Nutrient Research

Research sheds light on workings of anti-cancer drug.
NewsRx Health; 12/20/2009; 1797 words; ...first copper chaperone function in 1997. O'Halloran and his research team studied the copper chaperone protein Atx1, which provides...cells in living organisms. But they are high-maintenance nutrients, and too much can be toxic, as is the case in Wilson disease...

It takes 2 to infect.
NewsRx Health; 12/20/2009; 611 words; ...pathogen. Inside the cell, Listeria uses the host cell's nutrients and is somehow sheltered from an immune response. Until now...Keywords: Gastroenterology, Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres. This article was prepared by NewsRx Health editors...

Nutrigenomics researchers replicate gene interaction with saturated fat.
NewsRx Health; 12/20/2009; 1195 words; ...Genomics Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (USDA HNRCA) at Tufts. "Our findings strengthen...expression of the APOA2 gene. Proteins responding to some nutrients in food interact with promoters which dictate how genes behave...

Study explains how exercise helps patients with peripheral artery disease.
NewsRx Health & Science; 12/20/2009; 1192 words; ...identified more than 10 years ago. Last year, Arany was part of a research team that discovered that when body parts are jeopardized...PCG-1alpha senses dangerously low levels of oxygen and nutrients and, in response, spurs the growth of new blood vessels...

Research from University of Massachusetts reveals new findings on inflammation.
Heart Disease Weekly; 12/20/2009; 1154 words; ...AMPK, suggesting the role of lipid as a nutrient stress triggering inflammation," wrote...researchers concluded: "Our findings that nutrient stress activates cardiac inflammation...colleagues published their study in Diabetes (Nutrient Stress Activates Inflammation and Reduces...