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Study provides new insights into opposite effects of RNase treatment
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Multiple organ inflammation is a hallmark of systemic autoimmune disorders, which can have disastrous effects on patients. Treatments for these disorders are desperately needed. In some clinical trials, RNase therapies appear promising, but not in all. The causes of this variability have bee
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Researchers give more insight into association between autoimmunity, schiz
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Autoantibodies, or immune system-produced proteins that may function against one's own body, have been linked to reports of schizophrenia. A minority of schizophrenia patients had autoantibodies that targeted neurexin 1, a "synaptic adhesion protein," according to a study published last mont
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Researchers find how Type 2 diabetes medicine treats autoimmune disorders
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
The treatment of autoimmune diseases may be possible with a drug that is routinely used to treat type 2 diabetes, according to researchers.
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Type 2 diabetes medicine may treat autoimmune disorders: Study
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Researchers at Swansea University discovered that a medicine frequently used to treat type 2 diabetes might possibly be used to treat autoimmune illnesses.
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Metropolis Healthcare Limited launches the 'NextGen HLA' High Resolution T
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 17 (ANI/SRV): Metropolis Healthcare Limited, India's leading diagnostic service provider announces the launch of the "NextGen HLA" Typing Test. Powered by the complex molecular technology 'Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)'. Metropolis' NextGen HLA Typing i
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Study reveals white blood cells role in clearing out dead liver cells
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The removal of liver cells that have undergone apoptosis, in which cells are intended to die in a controlled manner, maybe the function of a type of white blood cell typically linked to immunological responses to foreign particles.
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Researchers reveal role of polyphenols in regulating inflammatory immune r
Updated : 3 years ago IST
PCB2DG, an anti-inflammatory polyphenol, inhibits glutamine absorption by targeting and directly interacting with the main glutamine transporter protein, alanine serine cysteine transporter 2 (ASCT2). This reduction in intracellular glutamine accumulation in CD4+ T cells also inhibits the pr
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Study offers first glimpse of how many suffer from previously unknown illn
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Even though the syndrome is a rare condition, it has a significant death rate, with up to 50 per cent of sufferers--mostly men--passing away within five years of diagnosis
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Scientists use paleogenomics to elucidate 10,000 years of immune system ev
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, Universite Paris Cite, the CNRS and the College de France have used paleogenomics to trace 10,000 years of human immune system evolution. They analyzed the genomes of more than 2,800 individuals who lived in Europe over the past ten millennia. They were
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Study reveals changes in cholesterol levels in cell membrane
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Despite its health risk when its blood levels are too high, cholesterol is a vital part of the membrane that surrounds every human cell. Researchers revealed new insights into how cells achieve cholesterol homeostasis within the cell membrane.
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Researchers discover enzyme inhibitor that can treat cancer
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
University of Illinois at Chicago researchers have discovered a small molecule that controls an immune process that is crucial in the development of cancer and autoimmune disorders.
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Cardiovascular disease risk increases if you have autoimmune disorders
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Leuven [Belgium], August 28 (ANI): In high-income areas like Europe and the United States, 10% of the population has been identified as having one or more autoimmune illnesses.
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