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Alpha Cell Defined

A type of cell in the pancreas (in areas called the islets of Langerhans). Alpha cells make and release a hormone called glucagon, which raises the level of glucose (sugar) in the blood.See also: beta cell; delta cell.

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JCI table of contents: Aug. 21, 2008

Published August 21, 2008, 2:27 pm, EurekAlert!

( Journal of Clinical Investigation ) This release contains summaries, links to PDFs and contact information for the following newsworthy papers to be published Aug. 21, 2008, in the JCI: "Antitumor effects are enhanced by inhibiting 2 pathways rather than 1"; "Molecular insight into one form of the bleeding disorder von Willebrand disease"; and "Insight into the physiologic role of the blood ...

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How rheumatoid arthritis causes bone loss

Published August 21, 2008, 11:57 am, New Kerala

Washington, Aug 21 : Researchers from University of Rochester Medical Centre have identified key details of how rheumatoid arthritis (RA) destroys bone.

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Thafe Thaviour is Here! I Will Save Your Sh*theads!

Published August 21, 2008, 6:28 am, cmi valparaĂ­so

GHW Bush keeps saying that I have been murdering sh*theads! In fulfillment of Isaiah 14's prophecies about the "King" of Babylon, GHW Bush is the one who is murdering "his own people" by having them do the most dumb*ss stuff that gets them killed. I save sh*theads!

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Pipex Pharmaceuticals Acquires Late-Stage Oral Phase II Candidate For Rheumatoid Arthritis

Published August 21, 2008, 3:15 am, Medical News Today

Pipex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

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New discovery on how rheumatoid arthritis destroys bone

Published August 20, 2008, 7:13 pm, News-Medical-Net

Researchers have discovered key details of how rheumatoid arthritis (RA) destroys bone, according to a study published in the Aug. 22 edition of the Journal of Biological Chemistry. The findings are already guiding attempts to design new drugs to reverse RA-related bone loss and may also address more common forms of osteoporosis with a few adjustments.

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How Rheumatoid Arthritis Causes Bone Loss

Published August 20, 2008, 2:30 pm, Science Daily

Researchers have discovered key details of how rheumatoid arthritis destroys bone, according to a study published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. The findings are already guiding attempts to design new drugs to reverse RA-related bone loss and may also address more common forms of osteoporosis with a few adjustments.

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Enzyme That Sensitizes Cells To Chemotherapeutics Could Also Be New Anti-cancer Target

Published August 20, 2008, 6:16 am, Medical News Today

Researchers at Van Andel Institute (VAI) and Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research have identified an important enzyme required for cancer cell survival. Lowering levels of the enzyme caused a wide variety of cancer cells to die, reduced proliferation of cancer cells, and sensitized cancer cells to commonly used chemotherapeutic agents, such as the drug Taxol.

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Potential Help for Parkinson"™s

Published August 19, 2008, 7:43 am, Psych Central

Researchers have identified a protein from a most unlikely source — baker’s yeast — that might protect against Parkinson’s disease. More than a million Americans suffer from Parkinson’s disease, and no treatments are available that fundamentally alter the course of the condition. By introducing the yeast protein Hsp104 into animal models of Parkinson’s [...]

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Pipex Pharmaceuticals Acquires Late-Stage Oral Phase II Candidate for Rheumatoid Arthritis

Published August 19, 2008, 5:54 am, Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance

Pipex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company developing innovative late-stage drug candidates for the treatment of central nervous system and autoimmune diseases, today announced that it has acquired an oral, once-daily candidate for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis which has completed a 160 patient, multi-center, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled Phase II ...

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Study Finds Way To Prevent Protein Clumping Characteristic Of Parkinson's Disease

Published August 16, 2008, 4:13 am, Medical News Today

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have identified a protein from a most unlikely source -- baker's yeast -- that might protect against Parkinson's disease. More than a million Americans suffer from Parkinson's disease, and no treatments are available that fundamentally alter the course of the condition.

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