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Chess games may help slow cognitive decline in older people
Time of Update: 2020-12-29
playing cards and board games regularly may help slow cognitive decline in older people, according to a new study in the UK.
study also found that increasing the frequency of board games between the ages of 70 and 76 helped slow cognitive decline.
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A new strategy for "sandwich therapy" or functional cure for hepatitis B
Time of Update: 2020-12-29
Yuan Zhenghong said the study showed that the use of antiviral drugs combined with highly effective hepatitis B neutral antibodies, reduce the patient's virus and antigen to low levels, and then apply active and specific immunotherapy ("sandwich therapy"), will be effective in achieving a functional cure of chronic hepatitis B.
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Scientists find out why alcoholic liver is so deadly
Time of Update: 2020-12-29
Instead, the researchers found that a cell-destroying toxin produced by a specific fecal enterococcal strain called cytolysin may be the cause of severe symptoms in some patients with alcoholic liver disease.
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The study found new genes associated with alcohol dependence
Time of Update: 2020-12-29
to this end, the researchers tested methylation levels in human brain tissue samples and conducted an observational genetic group association study (EWAS) to screen the differential methylation region (DMR) associated with alcohol dependence, where DMR-DLGAP2 is located upstream of the DLGAP2 gene.
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The study found a new target for the prevention and treatment of diabetic perennia neuropathy
Time of Update: 2020-12-29
These studies show that the absence of the Sarm1 gene can alleviate diabetic exostial neuropathy in mice, and suggest that mitigating axon degenerative lesions, such as targeting Sarm1, may be an effective strategy to prevent and treat diabetic exostial neuropathy.
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Sea ice melts or accelerates the spread of disease
Time of Update: 2020-12-29
reduction in Arctic sea ice caused by climate change could allow pathogens that infect marine mammals to spread more frequently between the North Atlantic and the North Pacific, according to a recent study published in Scientific Reports.
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Different foods are associated with different types of stroke
Time of Update: 2020-12-29
food is associated with different types of stroke risk, according to a study published February 23 in the European Heart Journal.
But eating an additional 20 grams of eggs a day increases the risk of hemorrhagic stroke by 25 percent, equivalent to two out of every 3,000 people over a 10-year period.
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Smoking e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes at the same time is more dangerous
Time of Update: 2020-12-29
The study also found that people who smoked both e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes had a higher risk of chronic lung disease than those who used only one of the two products.
Study co-author Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, said.
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Don't be delayed by ignorance, be careful when pneumonia comes! BMC Blog。
Time of Update: 2020-12-29
, according to the 2017 Global Burden of Disease, Injury and Risk Factors Study, although pneumonia-related deaths among children under 5 years of age have fallen by 36% over the past decade, pneumonia remains the leading cause of death among such populations.
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Lupus treatment recreates the dawn
Time of Update: 2020-12-29
a drug that prevents the body's immune system from being too active may be the key to treating lupus.
It will be the second new drug to treat autoimmune diseases in 60 years.
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Beneficial gut bacteria can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease
Time of Update: 2020-12-29
Recently, patrice Carney's team at the Leuven Institute for Drug Research at the University of Leuven in Belgium, in collaboration with Professor William de Foss of the University of Wagningen in the Netherlands, discovered a beneficial gut bacteria (Akkermansia muciniphila) that reduces the incidence of obesity and type 2 diabetes in mice, and that Akkermansia, treated with pasteurization, can provide mice with more effective protection against cardiovascular disease.
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High fat and low carbohydrate help fight the flu
Time of Update: 2020-12-29
to test this hypothesis, the researchers first fed the mice ketones or standard foods and then infected them with influenza A virus, the most serious of which is the virus, a week later.
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Kidney cancer in children begins in the embryonic period
Time of Update: 2020-12-29
A recent study published in the journal Science found that kidney cancer in children usually occurs in tissues that are prone to cancer during embryonic development.
But these mutations were not found in blood samples, suggesting that the changes occurred during kidney development and were not genetic.
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Oxford University Press has welcomed the open access journal Burns and Trauma
Time of Update: 2020-12-29
is an open-access peer-reviewed journal that publishes the latest developments in basic, clinical and transformational research related to burns and trauma, with a special focus on biomaterials, tissue engineering, stem cells, critical care, immunobiology, skin grafts, prevention and regeneration.
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The three-dimensional fine structure of the new coronavirus RNA polymerase was analyzed
Time of Update: 2020-12-29
The day before, the Shanghai University of Science and Technology Institute of Immunochemistry Rao Zi and / Yang Haitao team and partners of the "anti-new coronavirus attack alliance" in Nature jointly published the important research results of the new coronavirus "Structure of Mpro from COVID and 19 virus discovery of its inhibitors", the first international success in the analysis of the new coronavirus key drug target - the main protease (Mpro) high-resolution three-dimensional spatial structure.
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The Epilepsy Draft Contest has come Acta Epileptologica waits for you
Time of Update: 2020-12-29
To promote interdisciplinary international exchanges and cooperation in the field of epilepsy and neurology, paediatrics, external sciences, pharmacy, nursing, biology, and other fields, to showcase the latest research results and authoritative academic progress, and to protect the copyrights of authors and research teams with high academic theoretical, practical and innovative significance, the journal organized the First Acta Epileptogica International Award Essay Competition.
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Why is the immune system so forgetful?
Time of Update: 2020-12-29
researchers analyzed the blood of children infected with measles and unvaccinated before and after the measles outbreak in the Netherlands, and found that the virus erased the body's memory of previous pathogens.
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Studies have confirmed that influenza vaccines can enhance immune response in older adults
Time of Update: 2020-12-29
recently, a U.S.-China research team demonstrated that specially-made flu vaccines may provide better protection for people 65 and older than standard inactivated flu vaccines.
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The more types of white blood cell antigens in cancer patients, the better the immune efficacy
Time of Update: 2020-12-29
Doctors in the future are expected to provide better individualized treatment based on the genetic map of human white blood cell antigens in cancer patients.
The more human white blood cell antigen variants, the more pathogens they provide to immune cells.
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The earlier you control cholesterol levels, the better
Time of Update: 2020-12-29
People with high levels of non-HDL cholesterol, if they can halve this number, have a significantly lower risk of cardiovascular disease by the age of 75, and the earlier they halve, the more significant the effect.
