August 2022

Diabetes Diabetes is an enduring disease that influences how your body regulates blood sugar. It can cause serious health problems, including heart disease, stroke, and kidney failure. Causes of Diabetes   There are several different causes of it, and it is important to be aware of them if you or a loved one has the […]

What Exactly is Cancer? An Overview   Cancer has the lead among all the diseases in taking the life of humans. It is a general term used to describe a group of diseases with the same characteristics. These diseases involve abnormal cell growth and proliferation at a fast rate, often leading to cadee41ncerous tumors and

What Is Obesity? The word obesity has become synonymous with being fat and unhealthy. However, this is not the whole picture. it can measure excess body fat that puts you at risk for developing weight-related diseases like diabetes and hypertension. But being overweight or obese is not always bad for your health; it all depends

Abstract Diabetes mellitus (DM), one of the metabolic diseases which is characterized by sustained hyperglycemia, is a life-threatening disease. The global prevalence of DM is on the rise, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. Diabetes is a major cause of blindness, heart attacks, kidney failure, stroke, and lower limb amputation. Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM)

Abstract   Despite improved screening and surveillance guidelines, significant race/ethnicity-specific disparities in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) continue to exist and disproportionately affect minority and disadvantaged populations. This trend indicates that social determinants and genetic and environmental factors are driving the epidemic at the population level. Race and geography had independent associations with mortality risk among patients

Cancer Cell Abstract Most cancer cells rely on aerobic glycolysis to support uncontrolled proliferation and evade apoptosis. However, pancreatic cancer cells switch to glutamine metabolism to survive under hypoxic conditions. Activation of the Wnt/β-catenin pathway induces aerobic glycolysis by activating enzymes required for glucose metabolism and regulating the expression of glutamate transporter and glutamine synthetase.

Kansas Bioscience Authority Commits $4.3 Million To Support Professors Scholars A prominent pharmaceutical scientist with 20 years of industrial research and development experience joined the KU faculty earlier this month, thanks partly to a five-year, $2.5 million financial commitment from the Kansas Bioscience Authority Scholars. David Volkin comes to KU from Centocor R&D, a subsidiary

Sharmila Shankar1, Suthakar Ganapathy1, Sunil R. Hingorani2, Rakesh K. Srivastava1 1Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, USA 75703, 2Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98109 TABLE OF CONTENTS1. Abstract2. Introduction3. Materials and Methods3.1. Reagents3.2. Cell culture and cell survival assay3.3.