Antidepressants: delving into resistance to enhance mood compliance
Major depressive disorder is a debilitating illness that affects more than 350 million people around the world. Medications and psychotherapy are effective for most…
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Multiple sclerosis: endogenous metabolites actually spawned epigenetics
Understanding and mitigating the role of epigenetics (environmental influences that trigger changes in gene expression) in disease development is a major goal of researchers.…
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Insulin from a toxin: sea cone snail as a spring for better therapies
Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas to allow the body to use sugar or glucose from carbohydrates from food for energy or…
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Myelofibrosis: vitamin D does not help the marrow at all
There are three types of blood cell: white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets. All three types are created from hematopoietic stem cells…
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CD69: the receptor that joins immunity and vessels
Atherosclerosis is a disease characterized by the accumulation of lipid deposits in the artery wall, but the disease is usually not detected until after…
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Stem cells: neurotransmitters got them by “gut feelings”
Somatic stem cells are microscopic workhorses, constantly regenerating cells throughout the body: skin and the lining of the intestine, for example. And to University…
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Tregs on duty: solved how TGF is “GRAPped” in trap
Belgian research groups from the UCLouvain and WELBIO, VIB and Ghent University, and the biotechnology company Argenx elucidated the three-dimensional structure of an assembly…
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Breast cancer and vitamin D: prevention and probable incoming therapy
Breast cancer has been considered the most common type of cancer among women in 161 countries and the most common cause of cancer deaths…
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The problem of memory loss motivates researchers to try to better understand how the brain works, how memories are consolidated and how and why…
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Diabetes therapy: the weaponry enlarges with possibilities
A new class of drugs for diabetes and for obesity dependent on it will soon be available. This is judged by the findings of…
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