MICHIGAN MEDICINE – UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN IMAGE: A GRAPHIC OF TBI WITH BLOOD TEST VIALS. CREDIT: JUSTINE ROSS, MICHIGAN MEDICINE A study finds that blood tests taken the day of a traumatic brain injury can predict which patients are likely to die or survive with severe disability, allowing clinicians to make decisions earlier on possible...
by Nationwide Children’s Hospital Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Copper is essential for many cellular functions, including cellular respiration, antioxidant defense, neurotransmitter biosynthesis and neuropeptide amidation, among others. Until recently, only two inborn errors of copper metabolism were well established. Both are rare. Wilson’s disease and Menkes disease result from mutations in the copper-transporting P-type ATPases;...
by University of Michigan Transcriptional modulation by the LE (Model A: epitope + IFN-γ, versus IFN-γ alone). a Heatmaps showing unsupervised clustering of upregulated (left, yellow) and downregulated (right, purple) DEGs for 65-79*LE, 65-79*SE and 65-79*PE. DEGs were selected based on a > 3-fold change for 65-79*LE. All depicted DEGs had a Padj < 0.05. b Venn diagrams showing comparison of DEGs for 65-79*LE,...
by Hayley Muendlein, The Conversation Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, is a common source of bacterial coinfections. Credit: Janice Haney Car/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The 1918 influenza pandemic resulted in the loss of over 3% of the world’s population—at least 50 million people. But it wasn’t the flu virus that caused the majority of these deaths....
Written by Kaylea Swearingen, PharmD | Reviewed by Christina Aungst, PharmDPublished on August 31, 2021 Key takeaways: When combined with certain medications, dairy products can affect how a medication works in your body — potentially making it less effective. Certain antibiotics and osteoporosis medications are more commonly associated with potential dairy product interactions, but there...
PI3K is a protein that is part of a pathway that regulates cell growth, survival and metabolism — earning it the inscription of master regulator for cancer. However, while a number of PI3K inhibitor drugs have been approved since 2014, the class as a whole has dwindled, as it has been plagued by toxicity issues...
By Danielle Ellis, B.Sc. Reviewed by Aimee Molineux Bladder exstrophy-epispadias-cloacal exstrophy complex is the most severe form of the BEEC (Bladder exstrophy-epispadias complex), constituting 10% of all the cases. In this condition, an abdominal wall defect causes bladder and large intestine extrusion, leading to anal, genital, and colon abnormalities. BEEC is a rare, congenital, multisystemic...
Temperature affects the span of human behavior, from eating and activity levels to sleep-wake cycles. We may have a harder time sleeping in the summer and be slow to get out of bed on colder mornings. But the link between sensory neurons and neurons that control this cycle are not understood completely. Northwestern University neurobiologists...
Managing diabetes is pretty difficult. And it is constant – people with diabetes need to watch what they are eating, get regular checkups and, of course, constantly measure their blood glucose level. This usually involved some kind of a prick or wearing a device. However, a new diabetes monitor, developed at the University of Waterloo...
AUGUST 18TH, 2022 CONN HASTINGSDERMATOLOGY, MATERIALS, PLASTIC SURGERY, SURGERY Scientists from McGill University in Canada created a technique of using ultrasound-mediated cavitation to make bioadhesives better stick to body’s tissues, including wet surfaces that are typically challenging for such materials. The new method involves ultrasound to create microbubbles within the adhesive. The bubbles burst, which...
