Reversing Atherosclerosis

Weatherhead P.E.T. Center for Preventing and Reversing Atherosclerosis

Weatherhead P.E.T. Center for Preventing and Reversing Atherosclerosis

A common question we are asked when informing patients about a PET scan is “Will it show the percentage of my artery that is blocked?” This question has triggered the following discussion about the importance of coronary blood flow rather than percent stenosis when checking on the status of the coronary arteries. The previous issue of PET News introduced readers to Non-invasive imaging of the h...

Weatherhead P.E.T. Center for Preventing and Reversing Atherosclerosis

Preventing Heart Disease . . . The Next Generation. Coronary Heart Disease is the most common form of heart disease in this country and the primary cause of heart attacks. It is the single largest killer of American men and women resulting in more premature deaths than any other illness, more than cancer and accidents combined. In men, the first symptom of heart disease is commonly a heart atta...

Reversing Cachexia

Muscle atrophy (cachexia) in cancer patients is a life-threatening condition for which therapeutic options are limited. Zhou et al. (2010) now identify a new target for treating cachexia, the activin type-2 receptor (ActRIIB). In several mouse models of cachexia, the authors reversed wasting of skeletal and cardiac muscle and increased life span by blocking ActRIIB with a decoy receptor.

Reversing Crc – Theory and Practice. Reversing Crc { Theory and Practice

The Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) was developed as a checksum algorithm for the detection of data corruption in the process of data transmission or storage. However, in some scenarios there's a CRC given which a set of data is expected to have, so the data itself has to be modi ed (at the end or at some chosen position) in a way that it computes to the given CRC checksum afterwards. We present ...