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Medical Xpress / Satiety's little helper: Protein that supports appetite-regulating protein identified
A protein essential to the human body for managing energy and regulating appetite relies on a partner protein, according to new research, and the findings could help researchers better understand genetic obesity.
Medical Xpress / Kidney controls calcium flow with a network of tight junctions, finds study
Researchers have identified a previously unknown mechanism by which the kidney precisely controls calcium excretion. The claudin-14 protein plays a key role in this process: It displaces the paracellular transport protein ...
Medical Xpress / Structure of dopamine-releasing neurons relates to the type of circuits they form for smell-processing, study finds
Closely related subtypes of dopamine-releasing neurons may play entirely separate roles in processing sensory information, depending on their physical structure.
Medical Xpress / Blood test can detect single lung cancer calls using infrared technique
A UK research team has developed a pioneering blood test that could change the way lung cancer is detected and monitored.
Medical Xpress / Evaluating the impact of heat-inactivated bacteria on age-related inflammation
The process of aging is associated with a decline in immune functions and persistent low-level inflammation. Now, researchers from Japan have discovered a strain of Lentilactobacillus capable of preventing and even reversing ...
Medical Xpress / Stroke and dementia: Combating loss of function in small vessels of the brain
A new study identifies molecular factors that promote small vessel disease—and an active drug that can restore impaired vascular functions.
Medical Xpress / Blood analysis shows whether brain cancer treatment is working
The effectiveness of chemotherapy for brain cancer, done with a technique that opens the blood-brain barrier, can be monitored by blood draw, researchers at Northwestern Medicine and the University of Michigan have shown.
Medical Xpress / How the brain dynamically reconfigures networks during speech processing
How does the brain manage to catch the drift of a mumbled sentence or a flat, robotic voice? A new study led by researchers at Reichman University's Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology and the Dina Recanati School of Medicine ...
Medical Xpress / Medical patients face hidden time burdens: An overlooked cost of cancer care
Treatments for serious illnesses like cancer can be enormously time-consuming. Yet most research on cancer-related time burdens has relied on hospital administrative data and medical records—information that captures appointment ...
Medical Xpress / High stakes of early immune development revealed—and a potential probiotic fix
Antibiotics are powerful treatments that have saved countless lives over the course of decades. New findings from Scripps Research have identified a way to preserve healthy immune development even when infants need antibiotic ...
Medical Xpress / 'Tubuloids' offer a realistic platform for modeling chronic kidney disease
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a progressive condition that begins with tissue damage and gradually leads to loss of kidney function. The condition, which affects about 10% of the global population, is difficult to study ...
Medical Xpress / New video dataset captures human dynamics of care, advancing AI for health care
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have launched Observer, the first multimodal medical dataset to capture anonymized, real-time interactions between patients and clinicians. Much like the medical drama The Pitt, ...
