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Vascular stiffening and calcification, which is accelerated by aging, affects multiple organs and plays a role in dementia. There are no treatments for vascular calcification, which makes arteries harden.
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Vivek Lal, M.D., associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UAB Heersink School of Medicine and the founder of both ResBiotic Nutrition and Alveolus Bio, was given the 2023 Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship.
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- department of pediatrics
- department of urology
- department of medicine
- division of pulmonary allergy and critical care medicine
- department of biochemistry and molecular genetics
- college of arts and sciences
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- department of chemistry
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This study, performed in a pre-clinical human model, is the first time xenotransplanted pig kidneys have shown clearance of creatinine and shown a standard immunosuppression regimen may be sufficient.
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Some PD-1+CXCR5+CD4+ T cells will become germinal center-Tfh cells that are essential for B cells to become high-affinity antibody-producing cells. Others do not take that path, instead becoming memory T cells.
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In a mouse model, border-associated macrophages, not microglia, were essential for the neuroinflammation that precedes neurodegradation. Targeting this subset could be a disease-modifying therapy in neurodegenerative disease.
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The baby boy, born in late May 2023, is the first baby born from a uterus transplant outside of a clinical trial and UAB’s first baby from its uterus transplant program.
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- division of transplantation
- department of obstetrics and gynecology
- division of gynecologic oncology
- division of maternal fetal medicine
- division of reproductive endocrinology and infertility
- department of radiology
- department of pathology
- department of medicine
- division of infectious diseases
- department of pediatrics
This funding will be used to research multiple health conditions, including alcohol-related liver disease, Alzheimer’s disease, breast cancer, heart failure, inflammatory bowel disease and Zhu-Tokita-Takenouchi-Kim syndrome.
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Suits for Success’ impact transcends to three other UAB closets and a community closet serving students, patients and underprivileged women facing domestic violence.
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UAB is joining the Red Cross in encouraging the public to donate blood now.
Description of this mechanism offers a promising therapeutic target to limit lung injury and death. Lower respiratory tract infections, including bacterial pneumonia, are the fourth-leading cause of death worldwide, with 120 million to 156 million cases and 1.4 million deaths a year.
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President Ray L. Watts, M.D., and Anupam Agarwal, M.D., dean of the Heersink School of Medicine, invite you to the Distinguished Faculty Lecture honoring Casey Weaver, M.D., recipient of the 2022-2023 Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award.
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Mechanistic findings in this study may pave the way for future time-restricted feeding studies in muscle, providing a natural and affordable form of alternative therapy for managing pathologies related to metabolism and obesity.
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Even when at odds with his health, Matalon continued his academic excellence and service to the field of lung disease research.
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The researcher says this proposal will analyze the novel concept that circadian disruption presents an additional challenge to mitochondrial function and liver health in the alcohol consumer.
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Blood supplies continue to be low nationwide.
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The UALCAN data-mining portal at UAB has been used by cancer clinicians and researchers from more than 100 countries in their search for the molecular basis of cancer.
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The funding will support 24 research projects at seven institutions in Alabama.
Insights that are not possible with conventional two-dimensional platforms include characterization of obliterated airways in tuberculosis and hemorrhage from ruptured blood vessels in COVID-19 lungs, at near-microscopic levels.
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Experiments reveal that a catalytic subunit of CK2, called CK2α, is an important regulator of mouse CD8+ T cell activation, metabolic reprogramming and differentiation, both in vitro and in a mouse-infection model by the intracellular pathogen Listeria monocytogenes.
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The funding will be used to purchase cutting-edge equipment to assist with high-containment research productivity and pandemic preparedness at UAB.
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