Protect the coasts so they can protect us

Protect the coasts so they can protect us

With rising sea levels and environmental problems caused by population and economic pressures colliding at the world's coastlines, there are huge risks to people and the environment, but also opportunities to restore natural defences and help both. Michael Gross reports.

Can Antibodies Protect Us Against Cardiovascular Disease?

Article history: Received 27 June 2016 Accepted 27 June 2016 Available online 28 June 2016 emic subjects reported that high levels of total IgG was associated with a higher incidence of CHD (Kovanen et al., 1998). It is of course possible that total Ig is a marker higher risk in subjects with dyslipidemia and a marker of lower risk in subjects with hypertension but it is difficult to see a path...

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Tumor Suppressor p53 Can Protect Normal Cells Against Dendrosomal Curcumin-Induced Apoptosis

      Curcumin is a natural substance with anti-cancerous properties without many disadvantages of currently-used anticancer drugs. Its toxicity is significantly higher in tumor cells compared with normal cells. We hypothesized the difference of p53 function between normal and tumor cells as one of the presumable causes of this phenomenon. We knocked down the expression of p53 in normal fibrobl...

Can Antioxidants Protect Against Disuse Muscle Atrophy?

Long periods of skeletal muscle inactivity (e.g. prolonged bed rest or limb immobilization) results in a loss of muscle protein and fibre atrophy. This disuse-induced muscle atrophy is due to both a decrease in protein synthesis and increased protein breakdown. Although numerous factors contribute to the regulation of the rates of protein breakdown and synthesis in skeletal muscle, it has been ...