Road Block as a New Strategy for the Treatment of Alzheimer's

APP (red) and BACE1 (pink) follow distinct routes to the early endosome. Blocking specific points along the ARF6-mediated BACE internalization pathway has opposing effects on APP processing. ARF6-Q67L prevents formation of early endosomes and thus stunts A² production; ARF6-T27N stalls recycling of endosomes back to the cell surface, thereby increasing A² production. (Credit: Wim Annaert, copyright National Academy of Sciences)

Blocking a carriage alleyway through the academician beef offers new affairs to anticipate the development of Alzheimer's. Wim Annaert and colleagues of VIB and K.U. Leuven apparent that two capital agents complex in the birth of Alzheimer's disease, the amyloid beta forerunner protein (APP) and the beta secretase agitator (BACE1), chase a altered aisle through the academician beef to accommodated up. It is during the closing affair amid protein and agitator that the base is laid for the development of the disease.

The after-effects of the abstraction were appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Wim Annaert suggests that "closing off or rerouting the aisle which beta secretase follows to get to APP may conceivably be acclimated to arrest the acceleration of the disease. However, a abundant accord of added analysis will be all-important to affirm whether this analysis can finer advance to a drug."

Inhibiting the accumulation of amyloid plaques

The attendance of amyloid plaques is archetypal of the accuracy of Alzheimer patients. These plaques are aberrant accumulations of a adhesive abbreviate protein (beta amyloid) amid the assumption cells. The beta amyloid peptide develops back the APP forerunner protein is cut into pieces the amiss way, in a acknowledgment which additionally involves the beta secretase enzyme. Overproduction of these peptides may accord acceleration to the accumulation of plaques. The plaques agitate the accustomed activity of the brain. Preventing the accumulation of these plaques is a accessible action for inhibiting the disease.

Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's is a anamnesis ataxia that affects up to 70% of patients with dementia. There are about 100 000 bodies with Alzheimer's in Belgium. The ache boring -- footfall by footfall -- destroys academician beef in the abysmal allotment of the academician that serve for anamnesis and knowledge. Since Alois Alzheimer aboriginal appear on the ache 100 years ago, scientists accept been looking for means of alleviative the disease.

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Snakebites a Accessible Bloom Botheration in Africa

King cobra. A bite from a cobra or mamba can bring on death by asphyxia -- due to respiratory paralysis -- within 6 hours of the incident.

One and a bisected actor bodies per year are berserk by snake acidity in Sub-Saharan Africa. An IRD researcher afresh analysed about 100 surveys and medical letters appear over the accomplished 40 years. No all-embracing abstraction of the bearings had ahead been conducted and accessible bloom authorities had underestimated the admeasurement of the problem. This agency that currently alone 10% of victims are treated, attributable to a curtailment of antivenoms and abridgement of acquaintance amid bloom affliction practitioners. Yet the analytic complications can be actual serious, alike fatal. A chaw from a cobra or mamba can accompany on afterlife by amazement -- due to respiratory aeroembolism -- aural 6 hours of the incident. Acidity injected by the ocellated carpeting viper, accepted in the African savannah, can account hemorrhages arch to the victim's afterlife in a few days.

For snakes the best anatomy of defence is assault. Some appearance complete abomination back they faculty they are beneath threat. All of them accept their methods. The Gaboon viper, for example, injects its acidity actual abysmal in to the anatomy with its five cm continued fangs. The spitting cobra blinds its victims with its venom. & although alone out of snake bites is venomous, these reptiles are still a absolute crisis for humans. The cardinal of incidents is considerable, abnormally in Sub-Saharan Africa area they represent a considerable obtainable bloom hazard, admitting alone by the bloom authorities.

This new abstraction provides authorities with added considerable & reliable abstracts which ought to accredit them to acclimate their healthcare casework in bigger tune with needs.

Every year over 300 000 bodies active South of the Sahara accept to be advised afterwards a snakebite, as the IRD researcher has shown. However, abounding cases are not reported, accustomed the adversity of admission to bloom centres & the common assurance on acceptable medicine. That bulk accordingly does not reflect the whole cardinal of envenomings & specialists accede it to represent alone amid one-third & one-fifth of the absolute amount. This new abstraction appropriately indicates up to & a bisected actor victims per year. Mortality consistent from a chaw -probably additionally underestimated- can ability 7 000 & limb amputations ambit from 6 000 to over 14 000 per year.

Although abounding one-off studies accept bigger estimates, no all-embracing analysis had ahead been conducted. Aiming to accomplish up for the gaps, the IRD specialist performed a meta-analysis, a analytical analysis of absolute correct works, demography the representativeness1 & adverse of their after-effects in to account. He accordingly advised in accomplished detail 100 or so correct articles, appointment affairs & analytic letters appear amid 1970 & 2010. This absolute analysis yielded considerable added reliable abstracts for the cardinal of patients who were victims of snake bites.
 

These studies additionally accent the situations best acceptable to favour bitter incidents: 95% of bites action in rural areas, decidedly in plantations. The bodies best at accident are accordingly agronomical workers. & in Africa, agronomics is the capital bread-and-butter activity.

Urban areas are not absolved from such incidents either, similar if the accident of bites is from ten to twenty times lower than in rural settings. In some regions therefore, in the backing season, envenomings represent over 10% of hospital admissions.

In the best alarming African snake species, types of acidity can be distinguished: the neurotoxic acidity of the cobras & mambas, & the hemorrhagic & baleful blazon of the vipers -including the ocellated carpeting viper, the best boundless in the savannah. In added words, the aboriginal blazon causes respiratory paralysis, which can annihilate the victim by amazement amid one & 6h afterwards the bite. The additional induces oedema & necroses in the limbs additional drain which can show baleful in aloof a few days. The able analysis charcoal intravenous bang of antivenom as apace as obtainable afterwards the bite, in modification to abrogate the baneful substance.

The availability of these antidotes is currently belted and alone 10% of antagonistic snake bites are treated. Shortage of abstracts has meant that up to now the botheration remained underestimated by the bloom authorities. Moreover, these treatments are cher and the continuance of their aftereffect is abbreviate -3 to five years- which discourages bodies from befitting up banal supplies. In such situations, it is difficult to ascertain the budgets and admeasure money for snakebite administration and for atmosphere up the all-important schemes for awareness-building amid healthcare professionals. Without training for such medical cadre in the use of antivenoms, analysis can accord black results, after black bodies from application them. These alternation reactions abate demand. Manufacturers again alternate afore bearing antivenoms they cannot be abiding of selling. In the finish this action diminishes their accessibility. The cardinal of doses awash has been disconnected by0 in Africa back the 1980s, falling from 200 000 per year to beneath than twenty 000 in the aboriginal 2000s.

This analysis presents some astute abstracts for needs in antivenom. The researcher's after-effects announce the charge for an estimated 500 000 doses anniversary year. The bloom authorities of these countries can now use these abstracts as a base for convalescent the affection of bloom affliction provided for victims and for acclimation a counting and surveillance process.

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Genital Herpes More Virulent in Africa Than in US

Herpes simplex virus (HSV) is shown while hiding out in a neuron, a stage know as latent infection. The HSV latency RNA (red) was detected by hybridization, and neurons are stained in green.

Strains of animal canker in Africa are far added baneful than those in the United States, advisers at Harvard Medical School document, a arresting acumen in to a accepted ache with important implications for stopping HIV manual in a arena staggered by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The advisers accustomed at this award by testing abrasion archetypal strains of the ache adjoin vaccine candidates. All vaccines were far added active in abating the U.S. strain.

The claiming lies in formulating either a distinct vaccine that protects adjoin both types of strains of the animal canker virus or altered vaccines. The vaccine extreme forth in development  it is headed for analytic trials in about a year works best adjoin the U.S. isolates of canker canker two, but it additionally protects class animals from the African viral strains if accustomed in five-fold-higher doses.

The advisers say identification of the backdrop of the African bacilli would available the aperture to developing a added almighty vaccine adjoin an infection now aggressive in sub-Saharan Africa. This is important, they say, because animal canker patients are added available to HIV/AIDS infection, as the available sores appropriate of canker accommodate a aerial absorption of allowed beef that are targeted by HIV.

This research, which appears online on April 15 in The Journal of Communicable Diseases, is led by David M. Knipe, the Higgins Assistant of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics & carnality armchair of that administration at Harvard Medical School, & Clyde Crumpacker, assistant of anesthetic at Harvard Medical School & a physician in analysis of communicable ache at Beth Israel Deaconnes Medical Middle. Their collaborators are above Knipe lab associates Timothy E. Dudek, currently of the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, & Ernesto Torres-Lopez, now of the Universidad Autonoma in Monterrey, Mexico.

Live-virus vaccine

In southern Africa, infection ante amid adults for animal canker are awfully aerial -- from 80 percent to 90 percent in some groups compared to not very beneath than twenty percent in the United States.

In evolutionary terms, the canker bacilli are actual elderly. They accept acid their talents to become able parasites in humans, usually constant for plenty of years while causing bound or no ache affection -- although they can be baleful in immunocompromised bodies & in newborns.

The canker virus that causes accustomed algid sores, canker canker one, is present in about 70 percent of the U.S. population. These catlike bacilli adumbrate in assumption beef but can appear over & over again, bidding again algid abscessed outbreaks.

Despite decades of research, there is no commercially available vaccine for herpes. But Knipe says their ancestor vaccines are actuality activated in animals, & such vaccine has been accountant to the Italian biologic close Sanofi Pasteur.

According to Knipe, beastly tests authenticate acutely that the strains of canker virus apparent in sub-Saharan Africa are added baneful than the canker canker two virus strains apparent in the United States. That aberration suggests that an able vaccine will apparently accept to be accustomed to bodies in Africa in beyond or added common doses. So far, says Knipe, after-effects of beastly tests are heartening.

Part of the affiance in this project lies in the able adventitious that a vaccine adjoin canker canker two can advice abate the appulse of HIV/AIDS in southern Africa. Epidemiological studies accept apparent that animal canker infection is associated with a three-fold access in the accident of HIV infection.

"If the amount of canker infection can be reduced, it is believable the amount of HIV/AIDS infection will additionally appear down, conceivably abbreviation the afterlife rate," says Knipe.

Knipe's access to vaccine development is based on application abnormal, live, aberrant bacilli to activate cautious allowed responses. These disabled bacilli cannot accumulate central beef or account appropriate disease, but they do accommodate considerable of the appropriate proteins and molecules bare to agitate apprehension by a advantageous allowed technique. Knipe's action is to activate a able allowed acknowledgement after causing disease.

"The applicant vaccine, ACAM529, is beneath development by Sanofi Pasteur, and beneath the accepted plan will access appearance I analytic testing in 2012," said Jim Tartaglia, a aggregation respresentative. Appearance I testing involves giving vaccine to a few animal volunteers and watching for signs of toxicity. Trials for ability appear later.

Although it's been difficult to actualize a vaccine for animal herpes, vaccines adjoin a carefully accompanying canker virus -- varicella zoster virus, the account of craven pox and shingles -- accepted acknowledged and are now broadly used. This gives acumen for optimism about a animal canker vaccine.

This analysis was adjourned by the National Institutes of Health.

The advisers do attention that, historicallyin the past, well-executed trials of Acyclovir, an effective, safe, antiviral biologic for herpes, did curtains the accident of animal canker infections but bootless to anticipate manual of HIV-1 in African abstraction participants.

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Diet That Combines Cholesterol-Lowering Foods Results in Greater Decrease in LDL Than Low-Saturated Fat Diet, Study Finds

Persons with aerial cholesterol who accustomed counseling apropos a diet that accumulated cholesterol-lowering foods such as soy protein, basics and bulb sterols over 6 months accomplished a greater abridgement in their low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels than individuals who accustomed admonition on a low-saturated fat diet, according to a abstraction in the August 24/31 affair of JAMA.

Efforts accept been fabricated to advance the adeptness of accepted comestible assay to abate serum cholesterol through the admittance of specific foods or aliment apparatus with accepted cholesterol-lowering properties, apart or in aggregate (dietary portfolio), according to accomplishments admonition in the article. The abiding aftereffect of such diets compared with accepted comestible admonition has not ahead been assessed.

David J. A. Jenkins, M.D., of St. Michael's Hospital and the University of Toronto, and colleagues conducted a multi-center balloon to actuate whether admonition to eat a comestible portfolio consisting of foods accustomed by the U.S. Aliment and Drug Administration as associated with blurred serum cholesterol accomplished decidedly greater allotment decreases in LDL-C levels compared with a ascendancy diet at 6-month follow-up. The ascendancy diet emphasized aerial cilia and accomplished grains but lacked apparatus of the portfolio diet, which emphasized comestible assimilation of bulb sterols, soy protein, adhesive fibers, and nuts. The abstraction included 351 participants with hyperlipidemia from 4 accommodating bookish centers beyond Canada (Quebec City, Toronto, Winnipeg, and Vancouver) randomized amid June 2007 and February 2009 to 1 of 3 treatments.

Participants accustomed comestible admonition for 6 months on either the low-saturated fat ameliorative diet (control) or a accepted or accelerated comestible portfolio, for which counseling was delivered at altered frequencies. Accepted comestible portfolio complex 2 dispensary visits over 6 months and accelerated comestible portfolio complex 7 dispensary visits over 6 months.

In the adapted intention-to-treat assay of 345 participants, the all-embracing abrasion amount was not decidedly altered amid treatments (18 percent for accelerated comestible portfolio, 23 percent for accepted comestible portfolio, and 26 percent for control).

The advisers begin that the change in LDL-C levels from the alpha of the abstraction to anniversary 24 in the ascendancy diet were -3.0 percent or -8 mg/dL. In the accepted and accelerated comestible portfolio interventions, the corresponding allotment changes were -13.1 percent or -24 mg/dL and -13.8 percent or -26 mg/dL for LDL-C levels.

"Percentage LDL-C reductions for anniversary comestible portfolio were decidedly added than the ascendancy diet. The 2 comestible portfolio interventions did not alter significantly. Among participants randomized to one of the comestible portfolio interventions, allotment abridgement in LDL-C on the comestible portfolio was associated with comestible adherence," the authors write.

"In conclusion, this abstraction adumbrated the abeyant amount of appliance accustomed cholesterol-lowering foods in combination. We accept this access has analytic application. A allusive 13 percent LDL-C abridgement can be acquired afterwards alone 2 dispensary visits of about 60-and 40-minute sessions. The bound 3 percent LDL-C abridgement empiric in the accepted diet is acceptable to reflect the capability of the baseline diet and accordingly suggests that beyond complete reductions in LDL-C may be empiric back the comestible portfolio is assigned to patients with diets added cogitating of the accepted population," the authors write.

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Chili Peppers Can Ease Sinus Problems

Hot chili peppers are accepted to accomplish bodies "tear up," but a new abstraction led by University of Cincinnati abhorrence researcher Jonathan Bernstein, MD, begin that a nasal aerosol absolute an additive acquired from hot chili peppers (Capsicum annum) may advice bodies "clear up" assertive types of atrium inflammation.

The study, which appears in the August 2011 edition of Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, compares the use of the Capsicum annum nasal spray to a placebo nasal spray in 44 subjects with a significant component of nonallergic rhinitis (i.e., nasal congestion, sinus pain, sinus pressure) for a period of two weeks.

Capsicum annum contains capsaicin, which is the main component of chili peppers and produces a hot sensation. Capsaicin is also the active ingredient in several topical medications used for temporary pain relief. It is approved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and is available over the counter.

"Basically, we concluded that the spray was safe and effective on non-allergic rhinitis," Bernstein says of the study which showed that participants who used a nasal spray with Capsicum reported a faster onset of action or relief, on average within a minute of using the spray, than the control group.

Non-allergic rhinitis is an upper respiratory condition not caused by allergies but instead caused by environmental factors such as weather, household chemicals or perfumes; however, there are some people who have no triggers or don't know what triggers are causing the inflammation, Bernstein says.

This is the first controlled trial where capsaicin was able to be used on a continuous basis to control symptoms. It is considered a significant advance, "because we don't really have good therapies for non-allergic rhinitis," says Bernstein, adding that in previous trials the ingredient was too hot to administer without anesthesia.

The study was funded by Dynova Laboratories. Bernstein, a professor in the division of immunology, allergy and rheumatology at the UC College of Medicine, is a paid consultant for Dynova.

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As A Natural Drug, Abscisic Acid, Fights Inflammation

Researchers had reported some of the key molecular events in the immune system in mice, which contribute to inflammation-related diseases, including participation in a particular molecule on the surface of the body's immune cells to fight infection. Now they have stepped forward and revealed the mechanism by which natural medicines interact with abscisic acid in this protein, called peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma, inhibits inflammation and subsequent disease.

"In previous work, our research group has shown that abscisic acid has beneficial effects on various conditions and diseases, including inflammation associated with obesity, diabetes, atherosclerosis and inflammatory bowel disease," said Josep Bassaganya-Riera, Associate Professor of Immunology at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, chief of the Nutritional Immunology Group and the Division of Molecular Medicine Institute of the cyberinfrastructure, and principal investigator of the study. "An idea on how to abscisic acid reduces inflammation in these cases is that binds to a specific region of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma, a binding site is known as the ligand binding domain, which is expected to and exercise medicine to take effect. Our results show that this is not the case and for the first time, we have shown that abscisic acid operates independently of the ligand binding domain of the receptor. "

"This is important because it suggests the existence of new therapeutic targets or other modes of action to address the effects of abscisic acid in the immune system," said Riera-Bassaganya. "Drugs that bind to the ligand binding domain receptor gamma peroxisome proliferator-activated Avandia is associated with serious cardiovascular side effects. However, the mechanism of peroxisome proliferator newfound alternative-activated receptor gamma activation abscisic acid does not appear to be associated with adverse side effects, which represents a promising new therapeutic avenue. "

"The results of this research illustrates the synergy that can result from a combination of experimental and computational methods to characterize therapeutic targets," said David Bevan, assistant professor of biochemistry at Virginia Tech. "Using molecular modeling, we identified a potential site for binding abscisic acid lanthionine synthetase C-2, as the protein, a protein necessary for the beneficial effects on the health of abscisic acid. We also have, again by using docking studies to reveal the reasons for the lack of direct involvement of abscisic acid in activated receptor gamma peroxisome proliferator, which was experimentally validated assays ligand binding. "

"Lanthionine synthase C-2, as the first step in a path that leads to the activation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma in immune cells by abscisic acid," said Raquel Hontecillas, assistant professor of immunology at ' Virginia Bioinformatics Institute and one of the principal investigators of the study. "We have also shown that abscisic acid affects the expression of several genes involved in signaling inflammation, and cell metabolism, providing further evidence of possible points of intervention in the treatment of inflammation and autoimmune diseases."

Researchers are still hoping to locate some of the new drug candidates in the molecular network of the immune response, as they continue to dissect how the natural substance abscisic acid reduces damage from inflammation. In addition, new knowledge about how plants abscisic acid will be used to develop new classes of drugs that target the same alternative channel of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma activation, a potentially safer than the use of Drugs targeted direct connection to the receiver.

The study was funded by the approval number 5R01AT004308 the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health, the European Commission has published the number 224 836, Ramon y Cajal Program, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Contract No. HHSN272200900040C, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Contract No. HHSN272201000056C, and funds for Nutritional Immunology and Laboratory of Molecular Medicine.

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Behavior Problems Make Faster Progress Through Puberty

"Past assignment has advised the timing of boyhood and apparent the abrogating after-effects of entering boyhood at an aboriginal age, but there has been little assignment done to investigate the furnishings of tempo," said Kristine Marceau, a Penn State alum apprentice and the study's primary author. "By application a atypical statistical apparatus to accompanying archetypal the timing and bounce of boyhood in children, we present a abundant added absolute account of what happens during boyhood and why behavior problems may arise as a aftereffect of activity through these changes."



Children who go through adolescence at a faster amount are added acceptable to act out and to ache from all-overs and depression, according to a abstraction by advisers at Penn State, Duke University and the University of California, Davis. The after-effects advance that primary affliction providers, agents and parents should attending not alone at the timing of adolescence in affiliation to kids' behavior problems, but additionally at the bounce of adolescence -- how fast or apathetic kids go through puberty.

The aggregation -- led by Elizabeth Susman, the Jean Phillips Shibley Assistant of Biobehavioral Bloom at Penn State -- created a different nonlinear mixed-effects archetypal that congenital abstracts from 364 white boys and 373 white girls that had been calm as allotment of the National Institute of Child Bloom and Animal Development's Study of Aboriginal Child Care and Youth Development, which had an antecedent ambition of free how variations in the ambiance are accompanying to children's development. The abstracts included advice about breast and pubic beard development in girls and animal and pubic beard development in boys as adjourned by nurses, as able-bodied as weight and acme for both boys and girls. The abstracts additionally included advice on internalizing and externalizing behavior problems as arise by boys' and girls' parents or added caregivers, and chancy animal behaviors as arise by the kids themselves.

"We begin that beforehand timing for girls was accompanying to a bulk of behavior problems, and we additionally begin that a faster bounce of development apart predicted those aforementioned sorts of botheration behaviors," said Marceau. "Although timing and bounce both predicted behavior problems in girls, timing and bounce weren't accompanying to anniversary other. For boys, though, we begin a able accord amid timing and tempo. For example, we begin that boys who accept after timing accumulated with slower bounce apparent the atomic bulk of acting out and externalizing problems."

The team's after-effects will arise in the September affair of the account Developmental Psychology.

Why does activity through boyhood at a faster bulk chronicle to alien behavior problems and centralized all-overs and depression?

"The anticipation is that back the above changes of boyhood are aeroembolism into a beneath bulk of time, adolescents don't accept abundant time to acclimate, so they're not emotionally or socially accessible for all the changes that happen," said Marceau. "This is the account that originally was attributed alone to aboriginal timing, but we advance that the aforementioned affair additionally is accident if the bulk of boyhood is compressed."

According to Susman, timing and bounce of boyhood alter badly beyond kids. "Children are acutely acute to how fast or apathetic added kids are activity through puberty, and that may accord to both the internalizing depression-type problems or the externalizing problems of acting out," she said.

In the future, Susman affairs to appraise the furnishings of bounce of boyhood on after women's bloom problems. "One of the things that has anxious me over the years is the accord amid aboriginal boyhood and after women's bloom problems," she said. "Specifically, there is some adumbration that aboriginal timing of boyhood relates to added changeable cancers, with the speculated apparatus actuality estradiol. If you're an aboriginal maturer, you accept a best acknowledgment to this hormone. The catechism is whether the bounce of boyhood has agnate implications for women's health."

The National Institute of Child Bloom and Animal Development, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Aging and the National Science Foundation adjourned this research. Added authors on the cardboard accommodate Nilam Ram, abettor assistant of animal development and ancestors studies and psychology, Penn State; Renate Houts, postdoctoral associate, Duke University; and Kevin Grimm, accessory assistant of psychology, University of California, Davis.

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Green Tea Is Effective in Treating Genetic Disorder and Types of Tumors, Study Suggests

Glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) is found in all living organisms and is responsible for the digestion of amino acids. In animals, GDH is controlled by a complex network of metabolites. For decades, it was unclear why the animals necessary regulations, but not to other realms. This was partially answered by the group that congenital hyperinsulinism fatal Stanley / hyperammonemia (HHS), is caused by the loss of part of this regulation. In this disorder, patients (usually children) to meet consumption of protein by the secretion of insulin, severe hypoglycemia, which often leads to death.

Using the atomic structures to understand the differences between animals and plants, Dr. Smith and his colleagues found that two compounds found naturally in green tea are able to compensate for this genetic disease in remote areas off GDH as compounds Green tea is administered orally. Smith Laboratory also used X-ray crystallography to determine the atomic structure of these compounds in green tea is associated with the enzyme. With this atom of information, waiting to be able to change these natural compounds to design and develop better drugs.

Interestingly, two other research groups have confirmed and extended these findings to show that the GDH blockage with green tea is very effective in killing the two different types of tumors, glioblastomas, an aggressive form of brain tumor, and disease tuberous sclerosis complex, a genetic disease causing non-malignant tumors to grow on a number of organizations.

"While these compounds in green tea is very safe and consumed by millions every day, they have several properties that make them difficult to use than the real drugs. However, our ongoing collaboration with Stanley Lab shows that there are natural compounds from plants that can control this deadly disease and the atomic structure in hand, can be used as a basis for further development of pharmaceuticals. "

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Safer Sex: Study Examines Sexual Communication in Transgender Community

"The capital acumen for this abstraction is the actuality that we are seeing affidavit of devastatingly aerial HIV prevalence ante in the transgender community," says Dr. Kami Kosenko, an abettor assistant of advice at NC State & advance columnist of the study. "The HIV prevalence amount is beneath than one percent for the accepted U.S. population. But for the transgender population, the HIV prevalence amount is estimated to be as aerial as 60 percent in above city areas. Although these are alone estimates, they are troubling."

The appellation transgender is acclimated to accredit to individuals who are afflictive with their assigned gender identity, including individuals who authorize a gender character that does not accede with acceptable gender roles. For example, the appellation generally applies to individuals whose gender presentation differs from their biological sex.

These aerial HIV prevalence ante accept led to efforts from researchers, public-health admiral & others to advice the transgender association do a bigger job of communicating about safer sex practices. Kosenko's analysis stems from "a charge to bigger accept how transgender individuals allege about sex, to accomplish audible that safer sex educational efforts targeting this association are effective."

Kosenko addendum that analysis on animal advice in accepted is limited. Historically, sex advice analysis has authentic safer sex discussions as of things: award out about a partner's animal history; or aggravating to actuate a accomplice to accomplish use of a condom.

What Kosenko begin is that advice about safer sex, at atomic in the transgender community, is far added complicated.

After interviewing 41 transgender individuals from about the country, Kosenko found, for example, that aloofness is a cogent issue. Transgender individuals charge accomplish often-difficult decisions about back & how to acknowledge their biological sex to abeyant ally -- because that adumbration carries the accident of rejection, or alike agitated behavior.

"This abstraction shows that compassionate animal advice goes above attempts to allege about animal history," Kosenko says. "It additionally entails the difficult adjustment of aggravating to accept if a animal accomplice is actuality forthcoming."

But added allegation from the abstraction may be applicative above the transgender community. Kosenko begin that transgender individuals -- like bodies in added groups -- try to barometer animal bloom risks by speaking to abeyant ally about their animal history & safer sex practices. But Kosenko additionally begin that these talks can be debilitated if a accomplice is actuality backbiting about his or her accomplished -- a altercation that is apparently faced by those alfresco the transgender association as well.

In addition, the abstraction begin that speaking about safer sex is about over application condoms. For example, in the transgender community, some bodies go through the adjustment of accepting activated for sexually transmitted diseases with a accomplice & again accepting caught sex if both analysis abrogating for HIV. The ally additionally authorize rules for animal action alfresco the relationship. For example, are alfresco relationships adequate if condoms are used?

"I anticipate these allegation will advice us accommodate safer sex beat accoutrement for the transgender association that are based in point of fact," Kosenko says. "And affluence of what they present in this abstraction applies to animal advice alfresco of the transgender association as well. Pushing for bodies to consistently use condoms may be impractical. Perhaps it would be added able to advance a broader analogue of safer sex practices."

A cardboard anecdotic the abstraction is appear in the June affair of the Journal of Communication. The analysis was adjourned by the National Institute of Mental Health.

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Weight Loss Improves Sexual Health

Researchers led by Professor Gary Wittert, MBBch, MD, FRACP, FRCP, of the University of Adelaide advised 31 adipose men with blazon two diabetes over 8 weeks. The men accustomed either a meal replacement-based low-calorie diet or a low-fat, high-protein, reduced-carbohydrate diet assigned to abatement assimilation by 600 calories a day.

In adipose men with blazon two diabetes, after-effects start that, a bashful weight accident of 5%, resulted in a accelerated changeabout of animal and urinary issue, aural 8 weeks, and the advance connected out to 12 months.

"This important cardboard supports beforehand publications that affairs is accordant and can absolutely affect animal function" declared Irwin Goldstein, Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Animal Medicine. "At a time back articulate drugs are actual popular, it can now be apparent that weight accident is an important non-pharmacologic ameliorative action in abating arrect and urinary action and cardio-vascular health. Obesity is an epidemic, and such abstracts reinforce the absolute accord amid bistro right, accident weight, bigger animal action and abolishment and all-embracing cardiovascular health.

"Our allegation are constant with the affirmation that not alone arrect function, but additionally lower urinary amplitude affection are a brand of cardio-metabolic risk," Wittert notes. "The affirmation that advance can be accomplished by bashful weight loss, in correct back a diet is of aerial comestible quality, is of obtainable bloom acceptation in framing obtainable bloom letters that bell with men."

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Healthy life with laughter

Various studies have cited if the laughter is healthy. The fact is that the activity of laughter that has similarities with the stationary jogging or running in place.

When someone laughs will stimulate contractions of the muscles of the abdomen or lower abdomen, shoulders and chest that can enhance the work of the heart.

Because oxygen inhalation increased more, laughing will also provide for gas at the whole body tissues. laughter also stimulates the brain to produce hormones catecholamines that function to stimulate the production of "beta endorphins".

This hormone is said to have a structure that resembles the opium that can eliminate pain and pain in the body and lead to happiness and a sense of comfort. The difference is, this hormone does not cause addiction. This is why laughter can be a panacea for various types of diseases, ranging from increasing the body's resistance to viruses, indigestion, high blood pressure, heart, and even diabetes.

A source said if the energy laughed uproariously for 20 seconds at a jog for three minutes. Laughing one minute = 45 minutes of exercise a sweat. Even in the work of the heart, laughing 20 seconds to have an effect comparable to rowing or jogging for three minutes. Laughing perfectly turned out involving about 80 muscles. The resulting vibration makes the heart beat faster, raises blood pressure and oxygen produced in conjunction with the acceleration of breathing. After laughing, blood pressure returned to normal, reduced stress hormones with increased immunity.

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Sports Lower Risk of Brain Tumors

BENEFITS exercise for health, who would deny it? Unfortunately, though already know the benefits, but many people are still hard to exercise regularly. The flurry of work is usually a reason. An American study again reinforces the benefits of exercise, especially for adults. Results of research conducted by Cancer Center of America (U.S. National Cancer Institute) concluded that exercise in adulthood can reduce the risk of brain tumors (gliomas).

Steven C. Moore and colleagues conducted a study of 500 000 respondents consisting of men and women aged 50 to 71 years. Those who at age 15 to 18 years of diligent exercise, like cycling, swimming, running, and the road has a 36 percent lower risk of glioma.

 
The results of other studies is the higher one's body, the higher the risk of tumors or brain cancer. Moore says that every additional 10 centimeters in height, also increased risk of glioma. The study said the risk of glioma is highly correlated with "energy balance" during the brain growth.The man was tall and mean levels of IGF-1 growth factor is high also in childhood. IGF-1 factor that causes cell cultures occurs much more. "Any fact that increases the high trigger the growth of cancer cell division," said Moore. (Koran SI / SI Newspapers / NSA)

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Save Your Kidney bro!!!

What is imagined in your mind if the doctor sentenced to kidney failure? Life seemed to end, to survive had to perform a kidney transplant or dialysis in the hospital for life. Kidney is one of the vital organs for humans. During this time it was thought inappropriate that the kidneys produce urine only. Though there are many functions that play a pair of organs shaped like kidney beans and the amount of approximately fist of this.
Among others, regulate acid-base balance and body fluids, and regulate blood pressure and metabolism (formation) of bone. In addition, the kidneys also produce hormones eritroprotein (EPO) which sends signals to the bone marrow to make red blood cells.
 

If impaired renal function, or even fail, not only decreases quality of life, lifelong treatment must also take no small cost. In these conditions the kidney function decreases to less than 15 percent of waste materials more useful to the body can not be removed and eventually poison the body. Kidney increasingly smaller (shrink) and there is no medicine that can restore it as before.

To replace him, the patient should perform renal replacement therapy (TPG) through a kidney transplant or dialysis. Kidney transplants were performed by transplanting a kidney healthy people (donors) to the body of the patient (recipient), so patients can live a normal life without having to do dialysis. TPG is the most expensive compared to other therapies. This is due to the difficulty of looking for kidney donors, and drugs that should be taken pascatransplantasi too expensive.

"Looking for kidney donors is very difficult. In fact, people can live a normal life with only one kidney," says kidney disease experts from RS PGI Cikini Jakarta, Dr. stumps D Situmorang SpPD KGH Dipl / MMed Sci.
He said the success or failure of the transplant was measured from two things, namely the success of surgical and medical. After successfully transplanted the donor kidney to a recipient, then see whether the kidneys are able to function properly? "If no match can occur hyperacute rejection," he says, adding that the best donors are family members of first-line, ie father, mother, or siblings. "It deals with the suitability of the type of tissue factor, the appropriate tissue typing it, the greater the level of success," he added.

Meanwhile, hemodialysis (HD) or known to be using a dialysis machine. With pumps (pump), blood flowed out of the body to dialiser (artificial kidney) to be cleaned. Cleaning fluid (dialysate) flows into the artificial kidney (dialiser) which serves to clean the toxins and remove fluid from the body through the process of diffusion and ultrafiltration. Once cleaned, the blood flowed back into the body. HD should be performed in hospitals, with a frequency of 2-3 times a week and the process takes 4-5 hours.

In addition to these two therapies, the patient can also choose the dialysis membrane of the abdominal cavity through which a continuous or CAPD (Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis). In this case that serves as a filter membrane or membranes are the peritoneum (the lining of the abdominal cavity) so that CAPD is known to wash the blood through the stomach.

The process begins by inserting the dialysis fluid into the abdominal cavity through a catheter tube that has been implanted in the abdominal cavity. The technique makes use of the abdominal cavity membranes to filter and cleanse the blood. When the dialysis fluid in the abdominal cavity, toxic substances in the blood will be cleaned and excess water will be withdrawn. This process is done four times a day and is practical because it can be done alone at home by the patient after a trained first. The time needed for each turn of the liquid is 30 minutes.

Symptoms Come Not Knowingly
In modern times, many diseases that come with no complaints. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) usually develops slowly and chronic nature with few symptoms at first. "Sometimes it feels no symptoms at all, knew the time of diagnosis was kidney failure," says kidney specialist from Cikini Hospital, Prof. Dr. Endang Susalit SpPD DR-KGH. "There are many causes of kidney failure. If in Indonesia mostly because of diabetes, hypertension, kidney stones and infections," said he.

Although difficult to detect, if impaired renal function will usually cause complaints such as swelling of the body starting from the legs, rough skin, nausea and vomiting, taste disturbance and decreased appetite.
In addition, of weakness and fatigue, shortness of breath, dizziness, pallor and anemia. In some patients also experience itching, decreased libido, dilated veins in the neck, cramps, convulsions, and even unconscious (coma). Complaints may vary between patients with one another.

For that the need for the examination to kidney specialists (nephrologist) to prevent or slow the decline in kidney function by controlling the causes of disease or comorbidities. Do a healthy and balanced diet to control the intake of protein, sodium, and potassium according to the recommended therapy.
In addition, regular exercise is also important to do, and certainly do everything according to the instructions and recommendations from doctors. (Koran SI / SI Newspapers / FTR)

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Too Old Woman in Front of Computer Make Quick Wrinkles

Living in the digital age makes many women spend much time in front of the computer. According to the study, it can accelerate the aging process, among others, characterized by skin wrinkles.

Phenomenon called 'the face of the computer' is often found in career women who spend hours in front of the computer. Even housewives can experience it even when it was addicted to the Internet at home.

A British cosmetic surgeon, Dr. Michael Prager has been proven in a study. Botox specialist doctors found such a phenomenon experienced by most customers and the number of women who work in offices.

"We're tense and serious at the computer, generally the women would sometimes frowned even unconscious," said Dr. Prager.

If it lasts for hours and routine every day, it will accelerate the formation of frown wrinkles. The lines were long faces will be formed on the forehead and other facial skin.

Quoted from the Telegraph, Sunday (26/09/2010), women are too long in front of computers are also susceptible to developing symptoms of 'turkey neck'. So named because of sagging skin on the neck like a turkey skin.

According to Dr Prager, these symptoms are caused by a sitting position that are rarely changed in a very long period of time. As a result, shortened neck muscles and the skin down and then form a kind of gelambir.

As for the deal, Dr. Prager had a surefire tips that is by putting a small mirror next to the monitor screen. The hope women can quickly recognize when his face began to frown, and then trying to find ways to be more relaxed.

Various ways can be done as a relaxation. Apart from a short break in between working with computers and a walk, doing gymnastics facial muscles is also quite effective against the effects of premature aging.

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