New research from University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers is shedding light on racial disparities in breast cancer mortality in women who live in economically deprived neighborhoods.
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A fecal microbial transplant—giving a recipient fecal matter from a donor to change the recipient's gut microbial community in the colon—has been a successful last resort therapy for people with recurrent Clostridium ...
Nov 4, 2022
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The protein kinase CK2 is involved in a wide range of biological processes and cellular functions, including inflammatory responses and pathologies associated with inflammation. Also, its aberrant expression and activity ...
Oct 31, 2022
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A researcher with the University of Alabama at Birmingham Sports and Exercise Medicine is presenting results of two studies on equestrian helmets at the 6th International Consensus Conference on Concussion in Sport in Amsterdam, ...
Oct 28, 2022
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Mammalian hearts have almost no ability to grow new heart muscle cells, called cardiomyocytes, after birth. Thus, dead tissue after an adult heart attack is not repaired with new cardiomyocytes. It is instead replaced with ...
Oct 21, 2022
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Macrophages are immune cells that engulf and digest pathogens, cancer cells or cellular debris. The kidneys—like other tissues in the body—contain kidney resident macrophages, or KRMs, from the time of birth. These KRMs ...
Sep 28, 2022
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In diabetes research over the past two decades, Anath Shalev, M.D., has shown that the protein TXNIP regulates survival and function of beta cells, the pancreatic cells that produce the hormone insulin to lower levels of ...
Sep 27, 2022
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Alabama, a state with many counties in the United States Diabetes Belt, saw an increase in new-onset type 2 diabetes among youth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Results published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism ...
Sep 27, 2022
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The University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine's Department of Radiation Oncology researchers have identified potential targets to help overcome therapy-resistant tumors in patients with glioblastoma, ...
Sep 21, 2022
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Over the last decade, immune checkpoint blockers, or ICBs, have revolutionized treatment for various advanced cancers, including melanoma, the most aggressive skin cancer that was considered largely incurable not long ago. ...
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