Painful erection may soon be history Oct 27, 2009
A research team from United States and China suggests adenosine deaminase enzyme therapy could successfully prevent or treat penile fibrosis in men with priapism ... One model was that of adenosine deaminase-deficient mice and the other was sickle cell disease transgenic mice ... Both of these sets of mutant mice were treated with the enzyme adenosine deaminase enzymes to lower adenosine levels. (India Times, India)
That '4 hour erection': new discovery may help prevent a complication of priapism Oct 27, 2009
New research in the FASEB Journal suggests adenosine deaminase enzyme therapy could successfully prevent or treat penile fibrosis in men with priapism ... That's because researchers from the United States and China show that the enzyme adenosine deaminase may prevent priapism from progressing to penile fibrosis, a condition associated with the build up of scar tissue and eventual impotence ... Adenosine deaminase, which breaks down adenosine, is already used in humans as a treatment for a rare... (EurekAlert!)
SCID Kids Leading Healthy, Normal Lives 25 Years After 'Bubble Boy' Oct 14, 2009
In addition, about 10 percent had some sort of developmental delay and about 20 percent had attention deficit disorder, often due to the lack of an enzyme called adenosine deaminase, one of the causes of SCID. Other conditions appearing in a minority of the patients include diarrhea, rashes and HPV infection. Some of the conditions appeared more frequently in certain SCID subtypes than others. (Science Daily)
Eloise Giblett; research kept donated blood safe Sep 26, 2009
Before the emergence of AIDS, Dr. Giblett discovered the first known immunodeficiency disease, called adenosine deaminase deficiency. An inherited metabolic disorder, it is caused by a lack of the ADA enzyme, preventing the normal maturation of lymphocytes, a component of the human immune system, and making the body more vulnerable to disease. (Boston Globe)
