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Michael2901
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/205005.php
"Article Date: 19 Oct 2010 Bioelectrical Signals Turn Stem Cells' Progeny Cancerous Biologists at Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences have discovered that a change in membrane voltage in newly identified "instructor cells" can cause stem cells' descendants to trigger melanoma-like growth in pigment cells. The Tufts team also found that this metastatic transformation is due to changes in serotonin transport. The discovery could aid in the prevention and treatment of diseases like cancer and vitiligo as well as birth defects..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/204999.php
"Article Date: 19 Oct 2010 'Moratorium On Studying And Treating Terminal Cancer Has Ended' - Genomic Systems Announcement Terminal metastatic cancer - the presently untreatable cause of the great majority of all cancer deaths - has now been effectively treated in three common fatal cancers in mice, according to an announcement by Genomic Systems, citing research published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/205132.php
"Article Date: 20 Oct 2010 The Major Component In Tumeric Enhances The Effect Of Chemotherapy In Suppressing Head And Neck Cancers Curcumin, the major component in the spice turmeric, when combined with the drug Cisplatin enhances the chemotherapy's suppression of head and neck cancer cell growth, researchers with UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center have found..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/205133.php
"Article Date: 20 Oct 2010 Study Shows Regional Anesthesia Improves Survival Rate In Patients With Malignant Melanoma A study presented at this year's American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting offers evidence that patients with malignant melanoma who undergo inguinal lymph node dissection with spinal anesthesia (a regional anesthetic) have a better prognosis than patients who undergo the same surgery with general anesthesia..". |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/205093.php
"Article Date: 20 Oct 2010 Bioelectrical Therapy For Cancer And Birth Defects? Stem cell therapies hold increasing promise as a cure for multiple diseases. But the massive potential of a healthy stem cell has a flip side, as faulty regulation of stem cells leads to a huge range of human diseases. Even before birth, mistakes made by the stem cells of the foetus are a major cause of congenital defects, and cancer is also caused by the body losing control of stem cell function. Guiding stem cells along the correct pathways and, where necessary, reversing their mistakes is the goal of everyone in this field. Now, Michael Levin and colleagues from Tufts University, Medford, MA, have identified a novel and readily modifiable signal by which an organism can control the behaviour of stem cell offspring. Their work is published in Disease Models & Mechanisms..." |
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijc.25546/abstract
"8 JUL 2010 Gamma-tocotrienol as an effective agent in targeting prostate cancer stem cell-like population Emerging evidence supports that prostate cancer originates from a rare subpopulation of cells, namely prostate cancer stem cells (CSCs). Conventional therapies for prostate cancer are believed to mainly target the majority of differentiated tumor cells but spare CSCs, which may account for the subsequent disease relapse after treatment. Therefore, successful elimination of CSCs may be an effective strategy to achieve complete remission from this disease. Gamma-tocotrienols (γ-T3) is one of the vitamin-E constituents, which have been shown to have anticancer effects against a wide range of human cancers. Recently, we have reported that γ-T3 treatment not only inhibits prostate cancer cell invasion but also sensitizes the cells to docetaxel-induced apoptosis, suggesting that γ-T3 may be an effective therapeutic agent against advanced stage prostate cancer..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/205244.php
"Article Date: 21 Oct 2010 Exploring The Role Of Vitamin D In Preventing Esophageal Cancer In a first-of-its-kind clinical trial, physicians at University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center who are Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researchers are exploring the role of Vitamin D in preventing esophageal cancer..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/205286.php
"Article Date: 21 Oct 2010 Reviving 'Tired' Immune Cells Gives Blood Cancer Treatment A Boost UK researchers have discovered a way of improving the effectiveness of bone marrow transplantation, a key treatment for many patients with blood cancer, by providing an extra 'boost' to the immune system..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/205393.php
"Article Date: 22 Oct 2010 Discovery Of A Very Promising Biological Marker For Cancer The follicle stimulating hormone, FSH, targets the human reproductive organs: the ovaries and testicles. In women, it stimulates maturation of ovarian follicles and production of oestrogens (via its action on granulosa cells). In men, it stimulates production of spermatozoa (via its action on the Sertoli cells). FSH receptor, which was the subject of the work carried out by the Inserm researchers, is normally only found in cells stimulated by FSH (granulosa cells in women and Sertoli cells in men). However, it is also present in very small quantities in the blood vessels of the ovaries and testicles...and this is what alerted the researchers..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/205401.php
"Article Date: 22 Oct 2010 Mechanism Discovered That Controls The Expression Of A Protein Involved In Numerous Cancers Researchers at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) of the Universite de Montreal have identified a new mechanism controlling the transmission of an abnormal signal at the origin of several cancers..." |
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