Sentences with phrase «key role in this disease»

Since these behaviors are similar to behavioral traits in humans with schizophrenia, this suggests that KMO and KYNA may play a key role in the disease.

It's helped Bertozzi capture the first images of glycoproteins, proteins coated with sugars that play a key role in diseases such as cancer.

As the name implies, salmon play a key role in this disease that can infect any member of the canine species.

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Though the researcher said there needs to be more research into the exact mechanisms of why that is, they concluded that «healthy sleep appears to play an important role in maintaining brain health with age, and may play a key role in [Alzheimer's disease] prevention.»

These two mighty phytochemicals may hold the key to the role of red raspberries in helping to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, obesity, and Alzheimer's disease.

Poor diet is now the biggest underlying cause of disease and death globally — bigger than tobacco, alcohol and physical inactivity — and early child feeding plays a key role in building and reinforcing healthy and unhealthy food preferences so its crucial that sugar levels are lowered.

«Population studies have consistently supported a protective role of nuts against cardiometabolic disorders such as cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes, and we know that inflammation is a key process in the development of these diseases,» said corresponding author Ying Bao, MD, ScD, an epidemiologist in BWH's Channing Division of Network Medicine.

These cells play a key role in autoimmune disease — in which the immune system mistakenly identifies the body's own tissues as foreign and attack them.

«In a number of these diseases, such as lupus and Sjogren's syndrome, a class of interferon known as type 1 interferon is made in abundance and plays a key role, contributing to the immune dysfunction,» said Mary K. Crow, MD, physician - in - chief at Hospital for Special Surgery and senior study authoIn a number of these diseases, such as lupus and Sjogren's syndrome, a class of interferon known as type 1 interferon is made in abundance and plays a key role, contributing to the immune dysfunction,» said Mary K. Crow, MD, physician - in - chief at Hospital for Special Surgery and senior study authoin abundance and plays a key role, contributing to the immune dysfunction,» said Mary K. Crow, MD, physician - in - chief at Hospital for Special Surgery and senior study authoin - chief at Hospital for Special Surgery and senior study author.

But a new study suggests that mature cells also play a key role in initiating cancer — a finding that could upend the way scientists think about the origins of the disease.

«New document guides hospitals in responding to infectious disease outbreaks: Healthcare epidemiologists play key role in emergency preparedness and response.»

This discovery lends more weight to the growing evidence that inflammation — and our immune system's hyperactive reaction in mopping up the cellular debris left by the wayward plaques and tangles — plays a key role in the spread of the disease.

«Researchers illuminate key role of NOX proteins in liver disease: Study adds credence to new treatment approach now in clinical trials.»

«Recently, we successfully demonstrated the key role of IL - 18 in Still's disease,» says Professor Gabay.

The study, published today in Science, uncovers the key role of the protein YME1 in the regulation of the number, type and shape of mitocondria, and demonstrates that its absence induces a metabolic defect typical of patients with heart disease.

These symptoms are usually associated with diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease, which led us to believe autoimmunity plays a key role in the TB disease process.»

The research suggests that the ADGRE2 subunit interaction plays a key role in the mast cell response to certain physical stimuli, which could have implications for other diseases in which mast cells are involved.

According to Cheyette, this is some of the strongest evidence to date that WNT signaling could play a key role in driving psychiatric disease, and that it works through changes in synaptic communication between neurons.

The team also recently obtained a grant from the National Medical Research Council in Singapore to pursue a study using the probe to examine the relationship between key Parkinson's disease - linked genes and MAO - B expression and activity to further understand the causes of the disease and illuminate the role of MAO - B in this.

Germany's Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin Buch and the Fu Wai Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) are building a new gene research laboratory in Beijing, the aim being to identify genes that play a key role in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases.

Scientists from the Crick Institute, London and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, discover a protein that plays a key role in turning cancer tumor cells into cancer stem cells that are able to renew outbreaks of the disease

In this week's Science (21 October, p. 735) a team from the biotech company Amgen Inc. in Thousand Oaks, California, reports finding an enzyme called b - secretase, which has long been suspected of playing a key role in the development of the diseasIn this week's Science (21 October, p. 735) a team from the biotech company Amgen Inc. in Thousand Oaks, California, reports finding an enzyme called b - secretase, which has long been suspected of playing a key role in the development of the diseasin Thousand Oaks, California, reports finding an enzyme called b - secretase, which has long been suspected of playing a key role in the development of the diseasin the development of the disease.

Astrocytes could thus play a key role in the early stages of the disease and changes in the function of these cells could lead to neurodegeneration.

They thus play a key role in triggering the allergic reactions associated with asthma and other allergic diseases.

According to the hypothesis, the accumulation of beta - amyloid in the brain plays a key role in Alzheimer's disease.

Most excitingly, by comparing between individual cells, the team expect to reveal differences which could play key roles in both the early stages of life and the first stages of diseases such as cancer.

«Liver cancer is a deadly disease,» says Luca Tordella, a postdoctoral researcher at the CSC who played a key role in the study.

«Mosquito - borne viruses like Zika may be spread at lower temperatures, potentially expanding impact: Researchers play key role in pinpointing optimal temperature for mosquito - borne disease transmission.»

Due to these crucial roles in regulating normal cellular behavior, redox status has been recognized as a key area of biological research in various diseases, including cancer.

The working group of Dr. Susana Minguet, a biochemist — working in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Michael Reth, the chairman of the Department of Molecular Immunology at the University of Freiburg, and Prof. Dr. Miguel Ángel del Pozo of the National Center for Cardiovascular Research Carlos III («Centro Nacional de Investigationes Cardiovasculares Carlos III» (CNIC)-RRB- in Madrid, has demonstrated that the membrane protein Caveolin - 1 plays a key role in immune responses that trigger this type of disease.

A decade of strategic efforts to improve care has had a key role in improving quality of life and added years to predicted survival for people with cystic fibrosis (CF) in the United States, according to the editors of a BMJ Quality & Safety supplement dedicated to the disease.

Johns Hopkins University biologists have found that a protein that plays a key role in the lives of stem cells can bolster the growth of damaged muscle tissue, a step that could potentially contribute to treatments for muscle degeneration caused by old age and diseases such as muscular dystrophy.

«Lower salt intake likely to have had key role in plummeting cardiovascular disease deaths in past decade.»

NMD plays a key role in the clinical presentation of various genetic diseases.

Perhaps of greater importance than a putative interindividual transmission, the prion phenomenon may have a key role in spreading the pathology from cell to cell or from islet to islet during the progression of the disease.

O - GlcNAc not only plays a key role in signaling, in transcription and in cytoskeletal functions, but it also underlies glucose toxicity in diabetes, is important in neurodegenerative diseases and is important in cancer etiology.

It is becoming apparent that other key members of the microbiome like fungi and viruses may play a key role in human health and disease [31] and understanding these dynamics will be imperative if we are to improve these conditions.

As part of the lab's mission, Dr. Sonntag and his staff investigate the role of bioenergetics and metabolism in aging and in the pathogenesis of late - onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD), and recent work has supported the concept that dysfunctional bioenergetics may be a key mechanism contributing to the risk and pathophysiology of this neurodegenerative disorder.

Our cardiovascular research has played key roles in advancing the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease:

With such a key role in maintenance of the cell, many other disease links are being uncovered every year, and there is intense interest in developing drugs that can influence autophagy.

Scientists from the UNC School of Medicine have developed a new tool for studying a key process in cells called G - protein signaling, which plays a central role in the normal functioning of cells and can go awry to cause severe disease, including cancers.

September 27, 2000 Prions may play crucial role in evolution Prions, abnormally folded proteins associated with several bizarre human diseases, may hold the key to a major mystery in evolution — how survival skills that require multiple genetic changes arise all at once when each genetic change by itself would be unsuccessful and even harmful.

Amyloid - beta peptide (Abeta) has a key role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease (AD).

Drugs fed to animals to promote growth and prevent diseases may play a key role in the emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria, microbiologists said Sunday.

Oxygen Consumption measurements have become a key functional readout of cell metabolism and mitochondrial function, providing important insights into the cell function and role of perturbed metabolism in disease progression.

Fertilizer plays a key role in agriculture by increasing the production of staple crops, controlling fertility and reducing the risk to plants from pathogens and subsequent plant diseases.

Specifically, the team hypothesizes that microRNA miR - 24 is a key regulator of actin cytoskeleton dynamics (i.e. the inner structural support of a cell); therefore, it plays a critical role in regulating multiple disease processes, including the angiogenesis (blood vessel growth), inflammation, and fibrosis (thickening and scarring of tissue) associated with choroidal neovascularization (CNV) in wet AMD.

December 13, 2010 — A protein lost in Alzheimer's disease may play a key role in memory development, according to a new study in mice.

Glutathione also plays a key role in red and white blood cell formation (red blood cells are essential for carrying oxygen to tissues in the body, while white blood cells are part of the body's immune system, so they fight off diseases in the body).

Fruits and veggies play key roles in reducing many health risks, including heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, and certain types of cancer.