The company's biopharmaceutical research and development efforts in the affective (psychiatric) disorders, Alzheimer's / dementia, cardiovascular, diabetes, hepatitis, HIV / Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), oncology, immunologic disorders and
fibrotic disease areas.
Not exact matches
The firm dropped discovery and development in the
areas of diabetes, virology, and neuroscience in favor of a research focus on oncology, heart failure, genetically defined
diseases, immunoscience, and
fibrotic diseases.
In
areas where there is a selenium deficiency, use of rapeseed oil has been associated with a high incidence of
fibrotic lesions of the heart, called Keshan's
disease.20 The animal studies carried out over the past twenty years suggest that when rapeseed oil is used in impoverished human diets, without adequately saturated fats from ghee, coconut oil or lard, then the deleterious effects are magnified.