Sentences with phrase «of disease in»

However, Dr. Kissler's group discovered that reducing levels of the RGS1 protein did not slow the progression of the disease in mouse models, suggesting that it may not offer much potential for human treatment.

Pancreatic cancer and chronic pancreatitis both produce the same signs of disease in the pancreas, such as inflammation, but cancer in the organ is a life - threatening disorder that must be treated immediately and aggressively, Dr. Raimondo says.

The introduction of cancer chemotherapy was a revolution for the treatment of this disease in those cases in which the cure is no longer possible only with the mere extirpation of the tumor.

This year, the direct cost of the disease in the United States is more than $ 200 billion, according to the Alzheimer's Association's «2014 Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures.»

Experts say the findings, described in the April issue of Infection and Immunity, could lead to a new approach for curbing the spread of the disease in people.

Cancer of the pancreas (scientifically known as pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma or PaCa) is one of the most deadly forms of the disease in humans.

These results appear to translate into better control of disease in the pancreatic region and a longer freedom from disease recurrence.

Newbold said because decades can pass between exposure during fetal development or early childhood and the manifestation of the disease in adult life, it can be difficult to nail down a link.

Two new papers published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes [EASD]-RRB- reveal the importance of both the amount and timing of physical activity in reducing the risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D), as well as aiding the management of the disease in existing T2D patients.

A new population - based study has found that patients with glioblastoma who died in 2010, after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of bevacizumab, had lived significantly longer than patients who died of the disease in 2008, prior to the conditional approval of the drug for the treatment of the deadly brain cancer.

MRI scans showed no sign of disease in my brain.

Flu viruses with the new backbone only marginally increased the severity of disease in mice, the team found.

Richard Lindsay, a PhD student who worked on the research team, added: «Our findings are of central importance in understanding how microbial infections evolve, but also have wider significance for the treatment of cancer and the therapeutic control of disease in humans, animals and plants.»

This type of imaging uses a radioactive tracer to look for chemical signs of disease in specific tissues.

Researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University have discovered that suspended sediment damages fish gills and can increase the rate of disease in fish.

They searched through 60 years of scientific and newspaper reports to determine two things: first, whether the pathogens cause visible disease symptoms or death in wildlife, and second, whether human outbreaks were preceded or accompanied by evidence of the disease in animals.

The researchers can now show that two proteins that bind to one another slow down a chemical reaction central to the course of the disease in the bacteria Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.

Waterborne diseases are a major cause of illness in developing countries and are responsible for sporadic and localised outbreaks of disease in the developed world.

One form causes thalassaemia in Greek people and one in Chinese people; the other causes a rare form of the disease in Mediterranean people.

In the new study, a team lead by Isabelle - Anne Bisson, a conservation biologist with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Washington D.C., set out to assess whether information on wildlife health could be used to predict the emergence of disease in humans.

The disease enters herds through the shipping of undiagnosed cattle, and from badgers, which are the main reservoir of the disease in wildlife.

The trial was stopped when it showed that zidovudine delayed the onset of disease in the short term, and it was therefore considered unethical to continue giving people placebos.

1842 — Domenico Rigoni - Stern looks at the patterns of disease in his hometown of Verona and notices that nuns get cervical cancer less often and breast cancer more often than married women.

The link between bovine tuberculosis infection in badgers and outbreaks of disease in cattle is a complex and extremely sensitive area; feelings can run high among the farming community and conservationists alike.

But if the virus was present in these frozen samples, Seeff could study the 40 - year course of the disease in an instant.

There have been no substantial improvements in the treatment of this disease in a half - century and the therapy is not available in many regions of the world that need it most,» says Krysan.

In laboratory testing, the researchers were able to improve symptoms of the disease in mice, raising hopes that they may have found an avenue for treating people with CMT.

She revealed that one of the BMJ's satellite journals, Archives of Disease in Childhood, had recently turned down, on legal advice, a series of case reports describing clinical signs associated with child abuse, which would have been useful to GPs and other doctors working in child protection.

A promising treatment for a rare childhood disorder characterized by rapid aging and death prevented and even reversed the most devastating effect of the disease in mice.

The UK, the US and Australia have all seen outbreaks of the disease in the past two years.

However, a patient with a large volume of disease in the lung may, in fact, have a worse prognosis than someone with a small volume of disease in the liver,» Dr. Joseph says.

While ADNI researchers use maps such as these to study the pattern and range of degeneration among groups of patients over time, this model could also be used to monitor the progress of the disease in a single patient.

Transport of engineered nano - particles loaded with drugs or bio-molecules to the site of the disease in pathophysiologic states in humans plays a critical role in determining the efficacy of therapeutic management.

The researchers also studied how the HFE gene modified the pace of the disease in mice.

Early identification of patients with risk factors for a number of disorders would allow for early treatment that could potentially stop the development of disease in its earliest stages.

The gene may be useful for diagnosing the condition or projecting the risk of disease in people who are healthy, but there isn't a lot of profit in testing people.

But an international team of scientists from the U.S., Germany and Turkey report this week in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology that it found evidence of the disease in a 500,000 - year - old hominid fossil unearthed in western Turkey.

«Our findings highlight the inefficiency of universal screening for TB among new immigrants independent of the incidence of disease in their countries of origin.»

«According to SAMHSA (2015), alcohol and drug abuse and related problems contribute substantially to the burden of disease in the U.S., costing an estimated $ 400 billion annually,» said Dr. Jennifer Manuel, PhD, an assistant professor at the NYU Silver School of Social Work, and an affiliated researcher with New York University's Center for Drug Use and HIV Research (NYU CDUHR).

In an effort to slow the spread of the disease in Wisconsin, several caves in that state have been closed for several years and recreational cavers have been asked to follow decontamination procedures.

The realization that trace amounts of arsenic might pose a health threat began with mysterious outbreaks of disease in Southeast Asia.

This extends to the spread of disease in humans living in an increasingly crowded and connected world.

The researchers examined three groups of patients with CDI — those who were admitted from the community with no risk factors, those who had prior exposure to hospitals or clinics, and those who had onset of disease in the hospital.

First author Antonio Di Meco and colleagues used a triple transgenic (3xTg) mouse model that displays an AD - like phenotype, including cognitive decline, and Aβ and tau neuropathology characteristic of the disease in humans.

In the United States, the only other approved ALS medicine, generic riluzole, modestly slows the progression of the disease in some people.

According to estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the flu takes anywhere from 3,000 to 48,000 lives a year in this country, depending on the severity of the disease in a given flu season.

After intracerebral injection of the recombinant prion, wild - type mice developed neurological signs in ~ 130 days and reached the terminal stage of disease in ~ 150 days.

Meanwhile, a genetic marker test can be developed to revise breeding programs to reduce the frequency of this disease in the Swedish vallhund breed.

Because biologists like Daley are convinced that embryonic stem cells — the most generic, versatile type — may not only lead to dramatically different new treatments but can also uniquely illuminate the origins of disease in a way adult stem cells never will.

Published in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, the research estimated that 3,418 babies suffered conditions linked to brain injury at or soon after birth in 2015, which equates to an overall incidence rate of 5.14 per 1,000 live births.