"Potential therapies" refers to possible treatments or remedies that have the potential to help people with a particular health condition or disease. These are options that have not been proven or used widely yet, but they show promise or have the potential to be effective in the future.
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And in the clinic, pupils may help diagnose or identify people at risk for mental illnesses, such as anxiety, or the effectiveness
of potential therapies.
His research aims to understand mechanisms of resistance to targeted therapies in cancer and
identify potential therapies to overcome that resistance.
An important step in developing effective treatments for human disease is finding an effective animal model of the disease to
test potential therapies.
They've also found that omega - 3s can help fight diabetes in obese mice, pointing the way to
potential therapies in humans.
Your counselor will work with you to determine your risk for genetic cancer and provide information and guidance
on potential therapies.
Potential therapies targeting this synthetic lethal target will have dramatically reduced toxicity since normal cells do not rely on these genes.
Therefore, in addition to leading to
new potential therapies for depression, this work indirectly hints at a role for mitochondria in mood disorders, say the researchers.
Findings from this work will identify a novel drug target for
developing potential therapies for preventing cell death and preserving vision in dry AMD.
«These brain makers are the same across dozens of neurological diseases, as well as brain trauma, so you can test
potential therapies not just for schizophrenia, but for conditions such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, bi-polar disorder, and traumatic brain injuries,» says Gil - da - Costa.
«Our results in animals open the door to a
promising potential therapy, based on carefully manipulating the dysregulated pathway to treat this devastating human disease.»
The current study was designed to clarify the cellular hierarchy underlying glioblastoma, to identify epigenetic factors that distinguish glioblastoma stem cells from more differentiated tumor cells and to
suggest potential therapies targeting those factors.
One reason
many potential therapies for alcohol abuse have been unsuccessful is because they inhibit the brain's reward pathways, causing an overall decline in the experience of pleasure.
«If we understand the cause of this muscle weakness, we can begin to look
at potential therapies for treating it,» said Patrick M. Cowley, lead researcher.
Alice worked side by side with Cora to
train potential therapy dogs for the organization Alliance of Therapy Dogs Inc, and was able to communicate with candidates «dog - to - dog».
This treatment was able to halt degeneration and it was hoped that monitoring blood levels of SMN would allow clinicians to follow the progress of this therapy and apply this marker to
other potential therapies.
On the flipside, targeting this growth factor or BCL - 2 could reduce NK cell numbers and
offer potential therapies for immune disorders such as some types of autoimmune diseases, sepsis or graft versus host disease, a side effect of bone marrow transplants.
«We've identified what leads to this difference in vision loss, and that suggests
novel potential therapies to treat this serious medical problem in children.
Since the neuronal death can be recapitulated in directly reprogrammed patient neurons, Yoo said the new technique offers a way to study the details of
how potential therapies — including drugs that are currently being tested in clinical trials — could rescue medium spiny neurons from death.
Many
potential therapies involve drugs that target amyloid - beta, the sticky protein that accumulates in the brains of Alzheimer's patients.
This opens the door to further investigation of
past potential therapies that may have been dismissed because of ineffectiveness in laboratory studies, causing researchers to presume the treatment would be equally ineffective in living cancer models.
«Malnutrition is a well - known complication of chronic and end - stage kidney disease, so identifying contributing factors is important to
devising potential therapies.»
The more we know about the steps that occur in disease progression, the more opportunities we have to intervene
with potential therapies.»
This work provides direct evidence in mice that cyclin D2 is needed for a successful response to a broad spectrum of insulin resistance, and points
toward potential therapies that can be harnessed for preventing and curing type 2 diabetes.
In the post, Gottlieb laid out a work plan with detailed examples of how technology and investment will advance research and
expedite potential therapies.
In the present seminar, I will present (i) how these gene mutations lead to generalized muscle weakness and (ii) the advances
regarding potential therapies.
Human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) have become a
popular potential therapy for numerous autoimmune and neurological disorders.
These studies have highlighted the broad reaching control of T cell responses by OX40 and OX40L, and promoted this interaction to the forefront of
potential therapies aimed at dampening T cell driven immune diseases.
«While electrical stimulation of the brain is emerging
as potential therapy for a wide range of neurological and psychiatric diseases, little is known about its effect on memory,» says Gregory Worrell, M.D., Ph.D., a Mayo Clinic neurologist and senior author of the article.
WGS currently requires significantly more manual analysis, so combining this method with artificial intelligence could help doctors
identify potential therapies from WGS for more patients in less time.
With miglustat therapy available off - label in the U.S. and
potential therapies in clinical trials, the researchers said their goal is to see the test added to the recommended uniform screening panel defined by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).