inflammation

Innate Immunity and Inflammation in Ageing: a Key for Understanding Age-Related Diseases

June 17, 2009

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The process of maintaining life for the individual is a constant struggle to preserve his/her integrity. This can come at a price when immunity…

The Immune System and the Impact of Zinc During Ageing

June 17, 2009

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The trace element zinc is essential for the immune system, and zinc deficiency affects multiple aspects of innate and adaptive immunity. There are remarkable…

Transcriptional Regulation of Inflammatory Pain and Hyperalgesia: NF-kB as a Lynchpin and Master Regulator.

June 17, 2009

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The milieu and array of inflammatory cells and inflammatory mediators are crucially involved in the genesis, persistence and severity of pain following trauma, infection or nerve…

Mechanisms of Immune Tolerance to Allergens

June 17, 2009

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Co-evolutionary development of the immune system together with infections and non-infectious environmental proteins (allergens) has generated biologically relevant thresholds and major directions to be…

What Are the Preferred Methods of Detecting Breast Cancer – A Review

June 15, 2009

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The most devastating loss of life from breast cancer impacts women between the ages of 30 and 50. For women between the ages of…

Supplemental Dietary Glutamine Reduces H. Pylori-Related Pathology

June 11, 2009

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Recent findings suggest that the amino acid glutamine reduces Helicobacter pylori-associated pathology in mice and may therefore have similar effects in humans with gastric…

UCLA Cancer Researchers First to Link Intestinal Inflammation with Systemic Chromosome Damage

June 10, 2009

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Comment: Researchers found that local intestinal inflammation induced DNA damage to lymphocytes of the peripheral blood circulating throughout the body. This means that chromosome…

Inhibition of Osteoblastic Bone Formation by Nuclear Factor-kappaB

June 8, 2009

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An imbalance in bone formation relative to bone resorption results in the net bone loss that occurs in osteoporosis and inflammatory bone diseases. Although…

Oregano Helps Stop Inflammation and Bone Degeneration

June 4, 2009

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Comment: Chronic inflammation is known to be associated with increased episodes of heart attacks and with such autoimmune disorders as diabetes, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis…

Glutamine Supplements Show Promise in Treating Stomach Ulcers

May 21, 2009

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Comment: Nearly 20 years ago, it was discovered that bacteria known as Helicobacter pylori were responsible for stomach ulcers. Since then, antibiotics have become…