Cancer depends on blood. Just like the rest of the body, tumors need blood vessels to supply them with nutrients and oxygen to grow. But cancer uses these vessels in another way as well—to spread to other parts of the body.
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Effective drug delivery through the BTB is one of the greatest therapeutic obstacles in treating brain metastases.
Oct 31, 2019
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Calcium ions are essential to how muscles work effectively, playing a starring role in how and when muscles contract, tap energy stores to keep working and self-repair damage. Not only are calcium ions vital for the repair ...
Oct 31, 2019
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A study in experimental models suggests that allopregnanolone, one of many hormones produced by the placenta during pregnancy, is so essential to normal fetal brain development that when provision of that hormone decreases ...
Oct 20, 2019
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Targeting a key gene before birth could someday help lead to a treatment for Down syndrome by reversing abnormal embryonic brain development and improving cognitive function after birth, according to a Rutgers-led study.
May 23, 2019
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An article published in Experimental Biology and Medicine details abnormalities in bone pathology that occur in systemic autoimmune disease. The study, led by Dr. Yasuhiro Kon, Professor in the Department of Basic Veterinary ...
Apr 29, 2019
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Allopregnanolone (ALLO), a hormone made by the placenta late in pregnancy, is such a potent neurosteroid that disrupting its steady supply to the developing fetus can leave it vulnerable to brain injuries associated with ...
Apr 27, 2019
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A new small-molecule drug produced a rapid antidepressant response similar to that of ketamine when tested in mice, a new Yale-led study published April 16 in the Journal of Clinical Investigation shows.
Apr 17, 2019
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Infections caused by the Staphylococcus aureus bacteria through skin wounds cause thousands of deaths every year due to their fast transmission among large groups of people, such as hospitalised patients. Furthermore, these ...
Apr 10, 2019
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Researchers have developed a computational model for human MEK1, a protein with potential as a drug target for a variety of human cancers.
Apr 3, 2019
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