Cooling Inflammation

Inflammation is the foundation for cancer and degenerative/autoimmune diseases. Small changes in diet and exercise, e.g. omega-3 oils, vitamin D, low starch, and maintaining muscle mass, can dramatically alter predisposition to disease and aging, and minimize the negative impact of genetic risks. Based on my experience in biological research, I am trying to explain how the anti-inflammatory diet and lifestyle combat disease. 190 more articles at http://coolinginflammation.blogspot.com

Friday, October 31, 2008

Spider Inflammation

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Happy Halloween! It's time for creepy, crawly things that bite... and cause inflammation. The brown recluse has the bite that keeps on ...
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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Cartilage as Rejuvenation

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I have studied cartilage secreting (chondrocytes) for the last few years. Chondrocytes are normally derived by differentiation of mesenchy...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Palm Oil

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One of my favorite chocolates is Truffettes de France . I tell myself that just one serving (1.5 oz) or five pieces will provide an excelle...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Osteoporosis Treatment

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Osteoporosis is an imbalance between bone production and loss. Most loss is due to dietary use of omega-6 vegetable oils. Treatment should...
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Osteoporosis

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Bone density is based on the balance between bone production and demineralization. Inflammatory cell signaling is required for release of c...
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Saturday, October 25, 2008

Farmer and Chief

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Michael Pollan has articulated the relationship between U.S. agricultural policy, diet, health and lifestyle. In an open letter to the new ...

Asthma Nitric Oxide

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Arginine is the source of nitric oxide using the enzyme NOS. Inducible NOS is expressed in response to triggers of inflammation mediated by...
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Palmitoleate: omega-7 lipokine

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Palmitoleic acid is responsible for keeping people healthy (lipokine) and for the smell of old people (nonenal). Overproduction of this lip...
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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Heparin Binding

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This little video clip that I put together shows how a growth factor binds to its receptor. Heparin mediates the process. The growth facto...
Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Mast Cell Heparin

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Mast cells are sentinels in tissues. They respond to invading pathogens by releasing their stored histamine, enzymes and heparin. The hepa...
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Monday, October 20, 2008

Asthma

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Asthma is chronic constriction and inflammation of the airways of the lungs. Aggrevation of these symptoms can result from allergens, exerc...
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Saturday, October 18, 2008

Tryptophan, sugars, inflammation

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Tryptophan binds basic amino acids, sugars and alkaloids. Examples of tryptophan binding include glycosidase, importins, arginine transport...
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Rheumatology Patients Vitamin D Deficient

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Vitamin D deficiency is rampant in patients seeking care for pain and inflammatory diseases. A recent study (reference below) of patients in...
Friday, October 17, 2008

Vitamin D

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Vitamin D is in the news. It decreases cancer and most degenerative diseases, at least in part, because it is anti-inflammatory. As with m...
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Thursday, October 16, 2008

New Topics

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Here are some topics that I am working on for articles in the near future: Cyclodextrins : These interesting bracelets of sugar molecules s...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Transglutaminase and Polyglutamine

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Transglutaminase 2 can cross-link proteins and is implicated in many diseases, including cancer, celiac and Alzheimer’s. Polyglutamine stre...
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Metastasis, Osteopontin, Heparin

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Metastasized cancer stem cells respond to osteopontin produced by primary tumors, NFkB is activated and bone stem cells are recruited. The ...
Monday, October 13, 2008

Humming Nitric Oxide

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Access to sinus-infecting bacteria is minimized by poor blood circulation in congested sinus spaces. Dilation of the blood vessels in the s...
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Sunday, October 12, 2008

Estrogen and Brain Damage

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Estrogens provide protection from some forms of inflammation and reduce symptoms of acute trauma as well as chronic inflammation. Researc...
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Dr. Art Ayers
I grew up in San Diego and did my PhD in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (U. Colo. Boulder). I subsequently held postdoctoral research positions at the Swedish Forest Products Research Laboratories, Stockholm, U. Missouri -Colombia and Kansas State U. I was an assistant professor in the Cell and Developmental Biology Department at Harvard University, and an associate professor and Director of the Genetic Engineering Program at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, PA. I joined the faculty at the College of Idaho in 1991 and in 1997-98 I spent a six-month sabbatical at the National University of Singapore. Most recently I have focused on the role of heparin in inflammation and disease.
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