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Common blood pressure medications linked to low risk of total knee replace
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Beta-blockers may slow the progression of OA by reducing inflammatory mediators involved in cartilage degeneration – which may provide clues to the development of new treatment approaches for OA.
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Researchers give fresh insight into treatment of blindness
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Scientists have discovered a way to utilize nanotechnology to construct a 3D ‘scaffold’ for growing cells from the retina, paving the path for potential new treatments for a prevalent cause of blindness.
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Researchers discover new approach to prevent causes of vision loss
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Researchers have uncovered a previously unknown contributor to damaging blood vessel formation in the eye, which may lead to new treatments for blinding macular degeneration and other frequent causes of vision loss.
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Study reveals how Huntington's disease affects different neurons
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Neurons in the striatum, a part of the brain affected by Huntington's disease, are among the most severely affected. The degeneration of these neurons contributes to patients' loss of motor control, which is one of the disease's major symptoms.
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Researchers use 3D bioprinting to create eye tissue
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Scientists used patient stem cells and 3D bioprinting to produce eye tissue that will advance understanding of the mechanisms of blinding diseases. The research team from the National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health, printed a combination of cells that form the
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Research suggests blinding eye disease linked with cardiovascular disease
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Patients with a specific form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of blindness in the United States, are also highly likely to have either underlying heart damage from heart failure and heart attacks, or advanced heart valve disease, or carotid artery disease associate
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Synthetic peptides may suppress formation of harmful amyloid aggregates
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
In Alzheimer's disease, the degeneration of brain cells is linked to formation of toxic protein aggregates and deposits known as amyloid plaques. Similar processes play an important role also in type 2 diabetes. A research team under the lead of the Technical University of Munich has now dev
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Study: Krabbe disease causes degeneration of neurons directly
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 14 (ANI): According to a new study, the gene defect underlying Krabbe disease causes degeneration of neurons directly, independent of its effects on other cell types. The discovery represents a new mechanism of action for the mutant gene, presenting a more accurate pi
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Krabbe disease causes degeneration of neurons directly: Study
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 6 (ANI): According to a new study, the gene defect underlying Krabbe disease causes degeneration of neurons directly, independent of its effects on other cell types. The discovery represents a new mechanism of action for the mutant gene, presenting a more accurate pictu
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Study: Patients with muscle degeneration can imporve mobility by cycling r
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Hamilton (Ontario) [Canada], April 16 (ANI): Regular cycling can greatly improve mobility in patients with myotonic dystrophy (MD), which is a genetic disease that causes muscle degeneration.
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Regular cycling can improve mobility in patients with muscle degeneration:
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Hamilton (Ontario) [Canada], April 12 (ANI): A new study led by McMaster University has found that regular cycling can greatly improve mobility in patients with myotonic dystrophy (MD), which is a genetic disease that causes muscle degeneration.
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Loss of neurons makes Alzheimer's patients drowsy: Study
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
San Francisco (California) [US], April 5 (ANI): According to a recent study, the drowsiness that many Alzheimer's patients experience are caused not by a lack of sleep, but rather by the degeneration of a type of neuron that keeps us awake. It also confirmed that the tau protein is behind th
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