The phrase
"therapeutic potential" refers to the possibility or likelihood that something, such as a medication or treatment, can be beneficial or helpful in treating a health condition or improving a person's well-being.
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This suggests that green tea extract has a strong
therapeutic potential for treating and preventing diseases associated with increased levels of inflammation, such as arthritis.
They appear to offer specific
therapeutic potential in neurological disorders, cognitive function, athletic performance as well as helping aid the ketogenic diet.
In this way they act like embryonic stem cells and share their
revolutionary therapeutic potential — and as such, they could eliminate the need for using and then destroying human embryos.
The transcription machinery the compound shuts down is common among all cancer cell types, so the researchers believe it has
therapeutic potential across many tumor types.
In addition to uncovering compounds
with therapeutic potential for Alzheimer's disease, this research presents a new approach for identifying proteins that bind to amyloid fibrils — an approach that could have broad applications for treating many diseases.
Few foods, and certainly not dessert foods, have as much
therapeutic potential as this «candy» aisle treat, as evidenced by a wide range of accumulating scientific research linking its consumption to over 40 distinct health benefits.
«Given the importance of stem cell - based transplantation therapies as well as the clinical significance of tumor metastastis to the bone marrow, there is
great therapeutic potential in understanding these cellular interactions,» Sipkins said.
Infected mice were already showing measurable weight loss that was reversed by administration of the antibody,
demonstrating therapeutic potential even after the onset of disease.
«We see the development of SRK - 015 in SMA as an important step towards demonstrating the
broad therapeutic potential of targeting the supracellular activation of protein growth factors to treat a wide range of human diseases.»
There is a growing body of literature supporting the
high therapeutic potential of LM22A - 4 for the treatment of Rett syndrome and other diseases associated with lowered levels of BDNF.
The Center for Cell Circuitry addresses the
enormous therapeutic potential of cellular circuits, which connect individual molecular components and allow cells to process signals and control decision - making.
Dr Harcharan Rooprai, King's College Hospital, comments: «The promising results seen are encouraging and suggest that these polyphenols have great
therapeutic potential not only for brain tumours but pancreatic cancer as well.»
The same review article, published in the Emirates Journal of Food and Agriculture,
entitled Therapeutic Potential of Camel Milk, by researchers from India's Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, notes that there are also much lower rates of diabetes in areas where camel milk is a staple.
That balance has changed considerably in the past few years, as alternative avenues of stem - cell science have opened up and it increasingly seems like
whatever therapeutic potential such cells may someday have could be explored and achieved without the destruction of embryos.
«We also think that local application of high - salt - containing wound dressings and the development of other salt - boosting antimicrobial therapies might
bear therapeutic potential.»
The same carbon nanotubes that make up the skeleton of the 1D battery can also accelerate the conversion of dissolved oxygen into hydroxide ions, a process that harms battery effectiveness if left uncontrolled but as a stand - alone process
boasts therapeutic potential for treating cancer and bacterial infections.
«It's proof of concept that there's
therapeutic potential here,» says David Feifel at the University of California in San Diego, head of the team running the trial.
«This animal study is the first to identify a treatment that slows the disease once symptoms have already appeared, a significant finding that offers insight into the disease mechanism and
important therapeutic potential,» notes study co-author Jeffrey Rothstein of Johns Hopkins University.
To see how human GI tissues perform in a living organism — and to test their
future therapeutic potential — the research team included collaborators from the Division of Surgery, led by Michael Helmrath, MD, a pediatric surgeon and director of the Surgical Research program.
CXCR4 / CXCL12 Axis in Non Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Pathologic Roles and
Therapeutic Potential Ori Wald, Oz M. Shapira, Uzi Izhar Theranostics 2013; 3 (1): 26 - 33.
Hong SJ, Traktuev DO, and March
KL Therapeutic potential of adipose - derived stem cells in vascular growth and tissue repair.
We must remember that the
real therapeutic potential of marijuana is far from being exploited and, to this day, nobody is able to transfer the results of laboratories and the experiences of patients to a standardized clinical practice.
The findings in the current study help refine our knowledge of some of the important molecular mechanisms involved in Group 3 medulloblastoma and will be useful for
probing therapeutic potential.»
However, most experts in the field would agree that scientists are just beginning to scratch the surface of these vaccines»
full therapeutic potential.
In a new study at the University of Edinburgh, researchers have
identified therapeutic potential for a protective chemical, called human beta - defensin 2 (hBD2), which is typically missing in eczema patients.
Shergis, J.
L. Therapeutic potential of Panax ginseng and ginsenosides in the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Zentler - Munro PL, Assoufi BA, Balasubramanian TK, Cornell S, Benoliel
D. Therapeutic potential and clinical efficacy of acid - resistant fungal lipase in the treatment of pancreatic steatorrhoea due to cystic fibrosis.
The wide -
ranging therapeutic potential of turmeric has been known and implemented for thousands of years by practitioners of systems of medicine such as Ayurveda.
Given the benefits that appears to arise from extended periods of fasting in cancer risk (20) and the difficulties of following the classical ketogenic diet; following the Modified Atkins Approach with intermittent fasting may offer
superior therapeutic potential.
It is hard to believe that an ordinary apple or a bowl of blueberries can harbor this type of disease -
fighting therapeutic potential — but, scientific research has shown it to be true).
«Ultimately, in the case of autoimmunity, we should be able to use these techniques as a high - throughput assay to screen hundreds or thousands of compounds that might block the effects of autoantibodies and identify novel agents with
therapeutic potential in given individuals,» says Sinha.
Phrases with «therapeutic potential»