Gene variant associated with increased risk and severity of nerve disorder...
Children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia who had a certain gene variant experienced a higher incidence and severity of peripheral neuropathy, after receiving treatment with the cancer drug...
View ArticleGlaucoma: Regeneration or prevention? The answer might lie in the pathogenesis
This article summarizes some salient features of the normal eye structure that have relevance in the light of a new hypothesis concerning the pathogenesis of glaucoma.
View ArticlemTORC1 as an inducer of neurotrophic factors in dopaminergic neurons
Mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTOR) kinase exists in two complexes, mTOR complex 1 (mTORC1) and mTORC2, which play central roles in the integration of cell growth in response to...
View ArticleNeurotrophins and their receptors in satellite glial cells following nerve...
Peripheral neuropathy is a condition where damage resulting from mechanical or pathological mechanisms is inflicted on nerves within the peripheral nervous system (PNS).
View ArticleA novel FES control system for restoring motor function of post-stroke...
Zonghao Huang at Institute of RF- & OE-ICs, Southeast University, China and his colleagues developed a self-administered, multi-movement, force-modulation functional electrical stimulation (FES)...
View ArticleHarmful bugs in Malawian children drive malnutrition
Researchers identify disease-causing bacteria in the gut of malnourished Malawian infants, shedding light on how diet, the gut microbiota, and the host immune system interact to produce severe...
View ArticleBroader impacts in NSF’s Division of Environmental Biology leave hope for...
The National Science Foundation’s Broader Impacts Criterion was envisioned as a way for grant proposals to be judged not only on their intellectual merit but also on the ability of the proposed...
View ArticleBefore farming, a wheat trade in Britain
DNA isolated from an underwater archaeological site off the coast of England suggests that wheat had made its way to the region about 2,000 years before modern humans began farming it there. This...
View ArticleTargeting Ebola’s two-channel entry into cells
New experiments by Yasuteru Sakurai and colleagues show that Ebola virus needs two calcium pore channels (TPCs) to move within a cell and infect it completely -- and that these channels can be blocked...
View ArticleCrops protected with double-stranded RNA
Researchers have engineered tobacco plants that trigger a gene-silencing mechanism, known as RNA interference (RNAi), to kill Colorado potato beetles. These transgenic plants express insecticidal RNAs...
View ArticleMalaria transmission shaped by sex in mosquitoes?
Sexual selection among Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes -- the main vector of malaria -- may explain why this particular species spreads the deadly disease to humans so effectively, according to a new...
View ArticleNerve transfer repairs brachial plexus injury by increasing cerebral cortical...
In a recent report published in Neural Regeneration Research (Vol. 9, No. 23, 2014), Guixin Sun at East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, China and his colleagues summarized the research...
View ArticleInterventional therapy for cerebellar functional recovery in SVAOS
In recent years, the development of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty and stenting has provided potential treatments for patients with severe vertebral artery orifice stenosis (SVAOS).
View ArticleLesion localization of global aphasia without hemiparesis by brain MR image...
Lesion localization of global aphasia without hemiparesis by brain MR image overlapping.
View ArticlehBMSCs transplantation for treatment of stroke by attenuating axonal injury
hBMSCs transplantation for treatment of stroke by attenuating axonal injury
View ArticleUC3M develops the first European technological ecosystem to foment active ageing
Action for Healthy Ageing is the name of the first European ecosystem for promoting healthy, active ageing using new technologies. The main objectives of this software platform, developed by the...
View ArticleClimate change and drought in California
A study suggests links between global warming and the probability of the warm and dry conditions that led to the current California drought. California, the nation’s most populous state, has been...
View ArticleOrigins of HIV-1 groups
A survey of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection in African gorillas reveals that two of the four known HIV-1 lineages may have been transmitted from western lowland gorillas to humans,...
View ArticleMitochondrial dysfunction, diabetes, and depression
The link between diabetes and behavioral disorders may be explained by altered insulin action and dysfunctional activity in mitochondria, a study suggests. Diabetes has been associated with increased...
View ArticleEffects of deforestation on monsoonal precipitation
Compared with local effects, remote effects of large-scale deforestation have a greater influence on precipitation in monsoon regions, according to a study. Previous studies have suggested a dominant...
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