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Study reveals antibody therapy for treating liver disease
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
There is presently no medication available to treat non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, which affects many patients with type 2 diabetes and can lead to other serious liver illnesses. A therapeutic candidate for the treatment of fatty liver has been identified in a study headed by Karolinska
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Researchers find hereditary factors in new type of eating disorder
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
A twin study exploring this relatively new type of eating disorder found that hereditary factors had a significant impact on ARFID. The study was conducted by researchers at Karolinska Institutet.
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Study discovers link between poor co-parenting, depression in fathers
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
According to a new study from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet, men who have bad co-parenting relationships in the months following delivery are more likely to be depressed when their children are infants.
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Study reveals poor co-parenting association with depression in dads
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
According to a new study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, fathers are more likely to feel depressed when their children are toddlers if their co-parenting relationships are poor in the months following birth.
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Study reveals same genes may cause risk of cardiometabolic diseases, demen
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A significant increase in the risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease is associated with various cardiometabolic disorders, such as diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. Researchers from the Karolinska Institutet have recently conducted a twin study that raises the possibility that dementia
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Cellular messengers improve cancer therapy: Research
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Nano-sized membrane bubbles known as extracellular vesicles activate the immune system in mice and seem to render their tumours sensitive to a type of immunotherapy drug called a checkpoint inhibitor. This is according to a new study published in Cancer Immunology Research by researchers at
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Study suggests cancer therapy can be improved by cellular messengers
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The findings of a new study suggest that nano-sized membrane bubbles known as extracellular vesicles activate the immune system in mice and seem to render their tumours sensitive to a type of immunotherapy drug called a checkpoint inhibitor.
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Researchers identify origins of serious illnesses in children
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The origins of the serious cancer-like disease LCH have been identified by researchers from Karolinska Institutet in collaboration with Karolinska University Hospital. The findings presented in Science Immunology may lead to new, targeted treatments.
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Research reveals origins of Cancer-like condition in children
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Researchers from the Karolinska Institutet and the Karolinska University Hospital have pinpointed the causes of the severe cancer-like condition called Langerhans' Cell Histiocytosis (LCH) which majorly attacks youngsters.
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Patients with treatment-resistant depression are at higher risk of early d
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Patients with treatment-resistant depression have a 23 per cent higher risk of death than other depressed patients. They also have twice as much outpatient care and spend three times the number of days in inpatient care. These are findings of a new study published in JAMA Psychiatry by resea
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Study explores how common immune cells might prevent intestinal healing
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Karolinska Institutet researchers have demonstrated that B lymphocytes, on which the efficient operation of the immune system depends, can occasionally cause more harm than good since their numbers sharply increase following intestinal trauma, impeding the healing process.
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Research finds how common immune cells can prevent intestinal healing
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
B cells are critical to the proper functioning of the immune system. However, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have shown that they can sometimes do more harm than good, as their numbers greatly increase after bowel damage, preventing the tissue from healing. The results, which are prese
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