Tag: Inflammation

The Protein That Keeps the Pancreas From Digesting Itself

April 21, 2022
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La Jolla, CA — Every day, your pancreas produces about one cup of digestive juices, a mixture of molecules that can break down the food you eat. But if these powerful molecules become activated before...

Chemical Compound Promotes Healthy Ageing, Study Shows

April 7, 2022
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Baton Rouge, LA — A recently discovered chemical compound helped elderly mice with obesity lose fat and weight, add muscle and strength, reduce age-related inflammation and increase physical activity,...

Exercise May Treat Long COVID-Induced Diabetes, Depression

March 11, 2022
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Baton Rouge, LA – While no medically recognized treatment exists for Long COVID, exercise may break the vicious cycle of inflammation that can lead to developing diabetes and depression months after...

Could Leaky Blood Vessels in the Brain Be a Culprit in Alzheimer’s Disease?

March 10, 2022
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Charleston, SC — Alzheimer’s disease is an enormous problem that, with an ageing population, will only get bigger. More than 6 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease, and 1 in 3 seniors...

Scientists Discover a Cell Behaviour Pattern That Predicts Cardiovascular Disease

January 5, 2022
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Madrid, Spain — Scientists led by Dr. Andrés Hidalgo at the Centro Nacional de Investigadores Cardiovasculares (CNIC) have discovered that circulating neutrophils—a type of immune cell—acquire different...

Computer Model of Blood Enzyme May Lead to New Drugs for Cardiovascular Disease

January 4, 2022
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La Jolla, CA — Membrane-associated proteins play a vital role in a variety of cellular processes, yet little is known about the membrane-association mechanism. Lipoprotein-associated phospholipase...

Killing Pain Without Hurting the Body: Novel Compound That Is Potentially Safer Than Current Drugs

December 14, 2021
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Kyoto, Japan — Muscular pain, osteoarthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, and headaches have something in common—they are the result of various inflammatory processes that occur inside our body. The...

Experimental Compound Counters Diabetic Complications

November 26, 2021
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New York, NY — An experimental compound reduced complications of type 1 and type 2 diabetes in mice – not by lowering blood sugar – but by countering its consequences: cell death, inflammation, and...

Deterioration of Brain Cells in Parkinson’s Disease Is Slowed by Blocking the Bach1 Protein, Preclinical Study Shows

October 26, 2021
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Charleston, SC — Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the most common neurodegenerative movement disorder, afflicting more than 10 million people worldwide and more than one million Americans. While there is...

Self-Assembling Nanofibers Prevent Damage from Inflammation

April 15, 2021
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Durham, NC — Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a self-assembling nanomaterial that can help limit damage caused by inflammatory diseases by activating key cells in the immune system....

Scientists Find New Cell Type Implicated in Chronic Pain, Inflammation

March 5, 2021
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Chapel Hill, NC — One of the hallmarks of chronic pain is inflammation, and scientists at the UNC School of Medicine have discovered that anti-inflammatory cells called MRC1+ macrophages are dysfunctional...

Study Reveals Immune Driver of Brain Ageing

January 21, 2021
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Stanford, CA — Suppose Smokey the Bear were to go on a tear and start setting forest fires instead of putting them out. That roughly describes the behaviour of certain cells of our immune system that...

Researchers Suggest a Special Diet Against Asthma

April 8, 2020
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Bonn, Germany — Can a special diet help in certain cases of asthma? A new study at the University of Bonn at least points to this conclusion. According to the study, mice that were switched to a so-called...

Researcher Finds Keto Diet Works Best in Small Doses

January 29, 2020
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New Haven CT — A ketogenic diet — which provides 99% of calories from fat and only 1% from carbohydrates — produces health benefits in the short term, but negative effects after about a...

Dissecting Connections Between Chronic Stress, Inflammation and Depression

November 22, 2019
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Augusta, GA — Chronic stress can inflame our brain, destroy the connections between our neurons and result in depression, scientists say. Now they are working to better understand how the destructive...

What Drives Inflammation in Type 2 Diabetes? Not Glucose, Says New Research

August 21, 2019
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Lexington, KY — To date, the underlying causes of inflammation in obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) have been poorly understood, which has hampered efforts to develop treatments to prevent...

Gene could Play Major Role in Reducing Brain Swelling after Stroke

April 15, 2019
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Los Angeles, CA — Could a medication someday help the brain heal itself after a stroke, or even prevent damage following a blow to the head? A new USC study lends support to the idea. When a person...

Inflammation Connection

April 1, 2019
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Barcelona, Spain — Scientists at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), part of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), have uncovered the biological details of how cells produce...

Surprise Rheumatoid Arthritis Discovery Points to New Treatment

February 25, 2019
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Charlottesville,VA — Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have identified an unexpected contributor to rheumatoid arthritis that may help explain the painful flare-ups associated...

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