POSTS TAGGED AS inflammation

Mapping Rheumatoid Arthritis

RA- early diagnosis with imaging
Oxygenated blood absorbs infrared light in a way (glows brighter) that reveals inflammation indicative of rheumatoid [MORE]

Stem Cells in Energy Metabolism and Inflammation

Mesenchymal stem cells
Mesenchymal stem cells exist in bone marrow, cord blood, fat tissue, tooth buds, and amniotic fluid—where they initiate [MORE]

“Regulator of Cartilage Growth and Differentiation”

Arthritic Knee
Thinking there might be an injectable therapy instead of joint replacement in some cases of arthritis, researchers at the [MORE]

Atherosclerosis-on-a-Chip Models Disease

Atherosclerosis on a Chip
Hardening of the arteries seems like the perfect subject for microfluidics modeling and that is what researchers [MORE]

Smart Hydrogel

Nitric Oxide Ge
Quoting directly: “At the Institute for Basic Science in Daejeon, South Korea, scientists have developed a hydrogel that [MORE]

Lab Grown Cartilage from Stem Cells for Hip Prosthetics

Joint pain, especially from arthritis, seems to be part of the fate of aging. Artificial prosthetics offer some relief, but [MORE]

Implantable Device Against Inflammatory Diseases

Neuromodulation
In a multi-center European trial, an implantable vagus nerve stimulator, made by SetPoint Medical (Valencia, CA), has been found to [MORE]

Anti-Inflammation Nanoparticles for Osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis of the Knee
In mouse studies, researchers at Washington University of St. Louis School of Medicine have shown that nanoparticles [MORE]

Why the Rise in Autoimmune Diseases?

Gut Microbiome
The hygiene hypothesis has been public health theory since the polio epidemics of the 1940’s; it holds that carefully [MORE]

Indium Tin Oxide Biosensor for Haptoglobin Inflammation Indicator

Haptoglobin is a glycoprotein involved in the body’s antibacterial and anti-inflammatory responses, but also implicated in an autoimmune disorder of [MORE]

Microparticles to Repair Heart Damage

TECH-DIAGRAM-COUR
Using microparticles made of biodegradable polyglycolic acid, which has an electrical affinity for inflammatory monocytes, c (Elmhurst, IL) Cour Pharmacetical [MORE]

Sugar-Based Tracing Agent for PET

Since 1976, when medical scientists at the University of Pennsylvania first used fluorodeoxyglucose (deoxyglucose with a fluorine 18 [MORE]

Our Second Genomes

For every human cell of the body, ten microbial cells exist in or on the body.  The interaction of these [MORE]

Biodegradable Nanoparticles Deliver Anti-Inflammatory Drugs

A multicenter research group in New York and Boston has shown that an anti-inflammatory peptide called “Ac2-26,” can be [MORE]