Discovery offers hope for new Crohn's disease treatment
Scientists at the University of British Columbia have made a discovery that could potentially lead to treatments for a debilitating complication of Crohn's disease.
View ArticleScientists discover link between bacteria and supposedly non-infectious diseases
A group of scientists have found that a single molecule from a bacterial cell wall component can lead to the unusual behaviour of 100 million clotting molecules in blood, which may be a major...
View ArticlePac-Man like protein which eats dead cells could help in the fight against...
Scientists at the University of Sheffield have identified a protein which causes cells to eat their dying neighbours, helping to prevent inflammation - something which is vital in the fight to stop...
View ArticleHow white blood cells jump into action in response to foreign microbes
Pro-inflammatory molecules in the blood are essential for fighting off microbial invaders. But too much of these immune-signaling factors, and the body can go into septic shock. A team from the A*STAR...
View ArticleNew study links neuropilin 2 deficiency to inflammation-induced edema and...
Fluid accumulation and swelling (edema) may result from the malfunctioning of regulatory processes controlling vessel permeability in the body. Edema frequently occurs in chronic inflammatory diseases...
View ArticleStudy identifies new mechanism for antibacterial immunity
The innate immune system serves as a first-line defense, responding to infections almost immediately after a pathogen makes its way into the body. This response is carried out in two major ways: the...
View ArticleStudy sheds light on Dengue immune response
India suffers from the highest number of dengue infections in the world, but there are few studies, if any, to understand the immune cells involved in fighting the virus.
View ArticleConnection between brain inflammation and CTE identified
For the first time, researchers have shown that inflammation in the brain may have direct involvement in the development of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). In addition, they found that the...
View ArticleResearch sheds light on why some rheumatoid arthritis patients respond poorly...
A Mayo Clinic study is shedding light on why some rheumatoid arthritis patients respond poorly when treated with tumor necrosis factor inhibitors, part of a class of drugs called biologics. It comes...
View ArticleWhy raising good cholesterol may not always protect against heart disease
Good cholesterol is well associated with lower cardiovascular disease risk, but just raising high-density lipoprotein (HDL) levels have produced disappointing results in recent clinical trials. A study...
View ArticleNovartis acquires US pharma research firm Selexys Pharmaceuticals
Swiss-based pharmaceuticals giant Novartis said Monday it was acquiring Selexys Pharmaceuticals Corp., a US research lab in blood and inflammatory disorders, in a deal costing up to $665 million (627...
View ArticleResearcher develops drug to non-invasively diagnose infectious diseases
A professor at The University of New Mexico has developed a new, groundbreaking drug that that could revolutionize the diagnosis of infectious diseases.
View ArticleScientists investigate cancer radiotherapy to make improvements
A University of Rochester Medical Center study shows that when tumors are treated with radiotherapy, the benefits can be hijacked by the treatment's counteraction to also trigger inflammation and...
View ArticleHow brain tissue recovers after injury
A research team led by Associate Professor Mitsuharu ENDO and Professor Yasuhiro MINAMI (both from the Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe University) has...
View ArticleNew drug target for inflammatory disease is all the RAGE
Researchers have shown that Receptor for Advanced Glycation End Products (RAGE) helps to regulate a key signaling pathway known to promote both acute and chronic inflammation. The development of...
View ArticleNew insight for developing more effective drugs to combat inflammatory bowel...
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the intestine that includes Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. It is commonly treated with one of several available biological...
View ArticleSugar element of keratan sulfate halts the progress of emphysema
Using a mouse model, scientists from the RIKEN-Max Planck Joint Research Center for Systems Chemical Biology and a number of other institutes have identified a sugar molecule that reduced the...
View ArticleCrohn's disease risk and prognosis determined by different genes, study finds
Researchers have identified a series of genetic variants that affect the severity of Crohn's disease, an inflammatory bowel disease - but surprisingly, none of these variants appear to be related to an...
View ArticleExercise... It does a body good: 20 minutes can act as anti-inflammatory
It's well known that regular physical activity has health benefits, including weight control, strengthening the heart, bones and muscles and reducing the risk of certain diseases. Recently, researchers...
View ArticleTeam identifies mechanisms of inflammation-induced animal aging
DGIST's research team has experimentally proved the hypothesis that the accumulated chronic inflammation results in the aging of animals.
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