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healthcare › ... › esophageal-cancer
… the acidity of stomach juice, esophageal cancer has become the fastest rising cancer in Caucasian men in the … States. The experts at the Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center specialize in the prevention, … through the muscular layers of the esophagus. The most common types of esophageal cancer are squamous cell …
education › ... › medical-research-pathway
… The Medical Research Pathway (MRP) is a five-year program encompassing four years of traditional M.D. training and one … the MRP. The research year includes participation in the Fundamentals in Clinical Investigation Course that is part of … Scientist Training Program. MRP students are expected to become a full member of the mentor's research laboratory. …
healthcare › ... › related-disorders
… There are a variety of conditions that have obsessive compulsive disorder qualities that are quite similar to OCD such as PANDAS, body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), hoarding disorder, trichotillomania, compulsive skin picking, hypochondria, and olfactory … they appear (to others) to have no value. People with compulsive hoarding syndrome may have immense difficulty …
healthcare › ... › human-papillomavirus-hpv
… Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a common viral infection spread through skin-to-skin contact, … especially through oral, anal and vaginal sex. Some studies suggest that as many as three out of every four people … and others cervical cancer . Two vaccines, Cervarix® and Gardasil®, are now available to prevent infection by some of …
healthcare › ... › uterine-prolapse
… and tissues that hold a woman's uterus (womb) in place become stretched, damaged or weakened, causing the uterus to sag or drop down … and into the vagina. Mild cases of uterine prolapse are common. They often cause no symptoms and don't generally … strengthen pelvic floor muscles Eat a healthy, high-fiber diet Don't smoke Talk with your doctor about estrogen …
research › ... › projects
… HSCs divide rarely (a feature called quiescence) but become activated and divide frequently upon stress, such as … and red blood cell production during pregnancy (Nakada et al., Nature. 2014). More recently, we discovered that … regeneration (Chapple et al., eLife. 2018). We are using a combination of approaches, including transplantation, …
research › ... › projects
… are exposed to structurally diverse estrogens through diet, pharmaceuticals and aquatic contamination. Using … mutants exhibit a female sex bias with altered secondary sex characteristics. In contrast, the non-canonical G … Exposure to byproducts of industrial combustion, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) …
research › ... › mechanisms-of-cytokine-induced-lower-urinary-track-pathology
… Baylor College of Medicine hosted a Symposium, Wednesday, Oct. 9: Pathobiology of Prostatic Hyperplasia and Lower … Aging Men. Presentations were made by Drs. Michael Ittmann, David Rowley, Li Xin and Keith Chan. Keynote Speaker, Dr. … College of Medicine, Houston, TX Email: mittmann@bcm.edu David Rowley, Ph.D. Professor Department of Molecular and …
research › atc-core-labs › cryoem-core
… SerialEM for automated single particle and tomography data collection. … as they are functioning in their native state. For purified complexes, single particle analysis is a direct alternative … and can provide additional information about dynamics and compositional variability, which crystallography cannot …
news › special-protein-protects-new-islet-cells
… called neurogenin 3, which tells liver stem cells to become islet cells, and a gene for betacellulin, which causes … blood within two to four weeks, indicating that their bodies were making insulin. They also regained lost weight. … and Kidney Diseases and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. …
