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New treatment direction sought in Parkinson’s by blocking the blocker of a...
Oxidative stress plays a big role in the brain cell loss that occurs in Parkinson’s disease. Now scientists have their sights on a protein that inhibits one of the body’s natural protections against...
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Copper excess in diabetes hinders our ability to make healthy blood vessels
It’s a metal we worry thieves will steal from our air conditioners or power lines, but inside our bodies too much copper can result in a much larger loss. Scientists have evidence that in diabetes,...
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Gene/cell connection provides new insight into how our gut microbiome stays...
Paneth cells are like an internal antibiotic that eliminates unwanted microbes that make their way into our small intestine and helps us maintain a healthy gut microbiome. When the Paneth cells in our...
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Genetic discovery may help better identify children at risk for type 1 diabetes
Six novel chromosomal regions identified by scientists leading a large, prospective study of children at risk for type 1 diabetes will enable the discovery of more genes that cause the disease and more...
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Scientists block the siren call of two aggressive cancers
Aggressive cancers like glioblastoma and metastatic breast cancer have in common a siren call that beckons the bone marrow to send along whatever the tumors need to survive and thrive. Scientists say a...
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Is a pear- or apple-shape physique best for our brains?
With the new year still ringing, many of us have fat on our minds, but Dr. Alexis M. Stranahan is more interested in what fat does to our minds. The neuroscientist in the Department of Neuroscience and...
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Antibiotics may impact cancer treatment efficacy
Antibiotic use is known to have a near-immediate impact on our gut microbiota and long-term use may leave us drug resistant and vulnerable to infection. Now there is mounting laboratory evidence that...
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The search is on for a treatment target for acute kidney injury
CONTACT: Toni Baker, 706-721-4421 Office, 706-825-6473 Cell, tbaker@augusta.edu AUGUSTA, Ga. (April 10, 2018) – When you have diabetes then get an acute kidney injury there is a multiplier effect that...
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Receptor that feels the heat of a red chili pepper may be target for TBI...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – A receptor on our immune cells that can detect both the heat of a red chili pepper and the extreme physical heat of a pizza oven may help protect the brain following a traumatic brain...
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New pulmonary hypertension treatment target in the bull’s-eye
AUGUSTA, Ga. – A new and early target for treating pulmonary hypertension appears to be an enzyme that’s normally key to energy production but destructive in the face of this high blood pressure...
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Drs. Carbone and Isales are newest Harrison chairs
Dr. Laura Carbone, chief of the Department of Medicine’s Division of Rheumatology, and Dr. Carlos Isales, chief of the department’s Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, are the newest J....
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Scientists work to dissolve the NETs that worsen TBI damage
AUGUSTA, Ga. (June 6, 2018) – Immune cells that are first responders to a traumatic brain injury appear to also contribute to the secondary damage that can occur even days later, scientists say. The...
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Silence is golden when it comes to how our brains work
AUGUSTA, Ga. (June 18, 2018) – It’s the comparative silence between the firing spikes of neurons that tells what they are really up to, scientists report. “The brain appears to use these durations of...
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Novel therapy makes oxidative stress deadly to cancer
Oxidative stress can help tumors thrive, but one way novel cancer treatments work is by pushing levels to the point where it instead helps them die, scientists report. Adoptive T cell therapy appears...
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Scientists explore how high blood pressure hurts cognition
AUGUSTA, Ga. – The squeeze high blood pressure puts on fragile blood vessels in the brain appears to disrupt a normal, protective process that balances the blood flowing to our brains with the activity...
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Inflammation inhibitor delivered directly to kidneys reverses course of...
Using a manmade version of a human antibody to directly deliver a drug that inhibits a powerful driver of inflammation, can reverse a disease course that often leads to kidney failure and dialysis,...
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Scientists work to improve recovery of your sense of taste
When it’s a significant injury, not just a hot pizza, that damages your tongue and taste buds, you appear to need a cell type best known for its inflammation-promoting skills to help restore your sense...
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Medical Scholars Research Day set for Oct. 29
Dr. Neal Weintraub, cardiologist, Georgia Research Alliance Herbert S. Kupperman Eminent Scholar in Cardiovascular Medicine and associate director of the Medical College of Georgia Vascular Biology...
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Angiotensin receptor blockers normalize sodium excretion
Drugs that inhibit a hormone that constricts blood vessels also help improve sodium excretion in blacks who hold onto too much sodium in the face of stress, investigators report. The drugs are...
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Studies aim to improve cognition, reduce weight gain in schizophrenia
Aerobic exercise can improve the size and function of the brain, and now investigators want to know if it can also improve cognitive function in patients with schizophrenia who struggle with memory and...
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