Case of the Week 662
This week ' s case is a stool specimen from a 52-year-old Bolivian farmer. He complains of intermittent right upper quadrant pain, and an abdominal CT showed edema and dilation of the bile ducts.Identification? (Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites)
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - November 29, 2021 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
poem
Poem #31Where is the poem?That queasy feeling of the early morningYou can ’t tell if it’s roiling sicknessor the empty churn of the hungry Do you put something more inor let it all come back out?If you feed it who gets sated,And is it even enough?Will it erupt in waves of sour black bile, And if so, who gets to clean it up ?Perhaps it may stay downAnd nourish ravenousFlesh for a short whileYou know you have to do bothFill yourself up.Be the voracious gluttonWho consumes his own life.And when it ’s too muchYour body just seems to know,Releases it all in streams Of stanzas or prose.But this isn ’...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - November 2, 2021 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
poem
Poem #31Where is the poem?That queasy feeling of the early morningYou can ’t tell if it’s roiling sicknessor the empty churn of the hungry Do you put something more inor let it all come back out?If you feed it who gets sated,And is it even enough?Will it erupt in waves of sour black bile, And if so, who gets to clean it up ?Perhaps it may stay downAnd nourish ravenousFlesh for a short whileYou know you have to do bothFill yourself up.Be the voracious gluttonWho consumes his own life.And when it ’s too muchYour body just seems to know,Releases it all in streams Of stanzas or prose.But this isn ’...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - November 2, 2021 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 25th 2021
This study confirmed that the PSI could be a quantitative index of vascular aging and has potential for use in inferring arterial stiffness with an advantage over the rAIx.
A Profile of Michael Greve and the Segment of the Longevity Industry that He Supports
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/10/a-profile-of-michael-greve-and-the-segment-of-the-longevity-industry-that-he-supports/
Would that the popular media produced more popular science articles about the longevity industry like this one. It is not just a profile of someone trying to make a difference in the world by advancing the state of medic...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 24, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Towards a More Detailed Understanding of How the Immune System Gardens the Gut Microbiome
The gut microbiome consists of a broad range of microbial populations locked into in a constant, dynamic state of competitive population growth and decline. The balance of benign versus harmful microbial species is important to health and the progression of aging. Benign species produce useful metabolites, while harmful microbes provoke systemic chronic inflammation, an important contribution to many of the dysfunctions of aging and age-related disease. There is a bidirectional relationship between the immune system and the gut microbiome. The immune system gardens the microbiome by destroying selected cells, particularly ...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 20, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Ode to a little bile bag
Surgery to remove the gallbladder is a relatively late intervention. The first laparotomy was performed in 1807 in Danville, Kentucky, and surgeons like Billroth and Kocher, were removing thyroids and even parts of the esophagus as early as the 1870s; the pricklish gallbladder was not completely excised until 1882. For years previously, the medical andRead more …Ode to a little bile bag originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 10, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/arthur-williams" rel="tag" > Arthur Williams, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Surgery Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 20th 2021
In conclusion, inhibiting the lysosomal oxidation of LDL in atherosclerotic lesions by antioxidants targeted at lysosomes causes the regression of atherosclerosis and improves liver and muscle characteristics in mice and might be a promising novel therapy for atherosclerosis in patients.
NANOG Expression versus Cellular Senescence
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/09/nanog-expression-versus-cellular-senescence/
Are there many strategies that can reverse cellular senescence? There are certainly strategies that can lower levels of cellular senescence over time, both in cell cultures and in living a...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 19, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Restoration of Autophagy as a Goal in the Treatment of Aging
The processes of autophagy act to remove damaged molecular machinery and structures in the cell. Autophagy becomes dysfunctional with age, however. This is likely downstream of underlying causes of aging that cause changes in gene expression that degrade the function of autophagic processes in one way or another. For example mitophagy, the clearance of damaged mitochondria by autophagy, is indirectly negatively impacted by changes in mitochondrial dynamics resulting from altered gene expression. Equally, age-related changes in gene expression produce defects in the formation of autophagosomes, and this affects all aspects ...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 16, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Case of the Week 633
This week ' s case was generously donated by Dr. Neil Anderson. The following structure was retrieved from the common bile duct during endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). The patient is a refugee from Tanzania who presented with intermittent abdominal pain, distended gallbladder and hepatosplenomegaly. This was one of many " worm like " structures noted on ERCP. Unfortunately this object appeared to tear during removal. The portion submitted measures several centimeters in length. No identifying external structures were identified.Dr. Anderson ' s team tried to express eggs from this str...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - April 6, 2021 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 29th 2021
Discussion of Systemic Inflammation and its Contribution to Dementia
Fisetin Reduces D-Galactose Induced Cognitive Loss in Mice
Reprogramming Cancer Cells into Normal Somatic Cells
Considering Longevity Medicine and the Education of Physicians
Researchers Generate Thyroid Organoids Capable of Restoring Function in Mice
In Search of Transcriptional Signatures of Aging
A Pace of Aging Biomarker Correlates with Manifestations of Aging
Targeting Tissues with Extracellular Vesicles
Calorie Restriction Slows Aging of the Gut Microbiome in Mice
Mitochondrial DNA Heteroplasmy in the Aging Heart
Evidence...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 28, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
What the Exponential Rise in Mortality with Age Tells Us About the Nature of Aging
When charting rising mortality against increasing chronological age, the result is a smooth exponential curve - the Gompertz-Makeham law of mortality. We might well ask how the exceptionally complicated process of degenerative aging, consisting of many distinct mechanisms butting heads and breaking things in a stochastic manner, can produce this outcome. This is one of the questions posed by epidemiologists in today's open access paper. It is a good example that shows how a scientist can hypothesize about the operation of mechanisms given only data on the outcomes of those mechanisms.
For context, the authors of the...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 22, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 8th 2021
Conclusion
Coupled with the animal data, and the existing human trial data for safety, the results here suggests that someone should run a formal, controlled trial of flagellin immunization in older people, 65 and over. The goal would be to see whether (a) this sort of outcome holds up in a larger group of people, and (b) there is a meaningful impact on chronic inflammation and other parameters of health that are known to be affected by the aging of the gut microbiome.
The Role of Reactive Oxygen Species in Aging is Complex
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/03/the-role-of-reactive-oxygen-species-in-a...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 7, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Reporting on a Study of One with Flagellin Immunization to Adjust the Gut Microbiome
Conclusion
Coupled with the animal data, and the existing human trial data for safety, the results here suggests that someone should run a formal, controlled trial of flagellin immunization in older people, 65 and over. The goal would be to see whether (a) this sort of outcome holds up in a larger group of people, and (b) there is a meaningful impact on chronic inflammation and other parameters of health that are known to be affected by the aging of the gut microbiome. (Source: Fight Aging!)
Source: Fight Aging! - March 3, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Self-Experimentation Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 1st 2021
This study may have important implications for preventing cell senescence and aging-induced tendinopathy, as well as for the selection of novel therapeutic targets of chronic tendon diseases.
Our results showed that the treatment of bleomycin, a DNA damaging agent, induced rat patellar TSC (PTSC) cellular senescence. The senescence was characterized by an increase in the senescence-associated β-galactosidase activity, as well as senescence-associated changes in cell morphology. On the other hand, rapamycin could extend lifespan in multiple species, including yeast, fruit flies, and mice, by decelerating DNA damage ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 28, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Bile Duct Organoids as an Approach to Liver Repair
This study therefore confirmed that their cell-based therapy could be used to repair damaged livers.
Link: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/lab-grown-mini-bile-ducts-used-to-repair-human-livers-in-regenerative-medicine-first (Source: Fight Aging!)
Source: Fight Aging! - February 25, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
