Researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have developed a strategy for treating the most aggressive type of brain cancer in adults that combines a photoactive molecule and a chemotherapeutic agent—both ...
Nov 27, 2019
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Patients with HER2-positive breast cancer, whose disease has progressed after being treated initially with pertuzumab in combination with trastuzumab and a taxane, can respond well to treatment with T-DM1—a drug that combines ...
Nov 15, 2019
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Human-made toxic chemicals that linger indefinitely in the environment disrupt the performance of critical helper cells in the mouse brain, leading to impaired function over long-term exposures, say neuroscientists at Georgetown ...
Oct 22, 2019
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In order for the central nervous system to communicate to the rest of the body, the brain and spinal cord house nerves that send and receive signals via neurons or nerve cells. This communication can take place only because ...
Sep 23, 2019
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Researchers at the University of Zurich have identified a cell population that likely plays a key role in multiple sclerosis (MS). T helper cells in the blood of MS patients infiltrate the central nervous system, where they ...
Jul 23, 2019
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This clear, gooey substance, which is naturally produced by the human body, has been popularized by cosmetic and skin care products that promote healthier, plumper and more supple skin. Also recognized for its abilities to ...
Jul 11, 2019
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Damaged peripheral nerves can regenerate after an injury, for example, following a forearm fracture. Axons, the long projections of neurons that transmit stimuli or signals to other cells, are affected in the case of injury ...
Jul 11, 2019
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Every year in Catalonia 15 new cases of Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease are diagnosed. It is a deadly prion disease whose cause is unknown and has no treatment, though it is very similar to mad cow disease, also brought on by prions ...
May 29, 2019
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Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report they have created a method of mapping how the central nervous system develops by tracking the genes expressed in cells. The technique, demonstrated in mouse retinas for this study, ...
May 22, 2019
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A new preclinical study from University of Texas at Dallas researchers may help explain why migraine is three times more common in women than men.
Apr 8, 2019
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