A discovery offers new hope in the battle against pulmonary fibrosis, a debilitating lung condition that progressively makes it harder for patients to breathe. Scientists have pinpointed proteins in ...

A discovery at Duke-NUS Medical School offers new hope in the battle against pulmonary fibrosis, a debilitating lung ...

Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered new mechanisms underlying cellular adhesion and repair, findings that ...

Researchers Identify Key Mechanism in Human Lung Development Oct. 31, 2024 — Researchers have shown that the IGFBP3 protein plays a relevant role in human lung development. The results of the ...

Vasoconstriction - decreases blood flow to periphery ... pulse may not be palpable 78º - 75ºF Pulmonary edema, cardiac and respiratory failure,death. Death may occur before this temperature is reached ...

The hypothyroid population is characterized by significant volume changes, initiating a volume-dependent, low plasma renin activity (PRA) mechanism of BP elevation. The incidence of salt ...

Enzyme mechanisms are the chemical transformations, and the steps within them, generated by enzymatic action on substrates. The mechanism of enzyme catalysis is similar in principle to other types ...

Lissencephaly is a severe neurodevelopmental disease often caused by mutations in the Dcx gene. Using a human cellular model of lissencephaly, the authors report that DCX restricts neuronal ...

However, human trials to date are limited to small physiologic studies of patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction (most with associated pulmonary hypertension) followed for ...

Lung cancer survival rates can be as high as 98% for certain cancers diagnosed in an early stage, and as low as 4% for those diagnosed with more aggressive cancers in advanced stages. Survival rates ...