News tagged with er stress

Vicious cycle: Obesity sustained by changes in brain biochemistry

With obesity reaching epidemic levels in some parts of the world, scientists have only begun to understand why it is such a persistent condition. A study in the Journal of Biological Chemistry adds substantially to the st ...

Medical research May 16, 2013 | 3 / 5 (2) | 2 |

Treatment target for diabetes, Wolfram syndrome

Inflammation and cell stress play important roles in the death of insulin-secreting cells and are major factors in diabetes. Cell stress also plays a role in Wolfram syndrome, a rare, genetic disorder that ...

Inflammatory disorders Aug 07, 2012 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0 |

Hypertension traced to source in brain

(Medical Xpress)—When the heart works too hard, the brain may be to blame, says new Cornell research that is changing how scientists look at high blood pressure (hypertension). The study, published in the ...

Medical research Dec 18, 2012 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0 |

New tactic for controlling blood sugar in diabetes contradicts current view of the disease

Increased low-grade inflammation in the body resulting from obesity is widely viewed as contributing to type 2 diabetes. Going against this long-held belief, researchers from Children's Hospital Boston report that two proteins ...

Medical research Sep 04, 2011 | 4.8 / 5 (9) | 1 |

Cancer cells co-opt immune response to escape destruction

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that tumor cells use stress signals to subvert responding immune cells, exploiting them to actually boost conditions beneficial ...

Cancer Dec 18, 2012 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0 |

Unexpected signaling role for foul-smelling hydrogen sulfide in cell response to protein misfolding

Something rotten never smelled so sweet. This is what members of a team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) are telling one another as they discuss a new finding they did not expect to make. They have discovered ...

Medical research Dec 13, 2011 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

Researchers find beta cell stress could trigger the development of type 1 diabetes

In type 1 diabetes (T1D), pancreatic beta cells die from a misguided autoimmune attack, but how and why that happens is still unclear. Now, JDRF-funded scientists from the Indiana University School of Medicine have found ...

Diabetes Mar 22, 2012 | not rated yet | 0 |