BY AMY CAMPBELL, MS, RD, LDN, CDCES | APRIL 14, 2022 Your gallbladder is pear-shaped organ that sits under your liver. Its main job is to store bile, a fluid made by your liver that digests fat. When you eat food, your stomach releases a hormone that causes the muscles around the gallbladder to contract and...
by Kyoto University Detailed analysis focusing on non-endocrine cells and validation of identified markers for detecting non-endocrine subpopulations. (a) Newly classified cell populations by reference component analysis (RCA) on the t-SNE projection. (b) A heatmap of tissues and cell lines with high similarity (reference component score > 2.5) to non-endocrine cells (brown, green, red and magenta). See...
GENERAL ELECTRIC (UNITED STATES) IMAGE: PICTURED (LEFT TO RIGHT): GE RESEARCH’S VICTORIA COTERO, SENIOR SCIENTIST IN BIOSCIENCES; JEFFREY ASHE, A SENIOR ELECTRICAL ENGINEER; AND CHRISTOPHER PULEO, A SENIOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEER, AROUND A PROTOTYPE OF THE RESEARCH LAB’S ULTRASOUND MODULATION DEVICE AT GE’S RESEARCH CAMPUS IN NISKAYUNA, NY. COTERO, ASHE AND PULEO WERE LEAD AUTHORS ON...
Many people with diabetes have times when they sweat too much, too little, or at odd times. Diabetes can make it difficult for a person’s body to maintain a steady temperature and produce the right amount of sweat to keep the body cool. Reasons for this include hormonal imbalances, cardiovascular factors, and stress. Diabetes can affect...
Diabetes, especially poorly controlled diabetes, can cause nerve damage and poor circulation. This can lead to foot ulcers, blisters, pain, and foot infections. In some cases, the damage can be severe. Infections in the feet can spread, damaging other organs and even becoming life threatening. Severe foot infections may mean a doctor has to amputate...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON A culinary medicine curriculum had a positive impact on certain biometric and diet-related behavioral and psychosocial outcomes among low-income, food-insecure patients with type 2 diabetes participating in a clinic-led food prescription program, according to researchers with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston)....
by University of Bristol Credit: CC0 Public Domain The long-standing enigma of why so many patients suffering with high blood pressure (known as hypertension) also have diabetes (high blood sugar) has finally been cracked by an international team led by the universities of Bristol, UK, and Auckland, New Zealand. The important new discovery has shown...
A newly developed technology platform has the potential to treat diseases like diabetes, IBS, and obesity by using enteroendocrine (EE) cells found in human intestinal cells, according to a recent study. Although enteroendocrine cells make up only about 1% of intestinal cells, they produce around fifteen different hormones that play a role in regulating digestion...
PLOS IMAGE: SU/ ÖSTRA: INSIDE BY NIGHT CREDIT: MESCON, FLICKR (CC BY 2.0, HTTPS://CREATIVECOMMONS.ORG/LICENSES/BY/2.0/) Among patients with chronic, non-communicable diseases, the risk of death is more than doubled if they also have a psychiatric comorbidity, according to a new study publishing January 27th in PLOS Medicine by Seena Fazel of the University of Oxford, UK, and colleagues. Non-communicable diseases...
by Monash University Increased concentration of short-chain fatty acids in stool and plasma following HAMSAB supplementation. A Acetate, propionate, and butyrate concentrations in stool (mM) and B plasma (μM). Overall significance determined by GEE and pairwise differences between timepoints by estimated marginal means and include a Tukey adjustment for multiple corrections. Colors indicate individual subjects....
