Autoimmune Diseases
Research scores advance in manipulating T-cells
(Medical Xpress)—Until recently, medical researchers had little hope of experimentally manipulating naïve T cells to study their crucial roles in immune function, because they were largely impenetrable, ...
Medical research
Oct 11, 2012 |
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Study finds new molecular pathways involved with autoimmune diseases, potential implications for therapies
Teamwork between a pair of transcription factors may be responsible for regulating the functioning of Th17 cells, which when found in excessive amounts are believed to play a major role in many autoimmune ...
Immunology
Sep 28, 2012 |
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Obesity without the health problems? There could be a way
Obesity is linked to the widespread epidemics of diabetes and heart disease that plague society, but a lesser-known fact is that the weight can also lead to autoimmune disease. Now, researchers have new information about ...
Overweight and Obesity
Apr 04, 2013 |
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Researchers determine how inflammatory cells function, setting stage for future remedies
A research team led by investigators at New York University and NYU School of Medicine has determined how cells that cause inflammatory ailments, such as Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis, and arthritis, differentiate from ...
Inflammatory disorders
Sep 26, 2012 |
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Smoking may negatively impact kidney function among adolescents
Exposure to tobacco smoke could negatively impact adolescent kidney function; this is according to a new study led by a team of researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins Children's ...
Pediatrics
Apr 08, 2013 |
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Diabetes rising rapidly among U.S. kids
(HealthDay) -- Diabetes is increasing among U.S. children at an alarming rate, say researchers who report jumps of more than 20 percent since 2001 for type 2 disease, which is linked to excessive weight and ...
Diabetes
Jun 10, 2012 |
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Researchers probe the enigma of healing element that is also the enemy
The same factor in our immune system that is instrumental in enabling us to fight off severe and dangerous inflammatory ailments is also a player in doing the opposite at a later stage, causing the suppression of our immune ...
Immunology
Apr 03, 2013 |
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Research sheds light on important role of autophagy, or self-eating cells, in developing new anti-inflammatory therapies
Research just carried out in the Immunology Research Centre, led by Dr James Harris, based in the School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin, shows that the process of autophagy regulates the production ...
Medical research
Oct 24, 2012 |
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UCSB researchers perform pioneering research on Type 2 diabetes
– While legions of medical researchers have been looking to understand the genetic basis of disease and how mutations may affect human health, a group of biomedical researchers at UC Santa Barbara is studying ...
Diabetes
Jan 04, 2013 |
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Obese moms risk having babies with low vitamin D
(Medical Xpress)—Women who are obese at the start of their pregnancy may be passing on insufficient levels of vitamin D to their babies, according to a new Northwestern Medicine® study.
Overweight and Obesity
Jan 07, 2013 |
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Chronic exposure to staph bacteria may be risk factor for lupus, study finds
Chronic exposure to even small amounts of staph bacteria could be a risk factor for the chronic inflammatory disease lupus, Mayo Clinic research shows. Staph, short for Staphylococcus aureus, is a germ commonly found on the ...
Immunology
Aug 08, 2012 |
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Infertility treatments may significantly increase multiple sclerosis activity
Researchers in Argentina report that women with multiple sclerosis (MS) who undergo assisted reproduction technology (ART) infertility treatment are at risk for increased disease activity. Study findings published in Annals of ...
Neuroscience
Oct 03, 2012 |
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Psoriasis tied to 14 other autoimmune diseases
(HealthDay) -- Patients with psoriasis have significantly higher odds for having at least one of 14 other autoimmune diseases, according to a study published online June 4 in the Journal of the American Ac ...
Immunology
Jun 15, 2012 |
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Study underlines potential of new technology to diagnose disease
Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) in Jupiter, FL, have developed cutting-edge technology that can successfully screen human blood for disease markers. This tool may hold the key to better diagnosing and ...
Medical research
Mar 21, 2013 |
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Parasitic worms may help treat diseases associated with obesity
(Medical Xpress)—On the list of undesirable medical conditions, a parasitic worm infection surely ranks fairly high. Although modern pharmaceuticals have made them less of a threat in some areas, these ...
Medical research
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Autoimmune diseases arise from an inappropriate immune response of the body against substances and tissues normally present in the body. In other words, the immune system mistakes some part of the body as a pathogen and attacks its own cells. This may be restricted to certain organs (e.g. in autoimmune thyroiditis) or involve a particular tissue in different places (e.g. Goodpasture's disease which may affect the basement membrane in both the lung and the kidney). The treatment of autoimmune diseases is typically with immunosuppression—medication which decreases the immune response.
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