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Many drugs are aimed at enhancing the therapeutic potential of nitric oxide (NO) in the cardiovascular system. These generally lack selectivity, hence there is a need to treat diseased tissues more specifically in order to restore their function.
Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, Scotland) has patent pending for a high power laser source in the femtosecond pulse range (sub 500-fs). This tunable ultrafast OPO laser source is suitable for application within micromachining, waveguide fabrication, and bio-imaging techniques such as multi-photon...
Extracts of valerian plants are widely and successfully used as sedatives. Preparations of plant materials are, however, variable in composition and in effectiveness.
Psoriasis is a skin disease characterised by inflammation and scaly lesions of the skin affecting 2-3% of the population in Europe and North America. Several different therapies are currently being used to treat psoriasis, but they all have the possibility of serious side effects.
Chronic inflammation contributes to a broad spectrum of diseases including arthritis, psoriasis, diabetes, allergy, connective tissue diseases, and heart disease. Despite the range of current therapeutics on offer, there is unmet clinical need as treatments such as corticosteroids, though often effe...
There are a number of impediments to effective drug delivery. researchers at the University of Strathclyde have pioneered a technique which delivers drugs through the use of a proprietary delivery system.
Stent implantation is a highly effective treatment for restoring blood flow through an atherosclerotic artery; however restenosis occurs in a significant proportion of patients.
The recent explosion in molecular biology has led to increased demand for tissue culture media. Groundbreaking research from the University of Strathclyde has produced a synthetic low density lipoprotein (sLDL) which can be prepared from animal-free ingredients and provides all the required lipids i...
This synthetic vaccine incorporates the highly variable repeat sequences of the merozoite surface protein antigen from Plasmodium falciparum, expressed during the invasive blood-stage, into one “super-antigen” sequence for use as a malaria vaccine.
Based on their importance in health and disease, the proteases of the endo-lysosomal pathway - particularly the cathepsins - have frequently been proposed as therapeutic targets. Effective pharmaceutical exploitation of the pathway has been prevented by the issue of redundancy - novel methods to ove...