Mast cells are now recognized as “granular cells of the connective tissue”, whose activation exacerbates allergic immune responses and as key players in the establishment of innate immunity as well as modulators of adaptive immune responses. The role of mast cells in the gastrointestinal mucosa is not only to react to antigens, but also to actively regulate the barrier and transport properties of the intestinal epithelium.
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Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Nasdaq: TEVA) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted tentative approval for the Company’s Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) to market its generic version of AstraZeneca’s antipsychotic agent Seroquel® (Quetiapine Fumarate) Tablets, Eq. 25 mg base, 50 mg base, 100 mg base, 150 mg base, 200 mg base, 300 mg base and 400 mg base. The brand product had annual sales of approximately $3.
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A major reduction in real prescription drug spending growth has created a “turning point” in healthcare with several policy implications, according to a study published this month by the journal Health Affairs as a Web Exclusive. The report, “Prescription Drug Spending Trends in the United States: Looking Beyond the Turning Point,” uses IMS Health (NYSE: RX) information adjusted for inflation to document that U.S.
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Clinical pharmacy services can significantly reduce the cost of prescription drugs and save money elsewhere in the health care system, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. For every dollar spent by hospitals or health systems to provide clinical pharmacy services, $4.
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In this ongoing quest, a group of Scripps Research Institute scientists, along with colleagues from the University of California, San Diego, (UCSD) have borrowed from physics to deliver one of those research rarities - an unmitigated success. The group has devised a computational method that, with remarkable accuracy, predicts how bacterial proteins fold and interact.
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Computer Sciences Corp. has outbid Electronic Data Systems to become the state’s new Medicaid processor. (CSC) (EDS)

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Residential water, garbage and sewer rates are going up by about 5 percent in Tacoma on Jan. 1.

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Consumer confidence among Floridians rose five points to 67 in December, reflecting optimism about new presidential leadership in January despite unprecedented pessimism about personal finances, a new University of Florida survey found.

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Cree has settled a patent infringement lawsuit that it filed in 2006 against California startup Bridgelux, the Durham lighting company said Monday.

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Consumer confidence among Floridians rose five points to 67 in December, reflecting optimism about new presidential leadership in January despite unprecedented pessimism about personal finances, a new University of Florida survey found.

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