New studies in mice support toxic role of aluminum in neurodegenerative conditions, according to report in Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience
Amsterdam, NL, August 2, 2013 – Investigators have linked aluminum accumulation in the brain as a possible contributing factor to neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease. A new study published in
Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience sheds light on the mechanism underlying aluminum-induced neuronal cell death and identifies necrostatin-1 as a substance which counteracts several of aluminum’s neurotoxic effects.
Researchers have long focused on why neurons die in degenerative diseases. One process is apoptosis, a form of gene-directed programmed cell death which removes unnecessary, aged, or damaged cells. When neurons die as a result of stroke, trauma, or other insult, the process is known as necrosis. Recently, a new type of necrosis, necroptosis (programmed necrosis), has been implicated in the cell demise p
Bifurcation blues delay setting up of food lab in Andhra Pradesh DECCAN CHRONICLE.
Updated Dec 19, 2020, 10:51 am IST
Andhra Pradesh still has to send all its food samples to IPM in Hyderabad for analysis
Though a proposal was sent to AP government for developing the regional food lab located in Visakhapatnam as the state food lab three years ago, there has been no progress on it so far.
VIJAYAWADA: Bifurcation blues are still haunting Andhra Pradesh in acquiring a state-level food laboratory for itself.
Though the Institute of Preventive Medicine (IPM), under which AP’s food laboratory works, is incorporated under Schedule X of Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, so far, the IPM’s assets, equipment and staff have not been bifurcated between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Thus, AP still has to send all its food samples to IPM in Hyderabad for analysis.
Excess pesticides in vegetables, mercury in rice behind Eluru s mystery illness
Experts from AIIMS, National Institute of Nutrition, and other research organisations confirmed the presence of pesticide residues, organochlorine, lead, and nickel in milk and vegetables as the reasons behind the illness
BusinessToday.In | December 17, 2020 | Updated 09:12 IST
Eluru s mystery disease: Of total 612 people who were hospitalised, 605 have been discharged. One person succumbed to the illness
Experts at AIIMS and the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT) have found the reason behind the mysterious disease that has gripped Andhra Pradesh s Eluru city. Of total 612 people who were hospitalised, 605 have been discharged. One person succumbed to the illness.
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The disease left over 600 people sick.
One person also lost his life due to the mysterious illness.
Experts at AIIMS and the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT) have said that pesticide residues, organochlorine, lead, and nickel in blood, milk and vegetables cause mysterious disease that left over 600 people sick in Andhra Pradesh s Eluru. It is to be noted that one person also lost his life due to the mysterious illness.
The experts mentioned in their reports submitted to the government that the amount of pesticides and herbicides found in the vegatables were more than the permissible limits. A team of scientists at the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) said that traces of mercury were found in rice and residues of organophosphorous in blood. The NIN, however, added that more study is needed to find out how these materials entered the human body.
Eluru mystery illness: What do we know so far?
14 premier agencies and institutes are currently working to determine the nature of the mysterious illness.
By Sreshta Ladegaam| Updated: 13th December 2020 5:45 pm IST
Eluru: A week after the first reported case, the cause of the mystery illness, that affected over 600 and killed one so far in the West Godavari district’s Eluru, continues to elude the experts.
As of Friday evening, the mystery illness sickened as many as 616 people, of which 576 people have been discharged and one person–45-year old Sridhar, succumbed. Besides, two more persons, who were admitted with similar symptoms, died at a hospital in Vijayawada late Wednesday night, but the doctors said the causes of death were different.