Blood Weekly articles from June 2004

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Prestorage plasma filtration activates the complement cascade.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Prestorage plasma filtration activates the complement cascade. According to recent research in Sweden, "Complement activation and generation of pro-inflammatory cytokines occur during storage of...

Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 can spread directly between lymphocytes.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 can spread directly between lymphocytes. "Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) varies little in sequence compared with human immunodeficiency virus type 1...

Blastocyst-derived cell is source of neural derivates for differentiation study.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Blastocyst-derived cells are a good source of neural derivates for differentiation studies. Data indicate that cells derived from the inner cell mass (ICM) have "a clear tendency to differentiate...

Direct cell contact influences fate of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Direct cell contact influences the fate of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells. "Adult bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) can differentiate into various cell types of mesenchymal...

Human neural progenitor cells possible source for treatment of Parkinson disease.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Human neural progenitor cells are a possible source for treatment of Parkinson disease. "Human neural progenitor cells (HNPCs) can be expanded in large numbers for significant periods of time to...

Family history predicts alcohol relapse after liver transplantation.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Family history predicts alcohol relapse after liver transplantation. "Alcoholic liver disease has become a major indication for liver transplantation in the United States. Factors that predict...

Allergic fungal rhinosinusitis occurs in 6% of chronic rhinosinusitis.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Allergic fungal rhinosinusitis occurs in 6% of chronic rhinosinusitis. "Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is a disease very frequently encountered by otorhino-laryngologists. According to Ponikau et al.,...

Unknown mechanism of action involved in expression of cytokines in mast cells.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An unknown mechanism of action is involved in the expression of cytokines in mast cells. Scientists in Japan reported, "Olopatadine hydrochloride (olopatadine) is an anti-allergic drug that...

APP contributes to inflammatory condition in Alzheimer disease.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Amyloid precursor protein contributes to the inflammatory condition in Alzheimer disease. "Alzheimer's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by extracellular deposition...

Enhanced iNOS expression associated with progression of CAL in Kawasaki disease.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Enhanced iNOS expression is associated with progression of CAL in Kawasaki disease. "Nitric oxide (NO) serves many vasoprotective roles, but the massive release of NO causes arterial wall...

Patients with moderate thrombocytopenia do not require treatment.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Patients with moderate thrombocytopenia do not require treatment. "To define usefulness and response to therapy and outcome in adults with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) in clinical...

Fas-mediated apoptosis enhanced in ageing human keratinocytes.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Fas-mediated apoptosis is enhanced in ageing human keratinocytes. "Cellular senescence and apoptosis are two metabolically related and seemingly synergistic processes that are involved in tissue...

$14.9M in grants to fund research for blood cancer treatments.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society announced 70 Career Development Program grants totaling $14.9 million. The grants, which allow scientists at different stages of their careers to devote themselves...

Blood donors in Lagos, Nigeria, misinformed regarding safety of donating blood.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Blood donors in Lagos, Nigeria are misinformed regarding the safety of donating blood. "A total of 542 blood donors from Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (Lasuth), Ikeja, were interviewed...

Dalbavancin superior to vancomycin for bloodstream infections, data shows.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Vicuron Pharmaceuticals Inc. (MICU) announced the presentation of phase II data demonstrating superior efficacy of dalbavancin, the company's next-generation injectable glycopeptide antibiotic, compared...

Pennington scientists turn human fat cells into bone.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Calling human fat a new and more abundant source of adult stem cells, Pennington Biomedical Research Center scientists have witnessed human fat stem cells convert into bone when slipped under the skin...

Scientists show adult blood stem cells can transform into brain cells in people.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- University of Florida (UF) scientists have discovered that male blood stem cells evolved into male brain cells in three women who underwent bone marrow transplantation to treat cancer. The...

Minimal residual breast cancer detected using CK19 and EGF-R primers in RT-PCR.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Minimal residual breast cancer was detected using cytokeratin 19 and epidermal growth factor receptor primers in an RT-PCR assay. "Breast cancer cells pose a difficult target for detection due to...

Biologics company announces closing of reorganization and cash infusion.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hemosol Corp. (HML) announced that the reorganization transaction involving Hemosol, its securityholders, and MDS, Inc., has been completed effective May 1, 2004. Under the arrangement, Hemosol has...

TALL-104 cells injure glioma cells by apoptotic and necrotic pathways.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- TALL-104 cells injure glioma cells by apoptotic and necrotic pathways. "TALL-104 is a human leukemic T cell line that expresses markers characteristic of both cytotoxic T lymphocytes and natural...

HDCT improves cure rate of young children with medulloblastoma and stPNET tumors.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- High-dose chemotherapy improves cure rate of young children with medulloblastoma and supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumors. "In order to improve the dismal prognosis of patients younger...

Hepatitis B virus genotypes have no bearing on outcomes after liver transplants.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hepatitis B virus genotypes have no bearing on outcomes after liver transplants. "Hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotypes have been associated with specific patterns of disease and response to antiviral...

Good management of hepatitis C requires thorough pretreatment evaluation.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Good management of hepatitis C requires thorough pretreatment evaluation. "Chronic hepatitis C virus infection is a common and serious disease. Although an estimated 2.7 million persons in the...

Novel C. rodentium type III secreted proteins reduce colon hyperplasia.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Novel Citrobacter rodentium type III secreted proteins reduce hyperplasia in the colon. "Citrobacter rodentium is a member of a group of pathogens that colonize the lumen of the host...

Company provides two NIH agencies with open access to cloning technologies.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Invitrogen Corp. (IVGN), a provider of essential life science technologies for disease research and drug discovery, announced that it has entered into agreement with the National Human Genome Research...

Mononuclear phagocytes are a vehicle for cryptococcal dissemination.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Mononuclear phagocytes are a vehicle for cryptococcal dissemination. "Secreted phospholipase B (PLB) activity promotes the survival and replication of Cryptococcus neoformans in macrophages in...

Cytokines IL-8 and IL-10 are prognostic factors in burn sepsis.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cytokines IL-8 and IL-10 are prognostic factors in burn sepsis. Scientists in Turkey report, "Cytokines have been considered as important participants in the post-burn pathophysiological process....

Myeloid progenitor genes affected by latent CMV infection identified.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The effect of latent CMV infection on myeloid progenitor cell gene expression has been characterized. "Herpesviruses establish lifelong latent infections in their hosts," virologists in Australia...

No new cases detected following dengue 3 epidemic in Havana.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- No new cases were detected following a dengue 3 epidemic in Havana. "In June 2001, dengue transmission was detected in Havana, Cuba; 12,889 cases were reported," wrote scientists in Cuba. ...

"Good guy" blood cells are now suspects in heart disease, diabetes.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Until recently, the story on platelets was pretty simple: tiny blood cells, with limited sophistication because they had no nucleus, and their claim to fame was to be a first-responder to a wound site,...

Hepatitis C virus may be a diabetes trigger in liver transplant recipients.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hepatitis C virus may be a diabetes trigger in liver transplant recipients. According to published research from the United States, "epidemiological studies suggest diabetes mellitus (DM) may be an...

Cirrhotic nodules sometimes resemble liver cancer on computed tomography.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cirrhotic nodules sometimes resemble liver cancer on computed tomography. According to a study from Turkey, "viral hepatitis B, post-hepatitic cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the...

Tc-99m-GSA scintigraphy complements liver function analysis before hepatectomy.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Tc-99m-GSA scintigraphy complements liver function analysis before hepatectomy. According to recent research published in the journal Hepatology Research, "the clinical significance of and...

Novel hemoperfusion method attenuates dialysis-related amyloidosis.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A novel hemoperfusion technique attenuates amyloidosis and its symptoms in dialysis patients. In a recent study, scientists in Japan "investigated the clinical efficacy of direct hemoperfusion with...

Somatostatin receptor subtype 2 represents cell differentiation marker in tumors.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Somatostatin receptor subtype 2 may represent a cell differentiation marker in tumors. According to researchers writing in the journal Digestive and Liver Disease, "The presence of cellular...

Vasopressin release reduced in ovariectomy restored by oestradiol replacement.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Vasopressin release reduced in ovariectomy was restored by oestradiol replacement. "The set points for vasopressin release in response to increasing plasma osmolality and hypovolemia alter with...

Trypsin IV is a novel agonist of protease-activated receptors 2 and 4.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Trypsin IV is a novel agonist of protease-activated receptors 2 and 4. "Certain serine proteases signal to cells by cleaving protease-activated receptors (PARs) and thereby regulate hemostasis,...

Biotechnology company reports first quarter 2004 financial results.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- StemCells, Inc., (STEM) reported its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2004. The company reported a loss of $2,770,000, or $0.07 per share, for the quarter ended March 31,...

Blood-processing company reports increased revenues.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Haemonetics Corp. reported fourth quarter and fiscal year-end 2004 financial results, which exceeded company guidance. For the quarter, net revenues were $98 million, a 21% increase over...

Enteral absorption of CsA good in very small children following liver transplant.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Enteral absorption of CsA is good in very small children following liver transplant. Scientists from the University of Hamburg reported, "Pharmacokinetic studies in adult and pediatric liver...

Pathogenetic role for BCL6 translocation in B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- There is a pathogenetic role for BCL6 translocation in B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma. "Chromosomal translocation affecting the 3q27 band, where the BCL6 gene is localized, is one of the most common...

Beta-catenin regulates the gene of unique novel matrix metalloproteinase-26.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Beta-catenin regulates the gene of unique novel matrix metalloproteinase-26. "There are several unorthodox features, which distinguish the non-redundant and unique novel matrix metalloproteinase-26...

Caenorhabditis elegans eukaryotic IFF-1 required for germ cell proliferation.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Caenorhabditis elegans eukaryotic IFF-1 is required for germ cell proliferation. "Eukaryotic initiation factor 5A (eIF-5A) was originally isolated as a translation initiation factor. However,...

Ultraviolet light exposure prevents graft-versus-host disease in animal study.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have proposed using ultraviolet light as a possible method for preventing graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) in bone marrow and stem cell...

Nonmyeloablative regimens reduce incidence of GVHD better than myeloblative.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Nonmyeloablative regimens reduce incidence of graft-versus-host disease better than myeloblative therapies. Scientists at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center "evaluated the influence of...

HIV-1 viral load increase confers virus escape risk via recombination diversity.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- HIV-1 viral load increase confers a risk of virus escape via recombination diversity. "Genetic recombination is believed to assist HIV-1 diversification and escape from host immunity and antiviral...

IKK2 inhibitor alleviates kidney and wasting diseases in murine AIDS model.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- IKK2 inhibitor alleviates kidney and wasting diseases in a murine human AIDS model. "Wasting and renal diseases are frequent complications of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) infection and are...

RH116 differentially regulates cell growth, death and HIV-1 replication.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- RH116 differentially regulates cell growth, programmed cell death and HIV-1 replication. "In an effort to define novel cellular factors regulating human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)...

HLA-B*5701 and Hsp70-Hom M493T alleles necessary for abacavir hypersensitivity.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- HLA-B*5701 and Hsp70-Hom M493T alleles are necessary for development of abacavir hypersensitivity in HIV-1-infected patients. According to research in Australia, "Susceptibility to a clinically...

Some para-sulfonato-calix-[n]-arenes possess hemolytic properties.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Some water-soluble para-sulfonato-calix-[n]-arenes possess hemolytic properties. According to recent research published in the International Journal of Pharmaceutics, "In this paper, we describe the...

Rituximab rapidly effective for patients with cold and warm autoantibodies.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Rituximab rapidly ameliorates hemolytic anemia in patients with both cold and warm autoantibodies. According to a case report from Canada, a "71-year-old male with severe autoimmune hemolysis with...

Risk factors for hepatitis C in Alaska natives reported.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers report the epidemiology and risk factors for hepatitis C in Alaska natives in a recent issue of the journal Hepatology. According to scientists in the United States, "Large cohorts of...

HCV compartmentalization in circulating B cells and monocytes is common.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- HCV compartmentalization in circulating B cells and monocytes is common. "Differences in the composition of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) quasispecies between plasma and blood mononuclear cells (BMC)...

High viral loads and diverse viremia characterize pediatric HCV infection.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- High viral loads and diverse viremia characterize pediatric HCV infection. "Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is uncommon in children, and its natural history is still unknown." The aim of this...

MMF does not decrease viral load in chronic HCV liver transplant recipients.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Mycophenolate Mofetil does not decrease viral load in chronic hepatitis C virus liver transplant recipients. "It has been suggested that Mycophenolate Mofetil (MMF) may have an antiviral effect in...

CCR5Delta32 risk factor for biliary lesions following liver transplantation.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- CCR5Delta32 is a risk factor for biliary lesions following liver transplantation. "Ischemic-type biliary lesions are a major complication following orthotopic liver transplantation. They occur in up...

Changing IVIG preparations increases risk of adverse effects.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Changing intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) preparations can lead to an increased risk of adverse effects. IVIG therapy "has represented a major advance in the treatment of patients with primary...

Estrogen receptor beta localized to mitochondria.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Estrogen receptor beta is localized to mitochondria. Scientists at the University of North Texas reported, "Estrogen receptors (ERs) are believed to be ligand-activated transcription factors...

Fas, Fas ligand, Bcl-2 and TGF beta 2 not associated with glioma prognosis.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Fas, Fas ligand, Bcl-2 and TGF beta 2 expression are not associated with glioma prognosis. "Several studies have recently demonstrated that human gliomas express Fas, Fas ligand (FasL), Bcl-2 and...

Immunoreactivity higher to non-pathogenic strains of Acanthamoeba.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Immunoreactivity is higher to non-pathogenic strains of Acanthamoeba. "Free-living amoebae of the genus Acanthamoeba are the causative agents of Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) and granulomatous...

Isoenzyme inhibitors have therapeutic potential to target inflammatory cells.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Isoenzyme inhibitors have therapeutic potential to target inflammatory cells. "Lymphocytes play an important role in allergic inflammation and have been implicated in the pathogenesis of equine...

Liver transplant recipients benefit from rabbit antithymocyte therapy.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Liver transplant recipients benefit from rabbit antithymocyte therapy. According to a study from the United States, "induction therapy with T-cell depleting drugs in liver transplantation is...

Modification of BCR tonic signals activates receptor editing in immature B cells.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Modification of BCR tonic signals activates receptor editing in immature B cells. "Maturation of B lymphocytes strictly depends on the signaling competence of the B cell antigen receptor (BCR)....

Novel transcriptional regulator AhR contributes to suppression of IgM production.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Novel transcriptional regulator AhR contributes to the suppression of IgM production. "Transcriptional regulation of the Ig heavy chain gene involves several regulatory elements, including the 3'...

Scientist addresses theory on mind-body connection to controlling immune system.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Through years of painstaking research on the immune system's response to the often-fatal illnesses of sepsis and septic shock, Kevin J. Tracey, MD, of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Research...

Tyrosine-mediated inhibitory signals contribute to CTLA-4 function.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Tyrosine-mediated inhibitory signals contribute to CTLA-4 function. "The ability of CTLA-4 to inhibit T cell activation may be either negatively or positively regulated by a critical tyrosine at...

UEC response to bacteria regulate immune protection in female reproductive tract.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Uterine epithelial cell response to bacteria regulates immune protection in the female reproductive tract. Writing in the journal Infection and Immunity, scientists in the United States report,...

Factors involved in vertical T. cruzi transmission identified.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Several factors involved in vertical transmission of T. cruzi infection have been identified. According to recent research from Belgium, the "conditions and mechanisms of congenital transmission of...

Bone marrow VEGF levels parallel the phases of chronic myeloid leukemia.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Bone marrow VEGF levels parallel the phases of chronic myeloid leukemia. According to researchers in Austria, "we studied expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in paraffin-embedded...

Hepatocyte growth factor used to prevent CD95-mediated hepatocellular damage.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hepatocyte growth factor may be used therapeutically to prevent CD95-mediated hepatocellular damage in liver diseases. According to recent research from Germany, "CD95 (APO-1/Fas)-mediated...

Centrilobular alterations signal higher rejection odds after liver allografts.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Centrilobular alterations signal higher rejection odds after liver allografts. "The histologic diagnosis of acute hepatic allograft rejection is usually based upon the identification of...

Blastic NK-cell-like lymphoma with TCR gene rearrangement reported.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A case of blastic NK-cell-like lymphoma with TCR gene rearrangement has been reported. "Blastic natural killer (NK) cell lymphoma is very rare but has been recently classified as a distinct entity...

Plasmodium falciparum peptides bind to human hepatocytes.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Sporozoite and liver stage antigen Plasmodium falciparum peptides bind specifically to human hepatocytes. According to recent research from Colombia, "Sporozoite and Liver Stage Antigen (SALSA)...

Transesophageal Doppler predicts cardiac output during hemodynamic changes.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Transesophageal Doppler (TED) devices can accurately predict cardiac output during massive hemodynamic changes. TED monitoring "has been considered a noninvasive and accurate alternative to...

Cell therapy companies sign letter of intent to merge.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- White Knight SST, Inc., (WKGT) chairman and chief executive officer John Stanton announced the signing of a 60-day non-binding letter of intent to merge PowerCerv and Morphogenesis, Inc. The...

Nurse cell cytoplasm differs between two Trichinella species.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The nurse cell cytoplasm differs between two Trichinella species. "The nurse cell in the cyst of Trichinella spiralis comprises at least two kinds of cytoplasm, derived from muscle or satellite...

Altered bone microenvironment selects for highly aggressive myeloma cells.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Altered bone microenvironment selects for highly aggressive myeloma cells. According to recent research published in the journal Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, "in multiple...

Allogeneic bone marrow transplantation can cure myelodysplastic syndrome.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) is safe and effective in children with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), researchers say. According to a study from the United States, "The purpose of...

Interim results reported on Theralux trial.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Celmed BioSciences, a subsidiary of Theratechnologies (TH), active in the field of oncology, announced the interim results of an ongoing open-label clinical study using its ex vivo photodynamic therapy,...

Eliminating iodine deficiencies: goal for 2005.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A significant percentage of people in the Americas suffer from nutritional disorders linked to iodine deficiency, and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is seeking to eliminate this problem by...

PPARs targets for obesity and related disorders.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors are targets for obesity and related disorders. "Obesity and the related disorders of dyslipidemia and diabetes (components of syndrome X) have become...

Weight loss is critical to effective management of obesity hypertension.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Weight loss is critical to the effective management of obesity hypertension. "The association between obesity and hypertension is well documented, although the exact nature of this relation remains...

In utero exposure to maternal smoking induces nicotine withdrawal in neonates.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In utero exposure to maternal smoking induces nicotine withdrawal in neonates. "Maternal drug use during pregnancy is associated with fetal passive addiction and neonatal withdrawal syndrome....

Results of trial evaluating use of eculizumab presented at hematology meeting.
June 3, 2004... 2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (ALXN) announced that Peter Hillmen, MB ChB, PhD, consultant hematologist of The General Infirmary at Leeds, Leeds, U.K., presented the cumulative 1 year results of an...