disease progression by 47 percent, says Brian Kaspar, MD, a principal investigator in the Center for Gene Therapy at Nationwide Children's and senior author of the new study.

Early work by scientists at the NIH led to the discovery that the drug AZT (zidovudine) slows the progression of AIDS.

«The identification of these genes paves the way for the development of a test to identify individuals who are at risk of getting Fuchs dystrophy, and also for the development of drugs to slow disease progression or to potentially delay or prevent it from occurring,» said George A. McKie, D.V.M., PhD., director of the NEI's cornea research program.

«We do not yet have treatments that can slow the progression of Huntington's disease but, when we do, measuring the mutant protein in CSF could guide clinical decisions such as the best time to start a treatment,» said Dr Douglas Macdonald at CHDI.

The researchers hope their designed compounds could be used as diagnostics for amyloid diseases and as drugs to treat the diseases or at least slow progression.

Research from Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California (USC) suggests that hormone therapy, when taken within six years of menopause, may slow the progression of subclinical atherosclerosis, the buildup of plaque in the arteries.

A fund backing that group of research projects might expand the chances of developing a drug that could, at a minimum, slow the progression of the disease.

At the moment, the only treatments are drugs such as interferon beta - 1a and glatiramer acetate (Copaxone), both of which merely slow the progression of the disease.

Because most cases of Parkinson's disease appear to be at least partially caused by environmental factors such as pesticide exposure, these findings support the approach that targeting α - synuclein could slow or stop the progression of Parkinson's in most people with the disease, said study lead author Jeff Bronstein, a professor of neurology and director of movement disorders at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

«Not only is this the first study to associate fungi and liver disease,» said senior author Bernd Schnabl, MD, associate professor of gastroenterology at UC San Diego School of Medicine, «we might be able to to slow the progression of alcoholic liver disease by manipulating the balance of fungal species living in a patient's intestine.»

As for therapeutics, Xavier, who is also the Kurt Isselbacher Chair in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Co-Director of the Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics at MIT, says that knowing which species are absent and which are flourishing in the gastrointestinal tract of children with T1D may help make it possible to slow progression of the disease after onset by revealing ways to manipulate the microbiome and, in turn, microbiome - induced immunoregulation.

What is the latest biological stage of Alzheimer's disease at which secretase inhibition slows progression?

At what stage will tau - directed therapies be effective in slowing progression of tau pathology?

Christophe Benoist, M.D., professor of Microbiology and Immunobiology at Harvard Medical School, (who spoke on behalf of Diane Mathis, Ph.D., also a professor in the same department) discussed a molecule called I - BET that, when used as a treatment in animals during pre-diabetes or in the early stages of clinical type 1 diabetes, seemed to slow the progression of the disease.

Her aim is to understand, at the molecular level, the mechanisms that control communication between the brain, immune system, and blood vessels — with the ultimate goal of designing new therapies that slow, stop, or reverse the progression of a wide range of neurological disorders, such as MS. Recently, Dr. Akassoglou's lab identified how microglia — a type of immune cell that acts as the brain's first line of defense — are activated when fibrinogen enters the brain or spinal cord.

Lastly, almost all potential gene therapies at the present time aim at best to compensate for the damage of aging in one way or another, or to very modestly slow the progression of that damage by altering the operation of metabolism is ways that are still far from fully mapped.

Dr. Ready said the crossover at progression could have influenced the survival data; in fact, an analysis of six patients who crossed over to sunitinib showed that tumors that had been growing either slowed their growth or shrank following crossover.

The study conducted in the laboratory of Don Cleveland, Ph.D., UCSD Professor of Medicine, Neurosciences and Cellular and Molecular Medicine and member of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, shows that therapeutic molecules known as antisense oligonucleotides can be delivered to the brain and spinal cord through the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) at doses shown to slow the progression of ALS in rats.

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Sometimes HD patients display symptoms at a drastically different time than expected based on the number of CAG repeats alone, suggesting that maybe other genetic or environmental factors speed up or slow down the progression of HD.

Alessandro Sette, Ph.D., a vaccine biologist at LJI, is investigating factors that foment the immune response in PD in hopes of targeting them to slow disease progression.

By inhibiting cartilage damage, dong quai is effective at actually slowing down the progression of the disease, and this could mean that sufferers can maintain normal functioning for longer, without having to deal with the pain that accompanies osteoarthritis.

And just last fall, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles reported that curcumin appeared to slow the progression of Alzheimer's in mice.

didn't really where they'd take the story, the first season set a high standard in execution and this carries forward into this season, everything you expect from the first is in this second with the dial turned up, with the characters developed from the first season this season just allows the writers to build up on that, the story is well crafted, less of Rinoa Rhyer's over the top screaming which did amazing things for my ears and sanity, great story progression, although slow at the start it ended with a bang.

The game's world, and more importantly the characters, feel expertly nuanced, and while combat can feel slow at the onset, I got the impression from the game's progression system that this won't always be the case.

The direction and writing is witty and hilarious at times but due to the slow progression of the film, it all feels a bit sluggish.

Progression is very slow - paced but impactful, so you steadily feel like you're becoming more powerful as you get better and better at the game.

Treatment is aimed at reducing the pain associated with the disease and trying to slow its progression as much as possible.

Impact of the study: Results suggest that the presence of circulating testosterone in aging sexually intact male dogs may slow the progression of cognitive impairment, at least among dogs that already have signs of mild impairment.

This type of physical exercise can help pets maintain a healthy body weight and slow the progression of old - age arthritis, while stimulating mental exercise, such as hunting behavior in cats, can help keep the mind sharp and senility at bay.

The good news is that the average patient with acquired laryngeal paralysis is at least 10 years old and the progression of the neurologic weakness is fairly slow.

Here are symptoms, treatment options, and most important, ways to prevent (or at least slow down) the progression of some of the top three common health issues with our geriatric pets.

Here are symptoms, treatment options, and ways to prevent (or at least slow down) the progression of some of the top three common health issues with our geriatric pets.

It had been a slow progression over the last months, so I was at the point where I started asking around and researching DM.

Keeping your dog at a healthy weight is one of the best ways to prevent osteoarthritis, slow its progression, and lessen the pain it causes.

We will discuss what you can do at home to prevent or slow down the progression of oral disease.

Dr. Roger M. Clemmons, an associate professor of veterinary neurology and neurosurgery at the University of Florida's College of Veterinary Medicine, suggests that a combination of «diet, exercise, supplements and medications» may «slow or stop the progression of the clinical signs.»

In this procedure, a caudal occipital craniectomy + / - dorsal laminectomy of C1 is performed to decompress the spinal cord and cerebellum at the level of the foramen magnum, aid the flow of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and slow the progression of the syrinx.

By doing so, it can be effective at slowing down or preventing the progression of arthritis.

These drugs are effective at managing the symptoms of arthritis, but they don't slow the progression of the disease.