Alpha Express

Researchers discover gene therapy to prevent progression of emphysema.
NewsRx Health; 1/10/2010; 1509 words; ...Investigation, describes a method to express therapeutic genes in lung tissue...after only a single treatment. Alpha-1 Anti-trypsin Deficiency...people due to a mutation in the Alpha-1 Anti-trypsin gene. This...vivo expression of normal human alpha-1 antitrypsin (hAAT) protein...

Gene therapy makes mice breath easier.
NewsRx Health; 1/10/2010; 592 words; ...vivo expression of normal human alpha-1 antitrypsin at levels able...long-lived and continued to express the transferred genes for at...responsible for making normal human alpha-1 antitrypsin led to sustained alpha-1 antitrypsin expression in...

Researchers at Chungbuk National University have published new data on environment and toxicology.
Ecology, Environment & Conservation; 1/8/2010; 864 words; ...dramatic decrease in expression of both ER-alpha mRNA and protein levels, whereas cotreatment...showed the difference of CaBP-9k and ER-alpha expression, suggesting that CaBP-9k may not express via ER-alpha pathway. In the effect of parabens on...

Research reports on inflammation from Tohoku University provide new insights.
Angiogenesis Weekly; 1/8/2010; 866 words; ...activated) to myofibroblast-like cells, which express alpha-smooth muscle actin." "Activated PSCs proliferate...extracellular matrix components, such as type I collagen, and express cytokines and chemokines. Recent studies have suggested...

Recent studies by C.Q. Zhou and co-authors add new data to glucagonoma findings.
Biotech Week; 1/6/2010; 827 words; ...L for WT GCGR. The patient's alpha cells also express glucagonlike peptide 1 and pancreatic...GCGR, which is associated with alpha cell hyperplasia and hyperglucagonemia...mutation in GCGR likely causes alpha cell hyperplasia and hyperglucagonemia...