Word: platelet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, Dr. Mark Malkin is working with a substance that targets a receptor for another growth factor called PDGF (platelet-derived growth factor). This receptor studs the surfaces of cells in certain ovarian, prostate, lung and brain tumors. Malkin has been testing the drug, SU101, on patients with an extraordinarily deadly brain tumor called glioblastoma. Median survival for a patient found to have this cancer is 14 months...
...gave off New Agey emanations. In her autobiography No Time to Die, excerpted in Britain's Daily Mail, Tilberis describes Diana's healing powers, which both women referred to as a "white light." Diana used the term metaphorically, but Tilberis maintains that a call from the princess boosted her platelet count while she was undergoing chemotherapy to cure her ovarian cancer. "I believe the princess was single-handedly responsible for getting me home to my family," Tilberis writes. "And no one will ever convince me otherwise." We won't even...
...Depressing news about depression. A 29-year study finds that CLINICALLY DEPRESSED adults may face a 50% increased risk of dying from stroke. Depression--which is treatable--may somehow alter blood-platelet activity, which in turn may trigger clot formation...
Antoniades' career as a researcher was marked by a number of important discoveries. He was a pioneer in the field of hormone transport and regulation and was the first to recognize as distinct entities two important polypeptides known as insulin-like growth factor (IGF) and platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF...
...Antoniades was responsible for what has been called "one of the most spectacular events in the biological sciences this century" when he reported that platelet-derived growth factor and the v-sis oncogene were essentially the same molecule. This showed that genes which could cause cancer (called oncogenes) were the same genes that regulated cell growth...