Heart drug may block breast canc ...
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Dr. Rubens D.
... available blood pressure drug, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.The gene, called AGTR1, caused normal breast cells to behave like cancer cells but the blood pressure drug losartan stopped them, the team at the University of Michigan found.They transplanted human tumors that expressed AGTR1 -- meaning the gene was active -- into mice. Eight week ...
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The Eyes Have It?
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John Shelmet
Two blood pressure medications, ENALAPRIL and LOSARTAN, were supposed to slow down the potential damage diabetes might do to kidney function, but results have been disappointing. However, an unexpected benefit has been sh ...
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Gender Differences And Heart Disease
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Ed H.
... al Center physician-scientists.For the first time, researchers have uncovered that women derive a lesser benefit than men from two common high-blood-pressure-lowering drugs — losartan and atenolol — for the reduction of left-ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). The condition is a thickening and enlargement of muscle of the left ventricle of the heart and ...
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Atrial fibrillation in endurance ...
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Dr. Rubens D.
... r fibrosis also reverses after deconditioning. This study suggests that it does and that a period of inactivity might be of benefit in those with a history of fibrillation.3. Losartan attenuates heart fibrosis induced by chronic endurance training in an animal model. Just as inactivity after training may inhibit cardiac fibrosis in animal models, a ...
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Health Headlines - January 23
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Meredy
... psychological human health in a more indirect manner," Wells wrote in her study.-----Blood Pressure Drug Helps Mice with Muscular DystrophyThe widely-used blood pressure drug losartan reduced muscle damage in mice with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, the most common form of the condition in children, concludes a Johns Hopkins University study publishe ...
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Create Blood Artificially- Scientists are Discovering How
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Dr. J. Mariano Anto Bruno M.
... ut also that turning off the enzyme also helped guide the cells' replication and maturation into either blood or endothelial cells. When they treated the hemangioblasts with losartan, an ACE pathway blocking agent routinely used to treat high blood pressure, the rate of blood cell production dramatically increased. Zambidis says that the next ste ...
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Marfan Syndrome In The News
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Lisa E. L.
... surrounding Marfan Syndrome* Interesting note: Clinical discoveries take time. They don’t happen overnight. On May 8, NPR reported on the promise of the blood pressure drug, Losartan to treat Marfan syndrome, spotlighting a boy named Blake Althaus. Two years earlier, in April 2006, NPR reported on promising mouse research, which led the way for hu ...
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Marfan syndrome has been in the ...
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Lisa E. L.
... rounding Marfan Syndrome * Interesting note: Clinical discoveries take time. They don’t happen overnight. On May 8, NPR reported on the promise of the blood pressure drug, Losartan to treat Marfan syndrome, spotlighting a boy named Blake Althaus. Two years earlier, in April 2006, NPR reported on promising mouse research, which led the way for hu ...
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Are CETP inhibitors kaput?
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Dr. William D.
... in blood pressure among those taking the experimental drug. (This is the same pathway blocked by blood pressure drugs like ACE inhibitors lisinopril and enalapril, ARBs like losartan.) Simultaneously (what a coincidence!) with the torcetrapib data, investigators at competing drug manufacturer, Merck, reported encouraging data with their version o ...
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