January 17, 2019
…from the often toxic, inflammatory environment of a spinal cord injury and helps guide axons through the lesion site completely.” Additionally, the circulatory systems of the treated rats had penetrated inside the implants to form functioning networks of blood vessels, which helped the neural stem cells survive. “Vascularization is one…
May 9, 2019
…disease is a chronic inflammatory disease of the gastrointestinal tract, the symptoms of which include persistent diarrhea, internal bleeding and chronic pain. In the United States, 201 of every 100,000 individuals suffer from the disease, and these numbers are steadily rising. The incidence and prevalence of Crohn’s disease are increasing…
November 21, 2019
…loneliness is associated with inflammatory biomarkers and impaired immune function, strong and supportive social ties are associated with a whole host of positive health effects, she said. Seeding deeper conversations – at the holiday table and beyond One way Heyman likes to promote good conversations is to seed them. This…
January 16, 2020
…such as arthritis or inflammatory bowel disease. “We want to understand from Mother Nature what works and how we can use that information to develop new therapeutics for diseases, from cancer to diabetes to cardiovascular disease,” said Bode. “The treatment for some illnesses may have been right in front of…
March 26, 2020
…awareness that exaggerated or inflammatory stories are “part of the problem rather than the solution.” On a more positive note, Taylor says he believes we will see a reduction in racism as Americans begin to understand that the virus does not discriminate. “It’s going to become everyone’s problem. In some…
July 23, 2020
…reducing or replacing the inflammatory response with a restorative one. Patients rest in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber equivalent in size to a small school bus for approximately two hours during which they inhale 100 percent oxygen for approximately 90 minutes. Study participants receive up to 10 treatments, occurring twice a…
September 17, 2020
…the exception of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, a rare but dangerous respiratory condition. For the flu, unvaccinated young children are at higher risk of severe illness, as are adults age 65 and older, pregnant women and persons with underlying medical conditions, such as chronic heart disease, disorders of the…
September 20, 2011
Two scientists at the University of California, San Diego have been awarded New Innovator Awards from the National Institutes of Health for research projects “that challenge the status quo with innovative ideas that have the potential to propel fields forward and speed the translation of research into improved health for…
October 5, 2011
A study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine may lead to a way to prevent the progression, or induce the regression, of lung injury that results from use of the anti-cancer chemotherapy drug Bleomycin. Pulmonary fibrosis caused by this drug, as well as Idiopathic…
February 21, 2012
University of California, San Diego researchers have developed a new injectable hydrogel that could be an effective and safe treatment for tissue damage caused by heart attacks.
