BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY Exposure to a traumatic experience can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), an incapacitating disorder in susceptible persons with no reliable therapy. Particularly puzzling is understanding how transient exposure to trauma creates persistent long-term suffering from PTSD and why some people are susceptible to PTSD while others that were exposed to the same...
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Research finds new way to reduce scarring
Researchers have been able to reduce scarring by blocking part of the healing process in research that could make a significant difference for burns and other trauma patients. University of Queensland Professor Kiarash Khosrotehrani said scars had been reduced by targeting the gene that instructs stem cells to form them in an animal study. Image credit: chezbeate via Pixabay,...
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Researchers uncover potential new way to treat dry mouth
EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY IMAGE: IN A NEW STUDY, RESEARCHERS FOUND THAT A PDE4 INHIBITOR INCREASED SALIVATION BECAUSE OF PDE4 INHIBITION IN THE SALIVARY GLANDS AND IN THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM, WHICH REGULATES INVOLUNTARY BODY PROCESSES SUCH AS BREATHING. THE FINDINGS COULD LEAD TO A NEW TREATMENT FOR DRY MOUTH. CREDIT: ABIGAIL BOYD, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA...
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Researchers discover new way to monitor and prevent nerve cell deterioration after TBI
by University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center In a new study, published online today in Cell, researchers have discovered a new way to prevent brain nerve cells from deteriorating after injury, which also revealed a potential mechanistic link between TBI and AD. Credit: University Hospitals/The Pieper Lab Violent blows or jolts to the head can cause traumatic...
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Researchers discover new way to halt excessive inflammation
by RCSI Dr Claire McCoy, Senior Lecturer in Immunology at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences. Credit: Patrick Bolger RCSI researchers have discovered a new way to ‘put the brakes’ on excessive inflammation by regulating a type of white blood cell that is critical for our immune system. The discovery has the potential to protect the...
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A new way to treat severe obesity
by Mathieu-Robert Sauvé, University of Montreal Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New research could pave the way for the treatment of early morbid familial obesity, a disease that affects four to six percent of people suffering from early severe obesity. Co-authored by Michel Bouvier and Patricia René of UdeM’s Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC), with Université Laval colleagues...