Archives - Friday 30 May 2008
Blocking Innate Immune Signaling Clears Alzheimer Pathology in Mice
Published on Friday 30 May 2008 - 23:42 - http://www.medscape.com/Blocking transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta and downstream Smad2/3 signaling in peripheral macrophages can markedly reduce Alzheimer-like pathology in mice, new research shows. Reuters Health...
Double Whammy For Wick Hill At Microscope ACE Awards
Published on Friday 30 May 2008 - 23:40 - http://press-releases.techwhack.com/Wick Hill wins ‘Distributor Channel Programme’ of the year and is highly commended in ‘Security Distributor of the Year’ category at MicroScope ACE Awards 2008 Woking, Surrey: 27th May 08 -...
PMC-Sierra & Alzheimer Society of B.C. Forget Me Not Golf Tournament Raises More Than $525,000
Published on Friday 30 May 2008 - 22:23 - http://press-releases.techwhack.com/For the ninth consecutive year, PMC-Sierra and the Alzheimer Society of B.C. hosted the successful “Forget Me Not” Golf Tournament on May 15, 2008 at the Northview Golf and Country Club in Surrey,...
Terrel Owens’ Mission Off the Field
Published on Friday 30 May 2008 - 19:43 - http://glickreport.blogs.foxbusiness.com/Dallas Cowboys fan? Terrel Owens fan? Think he’s arrogant? Think he’s a superstar? He’s been called all that and more. This morning he joined me on Money for Breakfast to discuss...
Alzheimer's brain plaques cleared in mice
Published on Friday 30 May 2008 - 19:25 - http://www.reuters.com/NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Protein accumulations, or plaques, characteristic of Alzheimer's disease can be eliminated from the brains of mice, researchers report, by encouraging scavenger immune...
Immune cells 'vacuum up' Alzheimer's clumps
Published on Friday 30 May 2008 - 19:00 - http://www.newscientist.com/Blocking a gene in mice allows white blood cells to enter the brain and destroy the amyloid plaques that cause Alzheimer's, suggesting a new approach to the disease
In Laboratory Mice, Immune System Cells From The Bloodstream Entered The Brain And Devoured Plaque That Is Believed To Play A Major Role In Alzheimer
Published on Friday 30 May 2008 - 19:00 - http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/Interrupting a signaling pathway in certain immune system cells in laboratory mice had the opposite effect researchers expected but opened the possibility of a new approach to treating Alzheimer's...
Protein fibrils can be alternative plastics
Published on Friday 30 May 2008 - 17:53 - http://www.sciencecentric.com/Amyloid deposits in tissues and organs are linked to a number of diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, type 2 diabetes, and prion diseases such as BSE. However, amyloids are not just...
KC police search for missing elderly man
Published on Friday 30 May 2008 - 17:16 - http://www.kansascity.com/Kansas City police want the public’s help finding a man who has been missing since Thursday and is believed to be in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. J.S. Smart was driving a...
Elderly woman drugged
Published on Friday 30 May 2008 - 16:36 - http://www.caymanmama.com/Atlanta, Georgia (CaymanMama.com) — Five years ago on a cold November night, Kelli Phillips along with her husband was traveling from Norman, Oklahoma to the Kansas City in Missouri to see...
