Transplants of human neuronal cells derived from a tumor restored function in rats subjected to experimental stroke. Significantly, the cells were equally effective when frozen and then thawed prior to transplantation, suggesting a clinical potential as replacement therapy to reverse the deficits of stroke.
A new technique had been developed to treat nerve-related localized and widespread discomfort/pain -- Automated Twitch-Obtaining Intramuscular Stimulation (ATOIMS) -- performed with a battery-powered device that places a flexible, Teflon pin into trigger points in the muscle, inducing a self-healing cycle for pain relief.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center have shown that diagnostic accuracy of chest pain can be dramatically increased by using a clinical approach that combines the results of an echocardiogram with a simple blood test that measures a patient's troponin T, a protein released during cardiac cell injury.
Researchers working in a rodent model have succeeded in transplanting livers without the need for immunosuppressive drugs. In a scientific first, a gene therapy strategy was used to alter the donor liver prior to surgery so that the immune system of the recipient became permanently tolerant of the new organ. EMBARGOED: Jan. 28, 1998, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
Penn physicians will be participating in a national workshop coordinated by the NIH and FDA to define guidelines for use of pulmonary artery catheters in lieu of recent controversies associated with them.
Who will train today's medical students to become tomorrow's doctors and deal with the constantly-changing realities of health care? The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine has overhauled its curriculum and will begin to implement Curriculum 2000, beginning with the August 1997 class. Curriculum 2000 represents the first time a major medical school has revamped its entire four-year curriculum to better train students for the future of medicine as practicing physicians.
Three selected story ideas from the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center -- "Reconnecting After Spinal Cord Damage" (Michael E. Selzer, MD, PhD); "Serendipitously, HIV-Related Antibody In Hand" (James A. Hoxie, MD); and "Magnetic Attraction -- Towards a New Era in Treating Rh-Factor Incompatibility" (Donald L. Siegel, MD, PhD).
At rest, overweight African American women burn fewer calories than overweight Caucasian women, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center. The findings are among the first to suggest that biological factors may be partly responsible for higher rates of obesity in black women.
Small filamentous masses called Lewy bodies have long been observed in the neurons of people with Parkinson's disease. Many investigators consider the abnormal structures relatively unimportant in disease progression. Now, however, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center scientists have discovered that Lewy bodies may entrap life-sustaining cellular organelles in an important population of cerebellar cortex neurons called Purkinje cells, leading to their death with age.
Liposhaving, an improved form of liposuction, is now available at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center. The procedure is more advantageous than traditional liposuction because it is far less traumatic to facial tissue and can also be done under direct visualization.
Nerve growth factor (NGF) helps immature neurons survive and differentiate. Now, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center have discovered that, paradoxically, NGF can also induce massive cell suicide among childhood brain tumor cells engineered to express the receptor for NGF. The surprising findings, reported in the January 15 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, suggest a new cancer gene therapy approach.
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