In autoimmune encephalitis, a rare but serious and sometimes life-threatening inflammation of the central nervous system, the body's own defenses are directed against the central nervous system. This disease was first identified ...
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Controversies surrounding hormone therapy (HT) and its benefits and risks have dominated the women's health field for more than 2 decades. A large new study demonstrates that, despite some commonly held misperceptions, HT ...
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Blood cancer patients, especially when they relapse, have a poor prognosis, and generally do not survive very long. The last five years have seen success in treating these patients with Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cells—a ...
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Universitätsklinikum Erlangen is the first in the world to use CAR T-cells to successfully treat a patient suffering from a severe case of muscle inflammation (myositis). The disease is triggered by a malfunction in the ...
Feb 20, 2023
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Location, location, location is the key for psychedelic drugs that could treat mental illness by rapidly rebuilding connections between nerve cells. In a paper published in Science, researchers at the University of California, ...
Feb 16, 2023
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Many patients with the autoimmune disease ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) suffer a high risk of disease relapse despite treatment. Karolinska Institutet researchers have now identified T cells that contribute to the destruction ...
Feb 16, 2023
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Sensory neurons pick up information from our senses and relay it to the rest of the nervous system. But this is not their only mission. In a new study published in the journal Current Biology, Claire Wyart at the Paris Brain ...
Feb 15, 2023
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New adoptive T cell therapies—in which T cells, the immune system's natural hunters patrolling the body for foreign adversaries, are retrieved from cancer-riddled patients, super-charged and amplified outside the body, ...
Feb 10, 2023
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In animals, a process of programmed cell death called apoptosis ensures cells die when they should. An opposing force, governed by inhibitor of apoptosis proteins (IAPs), guards against excessive cell death. Together these ...
Feb 9, 2023
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Although hepatitis E is a common disease, little is known about the life cycle of the virus. Initial findings on how it manages to infect cells are reported by a team from Molecular and Medical Virology at Ruhr University ...
Feb 9, 2023
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