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Discovery of Agile Molecular Motors Could Aid in Treating Motor Neuron Diseases Over the last several months, the labs of Yale Goldman, MD, PhD, Director of the Pennsylvania Muscle Institute at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Erika Holzbaur, PhD, Professor of Physiology, have published a group of papers that, taken together, show proteins that function as molecular motors are surprisingly flexible and agile, able to navigate obstacles within the cell. These observations could lead to better ways to treat motor neuron diseases..More... |
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| UF scientists reverse muscle contractions in mouse model of muscular dystrophy University of Florida scientists have used gene therapy to eliminate disabling muscle contractions in a mouse model of the most common form of adult-onset muscular dystrophy. The inherited disorder, known as myotonic dystrophy, is found in one of every 8,000 people and causes skeletal muscles to lose the ability to relax once they contract. More...
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Gatekeeping: Penn Researchers Find New Way to Open Ion Channels in Cell Membranes Using an enzyme found
in the venom of the brown recluse spider, researchers at the University
of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered a new way to open molecular
pores, called ion channels, in the membrane of cells. The research team
- Zhe Lu, MD, PhD, Yajamana Ramu, PhD, and Yanping Xu, MD, PhD of the
Department of Physiology at Penn - screened venoms from over 100 poisonous
invertebrate species to make this discovery. More... |
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Long-Term Ibuprofen Treatment After Brain Injury Worsens Cognitive Outcome In An Animal Model Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that chronic ibuprofen therapy given after brain injury worsens cognitive abilities. These findings - in a preliminary, animal-model study - have important implications for traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients who are often prescribed such nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) as ibuprofen for chronic pain. The findings appear online this month in Experimental Neurology. Because several studies in animals and humans have shown that long-term More...
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Sri Lanka Water Supply Still Suffers Effects of 2004 Tsunami Sri Lanka's coastal drinking
water supply continues to suffer the effects of the December 2004 tsunami,
which caused major death and destruction in the region. Much of the island
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PHYSICIANS AND ENGINEERS POOL RESOURCES TO PREVENT STROKE A professor at the University of Houston and his research students are working with physicians and scientists at the Methodist Neurological Institute (NI) on new technology to help identify which brain aneurysms More... |
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