Spurred by this finding, Littman's team examined the gut microbiota in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, a debilitating autoimmune disease, and found a much higher proportion of
patients than healthy individuals who harbored the human intestinal bacterium Prevotella copri.
Not exact matches
The researchers showed that NPC
patients have about thirtyfold higher amounts of this bile acid in the blood
than healthy individuals.
Overall, the PAD
patients» responses to GM - CSF were less
than what has been observed in
healthy individuals.
Surprisingly, the scientists discovered that they could create more iPSCs from cells taken from FOP
patients than those taken from
healthy individuals.
They confirmed these dramatic increases in a new set of tissue samples, and also found that there was more sarcosine in the urine of
patients with prostate cancer
than in
healthy individuals.
The researchers hoped to create a cellular model to parse the effects of specific gene mutations, according to a press release, but in the process they discovered that skin cells from FOP
patients were much more readily converted into iPSCs
than cells from
healthy individuals.
Austin, TX (Scicasts)-- A new study has revealed that certain immune cells behave differently in HIV - infected
patients than they do in
healthy individuals.
Researchers have found that
patients with IBD have fewer anti-inflammatory intestinal bacteria and / or more inflammatory bacteria
than healthy individuals.
Previous studies found that
patients with valve calcification have shorter telomeres
than healthy individuals of the same age.
The
patients in the BC early detection cohort were on average older
than the 188
healthy individuals used as controls (40 years vs. 58 years).