Researchers from Harvard Medical School have found in experiments on mice that pain neurons in the mouse gut regulate the presence of protective mucus under normal conditions and stimulate intestinal cells to secrete more mucus during states of inflammation. The research by scientists published in the journal Cell states that the intestine and respiratory tract…
People have become exposed to a new intense type of stress, which is conventionally called moral burnout by experts. It is a more extreme stress and can cause serious emotional disorders, a study conducted by specialists of Sheffield University in cooperation with other scientists has shown. Moral burnout is associated with being in an environment…
The process by which the monkeypox virus spreads through human populations is accompanied by mutations in repeated stretches of DNA. This helps it rapidly adapt to life in human cells, according to a paper published in the bioRxiv digital library. A team of molecular biologists led by Sara Monson of the Carlos III Health Institute…
Acute kidney damage, defined as a dramatic decrease in glomerular filtration rate (GFR), is one of the leading causes of hospitalization during heat waves. A new study published in the American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology sheds light on how heat stress affects renal function. The results of the present study confirm that…
Blood samples taken from patients with a long history of COVID show signs of autoimmune disease in these patients, according to a study published in the European Respiratory Journal. Autoimmune disease occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy body parts instead of protecting the body from disease. This causes diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis…
You are enjoying your “Mommy Time-Out”, only to be surprised that your little one is wandering down the hall with glazed eyes, after putting him to bed almost two hours ago! He even stares at you blankly, but he doesn’t recognize you! Don’t fret, your little wanderer is probably sleepwalking. What is…
Almost every parent of a newborn infant has experienced this: the crying baby who just won’t go to sleep, or the infant who wakes up in the middle of the night and won’t let anyone go back to bed. Now researchers say they’ve figured out the best way to get a newborn back in the…
Tumor cells are known to be good at evading the human immune system: they erect physical walls, camouflage themselves, and constrain the immune system with molecular tricks. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have developed a drug that overcomes some of these barriers by tagging cancer cells for destruction by the immune system.…
Researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School in the United States found that during the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of children born in Minnesota with cytomegalovirus (CMV) dropped significantly. The study found that in the five years leading up to the pandemic, about one child in every 200 was born with CMV. Between August…
It is advisable not to remove the appendix from the body said URA.RU physician of the highest category Alexey Vodovozov. According to him the appendix is a rudiment on one hand, but on the other it is an extremely important organ for the immune system, according to comparatively new data. In the area of the…
