Sentences with phrase «similar types of diseases»

Not exact matches

The researchers also showed that both types of spirochetes (syphilis's Treponema pallidum and Lyme disease's Borrelia burgdorferi) respond to changes in viscosity in a similar manner and can be explained by the same biophysical model.

«The type of inflammation seen in psoriasis is known to promote insulin resistance, and psoriasis and diabetes share similar genetic mutations suggesting a biological basis for the connection between the two conditions we found in our study,» said the study's senior author Joel M. Gelfand, MD MSCE, a professor of Dermatology and Epidemiology at Penn. «We know psoriasis is linked to higher rates of diabetes, but this is the first study to specifically examine how the severity of the disease affects a patient's risk.»

Scientists broke down and rebuilt the immune systems of mice with diseases that mimic type 1 diabetes and MS.. The treatment stopped the progress of diabetes in four out of five mice and put animals with a disease similar to MS into remission,

But Mucke, director of the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease at the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues believe they may finally have pinpointed the cause of these puzzling personality twists as well as other cognitive deficits associated with Alzheimer's: petite mal (nonconvulsive) seizures similar to those exhibited in some types of epilepsy.

«The type of inflammation we see in psoriasis is similar to what we see in atherosclerosis — a type of heart disease that involves the build - up of fats, cholesterol, and inflammatory cells in the artery walls,» Gelfand said.

When a serious new type of pneumonia started spreading from Asia in 2003, officials at WHO coined the term severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) to prevent the disease from being named «Chinese flu» or something similar.

The researchers predicted that the TRPC5 mechanism might play a similar role in other types of progressive kidney disease — even if, in those cases, the damaging feedback loop was kickstarted from chronic disorders such as high blood pressure, rather than a specific genetic mutation.

A similar type of genetic glitch causes neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntingtonâ $ ™ s and several forms of spinocerebellar ataxia.

But fly avatars won't work for every type of cancer, Cagan notes, as fruit flies do not share hormones similar to ours, so hormone - dependent diseases, such as prostate cancer, can not be recapitulated.

The authors say devils may be at greater risk for these kinds of diseases - which are exceptionally rare - Read more about Both types of Tassie devil cancer may have similar origins - Scimex

In the article describing the work in Molecular Therapy, co-authors Charis Himeda, Takako Jones and Peter Jones highlight the important implications for similar types of genetic diseases: «With increasing evidence that the repeat genome (comprising nearly half the human genome) plays important roles in gene regulation, additional diseases will likely be found associated with aberrant repetitive genomic sequences,» they write.

Previously, he worked in the laboratories of Dr. Paul Greengard and Dr. Myriam Heiman, utilizing similar cutting - edge cell - type specific techniques to investigate pathology of Huntington's disease model in mice.

Although there are many different types of autoimmune diseases and they can affect many different organs, at their core they are all similar in that they are an immune response caused by systemic inflammation that leads your body to attack itself.

In fact, if you were deficient in the mineral you'd have symptoms which were very similar to type 1 diabetes [3]-- a disease characterized by a lack of insulin.

The best foods for weight loss, or for curing or avoiding obesity, and many diet related diseases and conditions, are similar to the types of foods that our forager (prehistoric, Pleistocene, Paleolithic) ancestors ate.

Much less common types are Lewy body (shares symptoms with both Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease) and Frontotemporal dementia which symptoms are similar to those of Alzheimer's disease.

Similar mechanisms may contribute to the association of red meat consumption with other diseases, such as atherosclerosis and type 2 diabetes, which are also exacerbated by inflammation.

«The reduction in hsCRP was similar to that observed with thiazolidinediones, statin therapy, or lifestyle interventions, all of which have been shown to decrease the risk of type 2 diabetes and / or cardiovascular disease.»

Signs that your dog has Type II disc disease are very similar to the symptoms of Type I.

The consequences of obesity for people and pets are very similar, including type 2 diabetes, osteoarthritis, heart disease, several forms of cancer and an overall decrease in life expectancy.

The most common is heart disease, but they also have trick knees (luxating patellas), hip dysplasia, a disease that causes paralysis of the spine, another disease similar to epilepsy called Episodic Falling, ear problems and deafness, many types of eye problems, and about half of them have a severe blood disease.

Even though there are many various types of heart disease, the heart has a relatively small number of mechanisms with which to respond to the presence of heart disease, and so, many different diseases can have identical or very similar clinical signs.

Further, most tick - borne infections capable of causing joint pain, fever, and signs similar to Lyme disease generally all share doxycycline responsiveness so a simple course of medication actually covers several types of infection.

Critical illness insurance is similar to disease - specific plans except that it usually covers several different types of diseases.