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er neurodegenerative disorders.聽 In a report receiving advance online publication in Nature Medicine, a Massachusetts General Hospital MGH -based research team reports that increased expressi
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on of Sirt1, one of a family of enzymes called sirtuins, in the brain of a mouse model of HD protected against neurodegeneration.聽They also identified a potential mechanism for this protective effect. Diseases such as Huntington s, Parkinson s, and Alzheimer s disease have different causative factors, but they share common themes 鈥?such as aggregation of misfolded proteins 鈥?and a unifying end point, the degenerative loss of neurons, says the study s senior author Dimitri Krainc of the Ma
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ssGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease MGH-MIND and Harvard Medical School, where he is an associate professor of neurology. Pharmacological ta Jopa An archivist with an eye for neglected history
The report noted that over 40 per cent of the population in sub-Saharan Africa now has access to long-lasting insecticide-treated mosquito nets LLINs , compared to 10 per cent in 2005.The figures indicate a considerable leap in the number of people benefiting from the protective cover of the nets in the continent, which accounts for over 90 per cent of all malaria deaths.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon s target of providing universal malaria control coverage by the end of 2010 to all endemic African countries is within sight, ac
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cording to the report, with the distribution to date of more than 140 million mosquito nets, protecting nearly 300 million people in the region. At this moment, we can point to definite indica
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tors of progress, with data revealing that LLINs now have been distributed to more than 40 per cent of the population in endemic African nations, said Ray Chambers, the Secretary-General s Special E
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